Dabooka

Just add yellow boiler suit for hilarious antics at a venue of your choice.

Also one for the Bus Spotters?

That looks like ruddy tremendous fun 

I looked at two local to me a couple of years ago and from 50 yds you could tell they were utterly borked.  The undersides absolutely rotten.

Dun. Piece of piss too

2 minutes ago, cort16 said:

There seemed to be about 17 different variants of the Mazda 323 in 5 years in the 1990' but they nailed the design with this one.

This has the 2.0 v6, which according to the rev counter goes to 7000 rpm red line.Cool! The sills would want some zooming in on though.

 

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/234310738147?hash=item368e0220e3:g:lwoAAOSw9Dthfvvf

Phwoar! 😍

On 11/20/2021 at 2:19 PM, DaveAspley said:

Just realised today that all the Optare Solos have disappeared en masse around here very recently 

 

You in Nuneaton @DaveAspley or near it?

My home town. Few folk even know it exists

2 hours ago, New POD said:

The company I was working for until August bought a genuine 1980s HMWVV to do a project for the US military for £13k, do I'm not sure why you'd pay £10k for that piece of crap. 

I dread to think how much they've paid out for it in total. 😲

1 hour ago, High Jetter said:

I love the drainpipes on the OSF!

Astonishing isn't it?!

"YOU WILL NOT FIND ANOTHER VAUXHALL FRONTERA THAT LOOKS LIKE THIS"

For all or sakes I fucking hope not. £10k

It's whatever you want it to be!

But was an old milk float converted to an actioneers outdoor podium (I think)

34 minutes ago, Jason_Robb said:

With the way things are going I think it’s only a matter of time until EV is brought into the apprenticeships as standard, and the sooner the better in my opinion. 

We did cover basic EV health and safety when doing our health & safety section (basically identifying an EV and knowing not to meddle with them), so it’s starting to come in already.

Completely agree.

It'll be interesting if it's a new stand alone one though (my guess is yes) but I bet it'll be a fecker for businesses to facilitate. The requirements will all but rule out non-franchised, in the early days at least.

Wind kaos here in Gateshead.  Fences galore, at least one tramploine, a couple of escaped huskies roaming the streets (😲), some decent sized trees gone and a bungalow has lost it's roof entirely.  Police had the road closed at one point but now we just drive around the carnage.

Snow has been minimal although it's tried all day.

1 hour ago, Jason_Robb said:

That's the plan hopefully. Once the apprenticeship is served I'd quite like to get as many qualifications as I can.

I've got a meeting on Monday with some bods about the next phase of Apprenticeship Standards and EV-ness.  I'll be  very much a fly on the wall but it'll be inetrested to see what direction they're thinking of going in, i.e. EV to be included in the normal Standards or create a new one.

My tuppence would by a Swift Sport. I had the 32 (facelift) which I doubt you'll get near for 2k but the previous version is reported to be more raw and all the better for it. Cheap to run, cheap bits and parts, great fun all round.  Bad points. Tiny boot, I think the Z31 was only five speed, have been popular with young 'uns.   

The1.5 Swift is a canny little steer too although clearly on a different level.

TBH I doubt you could go wrong with any of those listed and for the budget I'd look at whatever comes up from that list as condition is more important.

This is the content we come to read.

A+++++

Bit of both here.

We're looking at (probably) moving to one daily and that will likely be a new electric for tax reasons, via my wife's work and salary sacrifice.  However I'll be keeping the Cougar and still have an eye on an older petrol.  There's some cars / engines I just want to have owned, such as the Fozzie turbo, and these will hopefully happen regardless.

Actually we're not moving to one daily at all are we, we'll be moving to one long term daily and hopefully lots of short term petrol goodness for me. Diesel can get in the bin, fuck that.

1 minute ago, Datsuncog said:

Ding ding ding!!!

Huzzah! I know I wanted one before I got my Forester just none local / good enough / in budget at the time.  Without even seeing it I know there will be much want by me.

I should also look at the underside of mine I guess before anything sets in. Still remarkably solid and it'll only help to move it on next year.

Outback?

Have we had that yet?

12 minutes ago, eddyramrod said:

I really like that!

Utter bargain isn't it? Looks a peach

Oh man, that's just awful news. So sorry.

5 hours ago, Jim Bell said:

Ch eye chest a

So the second then. I think.

I may need to get the Cougar back on the road for the next meet to hear it live. We can all take a vote

Just now, tooSavvy said:

Chichester? "The Chai!", m9

🧐

 

 

Moving up here I could never understand how it's pronounced.

Chi-chester or Chich-ester. I seem to get mocked regardless 😃

Anyone in the market for a '89 'Metro'?  Open to offers so get in quick to avoid disappointment

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21 minutes ago, Richard_FM said:

I wonder if it's like the Quality Street Gang's showdown with the Krays at Manchester Piccadilly when they arrived on the London train?

Some ex-Kray associates claim it never happened because they drove everywhere & weren't really bothered at expanding outside of London.

I heard exactly the same story about Newcastle, 'met off the train and told to go straight back...'

14 minutes ago, puddlethumper said:

Aaah, a Dennis Javelin. If only. Are they worth 11 biggies ?

I don't know where you're from but Hartlepool has a marina and I'm sure that big old Cummins had marine applications so....