Albert Ross

Neither, I had trains!

Ahem..... Hot. Check. Hatch. Check. Nuff Sed.

eBay mongs- See: bumbers - 1st to see will buy - "Will you swap for Mondeo tonite M8" - "Whats yes bestest fer cash, wil cloect tnite" - When the advert plainly states "Has no tax and test, the engine is in the boot in a thousand pieces" yet they still ask if it will drive home to Ingatestone on a fiver.
 
See also "Mouth breather" and "Fucktard".
 
Jaywick - Autoshite Holiday destination of the year.

I remember buying "Titbits" off a lad on the School bus. He would pay full price for it, and when he got the next issue, I would give him half price, then sell it on.. I used this to good effect at my next (Boarding) School when I became the porn mag dealer for the boarding houses. (At age 13/ 14!) I would get all the foreign lads with "Diplonmatic" Immunity bringing me Scandinavian, Hong Kong Chinese, Japanese, and German stuff in, I would pay pennies for it, "rent" it out to other lads, and keep the deposits (Yeah, I know) if the mags were damaged or "stained" by organic material. They would go in the bargain box... When I left age 15, I sold the case and stock on to a younger lad for a vast profit! Shite connection? My House master had a Silver Skoda 110.

It's just like home!!!!

Not sure I've ever encountered the chap, seeing as I'm an absentee of sorts. Really sorry to hear this news though. Best wishes to all concerned. 

Not sure I've ever encountered the chap, seeing as I'm an absentee of sorts. Really sorry to hear this news though. Best wishes to all concerned. 

I saw a silver Corsa yesterday. 1CFW. Lovely old Lady driving it, told me that her Husband, a retired mechanic, was sold the plate for £200 when the owner stopped driving, about 20 years ago. That's my kind of dream right there. Not the car, the plate.

1970 Land Rover. Needs belts, they get worn.
1961 Land Rover. Belt exempt, will never have them while I own it. Best aid to road safety. Makes you feel vulnerable, therefore you drive with care, rather than the cocooned BMW/Audi drivers that just ram their way through. I believe I drive more safely than them due to my feeling of vulnerability.

1970 Land Rover. Needs belts, they get worn.
1961 Land Rover. Belt exempt, will never have them while I own it. Best aid to road safety. Makes you feel vulnerable, therefore you drive with care, rather than the cocooned BMW/Audi drivers that just ram their way through. I believe I drive more safely than them due to my feeling of vulnerability.

Neither, I had trains!

Neither, I had trains!

As long as the floor pressing is the same part, then it's a valid contest Mr Hirst!. IIRC they all used roughly the same engines. My Cav Estate needed rear shocks, and when I found a pair of the air-assisted ones in a breakers, they were badged "Holden-Made in Australia" So I HAD to have them! (Only a tenner the pair, and about 3 quid for the pipework to get them working. Ace things they were. Good ol' GM.

Summer of 1984... driving home to Slough from Mevagissey in my absolutely wonderful 1965 Hillman Super Minx EFN 636C.(Hepzibah) Around Bristol, after refitting the dynamo in Bodmin..... I noticed a flickering light. It flickered for a further 30 miles until it became a permanent light. Well... it was the oil pressure light. I had let it run low, and it lost oil through combustion..... I killed the crank and left it at a garage where the AA towed me. I rang them daily asking them to make certain not to dispose of it.... then it became weekly, then monthly, until I had a phone call. They had changed hands, and there was an amnesty. If I could shift it before the week was up, they would charge no storage. I was on it like a bullet. My mate Brian, (Ex Irish Guards, nearly 7 foot tall) suggested I give him £20 to go recover it, and take him out on the piss when we got back. DEAL! We (me and my bloody good mate Rajen) piled into Brian's Rover P6 V8S..... towrope in boot. We got to the garage, accepted that I had to sign a disclaimer stating that I accepted bits "might" be missing... Turns out it was to the contrary. There were two spare wheelsm not one, and someone's suitcase on the back seat.... (women's clothes in it though!!) Left THAT there. So, back onto M4, sat around 65-90 mph!!!!!!!!!
and gritted my teeth.
I have never been so pleased to be pulled over. We were left at a service station. I then located a very pleasant recovery driver with an empty load bed. He rang his boss who agreed to £12 from Newbury to Slough. Hepzibah got home that night. I washed and polished her the next day, then removed the engine, stripped the crank, got it ground, replaced the bearings and recircled 2 rods!!! I then took it to work to await the MOT preparation, and it got vandalised.... including some cunt throwing a handful of dirt into the rocker cover. Wankers. I traded it for an Austin 3 litre! Drove that to Nottingham without MOT or insurance, in convoy with a Citroen DS23 Pallas. Also no relevant docs on that, and we NEVER got pulled. I got pulled the next day........ slapped wrists, and told to stay off the roads until I had paperwork in order. I did as I was told, as got pulled up by the same Policeman. He was impressed when he read the paperwork. He even shook my hand. Poor Hepzibah though. I do miss her. Azure Blue with white strips and Stainless trim.

eBay mongs- See: bumbers - 1st to see will buy - "Will you swap for Mondeo tonite M8" - "Whats yes bestest fer cash, wil cloect tnite" - When the advert plainly states "Has no tax and test, the engine is in the boot in a thousand pieces" yet they still ask if it will drive home to Ingatestone on a fiver.
 
See also "Mouth breather" and "Fucktard".
 
Jaywick - Autoshite Holiday destination of the year.

"Crashing the Yogurt truck" Courtesy Pogweasel and others, literally an expression of severe oofage when a proper piece of chod is spotted, snapped, and produced on here in a spottage thread.

http://i146.photobucket.com/albums/r254 ... edited.jpgHumber Hawk/ Super Snipe/ Imperial circa 1966/67.My money is on the Super Snipe.Twin headlamp 3 litre six pot.I had an Imperial some years ago. Glass partition etc.Thrupp and Maberley stretch between the doors.Nice pimpmobile....VERY strong.Takes time to find the fuel filler on these motors.Behind the reflector!

An addendum... to the "mainstream" S-Class W126 I craved and bought (Yeah, cheers, Luxo, My Scorpio was a 24V Ultima!)
 
There was this. I came "THIS" fucking close to owning one. Then I heard the one I was drooling over got bought by a rodder. Running gear into a yellow be-flamed flip Front Zodiac Estate!!! Restecp to the P5B. BMF 345H you died in a fitting way, and never saw a banger track.

 
I have always craved an AC Aceca Bristol or a Greyhound though. Is that niche enough Luxo?

eBay mongs- See: bumbers - 1st to see will buy - "Will you swap for Mondeo tonite M8" - "Whats yes bestest fer cash, wil cloect tnite" - When the advert plainly states "Has no tax and test, the engine is in the boot in a thousand pieces" yet they still ask if it will drive home to Ingatestone on a fiver.
 
See also "Mouth breather" and "Fucktard".
 
Jaywick - Autoshite Holiday destination of the year.

And bread in waxed paper?

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Ooooh! Bagsy the Colourtune please......! (it's the only way to set up a 2286 Land Rover with the Solex PA40 carb on it....) I shall be able to lob snail mail fundage in an envelope at the end of the month... is it still in it's shiny black cardboard box? I miss my old one... lent it to an old chap who died about a week later, and didn't have the heart to trouble his Wife. Popped in about a month after the funeral to find she had lobbed "All his old crap out cos it was shit and did her head in....." Ah well!
 
Is this like a Shitecycle thing going off?

I saw 2MP on a Ford Exploder today. Couple of silvertops in it!