I have a Rolls-Royce and Jeep Cherokee. But my best car in the world is my disability scooter.
4mph 15 mile range and I have a trailer. Supermarkets become drive throughs. Just load the stuff on and job done. It comes apart and fits in the car. £700 in 2005 lithium battery still good After 10 years.
Best car in the world.
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Nice one! Being "able bodied", it's easy to forget how difficult things are for others and how a relatively crude device can be so useful (or essential).
A friend isn't so lucky with his though. Although he's probably had it for about the same length of time, it has had various repairs and, I think, at least one set of batteries. There again, his wife puts it in the car for him.
There's a bloke in the village who uses his when he walks his small Jack Russell - the Jack runs like mad to keep up and is like a rake, the bloke, who gets off and almost runs to clear up dog poo, is somewhat more rotund!
Now, it they could get an electric car to go that far...
A friend isn't so lucky with his though. Although he's probably had it for about the same length of time, it has had various repairs and, I think, at least one set of batteries. There again, his wife puts it in the car for him.
There's a bloke in the village who uses his when he walks his small Jack Russell - the Jack runs like mad to keep up and is like a rake, the bloke, who gets off and almost runs to clear up dog poo, is somewhat more rotund!
Now, it they could get an electric car to go that far...
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I remember the feeling of freedom I got with my first set of wheels all them years ago.
Getting a Rolls-Royce wasn't as good.
The scooter has beaten the original feeling of freedom.
It made by Sunrise medical and called pearl. 4 wheels no lights but push bike lights from 99p shop do the trick. Automatic brakes. Just steer and hold lever in. To stop release lever. It also has a knob which limits speed down to crawl. So walkers can keep up with me and I don't run anybody down.. The seat swivels and I use it as a something just to sit on. I do the garden with it. It tows a mower.
Before I avoided going out because I eould end up sitting in my car because of arthritis. Now I go out and slowly drive round the town.
I am totally sold on electric vehicles. My average journey lenght is 30 miles return.
I investigated putting an electric motor in my Shadow. But it's been done with 2500kg cars in the USA. The results aren't good. I worked out that it would cost £5000 at least with maybe a not so good job at the end. 5000 quid is a lot of LPG.
Getting a Rolls-Royce wasn't as good.
The scooter has beaten the original feeling of freedom.
It made by Sunrise medical and called pearl. 4 wheels no lights but push bike lights from 99p shop do the trick. Automatic brakes. Just steer and hold lever in. To stop release lever. It also has a knob which limits speed down to crawl. So walkers can keep up with me and I don't run anybody down.. The seat swivels and I use it as a something just to sit on. I do the garden with it. It tows a mower.
Before I avoided going out because I eould end up sitting in my car because of arthritis. Now I go out and slowly drive round the town.
I am totally sold on electric vehicles. My average journey lenght is 30 miles return.
I investigated putting an electric motor in my Shadow. But it's been done with 2500kg cars in the USA. The results aren't good. I worked out that it would cost £5000 at least with maybe a not so good job at the end. 5000 quid is a lot of LPG.
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I can't complain too much about mobility scooters as the company I work for (among other things) designs and fits boot lifts for them, sells parts and repairs them. You would be amazed how many come in every day for accident repair. In a busy week parts for 100 can be sent out and the same again coming through the workshop. They are great for the people that need them but knowing how many get broken every day and having been crashed in to by 2 people "driving" them so far this year I really think there should be some form of assessment to make sure you can operate one safely.
I have driven electric land rovers and an original L322 range rover with an after market electric conversion so it is certainly possible to get appropriate equipment to convert your shadow. The eRange claimed 50 miles and it was only a prototype.
My current LPG conversion cost............ £80 2nd hand for all the big components then the same again in new plumbing. I did have a REALLY long drive to South Wales to pick it up but even including the cost of the fuel I'm quids in.
Have a look at Tinley Tech, they have all the kit prices on their website so you can make a decision on the new cost but you are probably closer to £1000 than £5000 if you don't mind fitting it yourself. Injected cars cost more to convert and moderns more still as they "need" multi-point.
I suspect if you are only doing small miles the most cost effective solution is to keep it serviced and the tank full of fuel. Adding LPG is something else to service and for me anyway seems to cause significant wear to the ignition components with rotor caps and arms lasting 5-6000 miles rather than the 10-12000 I would expect. Saying that the car does weigh 2.5 tons and I have a heavy foot.
I have driven electric land rovers and an original L322 range rover with an after market electric conversion so it is certainly possible to get appropriate equipment to convert your shadow. The eRange claimed 50 miles and it was only a prototype.
My current LPG conversion cost............ £80 2nd hand for all the big components then the same again in new plumbing. I did have a REALLY long drive to South Wales to pick it up but even including the cost of the fuel I'm quids in.
Have a look at Tinley Tech, they have all the kit prices on their website so you can make a decision on the new cost but you are probably closer to £1000 than £5000 if you don't mind fitting it yourself. Injected cars cost more to convert and moderns more still as they "need" multi-point.
I suspect if you are only doing small miles the most cost effective solution is to keep it serviced and the tank full of fuel. Adding LPG is something else to service and for me anyway seems to cause significant wear to the ignition components with rotor caps and arms lasting 5-6000 miles rather than the 10-12000 I would expect. Saying that the car does weigh 2.5 tons and I have a heavy foot.
Understeer: when you hit the wall with the front of the car.
Oversteer: when you hit the wall with the back of the car.
Horsepower: how fast you hit the wall.
Torque: how far you take the wall with you.
Oversteer: when you hit the wall with the back of the car.
Horsepower: how fast you hit the wall.
Torque: how far you take the wall with you.
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My Shadow cost £600 to diy LPG. 2004.
Bob.
Bob.
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What is the best car in the world? Is it your first ever car, or the car of your dreams, the one that costs more than a King's ransom? When I past my driving test in 1964, the world was changing so fast. It was the year after Kennedy had been assassinated, two years before we won the world cup and the year that popular music & clothing fashion was UK led. Carnaby Street had made it's mark on the world, the Beatles and other Brit bands were dominant in the charts and everyone wanted an E-Type.
Celebrities, like Peter Sellers, had made the Mini an icon, and everyone it seemed, had to have one. Those with the money, blinged their's to excess. The more hideous the car looked, the more chance that it got into the newspapers.
My first car was a 1955, side valve, Hillman Husky. (google it) It didn't last long before the bearing shells started knocking. But my second car was something else, a 1956 Austin Westminster, a luxurious car with column change and a front bench seat. No need to climb in the back of that motor for a bit of the other! I always think of the conquests on that bench seat whenever I see a classic, at a show, that has a front bench seat.
Today I own a Mercedes Sprinter van, modified into a camper, we also have a Mark 4 Golf and I am lucky enough to own, a beautiful, 1952, MG YB. Whether it's the best car in the world is open to conjecture, I love it, but I know that others would differ. But as a previous poster so eloquently put it, his mobility scooter is his best ever car for the freedom it's given him. My best ever car has just two wheels and no engine. It's a 1920's unrestored pushbike. A drop of oil on the chain and that's all it takes to keep going. I bought it years ago, it was to be an advertising display, but instead, it hibernated at the back of the garage until my doctor told me that cycling and swimming are the best physiotheraputic exercises you can do to relieve the problem of osteoarthritis.
Best car in the world? A steam train.
Celebrities, like Peter Sellers, had made the Mini an icon, and everyone it seemed, had to have one. Those with the money, blinged their's to excess. The more hideous the car looked, the more chance that it got into the newspapers.
My first car was a 1955, side valve, Hillman Husky. (google it) It didn't last long before the bearing shells started knocking. But my second car was something else, a 1956 Austin Westminster, a luxurious car with column change and a front bench seat. No need to climb in the back of that motor for a bit of the other! I always think of the conquests on that bench seat whenever I see a classic, at a show, that has a front bench seat.
Today I own a Mercedes Sprinter van, modified into a camper, we also have a Mark 4 Golf and I am lucky enough to own, a beautiful, 1952, MG YB. Whether it's the best car in the world is open to conjecture, I love it, but I know that others would differ. But as a previous poster so eloquently put it, his mobility scooter is his best ever car for the freedom it's given him. My best ever car has just two wheels and no engine. It's a 1920's unrestored pushbike. A drop of oil on the chain and that's all it takes to keep going. I bought it years ago, it was to be an advertising display, but instead, it hibernated at the back of the garage until my doctor told me that cycling and swimming are the best physiotheraputic exercises you can do to relieve the problem of osteoarthritis.
Best car in the world? A steam train.
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A pensioners quad bikeHistory wrote:But my best car in the world is my disability scooter.
Do you drive it on the road? There's a couple in Salford who drive scooters,and have reg plates on them,he has 'old fart' she has 'old tart'History wrote:4mph 15 mile range and I have a trailer. Supermarkets become drive throughs. Just load the stuff on and job done. It comes apart and fits in the car. £700 in 2005 lithium battery still good After 10 years.
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best car in the world? red 1992 nissan sunny diesel... i miss it so much 
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No I use the pavement. It's not registered.
My Shadow is on LPG. I should have said £5000 buys a lot of lpg.
Bob
My Shadow is on LPG. I should have said £5000 buys a lot of lpg.
Bob
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Ye big wuss!rich. wrote:best car in the world? red 1992 nissan sunny diesel... i miss it so much
I miss XJR40**, but ultimately, no matter how much we're taken with a particular car, there comes a time when burying it nose down in a field and shooting at what's left of it is just so satisfying.
**The car, not the plate which I still own.
J
"Home is where you park it", so the saying goes. That may yet come true..
"Home is where you park it", so the saying goes. That may yet come true..