Anyone heard of/seen a RAUSOUCE?

[keef]

https://www.cartell.ie/ssl/servlet/begi ... on=PLJ245G

 

I've never seen/heard of one and Google turns up a blank.

[Formula Autos]

What is it? A truck? Kit car? Foreign import? Coachbuilt folly?

 

Many sports racing cars (things that would race against GT40s etc.) were made road legal in the late '60s/early '70s. It couldn't be something like that, could it? Many of them were one-offs, so it could conceivably be.

 

I can't think how it might be a mis-spelling of anything we might have heard of, either.

 

Thinking caps on shiters!*

 

*Barrett would be all over this, and probably come up with the answer in a matter of minutes. He doesn't come round this way very often now though, does he?

[quicksilver]

Hmm, nothing at all on google for the name RAUSOUCE. DVLA says PLJ245G had a petrol engine and was last licensed in 1981 but no other data is available so that's not much help..

[keef]

Extra info from DVLA site, if it helps? :-

 

The enquiry is complete.The vehicle details for PLJ 245G are:

Date of Liability 01 04 1981

Date of First Registration 31 03 1969

Year of Manufacture Not Available

Cylinder Capacity (cc) Not Available

CO2 Emissions Not Available

Fuel Type PETROL

Export Marker N

Vehicle Status Unlicensed

Vehicle Colour GREEN

Vehicle Type Approval Not Available

[pandamonium]

I would venture that it is a made-up name.

 

No, seriously. As far as I have been told, when re-registering a heavily modified car, you can call it what you want.

[quicksilver]

That's what I was thinking, I guess it was a one-off special and its builder registered it under that made-up name. RAUSOUCE backwards is ECUOSUAR if that means anything to anyone.

[DSdriver]

If it looks weird and with a name like that it is probably from Belgium.

[Cheggers]

Where does the question come from? - Is this something you've been offered?

[M'coli]

Bloody hell, just one too many results to be a Googlewhackblatt!

[boobydoo]

Hmmmm.....HPi lists it as an agricultural tractor.

[ChinaTom]

Ransomes? MG40?

[worldofceri]

PLJ 243G = 1969 Jaguar 2.4/240

 

PLJ 242G = 1969 MG Midget

 

PLJ 240G = 1969 Austin Mini 1000

 

PLJ 247G = 1969 Suzuki 49cc

 

PLJ 249G = 1969 Morris Mini

 

PLJ 250G = 1969 Morris 1300

 

LJ = Bournemouth.

 

All were registered on or around 01/04/69. April Fool?

 

Rausouce! This'll get folk on the interweb (whatever that is) talking in forty years time (ROFL).

[keef]

Hmmmm.....HPi lists it as an agricultural tractor.

 

Bournemouth - the Agricultural capital of the world!

[keef]

Is this something you've been offered?

 

I'm looking for a 3L - PLJxxxG and ........

[quicksilver]

Ransomes? MG40?

That sounds very plausible given that Ransomes made green agricultural equipment. It was probably written in unclear handwriting on the taxation form and the DVLA clerk made a guess at what it said - N could easly look like U, E like C and so on. I've seen some other oddities like 'Maudolay' and 'Scamnell' that could be explained the same way.

[keef]

That sounds very plausible given that Ransomes made green agricultural equipment.

 

Thanks all.

[Vin]

It could maybe have been a council gang mower. This one is a Ransomes.

 

[Pete-M]

I remember seeing a SAAAB. It said that on the tax disc, too.

[Albert Ross]

Is that like a JAAAAAAAAAAAAG?

[keef]

Is that like a JAAAAAAAAAAAAG?

Used to be owned by Jeremy Claaaaaaaaaaaaarkson.

[quicksilver]

I'm very disappointed. I got all excited thinking keef had stumbled across a completely unheard-of late 60s special and it turns out to be a bloody lawnmower The detective work was good fun though.

[keef]

it turns out to be a bloody lawnmower

 

Grassy-arse!

[alf892]

are you sure it's not a hay burner.........as in race horse?

[keef]

are you sure it's not a hay burner.........as in race horse?

 

Nay lad, nay.

 

Don't think anywhere lists the full details, so we may never know.

[DSdriver]

Maybe it was registered over the phone by someone of oriental extraction

[ChinaTom]

It could maybe have been a council gang mower. This one is a Ransomes.

 

 

2 to 1 odds it's one of these. I recall them trundling past my folks house when I was a kid off to mow the secondary school playfields - always on J or K plates.