Sub 1000cc Beater Club

[Six-cylinder]

To Counter the Scottish 4 Ltr Beater thread I have set up this Sub 1 Ltr thread. The lower the better but lawn mower, model aircraft engines etc may not get you entry to the Club.

 

Please submit your applications for consideration....

 

I will be back later full of beer and curry to consider any applications!

[castros_bro]

Road registered Garelli of small stature with sub 1000cc motor and amusingly sticky tyres.

 

 

 

 

[320touring]

Excellent Idea.

 

I shall have to buy something to obtain entry

[Six-cylinder]

Road registered Garelli of small stature with sub 1000cc motor and amusingly sticky tyres.

 

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I thought this was coming, Mopeds yes, other bikes maybe.

[hairnet]

599cc of finest japanese tech

 

 

[Stanky]

This:

 

 

Which is a UK press car and rated 11/6.7 in the Stanky scale of gr8 cars. It was a 989cc triple and revved like a bastard. It was also flipping awesome in the SNO KAOS of Jan 2010 when it humbled many a larger, more expensive and more powerful car on the backroads of hampshire with its light weight and bicycle-like tyres.

 

We part ex'd it in the end as it was rotten as a rotten thing and developed a misfire after i ran it without the air filter on. I may have forgotten to reconnect the MAF/MAP sensor, I can't recall. We swapped it for a Suzuki Swift 1.3 which was less rusty but had fewer doors.

 

MOT history shows it covered 2000 miles between december 2009 and april 2011 then the fail sheet got the better of it. wasn't my problem by that point.

 

***EDIT*** for the avoidance of doubt that is a press launch photo of the car and it is not Stanky_Towers in the background.

 

Stanky towers is more prestigious*

[Six-cylinder]

599cc of finest japanese tech

Trouble is that looks like a proper serious motorbike, I am looking for inadequate odd balls! But must be yours.

[hairnet]

[chaseracer]

 

This.  Soon, I promise... 

[320touring]

Trouble is that looks like a proper serious motorbike, I am looking for inadequate odd balls! But must be yours.

In this case the owner fulfills the inadequate odd balls bit;)

[Six-cylinder]

So have you done it is that yours?

[castros_bro]

Sub 1000cc Teutonic M4 with OEM*  Addis bin side panels.

 

 

 

No points for identifying the green mudguarded whitewall tyred moped nor the two tone grey flat plastic seated moped in the lower left corner. 

[castros_bro]

Sub 1000cc Oddball  - wall of death pose - unmodded.

 

[strangeangel]

125 of your finest Italian ccs: The Aprilia Habana Retro.

 

[DodgyBastard]

800cc here

 

Suzuki Alto fx by srblythe, on Flickr

[oman5]

Once they're old enough to be in shiter price territory I could easily be swayed by one of those Dacia Sandero 0.9 Tce things, they punch way above their weight. Pretty quick actually, the poor man's Ecoboost?

[Six-cylinder]

Sub 1000cc Oddball  - wall of death pose - unmodded.

 

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I did not know wall of death machines could park on there stands at 90°!

 

But is it yours?

[Six-cylinder]

125 of your finest Italian ccs: The Aprilia Habana Retro.

 

That looks nice, but maybe a bit too nice to enter a club for sub 1000cc cars!

[Asimo]

Squeezing in with 5 cc to spare - unless I get disqualified for having get-around-the-rules electro boost.

[Six-cylinder]

800cc here

 

Suzuki Alto fx by srblythe, on Flickr

Automatic entry.

[Six-cylinder]

Squeezing in with 5 cc to spare - unless I get disqualified for having get-around-the-rules electro boost.image.jpeg

I had not thought about electric!

 

And a brand new Tesla will not get you entry. Must have an engine and insight with 5 cc to spare, I like that so yes.

[garethj]

I've had two of these.  Can't remember the engine size but it's the same as the Suzuki Carry and SJ10, about 970cc?

[garethj]

And I had one of these, 660cc turbocharged.  Top speed was slower than the Whizzkid because it was limited, but both were huge fun

[garethj]

 

[Split_Pin]

3 cyl 973cc. Body is grand but the engine has a death knock, hopefully have a slightly bigger engine in the next 6 months or so.

[dollywobbler]

I think I qualify...

 

602cc, owned 16.5 years.

 

847cc, owned almost 2 years.

 

Previous tiny motors. Well, LOADS of 2CVs, plus:

 

The most amazing car ever. 989cc of pure fun.

 

Renault 5. Actually, this is a pal's 782cc left-hooker. Mine was 845cc and RHD.

 

602cc. Not quite a 2CV.

 

Just scraping in, our old Mini. 998cc.

[strangeangel]

That looks nice, but maybe a bit too nice to enter a club for sub 1000cc cars!

 

But... but... the OP doesn't actually mention cars   and this is my winter beater. It cost about the same as an Asda mountain bike, and has saved my elderly Hondas from the ravages of the winter's salted roads.

 

And as for 'nice'... well, the picture does flatter it somewhat!

[strangeangel]

^^ that Renault 5 is truly a thing of beauty.

 

I wish I could find a pic of my Mum's old Daihatsu Domino. It was a 1984 620(?)cc one, in Harbour Blue.

[Station]

My old 998cc Whizzkid which was a lot of pendulum RWD fun.

Also my 850cc Nippa. You can't have more fun with less than 1000cc, unless of course you have a 125cc powered butt plug.

[barefoot]

I have a hateful ST70 which I have spent far too little time with to enter it into this thread, but which looks like this.

 

 

 

My only other jaunt into sub 1000cc motoring was this piece of shit...

 

 

 

The car is on the left, on the right is an even bigger pile of shit.

 

It was 595cc/26bhp and the purchase was inspired by a little enthusiasm for that popular Irish beat combo - U2. To say it was worse than you'd expect remains an understatement. It functioned as a car, had an excellent heater, HRW & intermittent wipers. But despite being two stroke, peak power was at a lowly 4,200rpm & max (sustainable) speed was just 60 mph. It had, and needed a freewheel on top, fourth gear. It bucked worse than shagging your wife's younger sister from behind in the lower ratios. It had more grease nipples than a sane man would consider necessary. The steering, already lacking in self centring ability at the best of times, would stiffen like a porn star if you forgot to grease it weekly, the drum brakes snatched viciously and the 2,020cm wheelbase and 615 kg weight combo ensured a ride worse than Wilson, Kepple & Betty. 

 

I owned this from 1999 until 2005, it struggled to achieve 35 mpg but I sold it for the £400 I'd paid for it.

It never really smoked like you see on the telly running on modern two stroke oil at the correct dilution, it accelerated with a degree of unexpected briskness and the digital fuel flow meter was spectacular. 

I even dropped the fuel gauge/dip stick thing into the tank, never bothered retrieving it and will never own another poxy little car ever.