Cyclops reconstruction

[Bob Purton]

Looks like the yanks have been up to some antics.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIsDYP_cBrs

[marcus]

Good fun!

[Jim Janecek]

speaking of antics, put on the Benny Hill theme and watch these repeated attempts to load a 2CV on a trailer at the same event:   

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DycIA4V8vlk

[marcus]

Nice one! It instantly reminded me of when we lived in Washington D.C. and my Mum took our Morris Minor over there. Several times at several garages and tyre shops the mechanics insisted that the car's jack was not a car jack and insisted that they used a large hydraulic one, and invariaby they could not get this to fit under the car. My Mum would insist they they use the Morris jack and would get replies like "Lady, you cannot lift an automobile with a piece of bent wire!" When they finally relented and let her use the jack they'd say things like "Well that's the darndest thing I ever seen".

She sold it to a student there when we moved back to Blighty and he put a huge V* in it and drove it from the back seat.

[Bob Purton]

That is funny Jim!!

[Bob Purton]

Nice one! It instantly reminded me of when we lived in Washington D.C. and my Mum took our Morris Minor over there. Several times at several garages and tyre shops the mechanics insisted that the car's jack was not a car jack and insisted that they used a large hydraulic one, and invariaby they could not get this to fit under the car. My Mum would insist they they use the Morris jack and would get replies like "Lady, you cannot lift an automobile with a piece of bent wire!" When they finally relented and let her use the jack they'd say things like "Well that's the darndest thing I ever seen".

She sold it to a student there when we moved back to Blighty and he put a huge V* in it and drove it from the back seat.

Hmm, same mentality as repeatedly ramming a 2CV into the back of a trailer then!

[marcus]

Shame we cannot see what was causing the problem and how they finally resolved it!
I think after 2 unsuccessful tries I would have turned the car around 180 degrees and tried to push it on sdrawkcab.

[marcus]

They did not understand small! However, at that time VW Beetles were just starting to get popular over there so they soon realised the advantage of small: most US cars then were vast Detroit chrome mountains and needed lots of space between each other when parked so that they could manoeuvre, and there was often enough space for a cheeky VW to fit in.

Part of my Dad's job was to work with other government depratments to try to get British industry to export more cars to USA, and BMC were particularly bad at networking and making the effort.

Disney originally chose a Morrie thou for the Love Bug, but BMC were such bureaucratic dullards that they did not see the potential for marketing, PR and sales and tried to charge for the cars and refused to do any modifications.

[Bob Purton]

They were thinking the faster we push the car the easier it will go on but in reality it looks like the faster they pushed the more the front suspension went down as it hit the ramp and lowered the front. The last time they tried, a chunk of car is seen flying off. Real conservators!

[AndrewG]

She sold it to a student there when we moved back to Blighty and he put a huge V* in it and drove it from the back seat.

Decades ago a local guy had a Minor with the 2.5 Daimler V8 squoze into it.  It was a proper sleeper too, as to fit the wider tyres needed, the whole mudguards had been widened (banded) not flared and it even had standard hub caps.

The bit I loved as a young impressionable youth was that when he blipped the throttle stationary, the engine car rocked sideways on the torque reaction.