Cars and bikes I’ve come across in my travels

GregT said:
I wouldn't call the 539cc triple gutless. We had a Fronte which was a small car with the same engine, On road peformance at least equal to a good Mini. On track capable of lapping the local circuit in the same times as a Lotus Cortina. Peaky, yes, gutless no. Very light and handled like a Kart once some sticky Bridgestone radials went on.
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Agreed, a mate had a Suzuki 4x4 550 T2 triple. While not fast, the fucken thing could climb Everest without blinking an eyelid.

Pfft, not true (about climbing Everest) , but you get the gist.
 
I bought one brand new, DS that is, 1979, (wanted a Masseratti engined SM, but got sensible, and then my French brother in law DID buy one the bastard) I kept it two years and loved it hugely, futuristic, super comfy ride, one time jacked the thing up to max, and drove through a flood that was killing others etc, but the reliability and warranty time off the road was too much for me, so warranty expuired, part exed, not typical I know but it must have been the dreaded "Friday afternoon car" I still like them and only last year the brother in law sold his SM and (sensible again) I declined because, after all this time indoors it has to be kept in a garage.
CLEM
 
The disabled guy I bought the wheelchair adapted Dispatch van off for my mother, imported two Maserati SM projects from the states and I watched him working on one of them when I went to pick the van up. For someone disabled as much as this guy was he was doing a bloody good job of it, making my able bodied efforts by comparison look pretty amateurish.
 
The sm engine originally is a v8 without 2 cylinders, hence the for a v6 strange 90 degree V layout between banks. This engine can also be found in the Maserati Merak and has been designed by the same person as the Laverda V6. Cam chain followers can be problematic
 
"All my friends know the low rider
The low rider is a little higher
Take a little trip, take a little trip
Take a little trip and see"

Today these low riders were parked in front of the local Apple store just down the street from me, not something you see every day unless you live in California, and yes they are street-legal.
 

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One thing I have noticed about the lower end of the Chinese imports is the corrosion. The salt air here seems to rapidly rust them, for example, look at the red streaks running off the windshield wipers. Of course a surfmobile will spend much of its time only a few hundred meters from the water, but even so……
 
Alzero said:
One thing I have noticed about the lower end of the Chinese imports is the corrosion. The salt air here seems to rapidly rust them, for example, look at the red streaks running off the windshield wipers. Of course a surfmobile will spend much of its time only a few hundred meters from the water, but even so……
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Probably from the rusted out cars we all send them, to recycle into new Chinese shit.
 
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