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Enjoying a drop of red.
Nice Porsche.
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Gramaisc
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proactive
Enjoying a drop of red.
I suspect that may not quite be as fast around a race track.
Gramaisc
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Glam
Mad Cat Woman
I'm probably in the minority here, but things like that don't do owt for me., if I'm honest. There's a bloke round here, drives a yellow thing, makes one hell of a racket. But I just think 'Knob' when I see him.
My Bob gets me from A-B, fingers crossed, there's zero wromg with him and it's all I want from a car.
But like I said, I'm probably in the minority.
proactive
Enjoying a drop of red.
It would be a sad state of affairs if we all liked and dislikes the same things. Some folks get their kicks from cars, motorbikes, tractors, model aircraft, cooking, sewing, football, netball, photography, running, cycling, walking, bird watching, gardening etc etc.
Vive la différence...
Mudgie
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But could easily negotiate Lake Sandon.
Thehooperman
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proactive
Enjoying a drop of red.
I took that and wine, as a given.
Carole
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I don’t get it either @Glam, I agree with you, although you wouldn’t think it if you saw what I drive (60th birthday gift), it’s not at all practical.
Husband is a massive petrol head, he’s just this week bought a classic car, don’t ask me what it is, it’s just clutter filling up the garage.
Coles Autotech
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Not at all, each to there own. For me the E-Type is such an iconic peice of motoring history. Having the opportunity to help maintain such an iconic vehicle is a privilege.
Gramaisc
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Not a car, I suppose, but still a motor vehicle.
My walking companion runs a digger in his 'real' life.
A last-minute issue with it late on Friday disrupted our normal Sunday morning routine, but, today still being the bank holiday on the western island meant that we could go today, as the part won't be available until tomorrow.
It's not an easy fitment, the connection needing the new seal is off down the back of here.
Remaking the joint requires a fairly obscure tool, to greatly reduce the time spent trying to do up the bolts at arms-length down the hole. He was hoping to be able to get one of them from the same source as the seal. I mentioned that I actually had one, but that it was in England. Over about a minute, I slowly realised that I had accidentally brought it over and had stored it away logically a few weeks ago, so I was able to locate it and send him off with it, happy about that, at least.
My walking companion runs a digger in his 'real' life.
A last-minute issue with it late on Friday disrupted our normal Sunday morning routine, but, today still being the bank holiday on the western island meant that we could go today, as the part won't be available until tomorrow.
It's not an easy fitment, the connection needing the new seal is off down the back of here.
Remaking the joint requires a fairly obscure tool, to greatly reduce the time spent trying to do up the bolts at arms-length down the hole. He was hoping to be able to get one of them from the same source as the seal. I mentioned that I actually had one, but that it was in England. Over about a minute, I slowly realised that I had accidentally brought it over and had stored it away logically a few weeks ago, so I was able to locate it and send him off with it, happy about that, at least.
Gramaisc
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Having got roped into doing a job with the digger man above the other day, it all went 'OK', apart from the cold, until we came to go home.
We were digging some foundation trenches about five miles away and, for complicated reasons, it became necessary for his son-in-law to borrow the pick-up and leave us his Passat.
This was alright, as we were only bringing a few tools back and they would fit in.
Father-in-law got the car started OK, having never driven it before, but we couldn't get it to move. Initially, we wondered if it was just spinning in the mud, but it quickly became clear that there was a brake on somewhere, obstructing the driving of the wheels.
The console had loads of buttons with hieroglyphic symbols on that meant little, some of which could have been a brake, but weren't.
Eventually, we had to give in and ring the lad.
It turned out that the actual button was up near where the quarter-light would have been in the olden days, when you had cars that you didn't have to negotiate with! It was out of my sight, obscured by the steering wheel.
It used to be that a learner couldn't drive a car, even with a qualified driver in, if that driver couldn't reach the hand-brake, as in MG Midgets and some Mercedes, Hillmans, etc - I wonder what the situation is now?
We were digging some foundation trenches about five miles away and, for complicated reasons, it became necessary for his son-in-law to borrow the pick-up and leave us his Passat.
This was alright, as we were only bringing a few tools back and they would fit in.
Father-in-law got the car started OK, having never driven it before, but we couldn't get it to move. Initially, we wondered if it was just spinning in the mud, but it quickly became clear that there was a brake on somewhere, obstructing the driving of the wheels.
The console had loads of buttons with hieroglyphic symbols on that meant little, some of which could have been a brake, but weren't.
Eventually, we had to give in and ring the lad.
It turned out that the actual button was up near where the quarter-light would have been in the olden days, when you had cars that you didn't have to negotiate with! It was out of my sight, obscured by the steering wheel.
It used to be that a learner couldn't drive a car, even with a qualified driver in, if that driver couldn't reach the hand-brake, as in MG Midgets and some Mercedes, Hillmans, etc - I wonder what the situation is now?
littleme
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Not sure if this belongs here, in 'Stafford traffic' or 'today I saw'..... 4 very young lads, in a very ancient *Merc, driving like they were in GTA....
*The kind only very elderly gentlemen have had from new, keep in a garage & polish every day.....very rectangular.....
*The kind only very elderly gentlemen have had from new, keep in a garage & polish every day.....very rectangular.....
Glam
Mad Cat Woman
Are you getting a 'Combination' for the dogs?
Gramaisc
Forum O. G.
This sort of thing?
This car belonged to a Dutch chap. At the time he got this, people from the outside world were very thin on the ground in the area and he was generally known as The Foreigner - this was an adequate distinction. As others started to arrive from outside, from Poland and other East European places, plus Brazil and the Philippines, etc, he became more closely defined as The Dutchman. In fact, I only ever found out, or needed to know, his actual name when his obituary was published.
It's nice to see the car still about today.
littleme
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Not quite that square/rectangular...but not what you'd expect 4 x 17 yr olds to be driving... It was silver if that helps......