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It's getting to that time again in work.

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It's getting to that time again in work.

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It's getting to that time again in work.
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#1
22:nd-Oct-2014, 17:34:55
Fancy dress for Halloween. Just to give you a back ground a few of us get a little carried away and do group costumes. In the past we've done Pac Man and the Ghosts. We've done Minions this year we're doing Mario Kart characters.

So nearly a couple of weeks ago I won the following on Ebay for £10 which was less than 5 miles away.




After a bit of messing with a screw driver and spanner I adjusted the seat as far back as it would go and took it for a test drive.



Scary how hard it was to peddle in bare foot. So in work and I cut out 4 yellow circles and fitted them over the wheel centres.




As you can see I've done a bit more than just the wheels I've fitted exhausts made out of cardboard, coke bottles and foam insulation.



Here's the front so far.



I'm going to colour the bottom in blue vinyl and redo the steering column in white.

If you've not guess I've going as Toad. idea is for it to be something like

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22:nd-Oct-2014, 18:00:42
this would be a great laugh make sure your wife gets some video footage.
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22:nd-Oct-2014, 20:06:13
super
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24:th-Oct-2014, 12:18:21
All finished well it will be when 3 helium balloons turn up



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24:th-Oct-2014, 12:50:46
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24:th-Oct-2014, 16:54:02
:joker:
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25:th-Oct-2014, 18:39:30
Brilliant.
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25:th-Oct-2014, 18:50:37
you should toe it with the VXR
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25:th-Oct-2014, 18:56:43
Lol probably be driving to work dressed as toad
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25:th-Oct-2014, 19:23:03
I really like that lol ebay it after & see how much you can get for it lol
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25:th-Oct-2014, 19:30:14
J1ODYA Wrote:I really like that lol ebay it after & see how much you can get for it lol
Going to have to do something like that with it as there is no way it will fit in the loft with the other costumes.
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31:st-Oct-2014, 12:38:54
A quick video that's somebody has taken this morning

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31:st-Oct-2014, 12:40:34
most of you cheated you should all be using the pedals
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31:st-Oct-2014, 12:42:47
Pedals got removed as we wasn't able to pedal them that easily. Once we got on the car park Mario was off and there was no catching him though :(
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31:st-Oct-2014, 17:30:22
nutters

and you have a giant chess set..
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