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9 hours ago, hairnet said:

Put some in yesterday paid 2.01

Did see some at 2.09 (luckily euro)

In France, generally around 2.07-2.13 for SP98, though I did have to make a 'distress purchase' at one point on the autoroute near Lyon at 2.39... 😳

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Another great day at the field of broken dreams! I didn't take many photos but plenty of other did! After a rainy start it turned into the most lovely day and good fun was had by all! 

Gave me a chance to check the beading porn on Chris's ceramic hybrid wax stuff we fed to the jag, seems to work well! 

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A posse promptly assembled to whisk them all back to storage once the roads dried out 😂

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  • Six-cylinder changed the title to Six Cylinders Motoring Notes - FoD Sunday 5 June 2022, if you are coming please PM me.

Home safe and sound after an emergency midnight run home due to tomorrow's weather forecast. 

Thanks again to the Cylinders for having me and cheers everyone for a good day. 

The S3 didn't skip a beat all the way home despite a pretty comprehensive thrashing round the empty lanes for most of the route. 

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The results for FoD are in, A narrow victory for Autoshiters over the weather!

That's a long time since I have driven a Japanese 90's car and my conclusion was it is so easy that  @wuvvumlong trip from the North Sea only really counted as average effort as it was so easy to waft along in the Carina E gobbling miles.

I would have taken a picture of @beko1987 Xsara if it had stayed in one place for long enough!

That is 3 years since the E-Type has been out and thanks to @Talbot suffering breakdowns in it and fixing it, it has been fine all weekend.  

How many Shiters does it take to fix a horn on an Ami!

Afternoon/evening sunshine saw the first running of the Miniature railway, only one derailment so far!

Great day with a fantastic mix of visiting cars .

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7.30am start 11.05pm back home, 348 miles covered! But totally worth it, what a lovely day out!

Thanks @Six-cylinderand @Mrs6C for your amazing hospitality at the FoD again, and even more so for allowing me to pilot the Ami to bring it to the field. What a car, and firmly on the want list now!

Great company, great fun and great cars! 
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Fantastic day out once again!  The Toyota managed the round trip (just short of 300 miles) on £50 of petrol, which isn't bad going for a 26-year-old family hatchback given current petrol prices.

Also concur with what has been said above - the Ami is fantastic fun and I want one!  I also quite fancy my own 7 1/2" gauge railway but sadly my garden isn't quite big enough...

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1 hour ago, wuvvum said:

Fantastic day out once again!  The Toyota managed the round trip (just short of 300 miles) on £50 of petrol, which isn't bad going for a 26-year-old family hatchback given current petrol prices.

Also concur with what has been said above - the Ami is fantastic fun and I want one!  I also quite fancy my own 7 1/2" gauge railway but sadly my garden isn't quite big enough...

 

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Many thanks to @Mrs6C and @Six-cylinder (and everyone else) for hosting another awesome FoD gathering :) 

 

@Crackers's Landy was very awesome, really hope someday ill have the chance to drive one to see how truly awful it is :) just sitting in it stationary the gearshift was something all on its own LOL, I will say a surprisingly comfortable place to sit, im sure its not in motion, but just sitting there going nowhere its far more comfortable then most moderns I Have been in, when did lose the ability to make seats rather then funny shaped ironing boards...

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there was an impressive lineup of cars :) 

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and many thanks to @bub2006 who lent me use of his Mobility scooter for me to get around the FoD on in lieu of REV not being available, it very much made a big difference and it was nice to be able to follow the group (although I do notice that no ones mowed the grass around poor dolly!)

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as mentioned above, the Ami was a shed load of fun :) (its also really good at being a good comfortable  car when driven gently as well, not many cars can be both fun driven flat out and ride well and comfortably when driven sedately as well)

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I can very much get why @dollywobbler gets very frustrated at tourists on his welsh roads, as we got got stuck behind this Audi

"your in a big expensive car why are you breaking for these corners that we can  take flat out in our 1970's 602cc French car! and need to do so to conserve our momentum! "

(although I will admit the Ami sounds very nice when you drop it from 4th to 3rd and mash you foot to the floor)

and it was very awesome to have a go on the FoD Railway and electric locomotive

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I was not sure what to expect, but whatever i was expecting, it was far better then those expectations, I really look forward to when the line is completed and we get a full train on the go :) 

once agan many thanks to all who came and who put up with me LOL

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1 hour ago, LightBulbFun said:

Crackers's Landy was very awesome, really hope someday ill have the chance to drive one to see how truly awful it is :) just sitting in it stationary the gearshift was something all on its own LOL, I will say a surprisingly comfortable place to sit, im sure its not in motion, but just sitting there going nowhere its far more comfortable then most moderns I Have been in, when did lose the ability to make seats rather then funny shaped ironing boards

As @Fumblerwill attest, and anyone else who's been in one in motion, it is hideously uncomfortable on the road. The seats offer absolutely no vertical or lateral support and various bits of the interior poke and prod you in corners. Pretty much anything short of an actual ironing board would be more comfortable. 

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Since we were missing @Talbot from the field meet I decided to declare myself the day's FODtographer.

All of these are straight out the camera with no processing except for a heavy compression, because I'm far too lazy to process this many pics.

Brews all round, hiding from the rain.

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Slowsilver tries to decipher the Chinglish on the Magic Electric Box™️ whilst Dez tries it from an Australian's viewpoint in case it makes more sense.

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Jag out...

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Merc in.

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Soggy Citroens and a Saturated Sovereign.

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Estates of the Nation.

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Vitesse heads back for storage after the village show.

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The farmer parked his battered High-Speed-Tractor next to the landowner's executive saloon.

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Whilst the Caramac Cav made sure the Brit and the German didn't get into a disagreement.

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Tat in formation.

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More to come.

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A few more, looking at the people of the FOD.

Mind your toes, it's Slowsilver on the Ubermower.

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Tat botherers assemble.

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Drawing comparisons between 30 years of family estate development while @bub2006's is telling us he only wants one, I think.

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Meanwhile, @Fumbler wants two instead.

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The inaugural test train on initial layout of the 7 1/4" railway.

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And an album cover from the world's shittest boyband, the BX Boys?

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3 hours ago, LightBulbFun said:

as mentioned above, the Ami was a shed load of fun :) (its also really good at being a good comfortable  car when driven gently as well, not many cars can be both fun driven flat out and ride well and comfortably when driven sedately as well)

That wasn't really "flat out".  We didn't get over 60 once on the way to the chippy and back.  It just feels faster than it is because of the engine noise and the comedy lean angles in corners.  I had my foot to the floor quite a bit but that is the only way to make progress in an A-series Citroën.  An experienced 2CVer (and one who wasn't driving somebody else's car...) would hold onto the gears a lot longer and carry more speed through the bends and would have left us for dead!

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