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[gstrom99]

It looks like they are towing the guy, the bike just happens to be underneath him.

I didn't need the second picture to see it.

Maybe that's a bungie cord and not a tow strap. He gets launched off the bike and tries to make it through the hole in the back window??? Wins the dunce cap, for today.

 

[Too many Kubotas]

I always joked with my friends in Europe that those cars were designed to drive on sidewalks.

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I've seen them drive on sidewalks in Italy, designed for it or not.

Had five or six of those pictured (real) 500s, and they could be made to handle very well simply by lowering them.

One got its 18-1/2 hp engine changed to a 40 hp Abarth version...that was a fun car. Beat a V8 Chevelle from stop light to stop light a few times with that one.

 

[WinterDeere]

One got its 18-1/2 hp engine changed to a 40 hp Abarth version...that was a fun car. Beat a V8 Chevelle from stop light to stop light a few times with that one.

The difference between the 500 Abarth and the V8 Chevelle is that only the former is affected by how recently you've eaten or gone to the bathroom.

I remember taking my wife's rather quick (for the time) Audi A3 to work one day, and then piling three buddies into it to head to lunch. Damn, that thing was slow with 800 lb. of middle-aged man loaded into it. We increased the gross weight by probably 40%!

 

[Too many Kubotas]

Yup, adding lightness does wonders for performance, including handling.

 

[kenmbz]

I've seen them drive on sidewalks in Italy, designed for it or not.

Had five or six of those pictured (real) 500s, and they could be made to handle very well simply by lowering them.

One got its 18-1/2 hp engine changed to a 40 hp Abarth version...that was a fun car. Beat a V8 Chevelle from stop light to stop light a few times with that one.

The red one was the one I drove through Rome.
Always fun being in a tiny car in traffic that seems to flow by general agreement rather than any rules.

 

[gstrom99]

adding lightness

Yep, a phrase often credited to the great Colin Chapman.

 

[Renze]

Yup, adding lightness does wonders for performance, including handling.

This scene from "the Italian job" is bulls hit, you can add springs to a Mini but it will bend its suspension arms when driving like that wilst fully loaded with gold bars (gold is about twice as dense as steel so they are loading them up with about a ton of gold each)

 

[ning]

This scene from "the Italian job" is bulls hit, you can add springs to a Mini but it will bend its suspension arms when driving like that wilst fully loaded with gold bars (gold is about twice as dense as steel so they are loading them up with about a ton of gold each)

Those "minis" are bloated, almost 1500kg in such a small car, pathetic.

 

[California]

Always fun being in a tiny car in traffic that seems to flow by general agreement rather than any rules.

Then there's the traffic in India. No rules.

And a feature I'll bet is a holdover from when the Brits ruled India: Anything larger and heavier in heavy traffic owns the road. So his horn means get out of the way or die, non negotiable.

 

[masseyrider]

This scene from "the Italian job" is bulls hit, you can add springs to a Mini but it will bend its suspension arms when driving like that wilst fully loaded with gold bars (gold is about twice as dense as steel so they are loading them up with about a ton of gold each)

Worse yet is the scene from Gold Finger.
One of the bad guys accepts his $1 million in gold.
Its loaded in a Lincoln (over 5,000lbs) of the time with a million in gold bullion ($35/oz) which is at least another 1800Lbs.
When the bad guy is killed the car and gold are all crushed into 1 cube and loaded onto a Ford Ranchero.
Odd Job is then seen driving back to Gold Fingers lair with a conservatively rated load of 6,800lbs in the back of the Ranchero and the suspension hasn't lowered an inch.
I'm guessing the load rating of the Ranchero to be 600-700lbs max.