Black Isle reverend's Corsa is on its bike at last
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A PEDAL-POWERED Vauxhall Corsa has finally found a new home after its church minister owners slung it on eBay when they realised it was torture to pedal uphill - despite it being able to be powered by all four of its occupants at the same time.
The future looked bleak for the lime green four-seater after husband and wife team James Bissett and Susan Cord rendered it surplus to requirements.
The thrill-seeking duo bought it off eBay for £500 with big plans to use it to get round the North Coast 500 on a fundraising road run taking a leaf out of The Flintstones' book.
But the plan was axed when they realised it was too heavy to peddle uphill.
And now, three months after popping it back on eBay a buyer has whisked it off to Manchester in the back of a Luton box van.
Bike enthusiast Pete Abel said he had plans to use it as a star attraction in the city's annual Manchester Day Parade, all going well.
He said: "It's a celebration of Manchester and the community groups that make up the city and everything used has to either be peddled or pushed. We have used bikes in the past and thought this peddle-powered car would be a slightly different variant."
Rev Bissett, an ordained minister who does supply for Fodderty and Strathpeffer Church of Scotland and who lives at First Field Avenue, North Kessock with wife Susan, minister for Killearnan and Knockbain churches, said it was good to watch it leaving for a new home.
"I'm glad that it is going to be put to good use now," he said. "I couldn't have scrapped it. It was too well-made, despite its deficiencies."
He added: “I don't regret buying it, it was a bit of fun and it would have been nice if the North Coast 500 stunt had been pulled off but something else might come up in the future. Who knows?”
