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Posted: Fri Aug 06, 2010 9:57 pm
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Top Gear's (...Jeremy Clarkson's...) tribute to the very British 750 / 850 cc RELIANT 'ROBIN' three-wheeled motor vehicle.

If this tribute to three wheeled motoring interests you, you can seek further information via YouTube, under "Reliant Robin Space Shuttle'.
(PART 1 and PART 2)

Com-Central recommends that three-wheel enthusiasts should look away now.
Not for children, or people of an otherwise nervous dispositions.

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Posted: Sat Aug 07, 2010 1:05 am Post subject: Re: Motoring enthusiasts everywhere
If you're gonna' do three wheels, it's gotta' be a Morgan. The one with the J.A.P. v-twin on the front, or whatever brand it was...

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Posted: Sat Aug 07, 2010 6:36 am
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A Trike has three wheels.
A Cessna has three wheels.
Anything else should be against the law.
(And even Trikes are just legalised training-wheels for bikers with poor balance).

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Posted: Sat Aug 07, 2010 2:57 pm Post subject: Re: Motoring enthusiasts everywhere
Seems stable enough.

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Posted: Sat Aug 07, 2010 6:18 pm
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- Shades

Com-Central recommends that three-wheel enthusiasts should look away now.
Not for children, or people of an otherwise nervous dispositions.

Reliant apparently didn't have a clue. Every "successful" and competent three-wheeled "auto" designer figured out early on that the single wheel belongs in the back...unless you plan to drive in reverse all the time. Laughing

Presumably the manufacturer never deigned to test drive their own car?

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Posted: Sat Aug 07, 2010 7:29 pm
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Dunno.
Most 'sane' people over here always treated it as a joke, but it wasn't the only one.....
[see more here].
One in the back makes more sense (easy Shades, this isn't Miss Kitty's) but it's still a three-wheeler and thus, 'unholy'!

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Posted: Sat Aug 07, 2010 9:25 pm Post subject: Re: Motoring enthusiasts everywhere
Three wheelin' done right. Morgan's with J. A. Prestwich engines.... www.rhinebecknationalm...rgans.html

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Posted: Sun Aug 08, 2010 6:09 am
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I like Morgan's.
But not their three-wheeler's.
They'll never take me alive.

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Posted: Sun Aug 08, 2010 7:18 pm Post subject: Re: Motoring enthusiasts everywhere
- Shades I like Morgan's. But not their three-wheeler's. They'll never take me alive. Say what? Those most certainly are. That's why it's the Morgan 3/4 club...for the trikes and the 4 wheelers.

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Posted: Mon Aug 09, 2010 6:53 am
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lol
You may have mis-read that.
Not "they're not three-wheelers.", but rather "not their three-wheelers.".

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Posted: Mon Aug 09, 2010 11:41 am Post subject: Re: Motoring enthusiasts everywhere
- Shades A Trike has three wheels. A Cessna has three wheels. Anything else should be against the law. (And even Trikes are just legalised training-wheels for bikers with poor balance). An F-15 has 3 wheels and it makes its own law _________________ Bob Smart ([email protected])

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Posted: Mon Aug 09, 2010 3:02 pm
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heheh.
Yeah, I should have just put 'some aircraft'.

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