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[puddlethumper]

22 hours ago, dollywobbler said:

RRG was awesome. Thanks for tea Brownovas!

My pics. TWC and her bubbly friend.

That awful Iveco with the lovely CF grill and stuff, in my view, is quite awful and it's not taxed either.

[Spottedlaurel]

22 hours ago, trigger said:

It was the big Stonham barns car show today.......................

Wish I'd been able to go - last show I attended there was 20+ years ago! Saw one or two things on their way down there.

Thinking I might go along to the rod/custom show there next Sunday.

[purplebargeken]

SiC, glad you are okay mate. Phew.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

1 hour ago, MarvinsMom said:

....its come to something wen a Dessin Dart and some poxy Optare thing have also been preserved, i rode them when  new and didn't think much of them then! ....

When I started my career back in 1995/6, I used to have to get the bus from Golders Green to Bayswater - Route 328 as it was then - and Worst Bus relied on single decker Dennis Darts. They were mostly driven by ethnic Somali drivers based at Westbourne Park depot. The Somalis were often up for fast running and could make the Darts perform - I'm convinced they drove as though they were dodging bullets in Mogadishu (the civil war in Somalia was only four/five years after starting). From a standing start, they could make a standing passenger slide from front to the banked seat section at the back, and then reverse the slide as they braked.

[Dick Cheeseburger]

@MarvinsMom 

Excellent set of photos- thanks for sharing. 

What goes on with VDV142S though? Here it is on  Portland Bill in a former life...

The second photo is yours. Weird!

 

[High Jetter]

12 hours ago, MarvinsMom said:

Great pics, looks a nice local show. Something doesn't look right to me with the front of this, though - is it more tauny-like?

[High Jetter]

12 hours ago, MarvinsMom said:

Great pics, looks a nice local show. Something doesn't look right to me with the front of this, though - is it more tauny-like?

[stuboy]

31 minutes ago, High Jetter said:

Great pics, looks a nice local show. Something doesn't look right to me with the front of this, though - is it more tauny-like?

check says registered 2014, so looks like an import

[Amishtat]

Different waistline too

[High Jetter]

Yup, think it's a Taunus GXL about 1971.

[dome]

14 hours ago, SiC said:

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Going round a sharp corner on the Bristol to Bath cycle/shared path. I slow down a lot for it. Child on his own turning around on the corner. I swerved to avoid but swerved too far and hit the dirt. As I was going quite slow, I didn't have the balance to catch it from falling. Fell right, over compensated, fell left and scraped down the tarmac, smacking my head on the floor in the process.

I only bought my helmet last month and it has a nice dent in it too. I guess hundred quid well spent as I'm typing this now and not in the back of an ambulance...


Beginning to hurt now the adrenaline is wearing off and a nice big bruise is forming on my leg. No car fettling for a while.

No broken bones that I'm aware of though!

Liked for the helmet doing its job, although chicks dig scars.

Get onto Zyrofisher, the distributor for a crash replacement.

https://www.zyrofisher.co.uk/giro/content/giroreplacement

 

[danthecapriman]

Bought this off eBay the other day,

One of those cameras you shove up your arse, only £30 odd so how long it’ll last is anyone’s guess, but I bought it for a specific job on my Capri so if it does that then I’m happy.

It seems pretty good so far though! For the price I’m pleasantly surprised.

[clayts450]

^ Was it 'slightly soiled' then ?

[Tadhg Tiogar]

34 minutes ago, danthecapriman said:

.....One of those cameras you shove up your arse, only £30 odd so how long it’ll last is anyone’s guess, but....

...just hope the probe doesn't snap off whilst you've got it in there.

[danthecapriman]

6 minutes ago, Tadhg Tiogar said:

...just hope the probe doesn't snap off whilst you've got it in there.

Nothing a pair of long nose pliers and a good rummage won’t sort!

[richardmorris]

2 hours ago, dome said:

Liked for the helmet doing its job, although chicks dig scars.

Get onto Zyrofisher, the distributor for a crash replacement.

https://www.zyrofisher.co.uk/giro/content/giroreplacement

 

That's good of them. I had a pair of shorts repaired free by rapha earlier in the year after they got slightly damaged. Given the length of time it took I think they must send them abroad, but it was free and came back in a "rapha hospital repair" musette.

[richardmorris]

39 minutes ago, Tadhg Tiogar said:

...just hope the probe doesn't snap off whilst you've got it in there.

NO pictures please.

[Slowsilver]

3 hours ago, High Jetter said:

Yup, think it's a Taunus GXL about 1971.

Many years ago a friend of mine bought an imported left-hand drive Taunus of this type which was in immaculate condition apart from a very bent driver's side (i.e. nearside over here) front wing. Thinking it would be the same as a Mark 3 Cortina. he bought a new Cortina wing then discovered when he attempted to fit it that it was about 2 inches shorter than the Taunus one. He was so annoyed that he scrapped both the new wing and the car ?.
 

[dozeydustman]

 I’m on my first shitely

Wee-wee count = 1

[wuvvum]

16 hours ago, MarvinsMom said:

 

its come to something wen a Dessin Dart and some poxy Optare thing have also been preserved

Weren't those Optares based on a VW LT35 or something?

[quicksilver]

14 hours ago, Dick Longbridge said:

@MarvinsMom 

Excellent set of photos- thanks for sharing. 

What goes on with VDV142S though? Here it is on  Portland Bill in a former life...

The second photo is yours. Weird!

 

It's a convertible, built with a detachable roof so it could be used all year round (tourist stuff in the summer, normal service in the winter). Impressive that the roof has survived with it as most of them ended up as permanent open-toppers. That reminds me of going on holiday when I was little and passing a bus depot somewhere near the seaside where all the roofs were stacked on a frame in the yard - it was such a bizarre sight that I've never forgotten it.

[Dick Cheeseburger]

1 minute ago, quicksilver said:

It's a convertible, built with a detachable roof so it could be used all year round (tourist stuff in the summer, normal service in the winter). Impressive that the roof has survived with it as most of them ended up as permanent open-toppers. That reminds me of going on holiday when I was little and passing a bus depot somewhere near the seaside where all the roofs were stacked on a frame in the yard - it was such a bizarre sight that I've never forgotten it.

I love the level of knowledge on here. What a bizarre thought that it's basically got a detachable hardtop for pleasant weather. Same* as my MR2 then!

While we're talking bus and coach knowledge then, could someone answer me this - old coaches had timber frameworks under the alloy panels. How are modern coaches constructed? 

[reb]

While we're talking buses, I've got a job interview on Monday next week, it may involve buses. Driving them perhaps...

Wish I'd pulled my finger out and fired off an application ages ago now!

[dozeydustman]

Not sure if this a grump yet but the person whom I was supposed to collect the shitely order from has shut his yard up and not answering calls.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

8 minutes ago, dozeydustman said:

Not sure if this a grump yet but the person whom I was supposed to collect the shitely order from has shut his yard up and not answering calls.

Maybe he's gone off to collect another shitely order from elsewhere.....

[dozeydustman]

4 minutes ago, Tadhg Tiogar said:

Maybe he's gone off to collect another shitely order from elsewhere.....

Not sure, as far as I know the person I’m collecting from is not a shiter

[dozeydustman]

Collection man just returned. All is well

[Timewaster]

Spotted near work with full compliment of AS stickers and a silver tape rear window.

What a fine conveyance.

 

[richardmorris]

Meant to post yesterday, but one of my neighbours got home yesterday in his new bmw five series touring with a smashed tailgate. It's in two parts, glass can be opened independently of the tailgate. Apparently it activated itself when driving along and smashed the top glass part against the cycle carrier he had on. 

[louiepj]

Punto power steering is currently playing up and heading for ftp. Just pulled a code of C1007 from it which conveniently seems to be stated as 'power steering motor failure'.
Luckily the insurance is due to run out at the end of the month so I can park it up and ignore it till the mot is due sometime in January.