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The_Equalizer

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  1. 2001 Toyota Avalon at Manor Park Classics auction. Oh yes!
  2. Lol. Very good. Now you mention such things, I've just seen the grill should have been recessed and it's not. More confusion!
  3. Bound to have been spotted before, but 73 BGT in Nugent Centre, St. Mary Cray, Kent. No prizes for guessing what on. Very nice to see a near 50-year-old car out and about in November.
  4. One of the prototype P1800s? Obviously a Jensen-built car, but I know they were only red, grey or white. The prototypes (I think there were two sets) and I'm sure one was yellow. Spent many an hour lusting after those Jensen-built cars.
  5. Indeed. In fact I'm mystified where the attraction lies in doing a stretch whatever the financial rewards.
  6. The reason that sellers just don't get round to doing those simple fixes is because they have been busy sorting out the major problems that take real time and money.
  7. Introcars also do a handling package. £1400 which isn't bad relatively speaking. https://www.introcar.com/blog/handling-kits-for-rolls-royce-bentley-models-from-1965-to-2003
  8. Really good to see it has kept its original square headlights instead of falling foul of the upgraded* to twin round ones. Love these early cars. Trouble being, once you've been in one everything else feels a bit low rent.
  9. For what is worth Halifax will dish out Bank of England notes with a little notice. I do still enjoy the buzz of buying with them. I once sold a Jag Mk2 to a very nice German couple who flew over with a bag of tools (just in case), a bottle of German wine (nice touch) and £16k in cash.
  10. I always find that a bit of a mind bender too have been going since at least 1990. Really enjoyed it this year. Real blend of cars, enthusiastic people and great weather.
  11. And I now feel like the council's noise abatement office who has just shut down a good party. Anyway, a couple to get the ball rolling again. Current Land Rover, the engine of which was a bit more noisy than it should have been when purchased. Turned out to be a head gasket that had been put on the wrong way round which then blocked the water ways the rear two cylinders. The temperature sender is at the front so, although nothing registered on the temperature gauge, the rear part of the engine cooked itself. The was done by a well know Land Rover specialist- bill on file as they say. Another was a C-Class Mercedes. The rear two after market alloys being held on by no more two turns of wheel studs that were too short. Oh, the the one owner car that actually had five.
  12. Great thread for creating a list of who not to buy a car from.
  13. Indeed. As you point out, it's all available online and I found it well worth the effort checking my NI payment record. In reality I'll be in harness until state pension age despite making a decent effort with my work pension. I know friends who have no private provision. Madness.
  14. As I understand it you have to continue to pay National Insurance until state pension age even if you've made 35 years worth of contributions (the number required to claim full state pension.)
  15. Only once myself which was more than enough. Then again, it was nothing compared with the bloke who had preceded me according to the doctor. That person had been using a nail gun and a nail had ricocheted into his eye. Nice!
  16. From the 1970 Jaguar brochure. Despite what Jaguar you would have you think, that interior would have accents of pink nail varnish at the end of the trip. Hmmm ... Must have been a long journey and surely not car keys in the punch bowl. Still this rather delightful young lady managed to get her nails done, the old man has bought a R.H.D. version and even allowed her to sit in the driver's seat and play with the clunky BL toggle switches. Favourite bit of this photo is the B&H fag packet. And to think, only a decade later it was Arthur Daley, overweight middle-aged pub landlords and banger racing.
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