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General Category => Unusual Microcar Discussion => Topic started by: Big Al on January 29, 2015, 12:59:25 AM
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Colin Furze has been at it again. Tuk Tuk modification, with a difference. It can take on Campervan man! Bonkers.
http://youtu.be/7y93MYaTx6M
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Is it just me ? It could well be - again :) is this much different to the sort of trash that top gear put out and most of claim to dislike ? :-\
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makes Top Gear almost watchable!
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A Honda 600 cc engine in a tuk tuk. Sounds interesting.
Sounds like a job for Steve Fisk
Chris Thomas
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Haha I have been dreaming of these ideas ! Talking of top gear , they phoned me yesterday and want to use my peel in the top gear road show , they are having a meeting this morning to see if it's doable because I didn't want them having it for best part of a year so I want it back after each show
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You had better get on and finish it then Steve. Hope they are paying you well.
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I told them I wouldn't be able to finish it completely in time but I can make it drive, stop and look pretty , not really a lot of money but I think it will be a fun thing to do , they want to wrap it in white for the stig to drive on stage , peel engineering have only got electric ones and they want a petrol one
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The difference, and I think its a big one, is Colin does all the work himself. You might not like what he does, but he gets off his spot bot and does it. Top Gear is a think tank for daft ideas, which they the commission someone else to make on a big budget, and on which they take wads of public money for TV space, and hope to sell their egos to boot. Furze is an anarchist. Top gear is a business. I am not surprised a lot of folk find this hard to understand, what with so many clubs hiding a business enterprise at the core. Microcars used to be anarchic, to a much greater degree than they are now. Its one of the things that made them interesting.
Not only that Furze is not making fakes, kits or a copies of something, its fresh ideas in action. Thank god for the Colin Furze of this land.
I assume, therefore, that Furze project to 'Fart at France', is deemed not officially funny on this forum? I was on the floor, completely ridiculous, but brilliantly appropriate.
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Didn't bother watching much of it . Beginning and end that was enough . I obviously missed something hilarious about France :-\
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It would help if I had heard of him. Besides if the end results are this youtube clip I'm not interested. What else has he done? I may regret asking that! ;D
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This shows the abridged conversion. Fixed rear axle- bone shaker!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?annotation_id=annotation_2652747153&feature=iv&src_vid=7y93MYaTx6M&v=0d5ntPLnn78
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Just one question, WHY?
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Novelty, amusement, attention seeking perhaps?
My old man says the same thing about my interest in the Isetta. Why?
He had a bubble car back in the day, because that's what was available and affordable for him at the time. He doesn't understand the appeal now, he says the cars you can get today for equivalent money are ten times better.
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The internet offers more information than you could ever learn. It is up to the individual to choose in which direction to look. It is not a case of being spoon fed for £150 odd a TV license, but to interact with it. I am merely pointing you to an option I find interesting, motivating and amusing. Its real, not an illusionary creation of clever dicks who probably cannot change a plug. Personally I would like a National where we could invite Furze to participate and dish the prizes out. I fear those days have long since clouded over, but I had not realised quite how out on a limb I had become. Not the it matters much. Fascinating.
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I have a tv and there is a lot of rubbish - which I don't watch . But golly there's a lot of rubbish online - which I also don't watch . I don't think you are out of touch Al , unfortunately you have I think dumbed down but you are in good company . I just don't see this is the place , or is it nowadays ? :)
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We all think differently. While I watch the video I was thinking, Hmm nice bike, nice Tuk tuk. I would have used and enjoyed both as they are and were intended. If others think its clever to destroy both to make something only fit for a childrens video I guess thats the opposite end of the spectrum but I still dont get it. We all get our fun in different ways I guess. Maybe I would gain respect for the guy if I knew of something he had invented that was useful.
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Sounds a bit harsh.
Personally I've always been a fan of modified and custom cars, and often they've gone on to become classics in their own right (e.g. Barris brothers Hirohata Merc).
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Don't worry you will get it your own way as there is less and less interest on the forum for RUM vintage stuff which is what it was . There is more and more copy , replica, modified stuff and now exploding caravans . Isn't there any other site where loonies could be happy ? Why here ? :)
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Because you keep putting boring stuff on here. ;D
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I think, perhaps unwittingly , you have summed it up :'(
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I didn't think the RUM was necessarily for vintage stuff. I mean it's been around for how long now, over thirty years?
Were the cars vintage then, or just old? :D
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Suggesting viewing a guy using skills I have not got. Like making home made turbo jets etc. I would suggest that is an invitation to be doing the opposite of dumbing down. So he modifies a TukTuk. Not exactly destroyed, nor is it rare. No different to matey bollox with that over engine Ape thing. I think its the blowing up of caravans that is the problem. Love those campers! That is what I found hysterically funny. Lets get the TukTuk and Furze to a Rally and watch the Furze fly. Or perhaps a club meeting down his place to learn how to do the wall of death on his home made installation. :)
Getting ready to start modifying a Borgward to enter HRDC type sport is not dumbing down, either. Neither is playing with IC when no one was interested. Nor getting ready to restart business after building up a property. Constructing new parts from nothing, a new departure for me, learning new skills. If your saying I am getting more interested in things your not interested in, indeed yes, I probably am. Fact is Microcars seems to be an area of dumbing down, as it seems not to know where its headed, unless Rob is right. But I do not think anyone who knows me could accuse me of dumbing down. Indeed I seem to have posted rather a lot of new topics in the last month or so to this very site - just one of many sites regularly visited. Of these, most invite the observer to put a bit of effort in to find the facts. It weeds out those who are not so interested. Not being interested is an effect of dumbing down, is it not? If I am dumbing down I have never enjoyed doing it in so many new ways.
Still I will keep the wilder things going on out there to myself, if that is what the un dumbed down want. Talking of which, who is braving the snow to go to any of the three auctions this weekend? Three? You knew there was one. Some might know there is two but.....In line with policy and to not be dumb I could not possibly say more. :o ;D 8)
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I didn't think the RUM was necessarily for vintage stuff. I mean it's been around for how long now, over thirty years?
Were the cars vintage then, or just old? :D
No, Rumcars is not just for old stuff. It is about preserving them though.
To quote from the home page..."The Register is not a commercial enterprise. It exists purely to maintain records of the existence of these rare little machines and to encourage their preservation and restoration. "
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Big Al. Hope you didn't think I was going on about your messages? Some of your listings have me crying with laughter ;D ;D ; Thanks for helping to keep me happy and entertained in this sometimes sad world. Rob.
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As do yours Rob. I was falling about at this last one. I would not have dared say such a thing. ;D
Actually I have taken the thread out and posted it to various acquaintances,some who really have no great interest even in cars. Most came back and asked why I bothered with posting, when the reaction was so negative. Its a fair question. It has created a deal of amusement over the idea that I am dumbing down, or becoming dull. I could inflict some stinging comments, but its off site opinion. I think my retired civil service mandarin friend has a valid observation; that while defending a set of rules for outmoded ideas, it is very easy to refuse any change, thus to become boring and ceasing to be relevant.
Well for my part I am not researching any microcars at the moment. Nor am I likely to be, unless it is Messerschmitt or Goggo. Only Goggo if the Register is to become live. It seems like its dead but someone must have its records and files. I can start to tell you about Borgward and racing, but not the Lloyds, despite their racing success. That Borgward is linked in ways to Glas and BMW, the scandal of Borgward being put out of business. So my ability to stimulate on the core topics is very restricted, though I can react to threads other people put up, on remembered golden nuggets from the back of my dumb old brain. So its really up to someone else, who is researching, to put the goods on display.
Is anyone researching? If not then that will be why we are making do with caravans blowing up, is it a microcar discussions, fake cars and who flogged what to whom and where. I can get by on most of that, unless my time is to become to valuable to be bothered. Besides I enjoy a good laugh. What's your excuse? ;D