Q677 - solved - Rolls-Canardly Silver Spoon

Quiller · February 22, 2010, 09:51:18 AM

Can you name this car?

Otto Puzzell · February 22, 2010, 11:40:12 AM

Oh my!

Carnut · February 22, 2010, 12:06:24 PM

Quote from: Otto Puzzell on February 22, 2010, 11:40:12 AM
Oh my!

Yes, I wonder what Rolls-Royce thought about it?
Bet they didn't offer to market it...

Soziopath · February 27, 2010, 10:28:12 AM

Looks like a Scootacar Mk2 with Rolls Royce front

Ultra · February 27, 2010, 10:34:18 AM

Otto Puzzell · February 28, 2010, 04:19:31 AM

Quiller · February 28, 2010, 09:02:07 AM

Quote from: Soziopath on February 27, 2010, 10:28:12 AM
Looks like a Scootacar Mk2 with Rolls Royce front

Well, yes it is

But this car had a specific name...

ImpishGrin · May 31, 2010, 05:03:07 PM

So, is this the precursor to Aston Martin Cygnet?

Quiller · August 01, 2010, 07:22:49 PM

Movin' up

franck.kegelart · August 02, 2010, 11:32:38 AM

It is the Rolls-Canardly Silver Spoon, a fake seen in a Small Car issue from 1963. The article announced BMC took over both Rolls-Royce and Scootacar to create this car.

Quiller · August 04, 2010, 02:55:13 PM

So it is! An April Fool's prank ...

ftg3plus4 · August 05, 2010, 08:33:16 AM

That's great. I have an old (c.1980) birthday card somewhere that references the name "Rolls-Canardly":

"It rolls down one hill and canardly [can hardly] make it up the next!"

Allemano · August 05, 2010, 08:37:45 AM

Carnut · August 05, 2010, 08:58:53 AM

Quote from: ftg3plus4 on August 05, 2010, 08:33:16 AM
That's great. I have an old (c.1980) birthday card somewhere that references the name "Rolls-Canardly":

"It rolls down one hill and canardly [can hardly] make it up the next!"

It goes back much further than that...
It was an old joke I remember from the 1950's, and it probably goes back much further than that too, but I don't...!

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Q677 - solved - Rolls-Canardly Silver Spoon