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In the boot of a Zil...

It's a long day in lock-down (sigh)

It's a God-awful small affair To the Rover with the careful repair But her owner is yelling no And her mechanic has told her to go But her friends are nowhere to be seen Now she drives through her TV dream To the seat with the clearest view And she's hooked to the silver screen But the film is a saddening bore For she's lived it ten times or more She could spit coolant in the eyes of fools As they ask her to focus on Men in cardigans fighting in the dance hall Oh man, look at those pipe smokers go It's the freakiest show Take a look at the handbook Beating up the Ford Granada Oh man, wonder if he'll ever know He was in the best selling motor show Is there life in Solihul? It's on Stokes' tortured brow That 2000 has grown up a cow Now the workers have struck again 'Cause MINI's on sale again…

"The car draws a lot of attention". Parking it must be fun.

That was the problem once Jaguar amalgamated with BMC to form British Motor Holdings in late 1966. The 3-litre didn't get the love it deserved as Jags were the big cars and BMC were running up big losses by then so there was no money.

Or even the piss?

This daft thing too: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miss_Belvedere

Lord Brocket cut up his Ferraris to claim on the insurance and hid the bits on his estate. He went to jail when nabbed. https://supercarnostalgia.com/blog/lord-brocket-the-ferraris-and-the-furnace Its a good way to disappear a stolen car.

Film well worth seeing if you have not.

Post Whoops-apocalypse it will be worth jack-****. This crazy klassikkarmarket will be ****ed IMHO.

Thanks for keeping going. In all this you are the heroes.

If one falls due I would wait for the extension and sit tight and wait for Armageddon to finish.

I think the idea is that people will re-MoT their cars in the 6-month 'window' they have been given.* *fat chance of that.

Jag survives apparently in France minus number plate: https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&f=140&t=1226976

The reg may have been a fake one (edit seems it was its original reg and car belonged to Bruce Robertson) - but as the film was made very cheaply it may have just been an old Jag they picked up. Being such a cult movie I'm sure the fate of the Jaaag is known. I expect Uncle Monty's Rolls survives.