very cheap Zonda......tempting

[TooMany2cvs]

Nice 308GT4 in the other half of the garage, though...

[All that jazz]

thatdude said:

andysgriff said:

It's a nasty little car and needs to be killed immediately,, some body has placed a bid...

Here you can hear it running oh so sweetly and not using any oil...

The grip in the wet must be awesome

http://youtu.be/Hn43nlAQqJA

Edited by andysgriff on Monday 12th January 23:26

what a peice of st.

When he pulls away out of his driveway it doesn't appear to have a 1st or even 2nd gear. I'm sure he's trying to pull away in 3rd gear for some reason?

I like the estimated 3 second 0-60 time and top speed of nearly 200mph. I would pay good money to see him attempting to do either, particularly the latter, which I'm quite confident would end in a ball of flames and a large quantity of car and human body parts being strewn everywhere . In all his videos of it I've not seen one that shows it doing more than about 20mph.

[johnxjsc1985]

All that jazz said:

When he pulls away out of his driveway it doesn't appear to have a 1st or even 2nd gear. I'm sure he's trying to pull away in 3rd gear for some reason?

I like the estimated 3 second 0-60 time and top speed of nearly 200mph. In all his videos of it I've not seen one that shows it doing more than about 20mph.

maybe he isn't as stupid as we think then

[Europa1]

All that jazz said:

thatdude said:

andysgriff said:

It's a nasty little car and needs to be killed immediately,, some body has placed a bid...

Here you can hear it running oh so sweetly and not using any oil...

The grip in the wet must be awesome

http://youtu.be/Hn43nlAQqJA

Edited by andysgriff on Monday 12th January 23:26

what a peice of st.

When he pulls away out of his driveway it doesn't appear to have a 1st or even 2nd gear. I'm sure he's trying to pull away in 3rd gear for some reason?

I like the estimated 3 second 0-60 time and top speed of nearly 200mph. I would pay good money to see him attempting to do either, particularly the latter, which I'm quite confident would end in a ball of flames and a large quantity of car and human body parts being strewn everywhere . In all his videos of it I've not seen one that shows it doing more than about 20mph.

Yes, I agree - any attempt to VMax that is just going to end up with the driver smearing himself over a long stretch of runway/roadway as the car combines raw power with shedding weight through parts and panels as it accelerates in a novel approach to trying to gain speed. Suspect the creator of this excresence may have badly misinterpreted what Chapman had in mind when he coined his mantra "to add speed, add lightness"...

[Zod]

I love the bit he's hacked away at the bottom of the A pillar at the front of the door.

[P-Jay]

soad said:

johnxjsc1985 said:

a good example of why I am no fan of kit Cars

"Please remember this is not a kit car, it is entirely handmade from scratch. I understand that some people may be able to make moulds from the body and make kits for the MR2."

Zod said:

His story is unclear. Did it ever have a Jag V12 fitted?

"when the Zonda had its V12 Jag engine." I wonder what happened to it?!

There's a video called "3rd engine lucky" or words to that effect on his YouTube account, I have a sneaking one he killed it.

[P-Jay]

HTP99 said:

"Customs valued the car at $150,000 (BD56,500) but Mr Truman believes that the number will have increased exponentially since the car's completion earlier this month."

LOL!!

Shudder - I really hope no one was foolish enough to pay the import duty on that sort of money, for that!?!

[soad]

tomsugden said:

Sorry, hadn't spotted that.

In any case, it's not road legal.

P-Jay said:

There's a video called "3rd engine lucky" or words to that effect on his YouTube account, I have a sneaking one he killed it.

One of the articles says "The V12 engine which originally inspired Truman’s replica Zonda has since been broken beyond repair. "

[RAFsmoggy]

I like this where its getting a final wash & brush up before the off...?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSjwgwRh7aI

Edited by RAFsmoggy on Tuesday 13th January 18:01

[Zod]

RAFsmoggy said:

I like this where its getting a final wash & brush up before the off...?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSjwgwRh7aI

Edited by RAFsmoggy on Tuesday 13th January 18:01

Why pay the expense of shipping it? Better just to dump it.

[DonkeyApple]

johnxjsc1985 said:

can see him giving a self congratulatory nod to himself.

Bound to be a few nods interspersing the twitching and dribbling.

[Roo]

I do know that if you touch the throttle you have to make sure your head is right back as the acceleration is quite violent.

That's going some for a car that's never had the turbos spooled.

[anonymous-user]

Well... it will be interesting to see what the final sale price is on eBay considering all the internet publicity this thing has had.

He states in the advert that it is still registered as a Ford Scorpio. I really hope no one buys it with the view to just taking it for an MOT then simply taxing/insuring their 'Ford Scorpio' because they will get a horrible surprise.

[fezst]

RAFsmoggy said:

I like this where its getting a final wash & brush up before the off...?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSjwgwRh7aI

Edited by RAFsmoggy on Tuesday 13th January 18:01

Wet seats comes to mind, I mean who washes the car with the windscreen out...

[hondansx]

Roo said:

I do know that if you touch the throttle you have to make sure your head is right back as the acceleration is quite violent.

That's going some for a car that's never had the turbos spooled.

LOL! Well spotted.

I would love to know what goes inside these people's heads. They must literally see something imagined rather than reality.

[ManFromDelmonte]

The poor chap has just added an attempted rebuttal of some of the criticism over on the other thread (do we really need two?)

Either way it is worth reading.

[wc98]

daveofedinburgh said:

F*ck me.

Im probably less health & safety conscious than most people, but that would be appear to be a machine designed to kill a human being as efficiently and messily as possible.

Flat out through Eau Rouge in that anyone? Either 1 million man points or a Darwin Award await...

roflmfao

[Europa1]

ManFromDelmonte said:

The poor chap has just added an attempted rebuttal of some of the criticism over on the other thread (do we really need two?)

Either way it is worth reading.

In god's name why he did he do that?

He'd have done better to just scan in his prescription...

[Brummmie]

Its a little like the people who go on "Ex Facta" and sound like a cat being sliced with a Oxy Acetylene torch, but whatever they are hearing sounds world conquering..

[Nors]

OMG! That looks like it's been panel beaten by a sledge hammer!!