New member, buying a Riot
Posted: Sun Jul 03, 2016 11:57 pm
Hello All
Later this month, I'll be buying an early blue and yellow Riot from a gent in Banff, Aberdeenshire...550 miles from my home in Bedfordshire! It's only done 300 miles since the current owner got it through IVA in 2011 and it's been unused for the last couple of years at least. I believe that it was originally built by JP himself.
I would have loved to have driven it back down the East coast of Scotland, but the motorways would have been a grind! I also want to go over it before I would trust it.
I don't yet have my own pics, but here's Peter's Gumtree advert:
https://www.gumtree.com/p/other-cars/sy ... 1166285490
I was originally thinking about building a bike engined Riot or MEV Rocket, but a just-started Exocet kit came along at a price I couldn't resist. I've had lots of MX5s and I had a track day MX5 heap, so I had lots of good bits to build it with. I stripped it back down and rebuilt it and got it through IVA a couple of years ago. It was fun, but it didn't grab me, it felt too heavy (about 650kg), so I sold it last Summer.
Now I'm all excited again!
I've been reading your threads and learning - thank you.
Alister
Later this month, I'll be buying an early blue and yellow Riot from a gent in Banff, Aberdeenshire...550 miles from my home in Bedfordshire! It's only done 300 miles since the current owner got it through IVA in 2011 and it's been unused for the last couple of years at least. I believe that it was originally built by JP himself.
I would have loved to have driven it back down the East coast of Scotland, but the motorways would have been a grind! I also want to go over it before I would trust it.
I don't yet have my own pics, but here's Peter's Gumtree advert:
https://www.gumtree.com/p/other-cars/sy ... 1166285490
I was originally thinking about building a bike engined Riot or MEV Rocket, but a just-started Exocet kit came along at a price I couldn't resist. I've had lots of MX5s and I had a track day MX5 heap, so I had lots of good bits to build it with. I stripped it back down and rebuilt it and got it through IVA a couple of years ago. It was fun, but it didn't grab me, it felt too heavy (about 650kg), so I sold it last Summer.
Now I'm all excited again!
I've been reading your threads and learning - thank you.
Alister