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General Category => Sales & Auctions => Topic started by: Invacar model 70 on March 06, 2011, 08:55:14 pm
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I found a complete Frisky body while collecting a moped for my son. It is laying outside behind a car dealers, near Basildon. It looks complete. It has a couple of cracks in it near the rear number plate. It is still bear resin finish, never been painted or used. I am sure it would be very useful if someone needs it.
If anyone is interested drop me an email and I will try to get a price out of the chap and get you connected. rich@cloudbase.biz
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Welcome Richard. I thought that you would've already been on. I sent you an e-mail on the NOS exhausts this am. Ian
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The guy with the shell is going to put it on ebay soon. he is not sure of the value so wants to auction it. I will post the listing number her if I spot it.
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No Ian I only logged in to mention the frisky. :D
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I just heard from this guy. He has sold the body Shell to a guy who is planning to make a mould from it. If any one is interested I will ask for contact details from him.
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Sounds like it might time to bang my Frisky out then. More fakery and strangeness yet there are loads of real Friskys that want restoration back to what they should be. Hey ho.
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Very interesting. I am sure we all would be keen to hear more especially Mr Meadows. Sounds like it could be the same chap that I heard about at the National who was planning to turn out Nobel, Scootacar and Tourette body shells. Don't expect there will be big demand for any of these. Andy Carter's pension scheme should be safe then ;)
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The amount of old-stock/separated genuine Frisky bodyshells there are around, I'd have thought a better business plan would be remaking a few chassis's & mechanics for them...
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Andy Carter's pension scheme should be safe then ;)
You mean he's STILL knocking the things out!!!??? :o I thought he'd retired years ago. Who's he been building for now?? ;) ;) ;)
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Very interesting. I am sure we all would be keen to hear more especially Mr Meadows. Sounds like it could be the same chap that I heard about at the National who was planning to turn out Nobel, Scootacar and Tourette body shells. Don't expect there will be big demand for any of these. Andy Carter's pension scheme should be safe then ;)
Not f'in Tourettes, please. Ffnar biscuit!
What was it, 27 shells behind the old premises near Margate? Yep it is the chassis that wants making not the body. Much of the Frisky is them reasonably findable, but which model? Scootacar is a bit more difficult. The problem is as the degree of difficulty raises the chances of rather nasty replicas appearing getting stronger. Thinking Tri Tech and the ability of them to fall apart in public or rolling gaining the interest of police. My interest is selfish. A host of ill formed replicas splatting themselves round the place raising attention countrywide could lead to the banning of microcars from the road by the expedient of a clumsy law. The Bamby P50 has passed tests so that is acceptable and it has to stand on its merits backed by proper business rules. Home built stuff does not and the owner of an older ID can happily build a death trap without any real backing and more than likely dodgy insurance since the contract will contain contestable information. For instance is a new Scootacar shell with wrong bits in it a Scootacar even if it does have an ID? Specifically the insurer always asks if the vehicle is modified. Most old cars are but who list those mods? Iffy time. The bigger the claim the more they will wriggle.
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I just heard from this guy. He has sold the body Shell to a guy who is planning to make a mould from it. If any one is interested I will ask for contact details from him.
Oh! You mean the shell I was looking at yesterday! Talk about Chinese whispers! This whole thread has been based on absolute tosh! I know the guy who bought it and there are no plans to take a mould from it. He just wanted a shell which he now has!
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I'd have thought a better business plan would be remaking a few chassis's
Now that's an idea, my F3 chassis is shot to absolute pieces!
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a bit like the" stolen" boat , mat and camera :D we really must stop getting in such a hoo hah ;D
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Very interesting. I am sure we all would be keen to hear more especially Mr Meadows. Sounds like it could be the same chap that I heard about at the National who was planning to turn out Nobel, Scootacar and Tourette body shells. Don't expect there will be big demand for any of these. Andy Carter's pension scheme should be safe then ;)
the owner of an older ID can happily build a death trap without any real backing
They're all deathtraps.
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boats, mats and cameras ? surely not ! why have we not been told before ?
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I just heard from this guy. He has sold the body Shell to a guy who is planning to make a mould from it. If any one is interested I will ask for contact details from him.
Oh! You mean the shell I was looking at yesterday! Talk about Chinese whispers! This whole thread has been based on absolute tosh! I know the guy who bought it and there are no plans to take a mould from it. He just wanted a shell which he now has!
Must having been described as a mouldering bodyshell then. Easy mistake to make?
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They're all deathtraps.
The Lemming Light Car Club cordially invite owners of puddle jumpers to a the Hanger Lane Giratory Rally, Starts Friday at 3.30pm. Prize for the last one standing! No Boats, Mats or Cameras allowed.
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Well maybe there is some truth in the rumour, as I also heard at the National of a chap planning to make new Progress Tourette bodyshells.
Sounds like it could be the same chap that I heard about at the National who was planning to turn out Nobel, Scootacar and Tourette body shells.
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Got my RCN today. Particularly like the coverage of the National, a very interesting Powerdrive article.
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Well maybe there is some truth in the rumour, as I also heard at the National of a chap in Martham, Norfolk planning to make new Progress Tourette bodyshells.Sounds like it could be the same chap that I heard about at the National who was planning to turn out Nobel, Scootacar and Tourette body shells.
This will be the chap marketing steel and GRP Messerschmitt parts amongst many other mouldings for various cars under the trade identity of Cascu. His prices seem very competitive but that is probably because he is another person who has found it cheaper to live in France and mearly trade here and thus avoid much taxation totally legally. Rant on Government idiocy available on request. Certainly he looks likely to give the MOC trouble on pricing and I may be beating a path to his door.
Which Tourette? Maybe someone has liberated all or part of the dispersed one in the West Country. Not far from where our chum lives in France really.
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Hi, I think I met Mr Cascu---he bought an Isetta very poorly shell from me some years ago, think he also specialised in Fiat X19 bits???? found him 10-12 years by accident looking for an isetta engine. He had some but not for sale. I think I remember a collection of poorly Isseti from him on e bay before departure to tax friendly climes
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Indeed. Stanley Unwin lives. I get the gist of that.
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Dear Al
I suspect that Rosen has done a literal translation from Bengali to English. I think he has done very well. I may be wrong.
Chris Thomas
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Years ago I knew a Shellie who had a frisky body. ;D
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in tears of laughter :D :D :D
there is a saying - as god made them he matched them , meaning i suppose that there is someone out there for all of us . big al i believe you and rosen should be very happy together - in complete understanding :D :D as opposed to incomplete understanding which is most of us i suspect ;)
great old boy stanley unwin, must youtube him
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note: the user previously known as rosen has been deleted (entire account).
there are swarms of people in Asia or India that are hired to infiltrate blogs and forums to post short messages that are basically nonsense but appear harmless.
They always end with a web link to some unrelated service (in this case a Payday Loan service).
That is what they are hire to do all day long.
They generally sign up to the forum and do nothing for several days, then come back when they think no one is noticing and post to a slightly older message thread.
If you notice this (nonsense post with a link to an unrelated service) please hit the "report post to moderator" link in the bottom right hand corner of the post for someone to review.
While the post itself is harmless to the group here, it is part of a larger campaign of spam and I will give them not one inch of ground.
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Dear Jim
Many thanks for the explanation regarding this spam attack.
Chris Thomas
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So amongst all the other things the Indian sub continent is out doing us Westerners on a University of Stanley Unwin for more better understanding on the webby netnode, cuts of spam, deep joy, otherwise frolicks is total. I am impressed and amazed at the same time. A job writing rubbish, just think. I thought a Moderator only had to listen to The Who and like Scooters.
If you want to know more go to www.......
Seriously though, good job as this spam is like cholesterol clogging up the net efficiency.
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All this does throw up the possibility that Big Al is not really Alan Hitchcock at all but is a little Asian guy thousands of miles away working for the same spam outfit? :D :D
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Thanks Jim!
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All this does throw up the possibility that Big Al is not really Alan Hitchcock at all but is a little Asian guy thousands of miles away working for the same spam outfit? :D :D
Just trying to curry favour using cheap Pork products.
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:) bob you took the words right out my mouth !! posting some nonsense that has no obvious link with the topic, but i always figured the character known as big al was martian not asian :)
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but i always figured the character known as big al was martian not asian :)
Nah, martian has the narrowboat. ;D (10-1 on only Alan understanding this joke)
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but i always figured the character known as big al was martian not asian :)
Nah, martian has the narrowboat. ;D (10-1 on only Alan understanding this joke)
I think David H has a narrow boat, is his nick name Martian?
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I think David H has a narrow boat, is his nick name Martian?
Ah no, would that it were that simple. Dave H is an acquisitionist who majors in Trojan and Spong products and is The Famous Eccles. He is pretty much a landlubber. The narrowboats in question, I think, are in the ownership of Doc Martin with 'Vermuyden' complete with bubble deck and Captain Bondseye along with Julliet and Jim - sensible people - having one in that area as well. This is nothing to do with my sister owning the now well known traditional Butty 'Angel' out of Braunston that has been teamed with 'Aldwych' much of the last few years. This lot includes 'Stella', 'Achilles' etc. Also Cooperman has narrowboats as does Chopper Charlie. To the best of my knowledge the BUMS do not have a Martian member but the Barking Pumpkin can certainly be confused with one at times.
Root is very keen to identify and meet these various folk in the BUMS but you kind of have to be out in the right cars, doing the right things in the right place at the right time to find them. BUMS membership remains by invitation though we have friends who are sort of mingleberries in that they get to see and join in part of the fun until it is proved they are complete loonies of the right sort. The majority might be old Micronauts but they live by the brotherhood of oil rules rather than later imposed club rules and ways of doing things. This despite starting several of our current Microcar Clubs and Hengrave as well as other rallies and periods of service on committees. Sadly that means they do not really attend modern events despite owning a huge number of microcars between them. The last good attendances being the second Bath Rally at Dyrham Park where we had the Front Room and Toddington National Rally, which had its anarchic moments. We get to meet big time about twice a year as we have such diverse and idiosyncratic lifestyles. Pity as it is always great fun.
Not to confusing really?
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I have met David, perhaps I thought it might be him because I recall a Heinkel Trojan club with a photo of David helping to push a red bubble onto the bubble deck on a narrow boat.
No narrow boats or bubble cars in the new Tintin fillum, but Captain Haddock's rusty old tub is superbly modelled, as are the docks and cranes, worth the ticket price just for them!
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wrong stuart , i have met wr. mc. several times over the years ;)
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I have met David, perhaps I thought it might be him because I recall a Heinkel Trojan club with a photo of David helping to push a red bubble onto the bubble deck on a narrow boat.
No narrow boats or bubble cars in the new Tintin fillum, but Captain Haddock's rusty old tub is superbly modelled, as are the docks and cranes, worth the ticket price just for them!
The Tintin film should be interesting as it was always very accurately illustrated and used many unusual machines. If you recall the shark like mini submarine really exists. Without that accuracy you immediately loose part of what makes the whole.
Narrowboats? Great fun and I like knowing folk who own them. I got near buying in with a trad 57 ft Russell Newbury engined one with room for a bubbledeck conversion. Ultimately, though, when you move you can only go left or right at often at a pace set by others. A similar priced Campervan can go pretty much anywhere. The running costs are much the same. Unlike narrowboats the biggest campervans get cheaper as less folk can use them. So in a way there is the best deal. But you buy a lifestyle either way unless you have to much money. I am kind of stuck with the lifestyle I have got at the moment. Then again at least I have one! Secret is to know folk who do all these oddball lifestyles as it makes life so much more interesting. Work does get in the way for so many potential nutters. It would be far better to give them grants to be weird and force the boring no brains to work rather than the other way round.
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Well the Shark sub is based on a real mini-sub, but Herge exaggerated the Sharkiness a lot, it was about the only vehicle which he did "customise" freely. In The Calculus Affair Herge customised the bumper design of Eastern Bloc cars by giving them up-curved bumpers, to reflect the country's Dictator Kurvi Tash. Calculus's Moon Rocket was closely based on German Vera Lynne War V2 rockets, but with feet and fairings added to the 3 fins. I have just made 6 model Moon Rockets for Squeak to sell at her craft fair, a good use for old drum sticks and other scrap wood!
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Sorry about the reversed order of presentation and appearance of darker background color misleading one to think that my subsequently provided comments are a pre existing quote.
I am on holiday in Florida and have only my dumb brain and smart phone to work with. I hope that I fare better with my mechanical aspirations needed to complete the creation to my liking.
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I just received my Trident metal and fiberglass kits in my driveway in Los Angeles 3 days ago. All looks satisfactory and the dome is perfect. It did however take the better part of a year to get here.
I am a very proud papa looking for a 200cc Vespa power unit and trying to figure out how I can engineer a proper Chapman strut suspension for the front end.
Andy Carter's pension scheme should be safe then ;)
You mean he's STILL knocking the things out!!!??? :o I thought he'd retired years ago. Who's he been building for now?? ;) ;) ;)