Inventions
I invented the C5. Put 12 million into the research cos I really thought everyone would want to drive to work in a shoebox powered by a washing machine engine. My company ended up calling in the receivers.
Ooops.
Sir Clive Sinclair
(lolwhites, Mon 29 Oct 2007, 21:58, closed)

Clive..
Actually, his concepts were pretty good. His problem was the marketing.
You see the C5 should've been the R&D engine for a small single person commuter vehicle which would've been made from something a little sturdier than polystyrene, but Clive being a geek decided to release it as was, and lost a potload of money.
Of course now we know he was doomed to failure from the start as no derivation of the C5 would serve as a penis extension to twats who work in the City, or Paperclip fucking salesmen, but 10/10 to him for trying.

And lets not forget ol' beardy's triumphs, too.
The pocket calculator, the digital watch (his firm developed the LED, I think), the ZX81 and spectrum personal computers, and of course defining a generation of IT geeks as 'beards'.
(Lunar Jim, Tue 30 Oct 2007, 9:40, )

SC5
I once met the guy who has the world C5 speed record. I can't remember the exact figure, but he got it to go at over 100 mph.

He also had a rather impressive photo of him driving one through a tunnel of fire. It had melted by the time he emerged, but, well... kudos.
( Enzyme is in ur [noun]z, [verb]in' ur [noun]z, Tue 30 Oct 2007, 10:03, )

C5 as Company Car
I used to work for a company that had a C5 as a company car.

And here's the proof, thanks to Crash magazine's online archive.


( Amish Information Systems once met a real life rocket plumber, Tue 30 Oct 2007, 13:30, )