Ebay 'WTF' bikes

[Whysub]

Now, Voyager.




https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/256051998053 ... media=COPY

Just because something is rare, it doesn't make it desirable or worth money

[The Spin Doctor]

It's not £20K brilliant !!

I'll concede on that!!

[Cousin Jack]

£10k for a shell and some parts that need 'light fabrication'. I think not.

[Bigjawa]

It's not quite a bike, but still WTaF!

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/155570864506

That's the boy who claims he's the illegitimate son of John DeLorean and is getting sued by the people who own the rights ot the DeLorean brand.

Edit: he says it stands him 180k......

He's a fruit loop.....

https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornw ... ore-target

[Horse]

Sued? A 'cease and desist' might be better

[Count Steer]

That's the boy who claims he's the illegitimate son of John DeLorean and is getting sued by the people who own the rights ot the DeLorean brand.

Edit: he says it stands him 180k......

He's a fruit loop.....

https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornw ... ore-target

If I owned the rights to the DeLorean brand, I think I'd try to avoid any publicity in case anyone realised I'd paid good money for the rights and thought I was the fruit loop.

(However, the Texas Liverpudlian that bought all the old inventory seems to have done well out of it, but even he was sued by John DeLorean's widow over use of the brand. The original cars, Back to the Future not withstanding, were utter pants though ).

[Bigjawa]

That's the boy who claims he's the illegitimate son of John DeLorean and is getting sued by the people who own the rights ot the DeLorean brand.

Edit: he says it stands him 180k......

He's a fruit loop.....

https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornw ... ore-target

If I owned the rights to the DeLorean brand, I think I'd try to avoid any publicity in case anyone realised I'd paid good money for the rights and thought I was the fruit loop.

(However, the Texas Liverpudlian that bought all the old inventory seems to have done well out of it, but even he was sued by John DeLorean's widow over use of the brand. The original cars, Back to the Future not withstanding, were utter pants though ).

The original design was supposed to be powered by a turbocharged 2.2 Citroen engine, but it was so impractical they got Chapman in and it ended up getting that utter pants 2.8 PRV V6. Chapman was being investigated for fraud before he died. Also the cars were assembled by rank amateurs gathered up from West Belfast and Seymour Hill. I can remember going to Lisburn on the train and seeing rows of brand new DMC12 waiting to get sent to the docks.

My uncle was pally with a local motoring journo who had one for a road test. At the time my uncle was running about in a Vauxhall Viva with basically Firenza droop snoot running gear and a bit of tuning. It was much quicker than the DMC12.

I'd love one of the rebuilt ones with the 400bhp Kia V6 twin turbo motor in it though

[Count Steer]

The original design was supposed to be powered by a turbocharged 2.2 Citroen engine, but it was so impractical they got Chapman in and it ended up getting that utter pants 2.8 PRV V6. Chapman was being investigated for fraud before he died. Also the cars were assembled by rank amateurs gathered up from West Belfast and Seymour Hill. I can remember going to Lisburn on the train and seeing rows of brand new DMC12 waiting to get sent to the docks.

My uncle was pally with a local motoring journo who had one for a road test. At the time my uncle was running about in a Vauxhall Viva with basically Firenza droop snoot running gear and a bit of tuning. It was much quicker than the DMC12.

I'd love one of the rebuilt ones with the 400bhp Kia V6 twin turbo motor in it though

The original, original engine was going to be the 2.0l from the Citroën CX (having had a CX I know it's nobodies idea of a supercar powerplant ). They enquired about turbocharging it and Citroën said please don't! There were turbo'd CXs though - a 2.5 diesel and a petrol one in 1985.

I still don't know if John DeLorean was a philanthropic genius/dreamer who was let down by everyone around him (and sort of honey-trapped over the cocaine thing) or a calculating schemer intent on siphoning off taxpayer's money. I like to think the former.

[Mr. Dazzle]

One of my old uni lecturers, Mike "Ken" Loasby, was chief Engineer at DMC. Even he said it was a bit shit

Not enough resources to do it properly apparently.

He was also chief Engineer at Aston Martin for the original V8 Vantage in the late 70s and did the Sierra Cossie among others, so presumably knew what a good car was.

[KungFooBob]

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/175728598711

I'm sure a lot of work went into it and TZ bits aint cheap, but c'mon £17k!!!

[Yorick]

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/175728598711

I'm sure a lot of work went into it and TZ bits aint cheap, but c'mon £17k!!!

Back end is shite.

[Potter]

I think that's been for sale for years, it gets posted up here and there every now and then and he gets one or two people sucking up to him and telling him it's amazing, but no one ever buys it. IIRC it's made by the bloke who's dad started Metmachex, then there was some sort of fall out and he started up on his own.

It looks a mess to me, but each to their own.

[Le_Fromage_Grande]

It's a pile of expensive poo, I'd rather have one with a mild road tune and a set of Allspeeds.

[KungFooBob]

£9K!!!! WTF!

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/155580241689

Mines more original and as good if not better than that (mines got 10k more miles on it tho', but is a nicer colour)

[Potter]

Bellwood's Ducati.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/256065355016 ... SwIFVjz9eK

[weeksy]

Yeah he got a little carried away didn't he

[Whysub]

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/175728598711

I'm sure a lot of work went into it and TZ bits aint cheap, but c'mon £17k!!!

Yet another case of "just because you can doesn't mean you should".

[Bigjawa]

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/175728598711

I'm sure a lot of work went into it and TZ bits aint cheap, but c'mon £17k!!!

It's like an 80yo woman getting a boob job.

Just wrong.

[Jody]

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/175728598711

I'm sure a lot of work went into it and TZ bits aint cheap, but c'mon £17k!!!

It's unique so it's worth £17K

It's unique because no-one else was silly enough to build one !

Take your pick !

[ChrisW]

Love this - very seriously considered buying it - looks like a mix-up of a supermoto, GP bike, scrambler.

Then I saw the left-hand-side and the exhaust killed it. That and the mystery electrical issues (the wiring...!!)

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/266296475632