My (Favourite) Little Death Trap

#1 (**Post Link**) 11-09-10

The Gallic ones like their ~~4-wheel bikes~~ mini cars and there are
many modern examples of these.

But the vast number you see are still the oldskool ones.
Take a small flimsy production car and peel off most
of the bodywork, et voila! Genius.

Citroen Mehari
http://www.citroen-club.cz/graphics/...n_mehari_1.jpg

Mini Moke
The Mini Moke Club

Renault 4 Plein-Air
File:Renault 4 Plein-Air 001.JPG - Wikimedia Commons

Dalla Grandin Jeep
Jeep dallas grandin - Forum Auto Evasion

Clearly an accident in any off the above over 30mph and you're
probably going to end up seriously injured or dead.

But which is the favourite?

#2 (**Post Link**) 11-09-10

I'm torn between the Moke and the Mehari.

I've always felt that a Moke with a spot of tuning would be a bit of a laugh.

Gibbo · #3 (**Post Link**) 11-09-10

The mini moke always has made me smile

#4 (**Post Link**) 11-09-10

I forgot the Renault Rodeo (

) but you hardly ever see them:

Renault Rodeo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

badgers_nadgers · #5 (**Post Link**) 11-09-10

The obvious one is the 2cv. In a moment of extreme campness, my best mate's just bought one and it is a right deathtrap.

#6 (**Post Link**) 11-09-10

Originally Posted by badgers_nadgers

The obvious one is the 2cv. In a moment of extreme campness, my best mate's just bought one and it is a right deathtrap.

The Mehari is a 2CV variant.

AlfaDrivingFan · #7 (**Post Link**) 11-09-10

Do you see many Renault 4s running around Nev, not just the plein air but generally ? I like the old 4, a basic utilitarian vehicle, would love to have a Renault 4 now.

badgers_nadgers · #8 (**Post Link**) 11-09-10

Originally Posted by Nev

The Mehari is a 2CV variant.

Awesome. Also, the images hadn't loaded when I first commented and looking at them, I think they knock even the 2cv into a cocked hat!

symon · #9 (**Post Link**) 11-09-10

None of them.

A lotus 7 is more up my steet as a stripped out deathtrap car.

10,500RPM · #10 (**Post Link**) 11-09-10

Originally Posted by badgers_nadgers

The obvious one is the 2cv. In a moment of extreme campness, my best mate's just bought one and it is a right deathtrap.

My da bought two dollies as a restoration project (he planned to build one good cars out of two) and they really are flimsy wee things. Terrible cars

badgers_nadgers · #11 (**Post Link**) 11-09-10

Another friend of mine put a 1.3 visa engine in one and didn't change anything else, that thing was ****ing lethal!

#12 (**Post Link**) 11-09-10

Definitely the Mini Moke.

My parents had one as their only car when we were growing up. Ours had no back seats, just a couple of old blankets to cushion us from the steel deck. Mum and Dad up front, all four kids and a grumpy Bull Terrier (which once ate nearly the whole the hood) squeezed in the back.

We liked to sit on the side pods gripping the seats and grab rails, screaming for Dad to go faster round the corners with our knuckles turning white wondering if we could hold on until the next straight!

I loved it then and I'd love one again now.

MatthewB · #13 (**Post Link**) 11-09-10

Fiat 500/600 Jolly!

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2148/...009dd981_z.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...at600Jolly.JPG

Glug · #14 (**Post Link**) 13-09-10

VW Trekker

#15 (**Post Link**) 13-09-10

Originally Posted by Glug

VW Trekker

Kubelwagen!

Glug · #16 (**Post Link**) 13-09-10

Originally Posted by Nev

Kubelwagen!

The Thing!

#17 (**Post Link**) 19-09-10

The Moke, mainly thanks to it's role in The Prisoner

Gary Slegg · #18 (**Post Link**) 23-09-10

TYhe mini moke for me. We always used to hire them out in the late 70's and early 80's when we were on holiday in Cyprus. They were brilliant.

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