Winter Robin

[Andrew S]

I know some of you have seen this already but you just cant help laughing

Andrew

http://wimp.com/reliantrobin/

[peter f]

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I bet the owners club didn't laugh much!!
lol
Peter f

[DJT]

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peter f wrote:

I bet the owners club didn't laugh much!!
lol
Peter f

Don't see why not. Surely you had to have a sense of humour to drive one in the first place...........

Dave

[grahamb]

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DJT wrote:

peter f wrote:

I bet the owners club didn't laugh much!!
lol
Peter f

Don't see why not. Surely you had to have a sense of humour to drive one in the first place...........

Dave

Sense of humour and no need to try and turn a corner at any sort of speed

[Andrew S]

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The satisfaction in turning up to one of their meets and rolling it. My trousers wouldn't dry out for a week if I did it and I am sure there were a few takes.

Better still, they could have handed it to the Stig! I bet he has never driven a Resin Rocket before or athree pin plug

[Stag therapy]

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Perhaps it's just my sense of humour.....................



http://www.reliantownersclub.co.uk/top_gear.html


Baz

[grahamb]

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Stag therapy wrote:

Perhaps it's just my sense of humour.....................



http://www.reliantownersclub.co.uk/top_gear.html


Baz

They have a shop with "fashion" and "essentials" available

[jleyton]

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Brilliant viewing, even if somewhat contrived

I wonder if Clarkson realised that their magazine iscalled Top Gear?

Mind you, whether you love him or hate him, JC does know his cars and doesn't often make blatant mistakes. However to refer to the car as the Robin Reliant, as he does, is like referring to a Gallardo Lamborghini or a Focus Ford :shock:

Still on the subject of Robins, and at risk of humiliating myself, here's something I posted the other day in a thread about rust that you may not have seen:

When my parents retired and moved back to the Isle of Wight, I was working in a Leyland garage. I got them (they paid ) a brand new Russet Brown Mini Clubman Estate which I hadZeibarted.

It didn't even get to it's sixth birthdaybefore Russet had turned so rusty thatthey had to get rid of it and IIRC it was only good for scrap :shock:The car they replaced it with went the same way and then one day my Dad rang me up and told me he'd bought a Reliant Robin :shock::shock:

I thought he was mad but with its plastic body plus amazing economy, cheap tax and the fact that somehow he'd fiddled it sohe was allowed on the ferry for the motorbike rate, suddenly it made some sort of crazy sense.

Just before he died, I drove it from my home to his and, do you know what? It was kinda fun :shock::shock:- (two wheel cornering most of the way)


If you haven't driven a Robin, you musttry one, just for the hell of it

Cheers

Julian

[martin]

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Hi Julian, I recall two guys getting out of one at "The Field Head" pub near Leicester to look at a road map, it blew over In the wind, it was only their weight that kept it upright. Yonks age I drove a few and found them aweful - sorry.
They do have a following, and I thought JCs programme a little cruel, though it did make me laugh. Martin.

[jleyton]

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martin wrote:

Hi Julian, I recall two guys getting out of one at "The Field Head" pub near Leicester to look at a road map, it blew over In the wind, it was only their weight that kept it upright. Yonks age I drove a few and found them aweful - sorry.
They do have a following, and I thought JCs programme a little cruel, though it did make me laugh. Martin.

No need to say sorry Martin, I agree they're awful :shock:- but I just think everybody should drive one at least once - just for the experience

And I reckon you have to be a bit 'unusual' to have one !! My Dad certainly was - in hisobituary in the Independent he was described as “one of those rare, remarkable Englishmen who are slightly eccentric without realising it and who have a versatility close to genius.”

I remember my Dad's one getting stuck on ice once - I just pushed it round with one hand, so it pointed the other way :shock:

Cheers

Julian

[martin]

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That's a wonderful obituary Julian, I hope mine's half as loving ! Martin.

[Dave M]

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Reliants, Hmmnfew recollections of "supervans", my mate had one years ago when I was an apprentice, his had thefrontpasengerside of another Reliant grafted on, I found out why when I rode in it with him, he was blind in his left eye missed parked cars by millimetres, very frightening.

One day in similar weather to what we are having now he decided to overtake a tractor, the front wheel got stuck in the outer rut of snow left by four wheeled vehicles and he couldnt get back in, brown trouser moment as a lorry was coming the other way.

My brother bought one as a Winter alternative to his motorbike, he rolled it on his first journey coming out of a petrol station, he thought it was on fire but it was only steam, from his flask that had busted. Two guys helped him get it back on its wheels and he carried on with his journey, side was so scuffed you could nearly see through it.

He went through several engines and on one occasion after his father in law had fitted a new engine they had to tow the damn thing to get it started. My brother was driving the towing car and his father in law who was a big guy and a bit of a thug was driving the Reliant. Anyway they set off and the Reliant would not start and my brothers father in law realised that the brakes on the Reliant had also failed so he waved to my brother to stop. Unfortunately my brother thought he was waving for him to speed up, by the time my brother eventually realised the frantic waving was a signal for him to stop and not to go faster his father in law was as white as a sheet and very very angry, my brother jumped out of the tow car and ran off only returning later when he knew his father in law would have cooled off, hilarious to watch and makes me laugh even now.

He went through that many engines that in the end we just rolled it onto its side to take them in and out, daft think is the bloody thing would do 90 flat out, very scary.

Dave

[grahamb]

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Reading these posts the Trevor is five star safety rating in comparison

[Greenstag]

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Great stories Dave...can just picture all that. There's a joke somewhere about a Robin being towed.must try and find it.

Dave

[Moraystag]

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As a senior citizen was driving his ReliantRobin down the motorway, his mobile phone rang. Answering, he heard his wife's voice urgently warning him, "Dennis, I just heard on the news that there's a car going the wrong way on the M42. Please be careful!" "Hell," said Dennis, "Its not just one car. Its hundreds of them!"