Caption Contest: Sinclair C5 EV is a Segway for the even lazier
What you're looking at is a 1985 photo of the Sinclair C5, a titchy electrically motivated trike of which 12,000(!) were reportedly sold. We stumbled across this gem of an image, and after your enthusiastic response to yesterday's Roller at Wal-Mart snapshot (over 200 captions at last count), we've decided to go to the well again.
As is our form, we've come up with a few semi-humorous attempts of our own to get your creative juices flowing:
"No, Bob, it's just the jacket that makes you look like a dork... just the jacket."So, take your best crack at our trike-wheeling Chevy Chase doppelgänger above by leaving a caption in Comments!
Sinclair C5: For the perpetually single man
Mini my ass!
For his entire life, Walt dreamed of Corvette ownership, but after rent for space in his mother's basement, the only C5 he could afford was altogether less impressive.
The Sinclair C5: Members Only, please.
[Source: SinclairC5.com | Image: Hulton Archive/Getty]
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 4)
xcrunk 2:30PM (8/20/2009)
I have no penis.
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srDRIVEN 2:36PM (8/20/2009)
+1, that is awesome.
I was going to go with something like....Sinclair C5, because if you are interested in buying one, you likely live alone anyway.
ACURA23CL 2:53PM (8/20/2009)
LMAO!!! Dude, I'm literally sitting at my desk crying at this comment.
Mr. Roarke 4:25PM (8/20/2009)
Holy cow, that hurt. Still hilarious on tenth read. I need a cigarette...
Larry in Miami 8:04PM (8/20/2009)
I guess nobody thought of the application for health or age related limitations of PERSONAL mobility?
SeanSean 2:32PM (8/20/2009)
Mom says I need to wear a helmet when I ride this.
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MeiSooHaityu 2:34PM (8/20/2009)
The high-performance alternative to the Hover-Round power chair.
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katatonics 2:35PM (8/20/2009)
"I sure showed that hussy! Go washing machine power!"
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jlee 2:43PM (8/20/2009)
Why rent when you can buy yours today!
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Clavius 2:44PM (8/20/2009)
"Even though his wife left him for his boss, got the house in the divorce, and has to pay out the 2nd largest alimoney payment in recent history, Bob didnt care for he still had his Sinclair C5 EV."
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Bloke 2:45PM (8/20/2009)
"Another pointless post because Autoblog is short of real automotive news."
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ACURA23CL 2:49PM (8/20/2009)
"I don't wanna grow up, I'm a Toy-R-Us Kid..."
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homunculus 2:49PM (8/20/2009)
it's the ira glassmobile
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Gilly730 2:49PM (8/20/2009)
"Jenny and me was like Pees and Carrots, but she wouldn't let me ride in her car, so I had to chase her down in my Sinclair C5"
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Level 5 2:51PM (8/20/2009)
The Sinclair C5 EV - Absolutely NO fat chicks.
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Phaeton 2:52PM (8/20/2009)
Sam always held a special spot in his heart for bobsledding. But alas, the years spent behind his apple IIe and his lack of physical activity proved to be his undoing. Sam, not one to give up on his dream designed the Sinclair C5 from nothing more than a Hoover vacuum, a commodore 64 and parts from his spaceship themed bed. His heart soared as he donned his Members Only jacket, hopped into his sperm shaped chariot and glided off into the sunset at 7.4 mph to the tune of the Axel F theme.
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TRL 2:52PM (8/20/2009)
Little Tikes releases picture of new prototype Cozy Spyder.
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dk 2:52PM (8/20/2009)
"I am not now, nor have I ever been, interested in men."
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Kowell 2:55PM (8/20/2009)
"The Sinclair C5, Professor X is green with envy"
"The Sinclair C5, Why Yes! It does come with a klingon dictionnary"
"Peel P-50, prepare to eat my dust!"
"The Sinclair C5, the perfect vehicule for your everyday driving...Caution, not to be used under rain, snow, wind, while shopping, on a date or probably even on sunny day."
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fizzandpop 3:00PM (8/20/2009)
It's just like playing Manic Miner!
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