How to build your own metro

[TerryG]

Someone has found the original blueprints
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/BLUEPRINTS-FO ... 1694900761
If anybody fancies a new metro, this is how you build one.

[JPB]

Relisted due to time waster.

Some folk are asking for it though!

Maestros have steel springs, not Hydrasag and no, the methods sheet for a miniMETRO wouldn't solve the problem that is how to build a new, world-beating 4x4. What a crock of complete and utter piffle, anyone with a user account can buy the slides or download the PDF from Thatcham. Still, we now have a candidate for the next Desmond Elliott award in the "best new fiction" category.
I wonder whether the eBay member is related to our dear departed old friend, Raymanboy? I guess pedal rubbers for the July 2011 Honda Civic take up far less room in the warehouse than pianos.

[megadethmaniac]

Looks like a load of opportunistic skip diving to me. Might be of interest to someone but realistically as old tech and with the Metro never a loved car, its worth buttons.

Unless you can find all the dies for the new 6R4 bodyshell hidden away at the back of the cabinet, which I doubt!

[rich.]

id be up for a new 6r4

[arceye]

Relisted due to time waster.

I wonder whether the eBay member is related to our dear departed old friend, Raymanboy? I guess pedal rubbers for the July 2011 Honda Civic take up far less room in the warehouse than pianos.

I think Raymanboy may have been reincarnated John

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/SUZUKI-CS80-R ... 4ae58ba431

[JPB]

That's got to be Ray's son. Same location, he certainly inherited the old man's writing style and the only unRaymanboy-like thing about that listing is that the item is a split new scooter that actually looks quite good to my eyes, this rather than a shagged out Fiat X1/9 (which may have belonged to the night porter at the Paisley Travelodge), or a piano.

I have to ask this; Mr Eye, what search word(s) did you use to find son (possibly even grandson, given that Ray must have been around 100 when he passed) of Ray and his listing? Is the name "Raymanboy" so entrenched in eBay folklore that its use automatically throws up listings in the style of the great man?
He'll probably shift these bikes easily enough, even if the listing reads like a sketch left out of a Vic & Bob show for being far too surreal, because the alternatives are Speedsh*tes and Hackers, neither of which looks like a real scooter.

[arceye]

Son it'll be then, I actually found the link to his listings in the autoshite ebay tat thread from a posting when he was selling a Biturbo about two years ago. That took me to the ended listing and from there a simple click on sellers items revealed......

That he is also doing Pianos http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/PLAYED-WHITE- ... 339ef5b54f

[JPB]

Wow! Good to know there's still someone to sell you a cheesy piano when you need one.
And thinking about cheesy pianos led to an horrific image of Liberace, possibly one of Ray's best customers over the years, popping randomly into my mind. However, this being a classic car forum I wondered whether this:


(Liberace's Bradley GT, as seen in the Liberace museum in Potter's Bar, or was it in LA? I always get that two mixed up..)

might be more in keeping than the one of Mr Liberace in that red mankini.
I wonder whether there's an official Raymanboy fan club? If not, time to start one methinks.

[3xpendable]

I used to love Metro's, had 6 we used to race around the farm hehe.