Cars and bikes I’ve come across in my travels

GregT said:
Display of NZ built high tech specials at a local shop in Christchurch. Met the builder of the double-ended wishbone suspended things and had a long talk to him. Still haven't got an answer to "What did you hope to achieve ?" Surprisingly, it looks like he's achieved commercial success as he's building them in batches of five...Most seem to be going to Japan. Not my cup of tea at all. Oh as you might guess he owns a Tesi....
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I think I’ll take the Britten..🙂
 
Andy J said:
I think I’ll take the Britten..🙂
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Went over that with the guy who builds the double-enders. He had never met John so telling him how it developed and what broke in the process opened his eyes a bit, lol. Re the CNC work, there's a young guy helping him who seems to do the hard work of actual design and conversion to CNC programmes. It seems like the older (77) chap has set the younger up with the CNC gear in a small business, Smells like a lot of money in the background. Apparently he has a huge collection of Ducatis and "NZ's largest" collection of Bimotas. No mention of Laverdas.
 
GregT said:
Display of NZ built high tech specials at a local shop in Christchurch. Met the builder of the double-ended wishbone suspended things and had a long talk to him. Still haven't got an answer to "What did you hope to achieve ?" Surprisingly, it looks like he's achieved commercial success as he's building them in batches of five...Most seem to be going to Japan. Not my cup of tea at all. Oh as you might guess he owns a Tesi....
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I thought I’d seen something similar before

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My next door neighbour recently decided he wanted to get back into motorbicycling and found a LAMs (Learner approved motorbike) bike near Mackay (130+kms away) but wasn't confident to ride it home. To save him transport told him I'd ride it home for him. So picked this Kawa 650 twin (er6n-L) up and gave it a hoot up the road. Plenty of poke and feels to me that the Learner restriction is simply a throttle stop so can't get full throttle travel!! Not really my cup of tea but these things can no doubt be a lot of fun for not much money......
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That Porsche designed engine is strong. Many times a day all over NZ there's gang members doing burnouts bouncing them off the rev limiter.

Unfortunately they seem to thrive on it. Sells a lot of tyres though.
 
Most are insanely loud, think artillery loud. Had a couple pass me in The Eastern Distributor tunnel, and I thought multiple bombs had gone off. Not even close to a pleasant note.
 
At our old place - a small country village - there was one owned by a local. You could hear him coming at around the 2km mark - judged by his backing off for a curve. In the village it was down through the gears revving s*** out of it, idle it round the tightish roundabout, then do a burnout up the road to his home. Slow around the roundabout as inspection revealed a squared-off rear tyre.
 
Shajota said:
Went to local restorers car & Bike show to see some interesting vehicles. stationary engines and a bit of tractor pulling;)
8 seater people mover - bit more stylish than todays boxes. RHD from new (and not made in the USA!)
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My old man had a 57 Cusso sedan.

Mum, Dad and five boys fitted in there with room to move.

He also had a 57?? Mainline ute, we kids loved sitting in the back of that with Fred …. the dog, poking faces at the drivers following us.
 
One of my sisters had a bit of a thing for 54 Customlines. Owned about half a dozen including a convertible. At 63yo she still owns a 34 Ford, 66 Dodge Phoenix and 67 Fairlane.
 
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