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Spotted, Hardwick Hall
Dingz - 12/8/07 at 08:36 PM

Saw this tidy Locost (pretending to be a Lotus?) at Hardwick Hall on saturday, lots of people admiring it. Rescued attachment locost hardwick.jpg
Rescued attachment locost hardwick.jpg

graememk - 12/8/07 at 08:43 PM

wasnt me mines blue.

locoR1 - 12/8/07 at 08:49 PM

Wasn't me mines yellow but at least its a locost ^^^^^^^^^

Jon Ison - 12/8/07 at 09:19 PM

Hardwick hall ?

You should have called in for a tyre kick, I'm a stones throw away, Petes a couple of stone throws and Bryn of allyfab too.

BTW will be posting some pics of Bryns locost soon in the for sale section, very nice red top VX powered locost. his pc's done a runner n the cars got to make way for his current build.

Marcus - 12/8/07 at 09:23 PM

It belongs to Roland Lumby in Doncaster. It's the first car we built and has been on the road about 6 years.
Unfortunately it now has 'issues'.

On the way back from Hardwick, pulling out of some services, a woman drove into the back of the poor thing!
Now needs new rear wings and a little panel beating on the ally.
Scary thing was her car finished 3" from the back of Roland's neck! Good thing the roll bar was there!
Oh well, he put good money on me being the first to bend their car!

Dingz - 12/8/07 at 10:19 PM

What a shame, I hope he is ok.

quote:

Wasn't me mines yellow

I know, I was admiring it last week at Baldock!

iggypop - 13/8/07 at 11:11 AM

sad news

Roland - 13/8/07 at 11:42 AM

It was me! spent the day wandering round Hardwick hall, with the wife

As Marcus said I had a slight problem on the way back to Doncaster. The person who ran into me has destroy the rear off side wing, it's going to cost her insurance a fair bit to put right.

neither of us were injured

ps it's not pretending to be a Lotus, it's paying homage to the Lotus.

Peteff - 13/8/07 at 11:47 AM

Did it cope with the speed bumps there? I was very tentative when I went over them in mine but I cleared them.

Dingz - 13/8/07 at 12:17 PM

Glad you were both ok. we had a nice time there, excellent weather, but in a tin top did you go to the mill as well? the machinery is interesting. About 20 HP at 1 rpm! geared up through a ring gear.

Roland - 13/8/07 at 01:25 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Peteff
Did it cope with the speed bumps there? I was very tentative when I went over them in mine but I cleared them.


Cleared them ok, were a few people watching to see what would happen

Roland - 13/8/07 at 01:26 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Dingz
Glad you were both ok. we had a nice time there, excellent weather, but in a tin top did you go to the mill as well? the machinery is interesting. About 20 HP at 1 rpm! geared up through a ring gear.


didn't stop off at the mill, wish I had, then I wouldn't have met that woman at the garage

chrisg - 13/8/07 at 08:38 PM

Sorry to hear about that mate, glad you're ok.

How's the dog bowl?

cheers

Chris