Metal Guru

Replace the Silver Cloud with a Shadow and Elton could almost be a shiter. I’m sure he’s got a better garage today, after all ge us worth about £250m.

Nearer Tosser than Touran.

Replaced the wife’s diesel Bini with a newer hybrid one. The old one was insurance group 16 , the new one is 26, so I expected at least £100 a year increase , so pro-rata , thought it would be maybe £70 ish for the rest of the year. The exact increase? 1p. I asked them if they were seriously going to collect 1p which would presumably cost a few pounds to process, and I was told ( to paraphrase) “ computer says yes!”

I did one of those track days where you get to drive a few supercars. I have a WRX too and drove a 911 that day, and would have to say I agree.

That’s great. I don’t like convertibles and the Cayman tries too hard to look like a 911.

Looks more like a Vauxhall Viva HA

You obviously don’t live 50 miles from the nearest dual carriageway or motorway and spend all your time on twisty A and B roads stuck behind people who can’t or won’t overtake tractors doing 15 mph.

Because the nice blue paint work isn’t so great close up and there some rust too.

Why are wheelie bins so noisy? Our bin lorry has changed its route and now turns up before 7am instead of around 11 am, so I have to put my bin out the night before. Trouble is I nearly always forget until I’m going to bed , usually sometime after 11. When I do, every house I can see has no lights on and looks like everyone has gone to bed. As a result , ever revolution of the bin wheels , sounds like a big bass drum of a marching band. (Halfway through writing this it dawned on me, that everyone goes to bed early, because the bin lorry will wake them up shortly after 6).

On Friday , I could have posted similar pics but labelled 9 am , 10 am , 11 am and 9.15am , 10.15 , 11.15. Several times it was pouring with rain and bright sun at the same time.

Perhaps we should have graduated licences and reward drivers who do more training to become better drivers like IAM but with less emphasis on doing the BSM shuffle better. Rewards would include being allowed to drive at a higher speed limit, use of bus lanes, priority parking , free use of the M6 toll, and motorway fuel / charging at prices that don’t take the piss. It shouldn’t be difficult to police through ANPR.

Please tell me they badged the top of the range model “Ace”.

Being American?

Was Trex an ingredient?

I remember a school trip to Lullingstone Roman Villa probably about 1973.

I remember the term “Old English Vinyl” being quite common in the 70s.

No but I was thinking of petrol which lights up if you get within 4 ft with a flame. Kerosene lights up pretty easily ( seen a plane crash?)too and that’s half way to diesel.

Most non EV cars carry around about 50 litres of a highly explosive liquid that could go up with the slightest spark.

WTF?!

There’s always Rwanda. Might as well make use of them, no illegal immigrants are going there.

Given that massive chock behind the wheel, I half expected the ad to read “new handbrake fitted”.

Whoa! I feel like I’m on Pistonheads having my daily transport slagged off. I’ve got several pairs of Timberlands.

My grandad bought a Mercedes back then , it’s reg was H1TLR. Couldn’t understand why it got vandalised.

I once had British Gas booked for a pm service call, so popped out in the morning intending to be in by 12 noon. 11.15am, get a call on my mobile saying “British gas bodger here ( think he might have said engineer), I’m ringing your door bell but no one’s answering.”. I say , it’s a pm call , I’ll be there by 12. “I’m not coming back”. So I say , “look I’ve taken a day off work for this “. “We’ll you could have stayed in then”. At this point I tell him to f@ck off. I then phone BG to complain and get told he’s told them he’s too scared to attend because. I swore at him. Resisting the temptation to swear again, the woman on the phone concedes I was justified and arranged someone else that day.

Aerial . Auto correct thinks the world revolves round Disney.