barefoot Posted February 27, 2019 Share Posted February 27, 2019 There's a bloke in the next village has one of these and a Bentley Coupe - I understand that he's a brain surgeon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wuvvum Posted February 27, 2019 Share Posted February 27, 2019 There's a NFN type round my way has one of these, complete with all sorts of stick-on tat, neon lights, flashing beacons etc. It does about 22mph flat out, less uphill. I found a picture. It's a bit special. Exiled_Tat_Gatherer, somewhatfoolish, Uncle Jimmy and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle Jimmy Posted February 27, 2019 Share Posted February 27, 2019 What's NFN? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnthonyG Posted February 27, 2019 Share Posted February 27, 2019 ‘Normal for Norfolk’. Legend is it started as a doctor’s abbreviation. That is an impressive* amount of crap on that Ape. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kringle Posted February 28, 2019 Share Posted February 28, 2019 Could we fill the load space up with fags and booze ?? Just to make it worth while...Leave the fags, take the cannoli Rusty_Rocket, drivewaymyway and Dan_ZTT 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir Snipes Posted February 28, 2019 Share Posted February 28, 2019 Just come back from Italy and I can confirm that Apes are still being used for proper work! It is THE LAW to recycle and at least two of the local hotels use pick up versions to run down to the recycling centre with flat cardboard boxes etc in the back of them. The smell of two stroke fumes in the mountain air was special. You know those Chinese versions of the Daihatsu/Piaggio Hijets, the ones with the BMW grills? Well they're taking over, badged as 'Victorias' often in 4x4 flavour, with Italian built tipping tippers (although Piaggio also make a 4x4 pick up, the Porter, as well). Victoria victoria 4x4.jpg Piaggio porter 4x4.jpgA 4x4 Tipper version of one of those things sounds fantastic. I imagine the reality doesn't match though... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kringle Posted February 28, 2019 Share Posted February 28, 2019 A 4x4 Tipper version of one of those things sounds fantastic. I imagine the reality doesn't match though...Stick a ducati 748 engine in it then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
N Dentressangle Posted February 28, 2019 Share Posted February 28, 2019 That is part of what I do; are you in said town? Stroud - just up the valley Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
motorpunk Posted February 28, 2019 Share Posted February 28, 2019 I’m up for a trip to Italy to get one. I’ve been to Italy a fair bit and yearn to drive one over the alps back to Blighty. I am aware I am not normal. I just made a film about racing apes, and there’s a mag feature coming too. A mate has one and I love it. Ape Ape Ape. Yes please. So. When are we going? catsinthewelder and Lacquer Peel 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kringle Posted February 28, 2019 Share Posted February 28, 2019 So at normal speed it'd take around 16 hours from Milan (obviously because you want to pick up the Apes and visit Monza) to calais, with one of these you're looking at a lot longer than that. What's the top speed of these? 40 odd? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MorrisItalSLX Posted February 28, 2019 Share Posted February 28, 2019 ‘Normal for Norfolk’. Legend is it started as a doctor’s abbreviation. That is an impressive* amount of crap on that Ape. NFN means 'Normal for Nowra' where I'm from (Nowra). Eddie Honda 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scaryoldcortina Posted February 28, 2019 Share Posted February 28, 2019 What's the top speed of these? 40 odd?30 downhill on a good day with a following wind and a double decker bus to slipstream. wuvvum, drivewaymyway and Lacquer Peel 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wack Posted February 28, 2019 Share Posted February 28, 2019 Will it soon be selling coffee/prosecco/ice-creamDon't think you're allowed to just rock up and start selling booze unless it's on Facebook , coffee ice cream sounds like a winner though, pity the 3 day heatwave just finished Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wuvvum Posted February 28, 2019 Share Posted February 28, 2019 30 downhill on a good day with a following wind and a double decker bus to slipstream. This. You're looking at 25 on the flat, tops. 15 up anything resembling a hill. The 200cc versions would just about do 40 on a good day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anonymous user Posted February 28, 2019 Share Posted February 28, 2019 There's a bloke in the next village has one of these and a Bentley Coupe - I understand that he's a brain surgeon.Physician heal thyself, after all who in their right mind would buy a Bentley coupe? I'm assuming it's a modern footballer spec one, if it's an R type or S type I'll let him off. puddlethumper 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crooner Posted February 28, 2019 Share Posted February 28, 2019 I'd definitely have one of those, but it'd have to be right hand drive. Can't be doing with any of that there foreign muck. puddlethumper 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supernaut Posted February 28, 2019 Share Posted February 28, 2019 I'd definitely have one of those, but it'd have to be right hand drive. Can't be doing with any of that there foreign muck. But in a Piaggo Ape you sit in the middle... Oh, right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catsinthewelder Posted February 28, 2019 Share Posted February 28, 2019 I'm up for a run back from Italy but I wouldn't really want it when I got home. At least we won't get stopped for speeding. Tamworthbay 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wingz123 Posted February 28, 2019 Share Posted February 28, 2019 I need a break ginmie a pm if you are up for going... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle Jimmy Posted February 28, 2019 Share Posted February 28, 2019 Stroud - just up the valley Snap- looking at your list of vehicles I think I may have seen one or two about Have you noticed the flat fronted, JRG Saab 9000 around Stroud? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kringle Posted February 28, 2019 Share Posted February 28, 2019 So we're looking at half dozen people interested in buying 15mph death boxes and riding/ driving? In convoy for a thousand miles. This place. What bit of Italy? What classified sites do they use most? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
somewhatfoolish Posted February 28, 2019 Share Posted February 28, 2019 I’m up for a trip to Italy to get one. I’ve been to Italy a fair bit and yearn to drive one over the alps back to Blighty. I am aware I am not normal. I just made a film about racing apes, and there’s a mag feature coming too. A mate has one and I love it. Ape Ape Ape. Yes please. So. When are we going?Are you doing anything important in April? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catsinthewelder Posted March 1, 2019 Share Posted March 1, 2019 There is a slight fly in the ointment. ISTR that getting a car out of Italy can be a right shit. When a car is sold the seller keeps the plate and the buyer collects a new one from the local office. To do this you need an Italian address. Quite a few countries have similar issues we found out about last year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tamworthbay Posted March 1, 2019 Share Posted March 1, 2019 There is a slight fly in the ointment. ISTR that getting a car out of Italy can be a right shit. When a car is sold the seller keeps the plate and the buyer collects a new one from the local office. To do this you need an Italian address. Quite a few countries have similar issues we found out about last year.Ah shit, that’s a pain in the arse. Do you know of any way around it? Do they do export plates? Could you just give any address? 1 colosseum, Rome, for example. Kringle 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SierraMikeHotel Posted March 1, 2019 Share Posted March 1, 2019 I have Italian friends. They may say no, but there's no harm in asking... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2MB Posted March 1, 2019 Share Posted March 1, 2019 get that man a prize! it is indeed the bastard lovechild of a toy screwdriver and a poundland multimeter!I thought it was a crack pipe AMC Rebel 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cavcraft Posted March 1, 2019 Share Posted March 1, 2019 Stick a ducati 748 engine in it then.Putting a 4 stroke engine into anything that started out with a 2T should be an offence punishable by 20 years hard labour. Those Apes are fantastic things, thread followed. Lacquer Peel, Tamworthbay, barefoot and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wuvvum Posted March 1, 2019 Share Posted March 1, 2019 Are you doing anything important in April, May, June and July? FTFY. Kringle, puddlethumper, Cavcraft and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barefoot Posted March 1, 2019 Share Posted March 1, 2019 Physician heal thyself, after all who in their right mind would buy a Bentley coupe? I'm assuming it's a modern footballer spec one, if it's an R type or S type I'll let him off. It's a newish Continental GT with a W12. It replaced a 928.It's rumoured that he experiments on his wife!There's her, a total fucking fruit-loop and him hammering up the hill to the Co-Op in a cloud of two stroke.I'll not be letting him anywhere near my head. The Moog 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AMC Rebel Posted March 1, 2019 Share Posted March 1, 2019 I find it so sad to see them pimped up llike this. They should be workhorses, and as mentioned above in Italy they remain so. Back in May I went and I can confirm that they're everywhere. One day I'll own one and religiously use it for tip runs only. DSC_0527.JPGDSC_0550.JPG <grumpy> you'd probably get turned away form our top with one of those unless you had a tip permit </grumpy> Kringle 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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