Off Topic- Boys Toys

[Jordangbr]

MMM Metro on steroids!
You can imagine it picking a fight with you all because you looked at it's pint in a funny way!

[graham]

mine may not be fast but it can go anywhere 1968 series 2a landrover top speep 60-70 down hill with the wind behind
2 1/4 engine with lpg Conversion no tax 70 quid a year fuly comp

[tas]

mine may not be fast but it can go anywhere 1968 series 2a landrover top speep 60-70 down hill with the wind behind
2 1/4 engine with lpg Conversion no tax 70 quid a year fuly comp

I once owned one of those - best car I ever had. Mine was a 1967 SWB version. No-one cut you up or got in your way, no money for the road tax and no need to worry about central reservations or speed ramps.

On the downside you needed arms like Schwartzenegger to turn the wheel, the heater took an hour to warm up and the turning circle meant many 7 point turns.

Was dead easy to fix almost anything as it was really well designed, with just 6 or 7 different size spanners you could strip the whole thing down.

[klingon]

Wozzat a 6R4 Bill?-the road going equivalent of K7-wheee crump?-maniac wee motors!

[klingon]

OK, 'Boys toys' was bound to turn into 'Top Trumps' eventually...fun, though, ain't it? You lucky buggers actually DID THIS STUFF, I could only watch , but I also remember sitting on a beach in Jersey with the Red Arrows flying straight overhead in Gnats...oh, hello Orpheus, where you been all these years? Also , an olympic qualifying regatta in Torbay, around '82, the cry went up 'SPITFIRE' as the full BOB flight went over - EVERYONE stopped racing, stood up and saluted, and got a wing-dip in response, happy days! I made myself sea-sick when the race re-started...

Yeah-know where your coming from with the Top Trumps bit-!-a lot of the guys here are over achieving ex fighter jock/action man types and tend to get involved in pi**ing contests as a matter of course!-testosterone dripping all over the ship!-but no bad thing at that-they also over- focus on K7 and thats a requirement for the restoration!-makes us fun people in the pub!,even the Anoraks!

[Renegadenemo]

Aye, it's a 6R4 and whee-crump! is right. I crashed it twice before concluding it's a better car than ever I'll be a driver so it sulks quietly in the garage these days.

[Mentallica]

At last - found a decent pic of my other Wee-Wee Machine. Could've gone downstairs and taken one but the wife is (embarrasingly) currently using it as a vegetable rack and somewhere to store the kids' bouncy castle. Yeah, I know - acres of pure, white plastic.

thats something I really like!!

more into the bikes myself, but the 6R4 was always something I drempt of. Even considered making a replica at one point, but then found out that the 6R4 shares very little with its metro counterpart apart from name and badges.

Will have to find some piccies of the bike collection and post em up

[Renegadenemo]

There's not much Metro in there at all. dashboard, mirrors, steering wheel and windscreen. Otherwise it's all tatty fabrication and machinery. Lethal to drive too. With all the weight in the back and a very short wheelbase it's like propelling a hammer at high speed with the handle leading. Give it half a chance and it'll go the other way!

[captainbear]

Lethal to drive too. With all the weight in the back and a very short wheelbase it's like propelling a hammer at high speed with the handle leading. Give it half a chance and it'll go the other way!

I know exactly what you mean. I once owned a racing Rubic's cube. Twin cam bearings and multi colour 6 facet faces, it had everything. It was a real beast to handle, but I did manage to complete it once in under 4 days.
These days, I just settle for a Ripstick and if you really want to hurt yourself quickly, get one of these!!

[bluebirdsback]

Got a good idea of what Bill means. Many years ago i drove buses with the engine at the back. One very icy winter 1976 i think. I touched the breaks and spent the next 600 meters or so trying to keep the engine behind me. After narrowly missing oncoming traffic mounting the pavement narrowly missing a post box and telephone box we came to a halt. Must have been a popular bus stop as all of my 72 passengers got off there. Come to think of it so did my conductor. When your back end goes its a bugger to get back.