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General Category => RUMCar Mart => Topic started by: Peelpower on January 24, 2010, 02:19:24 am
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Scootacar wanted ! Seriously, for cash or swap.
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I've always liked your TG.....................................!
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I've always liked your barmaid............................. :P
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I've always liked your barmaid............................. :P
Just have spoken to her ( Steffi ), unfortunately she does'nt want to move. Sad, sad ;D ;D ;D
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I've always liked your TG.....................................!
Hmmm, i also do like my TG, mate ;)
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someone i know on another classic forum bought one found in a scrapyard mid last year,a nice cream mk1,bit rough underneath(now restored)and totally complete,one owner before going to the yard for the last 20 years,think he paid about £1500-2000 for it ;D
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Yes, he gave us a running commenatry on his part restoration then I think he tired of it and part ex'ed for a normal classic car. Was the forum you saw it on a VW one by chance?
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I've always liked your barmaid............................. :P
What's it worth not to tell Claire?..... ;)
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Stuart, it seems you are a clever businessman ???
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nope,its a general classic forum,and as of this week it appears he still has it,although i dont agree with any of the work he has done to it,most enthusiasts would have to restore it again to get it anywhere near what it should be.
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Sounds like we are talking about the same car but the info I was fed over the weekend that it was sold could be wrong.
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yeah its the same car Bob,info i had was from last Sunday,saying he had progressed on it,tho that could mean "i sold it"
i really didnt like the fact he got it,he is some sort of american kid who doesnt appreciate or understand british cars and their ways very well,and insisted on making his own bits that would do the job rather than using the proper parts.
I told him from the start that you have to do it properly and to original spec,or it will rapidly loose value or desireability.
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This is what so annoys me of late. "He is some sort of American Kid" Have you ever met him? Have you even spoken to him face-to-face? You just assume that by the way the words are put. He was into custon VW's, that's how their whole movement speaks. He "doesn't understand or appriciate British cars" He must have had some sort of appritiation to even bother looking at a Scootacar, let alone put severl hundred hours into one. "insisted o using his own bits instead of using proper parts". Try FINDING some of these parts yourself.....
You keep on about the values of things runing the micro world; Here you are telling him it must be "Right" or it looses its value & disrability. You can't have it both ways, either do the car up enough to be used & stuff its value, or the car is done right to make it valuble & thus unuseable.
You don't agree with his work? well, I'm afraid I'll only take notice after you've actully restored a Mk 1 Scootacar. I'm sorry to say this Daniel, but you really do irritate me with a lot of the stuff you tend to sprout about microcars, their owners, what they do with the cars & the values of those cars. You seem to base your entire philosipy on the Reliant world. This is not the Reliant world, but a differant universe altogether. They do things differantly here. If you really don't like the way this world is, or how the folk are in this world, then clear off back to R3W......
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That whole message sums up my views on this forum and the microcar movement.
Yes,i talk to him on msn and on the other forum.Yes,he does have connections with America having lived there and was born in the former East Germany.
By not using the right bits, i mean using the wrong parts,all the bits that are unique to it were present and fully working,so there was no problem there,the reason i mentioned this regarding its value was because he was going to sell it,as it appears he has done.
I was not putting him down,i know him and his activities a damn sight more than you do.
Base my theorys on the Reliant world?maybe,but thats because thats a world i am part of.im into all sorts of classic machinery,but find some of the things that go on in microcar circles wierd to say the least.
There is more emphasis on possesion rather than enjoyment,so i take my hat off to anyone reading this that has restored their own cars,sourced or made their own bits,and enjoy using them and showing them,all things you dont do Stuart.
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"either do the car up enough to be used & stuff its value, or the car is done right to make it valuble & thus unuseable. " Dont quite understand that, surely the world is full of valuable cars restored 'right' that are used all the time?
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Hello people, been a long time, how is everyone? Someone directed me to this thread and suggested i might want to take a look at it.
I gotto say, i am quiet amused. The notion that im an American kid is pretty cool, you know, i like it! While you are at it, can you make me from the OC too? And i want a mother who is a lawyer and a father who owns a small chain of shoe stores.
As for the car, well, i could explain and justify all my actions, and all iv done to it, but i cant be bothered. So instead, im just going to put it bluntly.
Its my car, so i can do anything i want to it. And the fact that you may not like it makes absolutely no difference at all, since its not your car. Simples! ::)
To everyone else, dont worry, NJT is alive and well, and still has all its factory fittings and components. It still does not have a hayabusa turbo motor or 3-wheel drive. And you will be hearing about it soon i think.
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This thread is making me laugh. I do actually work in the OC area of California but as yet have not seen Adi there. Maybe I have seen him somewhere before - hmmm let me think about why this thread has appeared..............................
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Oh, like i said, dont worry, this car is not all that bad at all, its just that i really dont appreciate people having this kind of attitude. Hence im not even going to bother writing about what work iv done to it, and why.
Sure, it deserved an owner who will never drive it, and go to a psychic medium to call up the spirit of the factory worker who assembled it, to find out exactly what angle
the wheel nuts should be, but instead it got me. yay for capitalism!
By the way, to put your mind at ease, the only 'non original' components it has are a couple of modern sealed-for-life bearings, and a Lucas dip switch. Everything else is just how it should be, at least how it was on this particular car, since Scootacar production was such a mess, they had all sorts of stuff from the factory.
Its doing fine, and you will be hearing about it sometime soon, and will be thesame, if not better, then others of its kind in circulation. And as a bonus, will actually be treated like a car by its owner. Ok, it might have a Lucas dip switch, but at least someone will occasionally press it.
So, guys, dont worry about the Scootacar. Worry about the OTHER projects i have!
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And i want a mother who is a lawyer and a father who owns a small chain of shoe stores.
I see no reason to deprive yourself in this way: surely a large chain of shoe stores would be better. Or are you worried that you may then retrospectively develop some psychoses due to your father not having spent enough time at home in your formative years?
I'm pretty sure we have the right to know the answer to this question, as well as the part number of the sealed-for-life bearings.
Andrew ::)
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Oh, like i said, dont worry, this car is not all that bad at all, its just that i really dont appreciate people having this kind of attitude. Hence im not even going to bother writing about what work iv done to it, and why.
Sure, it deserved an owner who will never drive it, and go to a psychic medium to call up the spirit of the factory worker who assembled it, to find out exactly what angle
the wheel nuts should be, but instead it got me. yay for capitalism!
By the way, to put your mind at ease, the only 'non original' components it has are a couple of modern sealed-for-life bearings, and a Lucas dip switch. Everything else is just how it should be, at least how it was on this particular car, since Scootacar production was such a mess, they had all sorts of stuff from the factory.
Its doing fine, and you will be hearing about it sometime soon, and will be thesame, if not better, then others of its kind in circulation. And as a bonus, will actually be treated like a car by its owner. Ok, it might have a Lucas dip switch, but at least someone will occasionally press it.
So, guys, dont worry about the Scootacar. Worry about the OTHER projects i have!
Scootacar production was such a mess, they had all sorts of stuff from the factory
Can you elaborate on this Adi as I find this confusing. The Scootacar is a rather over engineered car in some ways.
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I'm a stickler for originality as much as the next man, though every micro I've ever seen has always had some substandard parts, because whomever fixed it at one time or another used whatever parts were to hand, however this is not the point here. The bottom line is, if Adi hadn't rescued it and put it back into circulation, where would it be now? It may have been crushed and put in a skip. :o
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My scootacar had glass bubble tail lights (as found in morris minors and land rovers and alot of other cars) from day one, by the looks of it. This is confirmed by the hole pattern in the bodyshell, and also by the owners accounts of when she had the car. This means that in theory, if you do everything by the book, my car was never actually legal, since those lights dont have a number plate illumination window.
It also had an 11E engine, which now, by all accounts, looks like it may have been fitted by Scootacar themselves, or their agent.
My car also never had a heating system by the looks of it, i think they just sort of gave up on that idea in that stage of production.
There are a few little things like that, thats all. I think something to do with the door lock, i cant remember to be honest. But, thats what i meant when i said their production line was a mess. It wasnt bad or anything, its just, they used whatever they had lying around i think by the looks of it.
And by the way, the rear wheel bearings are METRIC, i dont know why. The numbers match, and they are from a series that was around at the time. You can get sealed-for-life modern equivalents, which are better (metallurgy has gone quiet abit forward in 50 years). Also, being sealed, you dont have to mess around with grease and grease seals.
And best of all, they cost pennies, i think mine cost something like 5 pounds for a pair! They are from a very popular series of industrial bearings, and are still stocked by bearing companies on the shelf these days.