Thread: 10 most and least reliable cars survey

Originally Posted by V8Ian

Quick Draw McGoogle, can you locate any pictures of a Rytecraft Scootercar? Early ones had a 98cc Villiers, later fitted with a neck snapping 250cc, of the same manufacture. Why haven't Grockle or Coop mentioned this?

The reason being that it brings back childhood terror! from being dropped off at school by my granny in hers, a 1950 Pillow case white over River Trent brown with contrasting brynylon trim,being something of a local 'bad girl' used to rev it up until the cyl head could be seen glowing through the body whilst giving the finger sign to the local WVS whistdrive competitors,
the noise will also never leave me,as the cloud of Castrol R30 puffed out from her home made expansion chamber exhaust made from grandads best pipe.I'm sure I can still hear her 'screeming' up the lane even now,my dad shouting for us all to be quite and stay out of sight.

Originally Posted by V8Ian

Quick Draw McGoogle, can you locate any pictures of a Rytecraft Scootercar? Early ones had a 98cc Villiers, later fitted with a neck snapping 250cc, of the same manufacture. Why haven't Grockle or Coop mentioned this?

Rytecraft Scoota-car at Goodwood Revival motor racing 2006

Originally Posted by JDNSW

, one of the most reliable cars I have ever had was a Ford Laser
But the car that took the cake for unreliability was the Nikki.

J

My other half has an ex Qld Government Laser. 1.6 auto. It has now done nearly 70 000km with nothing done other than routine maintenance (10 000km services). The only "repairs" have been several sets of wiper blades and one set of front brake pads.

My Dad bought a Niki for my sister to drive. We owned it for years and it was a reliability shocker. Gear shift linkage issues, plug leads falling off (major problem when there are only two!), broken valve spring, etc. But the body work was very strong (my sister crashed a bit).

Originally Posted by Sleepy

Rytecraft Scoota-car at Goodwood Revival motor racing 2006

That's it,I knew I'd heard it about,but someones nicked those brynylon seats.

There was a guy who drove a Rytecraft across a the US in the early sixty's,he stole the idea from my granny,Granny Roper giving her her formal title,were by she drove from 25,Cow Lane,Bramcote, Nottingham to Todmorden in the West Riding of Yorkshire,here the town hall was half in Yorkshire and half in Lancashire, the town straddling both counties but offically classed as being in Yorkshire,she completed the journey in twelve years,having run off with first,Hubert Morrison a mole breeder from Whitwell,North Nottinghamshire, then dumping him for Percy Shaw who invented the cats eye(Reflecting Road Studs Ltd) of Boothtown, Halifax,West Yorkshire half way through her tour,returning home some eight years later as if nothing had happened,saying to grandad she was just nipping out for a first oversize piston and ring set for the Rytecraft after doing a rebore on her sewing machine,from the local dealer, Horace Sprockett and Sons of 12 Market St. Ilkeston,Derbyshire some four miles away.She was a wag,one of fourteen children bought up in an allotment shed,but thats another tale.

A neighbour of my uncle Bertrum,once told him about the Podmore Peanut a gas powered kit car devised by one Lt.Commander Corneilious Podmore RN Ret.the kit was based on a Silver Cross pram chassis to which a ply wood or hardboard body was fitted(two body option's were included with the kit one a two seater roadster the other a four seater family saloon).
The power unit was to be a domestic hot water geyser like in my uncles kitchen,coupled to an emersion tank the gas was to be obtained from the local bus co., Barton's in Beston who ran two gas buses in the war.the bag for the gas was to be off a Hoover or other make(the Hoover being strongly recommended by the commander on quiality grounds)vacum cleaner,the first tes run ended in disaster when a dog tied up outside the local blacksmith/cobblers chewed through the gas bag whilst the commander was inside having his best pipe claylined,the dog(later found to have been called Nip)and the front door of no 33 were never seen again.
Not being put off by this minor setback(his words) did complete a pre production Peanut,only to have it crushed under the wheels of a Scammell Pioneer at a nasty junction near Matloclk escaping with his life abandonded the idea once and forall 'a great loss to modern motoring' it said on his headstone following his death some 25 minutes later following the accicdent.

Ha Ha Ha Love it. Sure your name is Grockle and not cockle? Where I used to live there were plenty of cockles.