Lambretta Mini on eBay

Always liked the old mini vans, me. I saw a great one that had been "Cooper-ized" once, British Racing Green with a white roof, spotlights and bonnet straps, very nice. This is nice too. While not an Innocenti mini, the graphics will really hit the spot for any Lambretta fans out there. I suppose, at a pinch you could squeeze a scooter in on it's side if you had to use it as a rescue vehicle, but it would be tight! Anyway, yours for £5,500, or make a sensible offer. Caveat emptor, as in the last post. 

Ebay Link.

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Nice GP on eBay

Not usually my kind of thing, as I am tending to favour the older models these days, but this GP on the bay made me stop and look the other day. It just looks so 'right'. Ok, it's not the cheapest at a classified price of £5,500… (although it's not the most expensive either!), which is a lot to pay for any GP… especially an Indian one. But when you get into the specs you see it's probably priced pretty fairly. The Arthur Francis brand will need no introduction to any one with more than a passing interest in scooters suffice it to say that if you were going to buy this scoot from Rayspeed you'd be looking at handing over a fair bit more than the asking price here.

As usual when I've found something on eBay, this is not an endorsement, I don't know the seller, and I don't know the scooter, so buyer beware… do your own checks. But if I had £5k burning a hole in my pocket, I might check this out myself.

eBay Link.

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Loving these paper pop-ups

Mengyu 'Jenny' Chen is a designer / art director based in Portland, Oregon. She's working on a new comic, and has mocked up these delightful paper 'pop-ups'. As I said, deightful. Delightful enough, in fact to make me post them on this blog, which has sat in abeyance for so long.

Via Colossal.

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NINE cool type games for designers

This post is a bit  of a cheat this, as I have already posted "EIGHT cool type games for designers" ages ago, http://crocodilejock.posterous.com/eight-cool-type-games-for-designers and all the links still work (i've just checked). And they're worth a play, even if you're not a designer! But there's another great one that's doing the rounds on the interwebs, the adictive "kern game" . So that makes NINE. Know any more? Let me know!

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Road legal bumper cars

A guy in San Diego has built seven street legal cars from old bumper cars from an abandoned amusement park. They're street legal (in California), and pretty cool.

They run on modified motorcyle engines… and one is reputed to have a top speed of 160mph… which just sounds silly to me. 60mph would be scary in one of these!

Although I do like quirky, and I do like small cars, I think on balance, I'd rather have a Morgan Threewheeler… or, ideally, if it gets into production, a Smite.

From DalesDesigns via my twitter pal Purple Karan

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Defusable alarm clock.

I don't know why these appeal to me so much. Maybe it's because when I was about six or seven, I used to make 'bombs' out of biscuit tins, old batteries and wires I had collected. Probably watching too much Mission Impossible*, DangerMan or The Persuaders. Or maybe it's because the IRA were always on the news.

Luckily, these never left the house, and were quickly dismantled and defused by my parents. They probably weren't quite as convincing as these alarm clocks. 

When they start to go off, you have to 'defuse' them. I think the novelty of that could wear off pretty quickly, I don't know if 

One word of warning, I wouldn't want to take one of these on a plane. Or the tube. Even posting them is problematic… Actually, if you have the slightest worry that your house may be raided by the old bill, probably best not to get one of these. Maybe stick to the Stephen Fry "Jeeves" alarm. 

Originally on Paranoias.org via DesignYouTrust.

 

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The new Lambretta, and why I'm not posting so much (here) anymore…

Mostly because I've been bitten by the Lambretta bug, for the second time in my life. For most people, this is an ailment that they get out of their systems in their teens, but for a significant minority, the reinfection can occur at anytime, although it usually strikes in the late 30s or early 40s. 

Anyway, I'm posting a lot of stuff over at my Lambretta blog – including the ongoing saga of the new Lambretta LN, a scooter which as I write this, has a uncertain future. The owners of the Lambretta brand name have decided it is a copyright infringement, and not a proper, licensed Lambretta scooter after all. All the controversy, along with a ton of images, a pdf brochure and video are over at the other blog, so if you're at all interested in the rebirth of a style icon, and the difficult delivery it is having (I'll stop the pregnancy analogies now) pop over and see. 

In the meantime, Crocodile Jock blog isn't dead, I'm just being a little more discerning about what I post. So if you like it, thank you, stay tuned.

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