Reliant Lucas Hybrid - saved!

[omega]

There seems to me to be only one potential buyer for the parts?[/quote]One potential vehicle that requires the parts.  Hundreds if not thousand of people wanting the right thing to occur.  Not enough motivation or finance.

The point of the advert was to hopefully motivate a final chapter to the history of this vehicle, but you all seem to be not that bothered after all - Which was how I came across the vehicle in the first place!  NOBODY CARES ENOUGH.

Lots of talk and no action.   Typically British.
[/quote]

think you should stop talking like a cock
people have suggested a couple of ideas to you
what would you like people to do?

[MK2VR6]

Dec 7, 2013 18:15:21 GMT hybridowner said:

Dec 7, 2013 17:35:39 GMT bavarianretro said:

I too wondered what the point of the advert was. 

There is only one of these cars.
It is owned by someone.
It is missing important parts.
They are owned by someone else who wants to sell them.

There seems to me to be only one potential buyer for the parts?

One potential vehicle that requires the parts.  Hundreds if not thousand of people wanting the right thing to occur.  Not enough motivation or finance.

The point of the advert was to hopefully motivate a final chapter to the history of this vehicle, but you all seem to be not that bothered after all - Which was how I came across the vehicle in the first place!  NOBODY CARES ENOUGH.

Lots of talk and no action.   Typically British.

Based on that response, I'd say scrap it, then.

[hybridowner]

Dec 7, 2013 18:33:50 GMT omega said:

There seems to me to be only one potential buyer for the parts?

One potential vehicle that requires the parts.  Hundreds if not thousand of people wanting the right thing to occur.  Not enough motivation or finance.

The point of the advert was to hopefully motivate a final chapter to the history of this vehicle, but you all seem to be not that bothered after all - Which was how I came across the vehicle in the first place!  NOBODY CARES ENOUGH.

Lots of talk and no action.   Typically British.
[/quote]

think you should stop talking like a cock
people have suggested a couple of ideas to you
what would you like people to do?[/quote]


I like the ideas.  As I have said previously (if you have not read ALL of my postings) I am not the primary individual involved in the future of this vehicle.  If the current owners are happy to launch a Kickstart project to get the finance together to do more than just reunite a pallet of parts to a half wrecked carcass and put them in the same building. Then I would be more than happy for them.

Until then - Merci for the ear wigging.  I am sure that will help. But Less talk and more action would be better.

Thanks

[xbo11ox]

What 'action' do you want exactly? Apart from someone to come to France and give you £3500 for a reliant robin engine and a washing machine motor.

[hybridowner]

Dec 7, 2013 19:00:47 GMT xbo11ox said:

What 'action' do you want exactly? Apart from someone to come to France and give you £3500 for a reliant robin engine and a washing machine motor.

Wow.  It's only a washing machine motor?  They have nothing to worry about then do they.  Those things are 2 a penny.

So now we have established the parts in my possession are of no value whatsoever, and not essentially required by them or the project.... You can get your finger out and give them a hand putting it back where it should be.  In ship shape condition and on the road to rape a Prius.

Thanks again for your valued input.

[MK2VR6]

Dec 7, 2013 19:00:47 GMT xbo11ox said:

What 'action' do you want exactly? Apart from someone to come to France and give you £3500 for a reliant robin engine and a washing machine motor.

Wow.  It's only a washing machine motor?  They have nothing to worry about then do they.  Those things are 2 a penny.

So now we have established the parts in my possession are of no value whatsoever, and not essentially required by them or the project.... You can get your finger out and give them a hand putting it back where it should be.  In ship shape condition and on the road to rape a Prius.

Thanks again for your valued input.
[/quote]

Dec 7, 2013 19:20:26 GMT hybridowner said:

[jiminwatford]

Hybridowner, you talk a lot of the 'back story' to this which seemingly involved several failed attempts to unite the original components with the rest of the car

Of course, we are not aware of this and therefore cannot appreciate, perhaps, the lengths you have gone to

It might help if you explain the current situation and not assume we all starting from the same place

You seem to have a head of steam on this leaving a lot of us rather dumbfounded

[Steve]

It does seem a lot of money is being asked for a load of parts that only have one proper application and aside from being shoehorned into something else or selling for scrap they really have no other purpose.....

Perhaps if they were.....I don't know.....donated to the cause for a small fee then perhaps this car might have a chance at being put back together and passed onto a museum of some sort to preserve it properly

My two cents
Steve

[hybridowner]

Dec 7, 2013 19:59:28 GMT Steve said:

It does seem a lot of money is being asked for a load of parts that only have one proper application and aside from being shoehorned into something else or selling for scrap they really have no other purpose.....

Perhaps if they were.....I don't know.....donated to the cause for a small fee then perhaps this car might have a chance at being put back together and passed onto a museum of some sort to preserve it properly

My two cents
Steve

Fair do.  But It was I that donated the chassis in the first instance.  I would assume any interest here would be still to unite the parts with the chassis, rather than create another DIY Hybrid.  Hence -  NO EBAY LISTING

Most of the 4000e raised would go back into project. It would pay for the delivery of the parts, and a few other ancillaries. I only require 1300 e of my initial 5000 quid investment to carry out my own humanitarian project..  I thought my plea of poverty would further motivate.  How foolish of me.

Thanks Steve

[jiminwatford]

Oblique references to things we have no idea about (humanitarian project??) and you expect donations to a project you have explained virtually nothing about

Instead you castigate the community for not caring enough

Maybe we do, maybe we don't but i don't see how you will get anywhere from your starting position of 'you are all ratbags and i'm not playing anymore!'

[Porsche]

Hybridowner, exactly how did you come by the parts that you have and how did they end up in France? I don't understand why they weren't sold with the car if they were available in the first place? At the begining of this thread, I thought the mechanicals had been stolen.

You are now saying that your advert is to raise cash to reunite the parts with the car....but when I first read it, it just looked like you were trying to sell the parts to raise cash to live.

[hybridowner]

Dec 7, 2013 19:58:32 GMT jiminwatford said:

Hybridowner, you talk a lot of the 'back story' to this which seemingly involved several failed attempts to unite the original components with the rest of the car

Of course, we are not aware of this and therefore cannot appreciate, perhaps, the lengths you have gone to

It might help if you explain the current situation and not assume we all starting from the same place

You seem to have a head of steam on this leaving a lot of us rather dumbfounded

I understand the possible confusion.   The short of the story :

The current situation is the car is spread across two continents. Neither I nor the owners are in a position to attain the goal of reuniting the parts nor the money for renovating or restoring.  The lack of finance and interest leaves a lot to be desired.  If I had the money I would have already donated and delivered the parts for free.

Every effort so far has been thwarted by bad luck.  The major investors have vaporized and now the project is therefore currently in limbo, and at the mercy of any potentially motivated individuals who have the heart to see this project through with the current owners.

I have no intention of letting the parts go to anyone who is not interested in the project or it's future, which is why I have not posted sale adds all over the place for these rare items.

Thanks again.

[hybridowner]

Dec 7, 2013 20:47:56 GMT jiminwatford said:

Oblique references to things we have no idea about (humanitarian project??) and you expect donations to a project you have explained virtually nothing about

Instead you castigate the community for not caring enough

Maybe we do, maybe we don't but i don't see how you will get anywhere from your starting position of 'you are all ratbags and i'm not playing anymore!'

There should be absolutely no need to be interested in my project, and your attention should be on the project vehicle in question if you are at all as concerned as you seem to let on.  Otherwise, we have very little to discuss.

Thanks again.

[Seth]

I have got thoroughly confused by all this now that I know don't know who has what, where any of it is, why, if one person had the chassis and the parts they were not put together at that time and sold as a going concern and whether a humanitarian project involving Raymanboy is part of the equation.

Fortunately since I don't have 4000 groats to my name, nor the space or time to take any of the so-called 'action' that seems to be required I am not going to let it bother me too much.

[hybridowner]

Dec 7, 2013 20:49:44 GMT Porsche said:

Hybridowner, exactly how did you come by the parts that you have and how did they end up in France? I don't understand why they weren't sold with the car if they were available in the first place? At the begining of this thread, I thought the mechanicals had been stolen.

You are now saying that your advert is to raise cash to reunite the parts with the car....but when I first read it, it just looked like you were trying to sell the parts to raise cash to live.

The vehicle was never sold to the present owners. 

I qoute myself again :

Before all hell broke loose - we had on many occasion - contacted several museums, BBC Top Gear, and even Jay Leno with regards to the future of the car - and got absolutely no response regarding the vehicle. This was swiftly followed by very inflexible circumstances that forced the ensuing debacle.

The ultimate objective of my posting here rather than broadcasting it across the entire inter-web - was to try to keep the new owners close to any potential interest generated by this forum - being a supposedly more closely nit community and all....

As such - I will object to any negative finger pointing in my direction solely. I am not holding the only piece of the puzzle.
And I am not the butt of responsibility for the future of this project.

Thanks again to all whom are genuinely concerned.

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[jiminwatford]

Hi Steve,

You've completely lost me

So, good luck with - everything

[Porsche]

So if the vehicle wasn't sold to the present owners, how are they now the owners? If you gave it away, surely you should have given them all the parts. Or if you transported the parts that you have to France, why didn't you take the car to France too?

You keep mentioning the owners of the body, but they aren't on this forum at the momment.

I think you need to explain in plain English what you your intentions are exactly. Are you trying to raise funds to transport your parts to the owners of the car?

This is all getting very confusing. You still haven't explained how come your parts ended up in France and they car ended up in the hands of it's owners.

[xbo11ox]

I didn't have a clue what you were on about at first, but now that you have re-written it exactly the same butl bigger and in bold type its all making a lot more sense. Cheers!

[Porsche]

I'm starting to wonder if you even have the parts and this isn't just a big scam.

[monster]

It might help if you try explaining a bit more about what your original investment in the vehicle was, how it ended up like it was and how it came to be with the new owner if you didn't actually sell it to them. Instead of being wanky and cryptic with everyone, if you want people on your side then it would help to explain things a little more clearly, otherwise i personally don't know what you are trying to achieve other than asking a frankly unrealistic amount of money for parts that could be replicated easily (probably).