Having a small resurrection in '98, WHIZZER still tries to make a product that will "catch on" like its predecessors, but with no such luck yet.
On a side but related note... There is a "high end" car showroom on Robertson down by my house. I walk by every now and then just to take a look at what rides they're slangin'. Aston Martin's, Porsche race cars... the likes. Couple days ago, I decided to pop in, have a look around. After drooling on a red '63 356 for a good five minutes, I noticed a small bike in the corner. A rusted broken down bicycle looking more like a swapmeet find than a supercar showroom's jewlery. The rusted hunk of junk was a '52 Whizzer. A specimen that had never been restored, a survivor. A piece in the extensive collection, that at that moment, out-shined the twin '09 Ferraris.
I asked the man, the owner of the showroom, about it, he responded ever so politely while looking me up and down, "not for sale". Right. I then asked about the price of the red 356, you know, show off my little knowledge of 356s, to which he responded, "expensive". Seriously? I felt like Julia Roberts shopping Rodeo in Pretty Woman. The nerve! So, what do I do? I tell him he doesn't know who he's talking to (but I'm pretty sure he thinks he does), tell him where he can shove his Whizzer (not specifically, but I think he got it) tell him I have enough money to buy three of them, one to drive dangerously fast down Mulholland, the other two to have a demo derby with (untrue but a lesson had to be taught) and put the icing on the cake by doing a Dukes Of Hazzard slide across the hood of a McLaren on the way out as I shouted promises of arson over my cold shoulder. I taught him a lesson he'd never forget. That Whizzer was nice though.
The new whips from Whizzer...
