JAG
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| posted on 2/1/13 at 04:53 PM |
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Unusual Vehicle Spotted
Spotted this in Stratford Upon Avon town centre on New Years Day around 18:30 - gizza go mister   
 
MonoTracer
 
MonoTracer
 
MonoTracer
Registered in Birmingham according to those plates and one of only four hundred in the world.
[Edited on 2/1/13 by JAG]
Justin
Who is this super hero? Sarge? ...No.
Rosemary, the telephone operator? ...No.
Penry, the mild-mannered janitor? ...Could be!
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CNHSS1
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| posted on 2/1/13 at 04:54 PM |
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wasnt it on Top Gear many moons ago? made somewhere like Austria or Switzerland?
"Racing is life, everything else, before or after, is just waiting"---Steve McQueen
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loggyboy
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| posted on 2/1/13 at 05:06 PM |
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Is a Mono Tracer
Yes Its Swiss.
http://www.webroad.ch/monotracer/
[Edited on 2-1-13 by loggyboy]
Mistral Motorsport
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Slimy38
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| posted on 2/1/13 at 05:07 PM |
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Yeah, I seem to remember Mr Cock and Richard Hammond both squeezing into it, with an intimacy I don't even share with my wife!
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Daddylonglegs
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| posted on 2/1/13 at 07:32 PM |
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Yep, saw it on TG a long time ago. Looks like it could be fun, the outriggers raise above a certain speed IIRC so it's jsut like a bike.
It looks like the Midget is winning at the moment......
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swanny
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| posted on 2/1/13 at 07:47 PM |
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Reminds me of this....
Link
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Furyous
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| posted on 2/1/13 at 08:16 PM |
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Wasn't the Top Gear one a Carver?
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ceebmoj
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| posted on 2/1/13 at 08:29 PM |
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It was the Ecomobile on top-gear many years ago.
I have all ways wanted one.
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ChrisW
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| posted on 2/1/13 at 10:17 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by Furyous
Wasn't the Top Gear one a Carver?
The Carver is different. It has three wheels if I remember correctly and only the front part leans into the corners.
Chris
My gaff my rules
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A1
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| posted on 2/1/13 at 10:32 PM |
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i just dont get it... why not have a bike... or a car. It makes a poor bike and a poorer car. In my opinion
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spiderman
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| posted on 2/1/13 at 11:30 PM |
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Funny that it should be parked outside "Poundland"
Spider
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Furyous
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| posted on 2/1/13 at 11:31 PM |
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Top Gear Carver
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spiderman
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| posted on 3/1/13 at 03:34 AM |
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The Carver is now available as a flying car.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CajAq6ndJYE
Spider
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Grimsdale
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| posted on 3/1/13 at 08:34 AM |
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someone's taken the middle out of an audi!
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coozer
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| posted on 3/1/13 at 06:05 PM |
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Wouldn't touch it with a barge pole never mind gizza a go mister!
1972 V8 Jago
1980 Z750
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BillieBongo
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| posted on 25/3/13 at 04:19 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by JAG
Spotted this in Stratford Upon Avon town centre on New Years Day around 18:30 - gizza go mister
Drop me a PM
MonoTracer
MonoTracer
MonoTracer
Registered in Birmingham according to those plates and one of only four hundred in the world.
[Edited on 2/1/13 by JAG]
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BillieBongo
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| posted on 25/3/13 at 04:32 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by A1
i just dont get it... why not have a bike... or a car.
Or why not have bikes and cars as well.
quote:
Originally posted by A1
iIt makes a poor bike and a poorer car. In my opinion
I do find it strange that people are able to judge a vehicle without any experience of it.
I had no idea what they were like until I drove one. They're much more difficult to drive than a bike or a car
which I find makes driving one much more interesting. I don't want it to be a bike or a car - If I want to drive a
bike - I drive one, if I want to go by car - I go by car.
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whitestu
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| posted on 25/3/13 at 08:07 AM |
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quote:
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Originally posted by A1
i just dont get it... why not have a bike... or a car.
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Or why not have bikes and cars as well.
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Originally posted by A1
iIt makes a poor bike and a poorer car. In my opinion
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I do find it strange that people are able to judge a vehicle without any experience of it.
I had no idea what they were like until I drove one. They're much more difficult to drive than a bike or a car
which I find makes driving one much more interesting. I don't want it to be a bike or a car - If I want to drive a
bike - I drive one, if I want to go by car - I go by car.
Looks like fantastic fun to me, and certainly a bit different!
Stu
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scootz
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| posted on 25/3/13 at 09:15 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by whitestu
Looks like fantastic fun to me, and certainly a bit different!
Stu
+1
It's Evolution Baby!
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rdodger
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| posted on 25/3/13 at 09:38 AM |
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I had a ride in one of those around Zolder. I was sick.... very sick! The way they lean into the corner with your face inches from the tarmac is quite
wierd. Great fun up to a point!
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BillieBongo
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| posted on 27/3/13 at 02:59 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by rdodger
I had a ride in one of those around Zolder. I was sick.... very sick! The way they lean into the corner with your face inches from the tarmac is quite
wierd. Great fun up to a point!
That's interesting, because on the back of a bike I'm absolutely petrified if someone is going really fast so I've not done it for a
long long time. When I was really young I used to go on the back of some real nutters - coming up to a corner I'm thinking for God's sake
put the brakes on or we're going to die - then they pop a wheelie - somehow we almost always made it made me petrified of going on the back of
bikes. When the motorcycle journalist Paul Blezard treated me to a few high speed laps of the Bruno circuit - with my face inches from the tarmac as
you mention - I was only slightly nervous which was a real surprise for me.
Who took you round the Zolder track?
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rdodger
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| posted on 27/3/13 at 03:35 PM |
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It doesn't help that as the passenger you are higher than the driver.
I forget the guys name, I think he was Swiss.
A group of us go to Zolder each year for the VAB-Autohappening and give passenger rides out on track for 2 days.
I remember the year I was a passenger was the same year we made him some rear brake pads from bits of old pallet after they wore out. The intention
was just to get him home but after a couple of stops the charcoal seemed to work quite well as long as his wife squirted a bit of water on them each
time he came in the pits! He got through an afternoon of trackwork on 3 sets of pallet wood pads!
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r1_pete
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| posted on 27/3/13 at 05:28 PM |
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Remeniscent of the Quasar from the 70's, wonder if it will be any more successful?
 
quasar
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