OT: Cracking up again.....

[Lobby Dosser]

Diane Keaton? Gagarino!

[Just Wondering]

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[Just Wondering]

Would you settle for maple?

[David Paste]

There is also another strong reason why they were so well-known here. For years, there was a very popular sitcom called Only Fools and Horses and the main characters had a knackered-looking, yellow van version of the three-wheeler:

logo on the side reads: Trotters Independent Trading Co. Paris - New York - Peckham)

[Lee Michaels]

unsafe activity.

[Robatoy]

Those chards of fibreglass won't cut much deeper than 3-5 inches. So it's safe.

[George W Frost]

Those chards of fibreglass won't cut much deeper than 3-5 inches. So it's safe.

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Especially if your body is surrounded by 6 inches of pure unadulterated fat

[Larry W]

Mentioning the van reminds me of the USA's own 3 wheeler of the sixties. Take a look at the Trivan:

a kid I lived in Pottsville PA, not far from Frackville where they were built. A neighbor around the corner from me had a sales job with them for a time and often drove one home. I remember even as a 10 year old noticing how much that engine sounded like a lawn tractor.

[Morgans]

What? How has my name gotten associated with rusting oak?

Really. I am clueless as to the joke, here.

[David Paste]

wheeler, too. I reckon one of those these days would make a great marketing device for town / city deliveries (for a shop that sells light-weight things!).

Heh, I can imagine. Not sure how well the 2-stroke diesel would go down with the air-quality bureaucrats today though!

[David Paste]

Morgan is a small British company that has (and still does, as far as I am aware) built sports cars on an Ash (I think) chassis.

[-MIKE-]

It's joke from another thread. Some guy was claiming that oak sawdust was corrosive enough to damage metal... which is complete BS. So now, anytime someone brings up oak, we all joke around about oak rust.

[Robatoy]

Indeed. They use a technique of stretching and painting canvas on a frame made of wood, similar to aircraft from previous wars. The Plus 4 Morgan was an interesting mish-mash of other manyfacturers's [sic] parts. Their latest offerings handle superbly, are quite fast, but the visuals??? Marty Feldman, Ben Turpin come to mind:

have steered away from that lately.

[Larry Blanchard]

No, it's gotten associated with a great *wooden* sports car:

[krw]

Never heard of Oak rust?

[Andrew Barss]

David Paste wrote: : On Nov 23, 1:35 am, [e-mail] (Larry W) wrote: :> I have to say, I never heard of the Reliant Robin before, and after looking :> at the video, I wasn't sure if the whole thing wasn't some kind of April :> Fool's day joke or something. So I decided to google it and see if it was :> real. Not only real, it turns out.

: There is also another strong reason why they were so well-known here. : For years, there was a very popular sitcom called Only Fools and : Horses and the main characters had a knackered-looking, yellow van : version of the three-wheeler:

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blue one was also one of Mr. Bean's nemeseses:

?v=ECeRhqqVGT0 many others. Brilliance.

-- Andy Barss

[George W Frost]

Indeed. They use a technique of stretching and painting canvas on a frame made of wood, similar to aircraft from previous wars. The Plus 4 Morgan was an interesting mish-mash of other manyfacturers's [sic] parts. Their latest offerings handle superbly, are quite fast, but the visuals??? Marty Feldman, Ben Turpin come to mind:

have steered away from that lately.

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Steered away?

Shirley you jest

But, I have a PPS of the manufacture of the Morgan, but too big for here

[clare]

But the "roustabout" didn't have the tip-over problem because it had the single wheel on the rear. Not terribly smart for a load carier, as it turned out - bur much more stable than a Robin. It sounded like a lawn tractor engine because it was - Kohler 22HP twin.

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[Larry W]

DUH!

[clare]

The body being ash framed has nothing to do with the CHASSIS.

However, there WERE wood CHASSIS automobiles as well. Marcos was one more recent example