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1500kg of joy - Duncan Grimmond - 20-11-2020
This baby(?) popped up on the ATF site.
As you can imagine, that radiator , ooh that radiator!!!
The rest of the article is well worth looking at, get out your Google Translate.
https://tricyclecaristes.1fr1.net/t1784 ... connaissez
RE: 1500kg of joy - Colin Wilks - 20-11-2020
Makes Allen Millyard seem a little behind the times!
https://youtu.be/qd6o14_CvQ4
RE: 1500kg of joy - Martin Prior - 20-11-2020
Who needs steampunk!
What a wonderfully bizarre thing. It's almost as if someone had set out to do everything in the most difficult way possible.
How could it possibly fail?
RE: 1500kg of joy - Duncan Grimmond - 20-11-2020
I'm still looking for brakes...
RE: 1500kg of joy - Reckless Rat - 20-11-2020
Unique, and you can see why. Bonkers.
RE: 1500kg of joy - Tony Griffiths - 20-11-2020
Thanks for posting that, Duncan. It cannot escape the word "unique" - and that's being kind. But, what an amazing contraption.
RE: 1500kg of joy - Steve Jones - 20-11-2020
Scripps-Booth had something of a name for doing things in a different way to others. Their c1916 Model D had a long stroke V8 engine with just a two bearing crankshaft
Steve
RE: 1500kg of joy - Ruairidh Dunford - 20-11-2020
I thought at first this thread was a reference to an old flame during my absinthe phase!
RE: 1500kg of joy - Reckless Rat - 20-11-2020
Did you used to drink that stuff? Mon Dieu. It was that absinthe that sent old Vincent Van Gogh round the twist. Rumour has it that one night he was sitting at the bar in the Café de Nuit in Arles when his best mate Paul Gaugin came in. What you having mate, says Gaugin, to which Van Gogh replied, I'm fine cock, I've got one here...
OK I'll wait.
RE: 1500kg of joy - Ruairidh Dunford - 20-11-2020
She was ear-regular but a whole lot of fun!