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Talking about Bedford, I saw this in Cape Verde in February. Apparently it’s gen - a marketing exercise.

I used to go to it pre chinky nonsense. It was always a good place for hunting. Didn’t know it had finished though.

The number plate on the Jensen was used many times. I bought the Ford Transit kit back in the day and it came with the same number. A mate had the same number on the single decker bus with the bell function.

HS25 is on a veteran car in Carry on screaming, driven by Harry H Corbet. Today it is on a 2020 Jaguar.

Cadbury crème eggs already in our local shop. The owner says it’s the earliest they have been available that she knows of.

That’s right. Will the E12 be completed?

Are you the same person that once had a 323i?

I had my 4th one and felt shit afterwards for a couple of days. It was the Moderna. Having had Covid in August it wasn’t far off being the same all over again.

I remember the Vauxhall dealer in Edinburgh trying to sell Cadillacs in the late 90s/early 2000s. I don’t think many were sold. I seem to recall 100,000 miles servicing as a selling point but maybe wrong.

Isle of Man - hence the name Peel.

That one could easily have been one of mine. I did buy one new, deliberately remove the engine and make a cardboard bonnet for it and paint the rear plate and lights! I sold off all my matchbox and corgi rockets in 2000 to a dealer at an Ingliston model fair.

My old 320 was the same. I could start the engine, take out the key and lock it, to allow it to defrost on a winters day.

^ Similarly in the fact of having only one rear fog lamp on the OS. No good for Euro land travelling.

My 1989 240DL estate has 4 on the floor AND a manual choke.

It may “save” the car owner around £40 a year but the garage trade will lose around 50% of their current work. What do the gubberment think these people are going to do instead?

I remember Corgi doing a larger scale of the JPS in the 70s, but don't recall a version in Junior size.

A Honda SS50 4 speed (GFU 107L). Put the 70cc piston/cylinder and head on it. Quickly followed by an XFE 512N reg 4 speed SS50 but standard. First car - a Triumph Herald estate - GTK 547F

Not owned that many estates as there was never the need. I have had several over the past years which amount to the following The Audi was a 2.2 facelift model The E30 was a 316i The ovlov remains with me The X5 was a 3.0 petrol, sold during the "fuel crisis" The X3 remains on fleet.

You learn something new everyday. I never knew of the Grangemouth airport, even though I have been there many many times.

No So long as fuel is available then I will continue to buy what I want. Saint Greta and the likes will not dictate to me what I drive. For all the cities that ban older vehicles - their loss as I won’t visit them. I’ll go bc elsewhere.

Ford Fiasco - (Festa) Ford Grandad Mercedes - stuttgart taxis

On the subject of WD, the most laughable for me were the 325 Touring where MB told the buyer it had been fitted with a new stainless steel exhaust. The other one was the two tone crapi - rattled canned by Ed. Even in the finished shots the wings were as distinctive as black on white. Absolute piles of cack. Very, very few lasted more than a year or two after the programmes.

A 320ise I bought for £70 14 years ago. Unfortunately the tin worm caught up with it this year. The spares from it made well into four figures, meaning a very cheap 25k+ miles from it. Another one years ago was a Mk1 Cortina 1200, bought for £55 and sold 18 months later for £125. Very little done to it during those 18 months.

I always take a print of the email receipt when taxing, just to prove it, in case the tax database doesn't update straight away.

I had an old 2500 back in the early 90s. It was MAS 9R - now on a Harley (?). It had lived all its life on the Isle of Skye before I purchased it and had only covered 33k upon purchase. I used it as a wedding car for a little while then sold it on to a chap in Houston - who did the same. Nice car to drive for the size of it.