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They'll never let me go to Reclaim the Streets again...

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Ariadne

12:26 / 13.08.02

Excellent! Congratulations.

Have you thought about how you're going to decorate it? I know it's going to be bagpuss-ish, but how does one bagpuss a car?

Are you quite design-handy yourself or do you have useful friends? And you must post photos as soon as it's done.

GreenMann

13:47 / 14.08.02

I'm afraid putting a rebel flag on your car will not help your treachery turncoat. As u cruise down the road in your death-wagon spare a thought for the planet's end, which u seem to b happily contributing to. YES, u r a bad person!! It does seem like a very nice car, but then i'm sure there were some nice nazis too.

Mourne Kransky

14:51 / 14.08.02

Oops, already infringing Godwin's Law and only your third post, Green.

I am looking forward to the news coverage of Obersturmbahnführer Stoatmeister's invasion of Europe, in specially armoured Bagpuss death-machine with Specially Badger Squadron commandos leaping out of his car boot.

GreenMann

15:08 / 14.08.02

I take back the bit about the nazis ... twas tongue in cheek (but, of course, u can't see that). Apart from that, can someone tell me what is "Godwin's Law"?

Saveloy

08:34 / 15.08.02

Godwin's Law states that to mention the Nazis or Hitler in an argument that isn't actually about the 2nd World war is to admit defeat. Something like that. I think there's a link to it in the "Things that make you go Hmmmm..." thread in this forum.

I don't think you're meant to take it too seriously, but at the same time, you are, if you get me.

Bad Horse

08:49 / 15.08.02

I suggest that when you get the car you take the engine out and put it on your coffee table in your front room. Bug engines are nice and you can polish it.

When you finish applying the plush bagpuss fur all over you want to get a bicycle mechanic to fit pedals accessible from both the front seats pedelo style. This will keep you environmentally friendly, keep you fit and at the speeds you will then travel at you will not be a danger to pedestrians. You will probably have to fit a decent battery and dynamo to have sounds though. You will also have a lovely shiny talking point in your abode, a little piece of VW history.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

09:45 / 15.08.02

Oh, by the way, forgot to mention, it does run on unleaded. That's my conscience a little bit salved.
Now I just have to wait until next week so I have the time to sort out insurance (hoping being nearly 31 takes me out of the "boy racer" bracket...) and replace my crappy old scrap of green paper licence with one of those new-fangled photo jobbies. Other than that, it's a done deal! (Then get someone to paint it for me... I know I COULD do it myself, but I also know I'd always be "doing it next weekend"... therefore it'd never end up looking like Bagpuss, and the whole point would be blunted, as it were.)

Oh, and buy an alarm and steering lock and removable stereo and stuff. This IS Hackney, after all...

Saveloy

10:13 / 15.08.02

Undocumented Feature:

"When you finish applying the plush bagpuss fur all over you want to get a bicycle mechanic to fit pedals accessible from both the front seats pedelo style."

Nice idea, that. I'd add pedals at the rear as well, a kind of double tandem affair. I reckon you could probably get up to a fair speed if you had gears too. The only thing that worries me is the brakes - would the normal pedal brake be sufficiently accessible? You'd prolly have to move it to a higher than normal position, so that you could swing your foot up and away from the motive pedals and directly to it. Or would you be better off replacing the steering wheel with bicycle handles and a clutch brake?

Someone must have tried this by now.

Saveloy

10:36 / 15.08.02

Couldn't find any pedal powered VWs, but I did find a patent for the Homocopter:

http://www.delphion.com/cgi-bin/viewpat.cmd/US04007893__

Bad Horse

11:00 / 15.08.02

Now that I do not like. Should you find a gearing system up to giving a sufficient rotation for flight you are then perched above the main rotor!
If you should drop your sandwich on the way to work it's going to be scattered accross three counties.

If you are not up to cycling Mr Chairman you could always ensure the engine is non functional, join the AA, push the car round the corner and have them recover you to where ever it is you want to go.

Saveloy

13:15 / 15.08.02

Undocumented Feature:

"you are then perched above the main rotor!"

Not only that, but imagine getting a bit carried away, pedalling to an altitude of 6000 feet and then realising you're too knackered to make the return journey. And I can't see how you steer. Perhaps it was only meant to be used as a means of going up and down in a clear plastic tube with a sufficient updraft to stop you falling too rapidly when you stop pedalling.

gridley

13:24 / 15.08.02

[the obvious joke] But won't Homoman be mad that you stole the Homocopter out of his Homocave? [/the obvious joke]

grant

17:43 / 15.08.02

You people still have leaded gasoline over there??

Bad Horse

17:47 / 15.08.02

Oh yes but you have to buy your powdered white lead from the local apothecary and mix it yourself. Must of us do though, matter of principle damnit.

Baz Auckland

20:11 / 15.08.02

Don't take this badly, but while searching for a picture of Bagpuss to show my sister what you were talking about, I found this on Marillion.com