Haynes pig anyone?

[Davey]

My mate's dad had started to build a roadster, he all but completed the chassis but reckons he couldn't find a donor sierra (funny that every time I looked on Ebay there was always quite a few). anyway I saw him today and he's turning it into a mid engined trike with plastic pig front suspension...............could be entertaining on track:eek: .

D.

[minicountryman1961]

I have a bit of trouble translating English English to 'merican English. What is a plastic pig?


My mate's dad had started to build a roadster, he all but completed the chassis but reckons he couldn't find a donor sierra (funny that every time I looked on Ebay there was always quite a few). anyway I saw him today and he's turning it into a mid engined trike with plastic pig front suspension...............could be entertaining on track:eek: .

D.

[michael92]

i belive he may be talking about a robin reliant haha! :)

[shh120m]

just incase someone hasnt seen this before:) :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQh56geU0X8

[twinturbo]

i belive he may be talking about a robin reliant haha! :)

FFS get it right..

The company was called Reliant!!! and the car Was a Robin.

:rolleyes:

[twinturbo]

As in one of these

http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01014/robin-reliant_1014832i.jpg

Adrian

Now..

Is that a Rialto or a Supervan, or a Robin Supervan... Hmmm...

[Davey]

Yup that's the plastic pig allright. TT I'm with you, it annoys me intensely when people make that mistake and call it a "robin reliant" just like it annoys me when they say Del Boy's was a Robin Reliant when it was actually a Reliant Regal Supervan. That picture is of a Reliant Robin Supervan or possibly a Rialto but its definitely not a Regal. And before anyone asks no I have never owned one but I drove one once with a Lotus twin cam motor in it, that was interesting:eek: !

D.

[twinturbo]

I had to correct the "Cars of the Stars" museum in Keswick as their website said Robin Reliant! :rolleyes: ... And I have never had one but I would love to own a SE6B Scimitar Reliant or a 1.8T Saber Reliant

It's like my 6yr old that keeps calling the vacuum cleaner a Hoover.. It's not a Hoover it's a Dirt Devil you think he would get it right after 2 years of being told!



TT

[michael92]

I do Apollogise for my mistake :P

[minicountryman1961]

Yup that's the plastic pig allright. TT I'm with you, it annoys me intensely when people make that mistake and call it a "robin reliant"

D.
Uh Oh, at the 1:06 mark in the Youtube video posted above, Jeremy Clarkson calls it a Robin Reliant!!!!

I should have remembered the Robin was the Plastic Pig, but I have never seen one in person, for some reason they never caught on in the U.S.. Perhaps because if you owned one here, you would be guaranteed to never get laid? I have seen it frequently on video, I own the Complete Mr. Bean DVD set.

[twinturbo]

I remember being unfortunate to catch that episode.. I screamed at the TV.

TT

[Davey]

Here's a bit of an update on the "Haynes Pig". My mate's dad swapped the project for a completed trike (read shit heap) on the basis that he would complete the "haynes" one. I saw him today reworking the rear suspension as its way too hard apparently (Reliant rear axle mounted on radius arm with coil over shock units, AKA a total abortion). I was amazed to see it now sports number plates and a tax disc, as the seats are a couple of plastic chair items (remember the kind we had at school, plastic seat on a tubular metal frame) with lap only seat belts so I'm guessing it hasn't seen an IVA examination! I'm not even convinced it would pass an MOT.

So what do I do now, shop them and drop him in it and hope they never have an accident with it?

Next question is if I do shop them who do I call?

D.