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scootz

posted on 23/6/16 at 05:16 PM Reply With Quote
Road Legal (NOT!) Single Seater...

This one takes stretching the truth to a whole new level!

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Not 1961. Not Ford. Not Lotus. Not road legal. It's a Tiger HSS Era.

Hope no-one is daft enough to believe it's legit and spend £30k on it!





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motorcycle_mayhem

posted on 23/6/16 at 05:40 PM Reply With Quote
At least it isn't a Dutton...
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Toprivetguns

posted on 23/6/16 at 05:41 PM Reply With Quote
Never heard of a daytime MOT - does it exist ?





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jossey

posted on 23/6/16 at 05:41 PM Reply With Quote
Haha brilliant.

How the hell did that get an mot ?





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jeffw

posted on 23/6/16 at 05:43 PM Reply With Quote
It has had 2MoTs !






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tr7v8

posted on 23/6/16 at 05:44 PM Reply With Quote
Why isn't it road legal? Some FF have been made road legal over the years. It is on ASKMID & has a valid MOT albeit as a Ford.





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theconrodkid

posted on 23/6/16 at 05:54 PM Reply With Quote
no speedo,indicators,stop lights ?
i seem to remember day time MOT,s were for trail bikes with no lights,but they still need a brake light.
i wonder what your local friendly tester would have to say about it ?





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scootz

posted on 23/6/16 at 05:55 PM Reply With Quote
quote:
Originally posted by tr7v8
Why isn't it road legal? Some FF have been made road legal over the years. It is on ASKMID & has a valid MOT albeit as a Ford.



Cos it's not a 1961 Ford. It's a Tiger Era HSS that someone has stamped with a 1961 Ford chassis number and put a 1961 Ford registration number on it!

It has no legal basis to be on the road.





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StevieB

posted on 23/6/16 at 06:43 PM Reply With Quote
quote:
Originally posted by theconrodkid
no speedo,indicators,stop lights ?
i seem to remember day time MOT,s were for trail bikes with no lights,but they still need a brake light.
i wonder what your local friendly tester would have to say about it ?


You can have a daytime MOT on any vehicle.

It's actually not a different MOT, but a standard certificate that will come with an advisory stating that the vehicle should be used in day light conditions only. The clinch I think is that if you have lights and they don't work, the vehicle fails. If they're missing, you get the pass with advisory.

Still needs to have working brake lights though.

I would have thought cycle wings of some sort would be needed though

[Edited on 23/6/16 by StevieB]

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russbost

posted on 23/6/16 at 06:54 PM Reply With Quote
On that basis, I should have just registered my Lola Champ car on an old Furore reg plate - it would be a lot closer to legal than that is! I do hope some poor schmuck isn't going to get mugged with that!





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tr7v8

posted on 23/6/16 at 06:55 PM Reply With Quote
It has a valid MOT, I understand what you say around the registration which is a different thing.





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russbost

posted on 23/6/16 at 06:58 PM Reply With Quote
Apparently it's an orange Ford first registered in 1961, pretty clever really as that would need a time machine, I think the ERA was first made around early 2000's, even the general type of car it's intended to mimic hadn't been invented till around 1963 - Colin Chapman obviously must have copied this bloke!





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scootz

posted on 23/6/16 at 07:44 PM Reply With Quote
quote:
Originally posted by tr7v8
It has a valid MOT, I understand what you say around the registration which is a different thing.


The car is not registered properly, so any MOT on it would invalid... as would any insurance that was subsequently taken against it.





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ceebmoj

posted on 23/6/16 at 08:25 PM Reply With Quote
Seams like a lot of cash for a tiger HSS what do they normally go for? Also I would have assumed lighter than 460kg does anybody know what they normally tip the scales at?

I was very tempted by the one that was for sale on hear for a while. and trying to get it road legal.

[Edited on 23/6/16 by ceebmoj]

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adampage

posted on 24/6/16 at 11:32 AM Reply With Quote
Fairly heavy i think

Nothing clever or modern in the construction, big & heavy Sierra uprights (look so out of place....) and zetec engine not bike, so wouldn't be very light.

You need T45, bike engine, and little aluminium uprights to be pushing under 400kg really on most things.

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adampage

posted on 24/6/16 at 11:39 AM Reply With Quote
I've dropped them a note...

....Pointing out the insanity of their advert.

I've seen their website before, thought they were fairly legit, and quite like the idea of a dealer selling kit cars in a nicely presented way, a bit different to the norm, so i'm amazed they'd let themselves do this.

Grrrr.

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Neville Jones

posted on 25/6/16 at 09:17 AM Reply With Quote
quote:
Originally posted by adampage
You need T45, bike engine, and little aluminium uprights to be pushing under 400kg really on most things.


No you don't!

Just proper materials understanding and good old fashioned proper engineering.

A fabricated steel upright can be lighter, stiffer and more cost effective.

T45 is the same weight as anything else in steel and no stiffer either.

And Suzuki engines are very light for their size and power output.

More than one way of building a bridge.

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