Acoma Mini Comtesse!!!!!!! Gullwing door

[djb222]

Acoma Mini Comtesse   apparently and French .    Gullwing door                                   

 

[rusty998]

They had one of these in American Pickers, Mike and Frank bought it for Danni D 

But I think she look better with this Scooter 

[sdkrc]

Champagne model name

Lemonade car, perhaps even old tapwater 

I love it

[wuvvum]

I've mentioned this before, but I nearly bought one of these back in 1997.  It was for sale in the small ads of a French moped magazine for 3,500 francs.  My dad refused to take me to view it as he thought it was a ridiculous idea, and by the time I managed to make other arrangements it'd sold.

[egg]

Even though I don't have any off road parking, I think if I modified my garden gate and put a bit of wood as a temporary kerb, I could actually get one of these on my 'drive'. i.e. front garden path. MK12 Invacar was too wide though...

[Christine]

Looks really safe

[wuvvum]

It's fine.  It's got stabilizers.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

A French Peel P50?

[plasticvandan]

I've driven one round an industrial estate,it's just as amazing* as you would imagine

[djb222]

In France  at least, you didn't need a licence to drive on the road!!!  Scary.

[djb222]

Here's a few more pics of one that sold in Wednesbury recently offers around £3450...

 

.......Plus a link for one that sold at Sothebys £2300 

https://rmsothebys.com/en/auctions/lf18/london/lots/r0083-1975-acoma-mini-comtesse/708836

[djb222]

.......and a video  

 

[anonymous user]

Would you be able to use one on the road over here?

 

Edited to add, obviously I mean legally, registered/insured etc. I doubt it would outrun the police like the non road registered scrambler bikes do around here. 

[LightBulbFun]

36 minutes ago, anonymous user said:

Would you be able to use one on the road over here?

 

Edited to add, obviously I mean legally, registered/insured etc. I doubt it would outrun the police like the non road registered scrambler bikes do around here. 

if you can get it road registered you can, main issue with that is just getting a proof of age ie when the vehicle was made that the DVLA will accept

(a lot of these where not really registered in france IIRC, because I dont think you had to register them over there, so theres no whatever the french equivalent of a V5 is to help you register it here)

Stuart Cyphus actually had the first UK road registered mini comtesse I believe  

 

once you have the above sorted out (ie either find one that has been registried in france or somehow date it to the DVLA's standards) then its just like registering any other used imported car AFAIK

[Pieman]

2 hours ago, djb222 said:

.......and a video  

 

That video combined with that choice of music made me really laugh!  ?

 

[Pieman]

14 minutes ago, LightBulbFun said:

Stuart Cyphus actually had the first UK road registered mini comtesse I believe  

Didn't he used to race bangers at Standlake?

[motorpunk]

Shiiiiiiiiiiiit! That is dreadful on every level!

I love it. 

[LightBulbFun]

14 minutes ago, Pieman said:

Didn't he used to race bangers at Standlake?

he never mention specifically where he used to banger race but indeed he was involved with the scene in the past so possibly? but I never really asked that many questions with regards to that

 

[LightBulbFun]

I have posted this before in my thread before but I think its worth reposting here  

Mini Comtesse one of the few cars you can have shipped to you, literally, on a pallet and all!

 

 

[Tadhg Tiogar]

11 hours ago, LightBulbFun said:

if you can get it road registered you can, main issue with that is just getting a proof of age ie when the vehicle was made ...

Pity that the Ateliers de Construction de Matériel disappeared into thin air in the 1980s. Seems they managed to build these things over a 12-year period. 

[puddlethumper]

I think I saw one in Tipton a few days ago. Not driving but in a yard. Will try and get a pic.

[Scruffy Bodger]

3 hours ago, puddlethumper said:

I think I saw one in Tipton a few days ago. Not driving but in a yard. Will try and get a pic.

The chances of someone nicking one of those must be pretty slim so it may even be where it was last spotted even in Tipton!

[skoda_fan]

What's the origin of the pic in the OP? It has popped up in two or three places recently.

Looks like the sort of thing that could become "worth" a ridiculous fortune to "collectors" in future.

[puddlethumper]

An imprisoned Acoma in Tipton.

[quicksilver]

Stondon had one of these things, it was displayed next to their invalid carriages and made them look large and unwieldy. It wasn't in the closing down auction so I have no idea what happened to it. Allegedly the original design only had one door, until a French giffer inevitably managed to tip one over onto the door side and couldn't escape so the gullwing was hurriedly added.

1974-84 Acoma Mini Comtesse by Adam Floyd, on Flickr

[egg]

yeah, those bloody huge invacars!

I think these are sometimes described as the affordable Peel P50

[ETCHY]

Utter Kack.

I really like it.