@Gordon Nichols posted:@Alan Merklin wrote: "Purple VW powered Gazelle I bought and sold the same day at Carlisle. ( Gordon made fun of that one but it quickly filled my pockets)"
I was very impressed that you owned it for all of two hours or so (AND made a profit, so it at least paid for your Carlisle week), but that purple color just BEGGED to be sprayed over with something better.
Someone had to be a true lover of Gazelles to want that thing.
One of the founders of the Data General computer company got in to building a high end Gazelle-like car for a while. IIRC, he invested in the floundering Zimmer car company and built a number of them on a Ford or Fiero chassis, depending on model. The big one looked like this (Alan: Notice it's NOT Purple):
This was a lark for him - He invested in a bunch of start-up computer companies that mostly did super-well so he could buy a car company just because he liked the car.
That makes sense. Looking at Stan’s link I was trying to figure out the connection between the Zimmer and Tiffany cars. FWIW, I think the changes they made to the rear of the car improved it at least 10%. Still very Liberace-like, but some people like that.