Six Cylinders Motoring Notes

[richardmorris]

Is that a for sale sign in the Daimler window?

[Six-cylinder]

45 minutes ago, richardmorris said:

Is that a for sale sign in the Daimler window?

No, an activity list.

[Fumbler]

2 hours ago, Inspector Morose said:

 

 

My favourite so far- @Talbot On A Mission With A Grease Gun Tyre Inflator

[davidfowler2000]

Just now, Fumbler said:

My favourite so far- @Talbot On A Mission With A Grease Gun

Tyre inflater

[Fumbler]

Just now, davidfowler2000 said:

Tyre inflater

Correctorated.

[richardmorris]

4 minutes ago, Fumbler said:

My favourite so far- @Talbot On A Mission With A Grease Gun Tyre Inflator

Have grease/ pump , will travel.

[Six-cylinder]

One of the jobs on my activity list was to exercise the AX, 306, 156 and 735i which are road legal and field exercise the Jinling and Trevi. 

[LightBulbFun]

Oh and many thanks for the lightbulb @Six-cylinder/ @Mrs6C  

Tis a miniature prefocus 6V 25W 25W dual filament bulb I think for use in the head lamp of a motorcycle or something such

from what I could see when I tried and failed to unwrap it at the FoD it looked like a Dual filament stop and tail lamp, so I was pleasantly surprised to see this more unusual lamp when I unwrapped it today  

[AnthonyG]

Many thanks as always to @Six-cylinderand @Mrs6C for hosting, @Inspector Morosefor the choice photographs. and, assisted by @davidfowler2000, the very enjoyable ‘Name that TV theme tune’ competition on Saturday evening. And everybody else for coming. 

 

[richardmorris]

1 minute ago, AnthonyG said:

Many thanks as always to @Six-cylinderand @Mrs6C for hosting, @Inspector Morosefor the choice photographs. and, assisted by @davidfowler2000, the very enjoyable ‘Name that TV theme tune’ competition on Saturday evening. And everybody else for coming. 

 

Looks like you all had a good time.

[AnthonyG]

The theme tune competition certainly bought back memories. I got The Streets of San Francisco but totally missed It’ll be Alright on the Night! 

To prepare for the next one, you just have to watch ITV4 & Talking Pictures TV 24/7 for about three months. This is how @MondeoBlues did so well despite his comparative youth. 

[davidfowler2000]

4 minutes ago, AnthonyG said:

The theme tune competition certainly bought back memories. I got The Streets of San Francisco but totally missed It’ll be Alright on the Night!

Considering you actually mentioned IBAOTN about 5 mins previous as well...

[MondeoBlues]

1 hour ago, Six-cylinder said:

 

 

If anyone's wondering about my facial expression here, this was taken just after I got my arse pounded by the Jinling with @catsinthewelder at the helm

[High Jetter]

Sorry, I don't know if you're driver or prisoner? Is there evidence of this 'arse pounding?' (sorry mrs6C)

[catsinthewelder]

Sorry @MondeoBlues , I didn't realise you'd sat down or I'd have hit that bump a bit slower 😯

 

Ace pictures @Inspector Morose and @Six-cylinder 

[High Jetter]

Duh, taken a while but think I figured it out now. It'll be alright, on the night. Allegedly.

[wuvvum]

2 hours ago, AnthonyG said:

the very enjoyable ‘Name that TV theme tune’ competition on Saturday evening.

That was a highlight of the weekend.  Although I still have "My Lovely Horse" stuck in my head.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

2 hours ago, AnthonyG said:

The theme tune competition certainly bought back memories. I got The Streets of San Francisco but totally missed It’ll be Alright on the Night! 

To prepare for the next one, you just have to watch ITV4 & Talking Pictures TV 24/7 for about three months. This is how @MondeoBlues did so well despite his comparative youth. 

Maybe for the next round, you could sing the theme tunes, which would make them far more difficult to guess if singing ability isn't anything to write home about....

[wuvvum]

48 minutes ago, Tadhg Tiogar said:

Maybe for the next round, you could sing the theme tunes, which would make them far more difficult to guess if singing ability isn't anything to write home about....

Between us I think we managed a surprisingly tuneful rendition of that well-loved classic song "Badger Badger Badger Badger Badger Badger Badger Badger Badger Badger Badger Badger Mushroom Mushroom".

[hairnet]

Crazy man on nights at work who has a slightly later 7 series same as @fatharrisin nice Nick just sold this back to his son

Isn't yours the same colour @Six-cylinder

begins with L and mentions silver???

39k miles

[Six-cylinder]

Ours is Luxor Beige Met, paint code 219

Not a great colour but ok in the evening sunshine.

The two car are very close on age ours was registered 19-02-88 and fatharris 1-3-88

[Six-cylinder]

What a snub!

I used the Sovereign S2 to visit Stoke Mandeville Hospital and in car park C it scans your reg on the way in, you type your reg into a machine before you leave and pay. Then the barrier will lift for you automatically.

The machine said "License Plate Not Found"

[Cookiesouwest]

5 minutes ago, Six-cylinder said:

What a snub!

I used the Sovereign S2 to visit Stoke Mandeville Hospital and in car park C it scans your reg on the way in, you type your reg into a machine before you leave and pay. Then the barrier will lift for you automatically.

The machine said "License Plate Not Found"

Maybe the scanner does not work for white on black?

[Six-cylinder]

Saturday 31st July Evening @mat_the_cat is camping in the FoD for an event at Silverstone.

My thought is does anybody else want to come over for an evening talking car rubbish?

If the weather is with us we can light the garden fire basket.

There is plenty of room for camping if anybody else wants to stay over.

[Crackers]

1 hour ago, Cookiesouwest said:

Maybe the scanner does not work for white on black?

That hadn't occurred to me actually, but I had something similar happen to me somewhere in the Rover. I might have to go round and do a car park group test. 

[Tadhg Tiogar]

1 hour ago, Six-cylinder said:

What a snub!

I used the Sovereign S2 to visit Stoke Mandeville Hospital and in car park C it scans your reg on the way in, you type your reg into a machine before you leave and pay. Then the barrier will lift for you automatically.

The machine said "License Plate Not Found"

That's clearly a programming failure. Some eejit only coded it to recognise post-August 1983 plates.

[N19]

The car park in St Albans doesn't properly read the Capri's numberplate, but it at least consistently mis-reads it so I can work around it. 

Not accepting old numberplates is odd, since some will be used as private plates by the SUV brigade, and a regex for numberplates is probably flying around online somewhere.

See also: telephone numbers either incorrectly formatted or incorrectly rejected. Niche use cases but not difficult to sort.

[beko1987]

My L reg zx never had its numberplate read in the car parks in Marlow I used to use... 

Amazing how often I only stayed for 10 minutes/50p...

[Andyrew]

Work car park of kwality*

[hairnet]

Disaoint - won't be in the country