P50s drag racing on youtube

[daughter of bamby]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IM13OtP3XGA

[Jonathan Poll]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IM13OtP3XGA

Nice video!

However, you may want to upgrade to a newer camcorder. This video was very pixel'y at the end. You can pick up a good (second hand) camcorder for less than 100 quid.

These P50's are a lot faster than I imagined! I was expecting them to be quite slow! I guess I have never really seen a Peel drive away!

[Rob Dobie]

Great micro drag.  Of course they're fast, they run on gas not batteries! I use to get 40mph out my old Peel with someone timing me from behind. I see no reason with a light tune you could get 50 plus out of the Bamby P50. I can see it now, P50s racing on a go-kart track, the Rumcars Formula 'P' and 'Santa Tich'.  Just like the old days with 50cc bike racing. 

[Big Al]

Great micro drag.  Of course they're fast, they run on gas not batteries! I use to get 40mph out my old Peel with someone timing me from behind. I see no reason with a light tune you could get 50 plus out of the Bamby P50. I can see it now, P50s racing on a go-kart track, the Rumcars Formula 'P' and 'Santa Tich'.  Just like the old days with 50cc bike racing. 

Here here. Once the poseurs have had theirs some real petrol headed action.

[AndrewG]

Good to see that the engine quality is high enough that one doesn't beat the other by much (and maybe driver weight was a factor?).

[marcus]

Great stuff!

[daughter of bamby]

Good to see that the engine quality is high enough that one doesn't beat the other by much (and maybe driver weight was a factor?).

                 there all pretty evenly matched, i won simply because i dont like losing,,and i have been drag racing for years,,,,,,,,,usually with engines 10 times + the cc of the p50s.  it was great fun in the p50 though.

[Jonathan Poll]

Hmmm shame my dad doesnt have his replica P50 anymore...

Now resides in the Lane Museum!

[Big Al]

Hmmm shame my dad doesnt have his replica P50 anymore...

Now resides in the Lane Museum!

We have loads of real Lanes round here so do not have to have a museum for replica ones. Oh nooo, controversial!

[NickPoll]

When I bought the P50, registration CKH 728B I was told it was a genuine car. As I didn't know the detail differences at that time I believed the seller. Jean then informed me it was not genuine but a replica. I sold it on to Ferdi for the same price I paid, we both knew it was not the genuine article.

[Peelpower]

Totally agree with you Nick. We made a fair deal as you didn't conceal it was a replica.
 I used to own 3 Peel's at this time . 2 P50's and 1 Trident.
Glad i didn't sell the other one's !

[daughter of bamby]

ckh was built by my dad, it had many original parts but used a diferent engine to the dkw unit,also the front A arms were made of square section tube rather than round,the body was from andy carter. it was registered as a peel, as back in the good old days ,one could build anything,and register it with dvla as pretty much anything. the car appeared on blue peter where peter duncan crashed it into the set . mid 1980s dad did a deal on a messerschmitt and the peel went. at no point did he pass it off as a real one as it was common knowledge that he was building it,so a subsequent owner must have pulled the wool over so to speak. he did however own a genuine p50 later on, and a genuine left hand drive trident on british columbia plates, he sold that for a grand!!!!!!!!!!   ouch!

[NickPoll]

I bought CKH from someone in the Isetta club. I can't remember his name. I think he was the treasurer at the time. He advertised it in the Thames Valley Trader as an original car, naughty boy. I was not aware that Alan Evans built it and I didn't buy it from him. Talking of originals & replicas, Bonhams have a Bentley 3 litre ( sorry it's a bit big ) coming up that was owned by Woolf Barnato. After he parted with it, it had a chassis change twice, another body fitted post war and a replacement engine in the '60's ! A nice original car, I don't think. Sorry, back to bubble cars now.

[daughter of bamby]

hmmmm i have a sweeping brush that was my great grandmas,,,,its had 5 new heads and 3 handles.        back to micros,, somewhere between hull and scarborough in a hedge bottom is the fuel cap off CKH,  apparently it rattled loose and dad lost it while on a run !

[marcus]

Nick, I don't know if the Bentley you mentioned is "Old Number One" or not, but a few years ago there was a huge legal row about it, and whether or not it really was ONO at all, and even if enough of it could be traced back to ONO to establish a reasonable legitimate claim. I think there were 2 cars, both with very tenuous claims to being ONO, as both had been so modified and replaced over the years. like the Woodman's Great Great Great Grandfather's Axe, handed down for many generations, with 7 new handles and 5 new heads!