I want to buy a C5...

[conned tractor]

but my sensible side is saying I will look like a tw@t.

I have thought about buying a second hand sinclair C5 and restoring it - which technically wouldn't be too difficult. The downside is I will probably get bored quickly and feel like a d!ck driving it.

Anyone own one?

Anybody got anything similarly quite nerdish?

[DimPrawn]

Clive looked cool in one.

[bogeyman]

Did you know the C5 was manufactured by Hoover in their washing machine factory in Merthyr Tydfil?

[Scary]

Not a Citroen then, that would be really foolish.

[conned tractor]

Did you know the C5 was manufactured by Hoover in their washing machine factory in Merthyr Tydfil?

Have reparied a few washing machines in my time, but the C5 was a custom DC motor and gearbox AFAIK - seriously don't know how he wasted 14 million (or something like that) developing it.

[VectraMan]

I remember the Spitting Image sketch when everybody was talking about how dangerous they were:

"It's an invalid carriage".
"But I'm not an invalid".
"You haven't driven one yet".

[bogeyman]

Have reparied a few washing machines in my time, but the C5 was a custom DC motor and gearbox AFAIK - seriously don't know how he wasted 14 million (or something like that) developing it.

http://www.alangeorge.co.uk/sinclair_c5_Production.htm

[conned tractor]

I must add that I in no way am going to use this to commute or even on a busy road.

[moorfield]

I was straight on ebay looking at the C5s a few weeks back after that Micro Men thing on BBC... I want one too!

I have a Citroen already so I don't care.

[HairyArsedBloke]

I drove one once - for a whole 10 - 15 feet in a lab.

I'd never go on the open road with one, but something deep down in my water says that it, or a successor, may make a comeback.