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Q677 - solved - Rolls-Canardly Silver Spoon
« on: February 22, 2010, 09:51:18 AM »
Can you name this car?
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Re: Q677
« Reply #1 on: February 22, 2010, 11:40:12 AM »
Oh my!
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Re: Q677
« Reply #2 on: February 22, 2010, 12:06:24 PM »
Quote from: Otto Puzzell on February 22, 2010, 11:40:12 AM
Oh my!

Yes, I wonder what Rolls-Royce thought about it?
Bet they didn't offer to market it...
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Re: Q677
« Reply #3 on: February 27, 2010, 10:28:12 AM »
Looks like a Scootacar Mk2 with Rolls Royce front   ???
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Re: Q677
« Reply #4 on: February 27, 2010, 10:34:18 AM »
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Click the pic....... Name the car

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Re: Q677
« Reply #5 on: February 28, 2010, 04:19:31 AM »
 ;D
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Re: Q677
« Reply #6 on: February 28, 2010, 09:02:07 AM »
Quote from: Soziopath on February 27, 2010, 10:28:12 AM
Looks like a Scootacar Mk2 with Rolls Royce front   ???

Well, yes it is  ;) But this car had a specific name...
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Re: Q677
« Reply #7 on: May 31, 2010, 05:03:07 PM »
So, is this the precursor to Aston Martin Cygnet?
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Re: Q677
« Reply #8 on: August 01, 2010, 07:22:49 PM »
 :D
Movin' up
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Re: Q677
« Reply #9 on: August 02, 2010, 11:32:38 AM »
It is the Rolls-Canardly Silver Spoon, a fake seen in a Small Car issue from 1963. The article announced BMC took over both Rolls-Royce and Scootacar to create this car.
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Re: Q677
« Reply #10 on: August 04, 2010, 02:55:13 PM »
So it is! An April Fool's prank ...
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Re: Q677 - solved - Rolls-Canardly Silver Spoon
« Reply #11 on: August 05, 2010, 08:33:16 AM »
That's great. I have an old (c.1980) birthday card somewhere that references the name "Rolls-Canardly":

"It rolls down one hill and canardly [can hardly] make it up the next!"
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Re: Q677 - solved - Rolls-Canardly Silver Spoon
« Reply #12 on: August 05, 2010, 08:37:45 AM »
:lmao:
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Re: Q677 - solved - Rolls-Canardly Silver Spoon
« Reply #13 on: August 05, 2010, 08:58:53 AM »
Quote from: ftg3plus4 on August 05, 2010, 08:33:16 AM
That's great. I have an old (c.1980) birthday card somewhere that references the name "Rolls-Canardly":

"It rolls down one hill and canardly [can hardly] make it up the next!"

It goes back much further than that...
It was an old joke I remember from the 1950's, and it probably goes back much further than that too, but I don't...!
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