The Dam Has Broken

[Skell18]

Just to clarify - our one looked a bit like this:



Only it was white, had back windows and a ventilator bump on top and had the registration plate YOA 510J - the model made in 1970.

Did you work for Trotters Independent traders Ltd?

[Owens187]

Lol. John - I think you're in the wrong thread.... Haha.

[squeezyjohn]

Just to clarify - our one looked a bit like this:



Only it was white, had back windows and a ventilator bump on top and had the registration plate YOA 510J - the model made in 1970.

[squeezyjohn]

When I was a kid - we had a Reliant three-wheeler.

Trust me - you don't want one! Apart from all the bullying at school it provided me with - the roof leaked oily water when it rained and in the heat of summer when I was wearing shorts my legs got welded to the fake-leather plastic seats and ripped my skin off.

Plus when my dad went around a corner too fast the whole car fell on it's side on numerous occasions and we had to push it back up again ... lucky it weighs nothing as it's body is 100% fibre-glass and the engine is 750cc!!

When we finally got a 4 wheeler my dad said that the only good things about the Reliant was that it could parallel park better than any other car and that if you crashed it - you could clean the mess up with a dustpan and brush!

[Owens187]

No lössnus eh? Sounds like getting General near me still isn't much closer to getting what I want.

Nope, no Los. I find this really strange being as most Americans are used to loose dip. Can't for the life of me figure why they wouldn't at least introduce original in Los....

[Skell18]

I liked the wheelie of terror :^D

No word of a lie, I have actually seen one do that on a hill!! Hours of comedy reliant robins, hours!

[lxskllr]

hahahaha they are fun cars! Taxed as motorcycles too, however, as you will see in the vid, you can't drive too fast in one!

I liked the wheelie of terror :^D

[Skell18]

:^D

hahahaha they are fun cars! Taxed as motorcycles too, however, as you will see in the vid, you can't drive too fast in one!

[phantom]

Haha Love it I want one

[lxskllr]

:^D

[Skell18]

I think I'd be riding a motorcycle over there.

Costs about £35 a year to tax, no more than £80 or so I think, there is the much higher chance of death to factor in though

[lxskllr]

Yes we were and still are on all cars up to a certain age (I think its about 2000 or 2001 and earlier e.g. If I owned a Ferrari F40 it would cost £190 or so a year to tax the highest rate, a dodge viper would cost the same), now we are taxed on emissions on all cars post around 2001, so as my daily driver car happens to pump out a fair bit of CO2 I have to pay £320 a year to tax it, I don't drive a Ferrari!! A BMW 520 diesel costs £120 a year to tax, hybrids no tax, any 4x4 will (I think now) be £400 a year to tax so when I come to tax the bastard!!!! My other car also costs £320 a year to tax, but that has the cats ripped out so I am getting my moneys worth!

I think I'd be riding a motorcycle over there.

[Skell18]

and I thought $3.59 a gallon was high!

If you sill up at a motorway service station, closer to $15 a gallon! Out petrol is taxed with fuel duty, then taxed again with VAT! We are ripped off for petrol here, its the duty that we are screwed on, if it wasn't double taxed it would be a bit better.

Are you taxed on engine displacement? I think that's what they do in Ireland.

Yes we were and still are on all cars up to a certain age (I think its about 2000 or 2001 and earlier e.g. If I owned a Ferrari F40 it would cost £190 or so a year to tax the highest rate, a dodge viper would cost the same), now we are taxed on emissions on all cars post around 2001, so as my daily driver car happens to pump out a fair bit of CO2 I have to pay £320 a year to tax it, I don't drive a Ferrari!! A BMW 520 diesel costs £120 a year to tax, hybrids no tax, any 4x4 will (I think now) be £400 a year to tax so when I come to tax the bastard!!!! My other car also costs £320 a year to tax, but that has the cats ripped out so I am getting my moneys worth!

[the88]

Yeah I bought some General Mint at Speedway in MI the other day. I couldn't believe it. Unfortunately, I had to specifically ask for it since it was not on display. There are not many dippers up here, but I think more people would buy it if they knew what snus was.

[lxskllr]

Thats cheap! About $10-11 a gallon here.

Are you taxed on engine displacement? I think that's what they do in Ireland.