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I might be wrong here and it is another large estate that a mate had but does it have a small built in cold box/fridge in the back? I've always been a fan of quirky styling and one of these is definitely in my virtual garage.

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Were proximity sensors a thing back then?

I expect there was a think tank where BMW were looking at how to get women to drive larger, more expensive cars that break down a lot and the tea lady said "call them Mini".

Van hire companies must be rubbing their hands with glee. 😁

Didn't he drive a Tbird?

In other news we cleaned the roof of the floppytop this afternoon using the handheld part of the BexBissel floor/upholstery cleaner. The waste water tank when we finished was a satisfying shade of mud so it obviously needed it and will hopefully go faster now*

I read once that it if it weren't for drugs americans would have no concept of the metric system at all.

I thought it was because I forget to switch off the cloaking shields on the DS.

That is the ultimate in Barrydom of that era, there were several companies selling parts like noses and scuttles for people to "personalise" their traction, whoever did this car deserves a medal for leaving us a legacy of nearly all those modification on one vehicle.

Even the NGA union couldn't swing that sort of perk 😆

Was it a (flip) flop?

Which car was it, a 2 litre injection LS which had the badge 2.0iLS on the back which always made me wonder which two oils they used.

Back then a lot of trucks in Spain had a green light at the back that the driver would switch on when it was clear to overtake between hairpin bends so you didn't have to pull out and hope there was nothing coming the other way.

Thanks for the warning

ADD2 is now on a blue Toyota. And that's a bit off, having your doors nicked while you're kipping

The grey Saab 9-3 estate which I didn't bond with is now sold on, however the pleasure was short lived because General Accident charged me £56 to cancel the policy which just involved pressing a few buttons on the computer. I expect getting a certificate of no claims is going to be a nightmare as well.

I was trying to think of something witty like "Going to Whitstable for a burger is like going to France for a pizza" but a tray of food was placed in front of me. So I have reset the equilibrium because it was a huge salmon steak, and I do realise that when taking kids out you have to make them happy.

Going to Whitstable for a burger - no wonder the fishing industry is going down the pan.

We had one that worked by a water turbine connected to the kitchen sink tap by a hose, mostly made of plastic.

564PJ now on a Jaaag.

Short answer no. I've had a spare wheel still with the sticker on the tread since the 1980s and it still looks like new. It is in front of the radiator (which has its own ducting from under the front bumper) and there is ventilation between the bonnet and the bumper to the spare wheel. I would think that cars like the Citroen CX which also had the spare in the engine bay but up by the screen would have been more likely to suffer but I never kept mine long enough to find out, perhaps others can comment? Thinking about it, there are a lot of other rubber components nearer the engine like cooling hoses and air pipes which last for ever as well.

Usually kept in an over the shoulder duffel bag* *not that I'm an expert in that sort of thing.

You have to put the smallest case in first because there is a well in the bottom of the boot that is strangely just right for fitting a spare wheel in. But as everyone knows, the spare wheel is kept under the bonnet which saves having to take all that luggage out if you need to change a wheel.