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General Category => Sales & Auctions => Topic started by: Chris Thomas on April 03, 2009, 08:08:57 pm
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Dear Friends
I am sure this one will not stay at £200 for long.
Chris Thomas
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Which one is that Chris?
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Dear Bob
What a plonker I am
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&Item=150336286012&Category=2192&_trksid=p3907.m29&_trkparms=algo%3DLVI%26its%3DI%26otn%3D2
Try this link.
Chris Thomas
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Oh that one! Its quite nice, you should buy it Chris, height is no problem in a Messerschmitt so no excuses there.
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Dear Bob
I am still in two minds about converting my Hustler to electric, Having seen the documentary the other night "Who Killed the Electric Car" I was fire up again (or should that be shocked into action). I must sell the Elswick but I need a new rear Door. I also should sell my trailer as we have no car with a ball hitch. Then I need to reorganise all the building materials that I have stored in my garage. Then I might just think about buying a three wheeler of some sort.
Nice Idea, shame about the practicality
Chris Thomas
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Its good to hear you are at least concidering buying a three wheeler, would you care to reveal what you have in mind? Are we talking Micro or bigger? Please dont say a Lomax!!!
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Its good to hear you are at least concidering buying a three wheeler, would you care to reveal what you have in mind? Are we talking Micro or bigger? Please dont say a Lomax!!!
Anyone seen a Blackjack Avion? Same sort of thing as a Lomax, but much better looking. Good reputation also
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Dear Marcus
Richard Oaks who designed the Blackjack is about your size so for you it would be great. The last time I tried to drive one I gave up as I could not get into the thing. Otherwise it is great but no longer a Micro, with the VW engine.
So what three wheeler would I like. Perhaps a Grinnal Scorpion or a Buckland or something like that.
Chris Thomas
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Yes and I think they are great! Very stylish indeed and a far cry from the upturned bath tub which is Lomax. At one of the Bath Rallies a whole load of Blackjacks turned up and made a really impression. They never seam to come up for sale.
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I had no idea he was a short-arse! I have seen the ones with 2CV engine but not with VW...which one is it?
Let me know when you get a Scorpion or Buckland, because I want a ride!
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Dear Chris,
How about a Pembleton? This belongs to a neighbour. Found it on the website .... www.pembleton.co.uk
Rob.
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Well Chris , that rules out a JZR and a Triking. I dont know if there is anymore leg room in a BRA. Looks like its a real microcars for you then, they were designed to take sixfooters.
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Pembleton's a new one to me. I just looked at the Blackjack site, did not know about the different engines. No doubt they give much better performance, but I think the original 2cv engine in the Avion made for a neater front end, but no doubt I will get used to the steroid Zero look.
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I dont know if there is anymore leg room in a BRA.
Answers on a Post Card, please!
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I dont know if there is anymore leg room in a BRA.
Crums! I've just dropped my tunnocks.
Oh, you mean the cars from Beribo Replica Automobiles.
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Bob puts his foot in it again...makes a right t** of himself !
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Yes, I knew that would get a reaction but I was expecting it to come from Chris! Surely the company should change there name, every potential buyer has to concider "will I look a right XXX in it"?!
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I think it's all part of the fun, just as I like my Trojan being 553 DUF.
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Dear Bob Rob and Marcus
BRA did a double G size for big people
The Pembleton would be another three wheeler I would Consider as they are built very carefully.
Did you say a neighbour of yours has one Rob? As I could do one of my test drive articles on a Pemberton if I could find one.
I love little cars but often little cars do not like me so I have to keep looking.
Wouldn't it be great to be taken on your last ever journey in a messerschmitt shaped coffin.
Chris Thomas
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Just looked at the Blackjack site too and didnt realise they did a Moto Guzzi powered one. That would be the one for me!
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Or Motorgorusty as some call them, a bit unfairly!
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Well it is really especially as its pronounced Moto Gootzi.
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Dear Bob
Well I was not wrong. After 17 bids it is up to £9000. and a week to go.
What price do we think it will reach?
Chris Thomas
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What price do we think it will reach?
Welcome to the RUM edition of the Price Is Right.....
My bid is £13,750 ;D
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Well Chris, Stuart etc, I recon £10,500 as some of the detailing is wrong and we are in a credit crunch! Two cars slipped through the net this week, the nice but unfinished Bond mkD which I was the underbidder on and a nice unrestored four wheeler LHD Isetta this afternoon that I forgot was ending and went for £2,670, drat! All I ever wanted was a nice Isetta and I have everything else but! How did the meeting go? Was I sacked for being absent? Who ate all the Tunnocks?
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Who ate all the Tunnocks?
Well now then Mr P., where were you? I'm glad you brought that up, (sorry Stuart :P). THREE boxes of Tunnocks were bought for you! I won't say who brought the third lot but they were long passed their sell by date!!!! They would have given you something to chew on. Also a young one looked a bit ill after gorging on too many of them. ;D
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This all sounds very cryptic, When you say "Brought that up", are you indicating that Stuart Hughie Greened over Jeans carpet? The young one who looked ill, might that be the teenager young planty?
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Too many Tunnocks do have a habit of rebellion, a bit like when I lived in America when I was young. The best things to go in a sandwich (delicate souls should avoid this) were Peanut Butter and Cap'n Kidd's Marshmallow Creme, if you don't believe this Jim might confirm. Marsmallow Creme was/is exceptionally sweet white goo, lovely to an 8 year old. But I decided it would be even tastier without the bread, so mixed up half a jar of peanut butter with half a jar of marsmallow creme.
That was the last time I ever ate Marshmallow Creme, childhood destroyed in an instant.
Oh, I reckon 9,000 to 11,000 for the 200
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Dear Bob Rob and Marcus
You will be pleased to hear that Stuart did not disgrace himself with Tunnocks as he was not at the meeting. I got the blame for bringing Tunnocks that were out of date ( but I think it was Rob who brought them, but I could not prove it). However I took them back to the shop and got a refund and another packet for my trouble, which I am munching my way through as I speak.
I understand that Tunnocks can not fathom out why the sales of Milk Chockolate Tea cakes have increased in the South East in the last 5 weeks.
Chris Thomas
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I'm siding with you Chris, trying to poison me with Toxic Tunnocks is just the sort of trick Rob would play! :D :D I thought he had been nice to me lately but now realise he was lulling me into a false sense of security leading up to the poisoning! I'm just looking through Scotland yards files to see if there is any mention of the Polegate Poisoner. Paranoid? What Me? :D :D
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You will be pleased to hear that Stuart did not disgrace himself with Tunnocks as h
Well, we will just have to find something else to tease him about! Anyway, Tunnocks are mostly sugar so they can be way out of date and still be perfectly fine. I have eaten some very old ones and i am still df`kj. zv.. lb/........ .... .
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Dear Bob and Marcus
I can now tell an out of date Tunnock at 500 paces. After three months the marsh mallow , which as Marcus so rightly pointed out is mostly sugar, collapses inwards leaving a concave top. The marsh mallow then turns into a substance like toffee which gives the cake a harder consistency, which those with false teeth may wish to avoid.
I do not think that Rob was trying to poison you or anybody else at the meeting, with out of date Tunnocks, but it does sound like a painful disease.
Chris Thomas
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Ah, that much out of date, I assumed they were days out!
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What? You mean it was you Chris that was trying to poison us? First you blame Rob then confess, we dont know where we are!
On a more serious note, I see that the links on the message board are not working, is this due to them being updated I wonder?
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What? You mean it was you Chris that was trying to poison us?
Dear BP,
What do you mean "us"? You never arrived! I even had a short hair cut in your honour!!!!! :o
I had to take your lot back home. Just finished eating them and I feel ill and Tunnocked. :'(
Yours Queasily,
RD.
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Sorry Rob. I had a previous engagement that I had forgoten about when the meeting was set up, it was somewhat more important and couldnt be changed. I did let Chris know. May looks pretty clear so I should be at that one, do you know the date yet? I was at the postoffice today sending a Microscope to Australia [ you wouldnt believe what it cost to send!] and saw a box of Tunnocks on the shelf, well needless to say I left the shop with them under my arm and will be downing them tonight!
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I'm siding with you Chris, I'm just looking through Scotland yards files to see if there is any mention of the Polegate Poisoner.
I don't think we have had a Polegate Poisoner but there has been two murders here in my time here. A big woman with only one leg was stabbed by her husband in the 1960s on the landing of their house next to the Post Office in the High Street, she staggered down the stairs to the front door and died on the step. Opposite is a Chinese takeaway where the owner killed his wife in the late 1980s and buried her in the back yard. It's a quiet village/town really.
I think the next meeting is in June. Don't Tunnock yourself too much tonight. ;D
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Ok! I admit eating too many ‘Tunocks’ but it was only because I sat too close to the pile, however it was indeed Chris who tried to poison us, by pretending they were 'Toffee Tunocks'.
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Odd, one or two drive by shootings and Bermondsey gets massive national coverage, Polegate keeps its murders secret, perhaps it's a bit like Royston Vasey: A LOCAL place for LOCAL people !
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My hunch was right then about Mike eating too many tunnocks tea cakes, this was based on the fact that when we were in Paris every time Myself and Mike Shephard turned around he was eating something, I can still hear him saying "That was a damn fine sandwich!" Mike, hows my grandads photo coming on?
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Your photos are a great piece of social history. I did a couple of rough ones just to see if it could be cleaned up, which it can, so I'll attend to the final one today. Spent too long on the computer in the week so left it over the weekend.
Oh! and by the way, I actually prefer 'Jam Teacakes' to 'Tunnocks'.
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Thanks Mike. Grandads looking better already! I'm a bit worried about you prefering jam tea cakes to Tunnocks though, sounds a bit pervy to me!
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Dear Friends
Three days to go on this KR200 and the bidding has stopped and is still at £9000, but I would expect some last minute bidding.
With £25000 being the upper silly price for a good Microcar, how close will this get to that magic figure?
Keep watching
Chris Thomas
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Nice bit of "getting back to thread" there!
It will be interesting to see if last minute bidding wars push the price into silly territory, even in this recession. It is interesting that, as in the last recession, classic car prices have generally held up better than many standard investments, apart from high prestige cars. Last time E Type Jags, AC Cobras, classic Ferraris etc had gone way through the roof and they plummeted, but the more down-to-earth classics (including micros) held on better.
Who would have thought 30 years ago how high the prices would go. When I was at college in the 70s I used to look in Exchange and Mart and regularly saw Heinkel/Trojans, Messershmitts and Isettas going for £10-£20; several times I nearly bought one. Back then a banger with MOT would be from about £40, so I guess £10 would be about equivalent to £100 these days, so we are talking of around ONE THOUSAND TIMES more valuable today.
There you are folks, 2 whole paragraphs of words, and not a single mention of Tunnocks Tea Cakes, and nothing about lovely North Staffs Oatcakes !
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Marcus, that takes me right back to my first year at work as a young barristers clerk on the train to London clutching a fresh copy of exchange and tunnocks. You are right, bubble cars could be bought for a tenner and I did, a nice little red Isetta tunnocks with a blown up engine, sorted with a spare engine in no time. I think I mentioned this before but in those days there was a shop with a yard in Ilford lane that just broke microcars and sold the parts and this kept the little chap going until I got my four wheeler tunnocks license. Back in 1995 the idea was to re-live those days by buying an Isetta again but instead I got embroiled in all these unusual cars and the headaches that go along with restoring the tunnocks. These days I'm feeling the urge to sell everything and buy a nicely restored Isetta. As part of my treatment for the obsession with microcars my therapist is subliminally introducing something else into my subconsciousness that I am fond of to substitute my addiction. Does it show?
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I'm a bit partial to a Tunnock's Log - am I required to leave the forum?
Andrew ;)
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Dear Friends
If you can not beat them you may as well join them.
For all you Tunnocks you may be interested in this
http://www.tunnock.co.uk/index2.htm
Chris Thomas
PS. Do you think they would sponsor the Celebration Weekend event?
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Ooooh! dark chocolate Tunnocks!
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ooh yer they look nice, never seen them before. About Andrew liking the logs, I think he should be allowed to stay on the forum but have to register under the kinky section alongside the invalid carriage enthusiasts! :D :D
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I have dropped Tunnocks a line and enquired about sponsorship. You never know, nothing ventured nothing gained.
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I can imagine that some new members to the Forum are completely bewildered as to the connection between Tunnocks and KR 200's. May be someone should disentangle the thread if that is possible.
I was intrigues by the games on the Tunnock website may be we should have something like that on our Website to catch the eye. A micro obstacle course to negoiate perhaps?
By the way if there hadn't been an Exchange and Mart in the 70/80's suspect there would never have been a Hammond Collection - it was Edwin's favourite reading matter. Jean
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the kinky section alongside the invalid carriage enthusiasts!
That's not very nice Mr. P. What is kinky about liking I.C.s? A least none of them are over restored!!!!!
I see Jean made the 8000th posting.
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Just about everything really, its a good word Rob, it means, Bazaar, eccentric, weird, peculiar and could apply equally to any microcar enthusiast , as invalid carriages are even more deviant than other unusual microcars it seams very appropriate, if I were an I.C. fan I would take it as a compliment. In this 'club' the more deviant [kinky] the taste in vehicles the more brownie points earned surely!
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Bob, you are talking a load of Tunnocks!
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I've just eaten a load too!
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Ah, the last day and its on the move Chris, £9,300 and climbing. Who is going to win "the price is right challenge", I'm still sticking with £10,500.
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The sale closes at £11,650. The credit crunch doesnt appear to be effecting microcar prices too much.
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I said 9-11 thousand, so my tops was close
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I dont think you win Marcus because you gave a very wide estimate and the price was still outside of it. As its Chris's thread we better let him choose the winner. I dare say the prize will be a box of toffee Tunnocks!
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Dear Friends
Thank you for making this thread an interesting and varied one.
As Bob has stated it is down to me to proclaim the winner on the basis of the following data: -
There were only three players, Stuart at £13,750, Marcus at £9-11,000 and Bob at £10,500.
Now 13,750 is £2,100 too much so Stuart comes last.
The average of 9-11000 is £10,000 which is £1,650 too little so Murcus comes second,
And Bob's £10500 was £1,150 too little so he comes closest and wins the six month old Toffee Tunnocks.
My supply has suprisingly dried up at the moment and I may have to suppliment them with some soft centre one week old Tunnock Tea Cakes. Would that be OK Bob?
Thank you again
Chris Thomas
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Well, I'm quite glad I came 2nd! Last week I won a mag competition, and got a great book all about Concorde, by Chief Test Pilot Brian Trudshaw. Who's a happy bunny?!
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As the British pilot of the Antionette monoplan [Edward Fox,I think] said after beating the American in the Wright flyer, "We'll share the prize!" A short quote from Those magnificent men in there flying machines. That prize was £10,000. Sorry marcus to be only offering you half a box of stale Tunnocks. Congrats on the book win!
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One of my all-time favourite films! Some of the planes were veterans, some were specially made for the film, and some are still flying as part of the Shuttleworth Collection, who also have the world's oldest flying plane, the Blackburn Monoplane of 1911 or 1912.
First a Concorde book, and now half a box of stale Tunnocks, does it get any better?