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[LightBulbFun]

4 hours ago, bunglebus said:

Saw this in London yesterday - how TF can they justify charging more to park a diesel? Pretty sure all vehicle emissions are the same when they're not being driven

 

its not the only place in London to do that, the residents parking for where I live also has a Diesel surcharge

 

[sierraman]

Fairly sure the chap with the diesel is saving more than the £100 in fuel costs over the petrol. If I was getting penalised like that I’d make sure it was the dirtiest smokiest badly serviced heap of shit old diesel I could find. Ideally one that chucks loads of clag out in a morning and makes the place look a right mess. 

[Agila]

45 minutes ago, LightBulbFun said:

its not the only place in London to do that, the residents parking for where I live also has a Diesel surcharge

 

I'm just off out to kiss my driveway. My current fleet of chod looks like it would cost £1000 a year just to park.

Tell a lie. It's £752.50

Edited November 10, 2020 by Agila
Cost actually added up. 3 cars.

[N19]

Most boroughs have a diesel surcharge now don't they? My old Borough would only allow one permit per household as well... 

[LightBulbFun]

17 minutes ago, Agila said:

I'm just off out to kiss my driveway. My current fleet of chod looks like it would cost £1000 a year just to park.

Fleet, Hah! its only 1 vehicle per resident here LOL 

thankfully my 44 year old Invacar Model 70 will "only" cost  £114 to park for the year, cuz its small engine means it only puts out the cleanest of emissions right? LOL (not that im complaining mind, although I would not complain even more if there was a free historic vehicle exemption LOL)

 

Yeah be very thankful you dont live in London and even have a drive way!

[Tadhg Tiogar]

1 hour ago, LightBulbFun said:

... its small engine means it only puts out the cleanest of emissions right? ....

You can do your bit by using tetraethyl lead additive in your Invacar's fuel.....

[Out Run]

2 hours ago, Agila said:

I'm just off out to kiss my driveway. My current fleet of chod looks like it would cost £1000 a year just to park.

Tell a lie. It's £752.50

Only £379.50 for me. That’s two cars. It seems my 1992 MR2 is emissions free, according to DVLA. 😄

[Bren]

The paintwork on my BMW is excellent - chap did a great job for not much. But still no news on the vectra.

[sierraman]

No news is good news!

[Vantman]

Just purchased this sensibly sized cardboard original advertising sign for the company i worked for back in the seventies. I worked for the parent company Martin Walter but had frequent access to the Dormobile works.

[dozeydustman]

Mum sent me a picture of granddad's garage in the late 1960s-early 1970s today. Mum used to make numberplates and serve petrol, and granddad had a team of 5 mechanics with him. 1973-4 was when granddad stopped selling petrol. The business is still going but now in other hands since he sold the business in 1988. Nan still owned the garage until 2015, 2 years after granddad passed away.

There's a big workshop behind this frontage with 4 ramp bays in it and a yard. Granddad used to be a Rootes group dealer/service agent until he bought the business off them in the late 1960s. Last time I went there in 2005 they still had a hydragas Dalek.

[Tayne]

Those petrol pumps seem very close together....

[ChampionRabbit]

Thermostat on the TT today which mercifully seems to have solved the temp/eml issue.

Because alternator off, so battery off. 

Because battery off, so windows forget about down and up, so the tiny auto drop feature when opening the door doesn't work and now window open a crack in OH MY GOD IT'S WET WORST YEAR EVER 2020.

Given how tired and depressed I am, and how monumentally unobservant I am, it is nothing short of a miracle that I noticed and was able to remind the windows about their roll in life.

Bleh.

[LightBulbFun]

40 minutes ago, dozeydustman said:

Mum sent me a picture of granddad's garage in the late 1960s-early 1970s today. Mum used to make numberplates and serve petrol, and granddad had a team of 5 mechanics with him. 1973-4 was when granddad stopped selling petrol. The business is still going but now in other hands since he sold the business in 1988. Nan still owned the garage until 2015, 2 years after granddad passed away.

There's a big workshop behind this frontage with 4 ramp bays in it and a yard. Granddad used to be a Rootes group dealer/service agent until he bought the business off them in the late 1960s. Last time I went there in 2005 they still had a hydragas Dalek.

Love the pair of Falks Beaufort Lanterns on the forecourt  

heres a couple examples that a friend of mine has and which he did a lovely restoration on

[stuboy]

11 hours ago, dozeydustman said:

There's a big workshop behind this frontage with 4 ramp bays in it and a yard. Granddad used to be a Rootes group dealer/service agent until he bought the business off them in the late 1960s. Last time I went there in 2005 they still had a hydragas Dalek.

still in the family?

[High Jetter]

1 hour ago, dozeydustman said:

Mum sent me a picture of granddad's garage in the late 1960s-early 1970s today. Mum used to make numberplates and serve petrol, and granddad had a team of 5 mechanics with him. 1973-4 was when granddad stopped selling petrol. The business is still going but now in other hands since he sold the business in 1988. Nan still owned the garage until 2015, 2 years after granddad passed away.

There's a big workshop behind this frontage with 4 ramp bays in it and a yard. Granddad used to be a Rootes group dealer/service agent until he bought the business off them in the late 1960s. Last time I went there in 2005 they still had a hydragas Dalek.

Is it just me, or does the 'UP TO 20% OFF TYRES AND BATTERIES ON TREBLE STAMPS' look like it was created on a giant Dymo labeller? Each pump would have had it's own flavour of fuel, rather than the multi-nozzles we have now on one stand.

[stuboy]

Told stuboyjr to always park his corsa up against the fence so I can double park as not to be an insensitive neighbour.. well he didn't so thought mondeo should 'kiss' the corsa... he moaned about damage msy of caused..pfft..

[Barry Cade]

I was up  close and personal with a 1985 Manta GTE coupe today. It gave me tinglings and ideas, taking me right back to my yoof and the 2 I had .. I was wobbly knee'd enough before the figure of thirteen grand was mentioned.  I think I need a Delorean, as a Manta is unobtainable.  

[xtriple]

A mate ad a Manta it was like your knees all wobbly and weak.

 

Mind you, he had cut the roof off it

[wuvvum]

Aah, the Opel Manta.  The only car I've ever crashed.

[LightBulbFun]

34 minutes ago, High Jetter said:

Is it just me, or does the 'UP TO 20% OFF TYRES AND BATTERIES ON TREBLE STAMPS' look like it was created on a giant Dymo labeller? Each pump would have had it's own flavour of fuel, rather than the multi-nozzles we have now on one stand.

hah it does

but I think they are made up of raised digit Number plates  

[High Jetter]

Could be, I was thinking of the stick-on plates often seen split on Mini bonnets.

[dome]

39 minutes ago, Barry Cade said:

I was up  close and personal with a 1985 Manta GTE coupe today. It gave me tinglings and ideas, taking me right back to my yoof and the 2 I had .. I was wobbly knee'd enough before the figure of thirteen grand was mentioned.  I think I need a Delorean, as a Manta is unobtainable.  

Don't say this, you can still find them! This year was supposed to be sell the Locost and travel to the continent to find an unmolested Manta coupe, so I could molest it myself.  Hopefully it'll still happen...

[beko1987]

1 hour ago, stuboy said:

Told stuboyjr to always park his corsa up against the fence so I can double park as not to be an insensitive neighbour.. well he didn't so thought mondeo should 'kiss' the corsa... he moaned about damage msy of caused..pfft..

I used to park against amys car like that... Love tap I called it

Mainly cos it wound her up in the mornings

[Barry Cade]

1 hour ago, dome said:

Don't say this, you can still find them! This year was supposed to be sell the Locost and travel to the continent to find an unmolested Manta coupe, so I could molest it myself.  Hopefully it'll still happen...

I do prefer an ascona.. my first opel was a mk1 cavalier 2 door that I asconafied with all the proper bits. Always wanted a 400 replica and have been browsing Europe for a few years now. It seems to be getting more of a dream as the months go by.  

[dozeydustman]

10 hours ago, High Jetter said:

Is it just me, or does the 'UP TO 20% OFF TYRES AND BATTERIES ON TREBLE STAMPS' look like it was created on a giant Dymo labeller? Each pump would have had it's own flavour of fuel, rather than the multi-nozzles we have now on one stand.

Yes, if you look at the pumps the far left is Super Shell 5*, then 4* (with octane ratings above). Far right, ShellMex is 2* 91 octane. The clockface pump hidden near the minibus/camper I think was paraffin. They were all gone before I was born!

10 hours ago, stuboy said:

still in the family?

Business sold 1988 but grandparents owned the property. We sold the property to the tenants in 2014/5 to pay for nan’s care. Thankfully there was a deed of covenant put in the sale that the whole site must remain as a vehicle repair centre for 25 years after the sale.

[dozeydustman]

10 hours ago, High Jetter said:

Is it just me, or does the 'UP TO 20% OFF TYRES AND BATTERIES ON TREBLE STAMPS' look like it was created on a giant Dymo labeller? Each pump would have had it's own flavour of fuel, rather than the multi-nozzles we have now on one stand.

Knowing granddad, he got my mum to pake them up on the number plate press when she was about 13!

She hated being a petrol pump attendant, all her schoolmates were jealous.

[andy18s]

11 hours ago, Barry Cade said:

I do prefer an ascona.. my first opel was a mk1 cavalier 2 door that I asconafied with all the proper bits. Always wanted a 400 replica and have been browsing Europe for a few years now. It seems to be getting more of a dream as the months go by.  

They've all gone to Ireland for the rally boys to play with

[Tadhg Tiogar]

5 hours ago, dozeydustman said:

....there was a deed of covenant put in the sale that the whole site must remain as a vehicle repair centre for 25 years after the sale.

Have the developers been sniffing around yet?

[dozeydustman]

43 minutes ago, Tadhg Tiogar said:

Have the developers been sniffing around yet?

They were from around 2000, grandad told them to bugger off as they wanted to pay a pittance for the land. It's a very busy garage which has been there since the early 20th century. Neil who owns it now has been working there since the mid 1990s and when he bought the property with his business partner they had no intention of selling it off for housing development.

 

They're quite chod friendly as well and highly rated on the trusted garage schemes.