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Great heavens!
« on: July 24, 2012, 05:45:59 PM »
Tassels and a cocktail cabinet can be thrown in as extra.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/RALEIGH-SAFETY-SEVEN-PICK-UPTHREE-WHEEL-CAR-TRIKE-1935-CLASSIC-/130733855086


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Re: Great heavens!
« Reply #1 on: July 24, 2012, 08:03:57 PM »
My goodness, an early Hustler.
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Re: Great heavens!
« Reply #2 on: July 24, 2012, 09:38:02 PM »
The seat looks like a dirty great big pair of lips!  ;D
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Re: Great heavens!
« Reply #3 on: July 24, 2012, 10:40:53 PM »
Tassels and a cocktail cabinet can be thrown in as extra.
Would the tassels rotate in opposite directions as you drive along?  Or is that for something different?

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Re: Great heavens!
« Reply #4 on: July 25, 2012, 07:55:20 AM »
I cannot think of any remark more appropriate than Great Heavens! Salvador Dali actually designed a sofa which was shaped like Marilyn Monroe's lips, they made a fair number but are now worth a fortune. Well, this is different and distinctive, but I think I would have to see it in the flesh to decide if I like it or not. If it has been expertly made and thought out then I would be positive, but it could just be a lash up with no more than novelty value.

Apparently the body is made of Seeder wood, I think he means Cedar!
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Re: Great heavens!
« Reply #5 on: July 25, 2012, 08:37:03 AM »
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Apparently the body is made of Seeder wood, I think he means Cedar!

Maybe. Its from Lobanon but no one knows who chucked the lumber in the river.

I knew old Walt invented smoking and the potato, still think he got a bit mixed up there, but I never realised he was the originator of lip seated Hustler trikes. No wonder he had his bonce boffed off by order of the queen and we now know why his wife carried it around with her in a bag. Ideal as a handbrake.
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Re: Great heavens!
« Reply #6 on: July 25, 2012, 09:36:51 AM »
"Flaming Nora!" as Jack Duckworth used to say.  Yer can see der wood on der body on der wheels!  ;D
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Re: Great heavens!
« Reply #7 on: July 25, 2012, 09:38:26 AM »
 ;D
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Re: Great heavens!
« Reply #8 on: July 25, 2012, 12:50:23 PM »
Is that a Van Den Plas radiator grill?

Could be 'Naming Flora' if Marcus is correct about the Ceder.

Didn't Jack Duckworth used to support Cleo Lane of scat singing fame? I know it was something to do with roads.....

Salvador Dali, brilliant. Such a pity the Spanish banking system seems to be based on his art rather than his genius.
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Re: Great heavens!
« Reply #9 on: July 25, 2012, 02:39:22 PM »
I think the grill is a Dan Ples Vas made in Rhodes by a greasy banker.

Looking at that seat again, I am wondering if it was made from two large padded bras? Love to meet the girl that gave them up!  ;D

Salvador Dali didn't he attempt a face painting of an ugly woman, Ava Lords Dial, but it finished up as a sloppy watch?
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