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[Alb]

Soaking up some free Octopus electricity

 

[Rolfe]

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Soaking up some free Octopus electricity

In my case, not doing so. The sun is shining. Even if I managed to use up all that solar (so lose the export payments) and use some actual mains power, I'd only make pennies at most, for all the faffing around that's required.

 

[Rolfe]

Lovely, 790kilos , c/w spare wheel. Wonder how many are still around?

Like this?

 

[salty]

Like this?

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Nice motor! But didn't know Smurfs went that far, back.

 

[Rolfe]

We have history!

 

[OriginalBigAl]

Like this?

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Oh! yes, and a front splitter 50 years ahead of its time.? ..... artistic licence .

 

[Rolfe]

No idea. Maybe enlarging the photo (or I may have another one) would give the date of the car.

ETA: no, can't see anything in the other pic either. I wouldn't have thought it was as recent as 1989 though.

 

[Archev]

Good find. Price of complete car. £225 WOW! And 80 mph not bad.

Two for me please

 

[EvTek23]

At first sight it looks like a case of inconsiderate parking, but as I was taking a snap the owner turned up, I said are you going to get it out of there do you think, the reply was I got it in there. A few minutes later and with a lot of forward and reverse movements, and an equal amount of steering wheel shuffling the SE was driving past with a wave from the driver.

 

[salty]

That's impressive, but no way would I be doing that.

 

[dsimpkins]

Someone knows exactly how long their car is.

 

[Alb]

I need the same skill just putting my car in the garage

 

[dsimpkins]

Or a strategically placed tennis ball on a string hanging from the ceiling

 

[siteguru]

Or a strategically placed tennis ball on a string hanging from the ceiling

That's what my Dad used to do - as soon as the ball touched the windscreen then that was the signal to stop.

 

[EvTek23]

I remember my Grandad had the same situation in his garage with his Viva HB. Only one day he went too far and drove into the vice. The resulting small V notch in the front edge of the bonnet was a constant reminder of the incident. More impressive though was the angle of vice handle that the Viva bent it to. He was never able to fully straighten the handle. If that happened today with the much thinner steel of modern cars, I'm sure the car would have come off much and the vice unscathed.

 

[decrep]

Oh! yes, and a front splitter 50 years ahead of its time.? ..... artistic license .

No that's the cover for the leaf springs, I guess that's what they mean by half elliptic.

 

[decrep]

Or a strategically placed tennis ball on a string hanging from the ceiling

I have a thick plank fixed to the floor, when the rear wheels touch it I stop and briefly put it in N so that any tension in the tyres is released.

 

[Coulomb]

Like this?

Or this? Probably a later model, and electric (converted, and drove around the world). Not quite the same colour, I think.

The driver is Glen George (right), in case you want to search for more photos of it.

 

[decrep]

Appears not to have leaf springs, so probably a later model.
Yep much later 1956
And the record breaking trip was in 2011.

No EV chargers back then, he must have just used standard GPOs

 

[Gomev]

No idea. Maybe enlarging the photo (or I may have another one) would give the date of the car.

ETA: no, can't see anything in the other pic either. I wouldn't have thought it was as recent as 1989 though.

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