A collection thread hangs in the balance...

[cms206]

HAH UP URS SHAP

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OSRY SHAP UR BETTAR THN ME

[cms206]

Teeheeheebay. 3 hours and 140 miles down.

[STUNO]

Please don't take out any Transits !

Wasn't me

[quicksilver]

You utter hero, you're not really going all the way to Southampton in that Optare Soslow are you?! Would it not have been quicker to put the bloody thing on a boat and sail it down there?

[cms206]

You utter hero, you're not really going all the way to Southampton in that Optare Soslow are you?! Would it not have been quicker to put the bloody thing on a boat and sail it down there?

Yup. 430 miles all in. It's twin left for Stansted yesterday (Panther Travel?) but this worked in with a shite collection and had the bonus of paying me to get there. Still to work out how to get from Wheelers in Southampton to collect new chod. Will figure that out when I get there!

[dugong]

Y U DRIVE BUS TO SOUTHAMPTON?

[Split_Pin]

Crikey, that will be a punishing journey!

[Jim Bell]

Press buttons so it says Autoshite Epic Express on the front dude.

[cms206]

Bus deposited and me dropped at the station just in time to see the train fuck off. Arses.

[cms206]

There is no train here.

[cms206]

SRY M9 WE DNT SEL TIXETS HEAR

[Cheggers]

Bursledon?, you really are a long way South. Where are you off to for the chod collection?

[cms206]

Distance is no object... Also I have no way of getting home now I'm here. And I'm sleeping in the car tonight. And I've booked an MOT 460 miles away from where the car is.

 

The car is somewhere east of here. I think. I'd never even heard of Bursledon until I got here.

[tooSavvy]

Yay!!! Just run over A6 Shap, Penrith to Kendal, thisafternoon.. bootifull twas.

 

 

TS

[Ghosty]

Going (Optare) solo that far is very brave. It's just one epic thread after another at the moment!

[cms206]

In other news, the 4.2-litre Mercedes powered Optare Solo managed a Volvo 740 rivalling 20.6mpg on the trip down - first leg over Beattock and Shap saw 18.9mpg which isn't too grim at all.

[andy18s]

You've booked it in for an mot back home? Epic stuff

[cms206]

A train has occurred.

[Spiny Norman]

OSRY SHAP UR BETTAR THN ME 20140830_064457.jpg

 

Holy fuck, I thought maxxing a Luton bodied LDV Convoy at 45mph on the uphill stretch of the M77 was bad, but that's dismal.

[cms206]

Next update... 1756.

[Pillock]

Is it likely to make it to the MOT 460 miles away? Is it a few weeks out or several decades?

[cms206]

Is it likely to make it to the MOT 460 miles away? Is it a few weeks out or several decades?

MOT was up on the 22nd and it's still taxed. It'll be fine*. WCPGW and all that jazz.

[cms206]

Partaking in that age old Scottish tradition of talking to strangers about trivial bullshit and being pleasant to people. People look TERRIFIED.

[cms206]

Another train has occurred

[Pillock]

Partaking in that age old Scottish tradition of talking to strangers about trivial bullshit and being pleasant to people. People look TERRIFIED.

Try that on the tube, where even making eye contact is considered over-personal.

[barrett]

I may have just spotted a confused scotsman heading the wrong way through central brighton in a shonky old shed...

[cms206]

NORTHBOUND AND DOWN!

[cms206]

Well it wasn't going to be anything else... sadly its also started pissing oil out the filler cap.

 

Arses.

 

[KruJoe]

It's a Volvo... who knew?