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[Pete-M]

  On 21/12/2020 at 11:27, Pete-M said:

Friends brought food for us for the first 10 days, but now we're out of isolation we're free to go shopping. 

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Bugger. Just spotted the typo.

[wuvvum]

Mouth to mouth. 

[beko1987]

  On 21/12/2020 at 14:08, wuvvum said:

Mouth to mouth. 

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If you hit them together hard enough will it make a c5? 

[Supernaut]

  On 21/12/2020 at 14:21, beko1987 said:

If you hit them together hard enough will it make a c5? 

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No. 2+2 is only 4. Do you really want a C4 though?

 

In other news, I'm just back from helping @cort1977 make an amusing purchase. I'll let him reveal all though.

[beko1987]

  On 21/12/2020 at 14:51, Supernaut said:

No. 2+2 is only 4. Do you really want a C4 though?

 

In other news, I'm just back from helping @cort1977 make an amusing purchase. I'll let him reveal all though.

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No, hence I'd hope it did a French and get it slightly wrong! Maybe chuck a 3rd interior in to make up the numbers? 

[barefoot]

Went to Loughborough this morning, the Scirocco was a bit spluttery, but made it home OK to cough & die on the drive. It's an air leak from a bady fitted carburettor, my man with the spanners mackled it up for me about six months ago & I asked him to do it properly when he had a moment. It looks like he'll be finding a convenient moment in the next couple of days!

[Lord Sterling]

  On 20/12/2020 at 18:56, Jamie said:

75 bastard quid for a door handle! 

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Yep. And £50+ for a Peugeot arm rest:

UK seller of a second-hand part ffs. 

[Arthur Foxhake]

  On 21/12/2020 at 14:08, wuvvum said:

Mouth to mouth. 

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From the man who told me he wasn't sure he needed such a vehicle... 

Excellent behaviour.

[HillmanImp]

Legacy passed its MOT yesterday. It had only failed on a droplink which wasn't bad at all.

The weather has been gash up here so I'd actually rang around a few garages as I'd happily pay £50 for someone else to do it, rather than sit in the freezing rain for an hour but nobody wanted to. "Sorry, don't do Subarus". WTF?

The only place that said they would couldn't fit me in this side of the retest window. 

Luckily there was a break in the weather that allowed me to get out and fix it myself at the weekend. 

Another years worth of road legalness obtained (on paper at least). 

[Jenson Velcro]

Had to collect the bosses’ daughters mini from the dealer today . Looking across the used car lot what a load of monochrome misery . Had to laugh that the bill for the small service was for the same amount that I paid for my r50 Cooper

[brownnova]

Electric operated boot strut snapped on the C5 yesterday... thanks to my lightning quick reactions I managed to get out of the way quickly before it landed on my already damaged shoulder! So now we have a boot which  doesn’t  stay open... ideal when you’ve got a small baby and need all the available arms to juggle baby and associated gubbins. 

‘I guess we’ll have to use the 9000 on Christmas Day then’ says Mrs B... 😎😎

[alcyonecorporation]

  On 21/12/2020 at 14:51, Supernaut said:

No. 2+2 is only 4. Do you really want a C4 though?

 

In other news, I'm just back from helping @cort1977 make an amusing purchase. I'll let him reveal all though.

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No. No, he does not. 

[alcyonecorporation]

  On 22/12/2020 at 14:00, alcyonecorporation said:

No. No, he does not. 

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C4 owner (2006-2015)

[loserone]

@Banger Kenny

[w00dy]

Even got the ebay favourite quote from the MOT tester remarking at how clean it is (for 200k+ miles).

[Stanky]

What horn sound did it emit first time around? I'd like to think it was a slightly sad sounding, descending 'peeeeeeeeeeep' noise not unlike a clanger.

[vulgalour]

 

[SRi05]

  On 22/12/2020 at 18:27, Stanky said:

What horn sound did it emit first time around? I'd like to think it was a slightly sad sounding, descending 'peeeeeeeeeeep' noise not unlike a clanger.

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[LightBulbFun]

  On 22/12/2020 at 18:35, vulgalour said:

 

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I see @Six-cylinder has upgraded from Photoshop onto 3D modelling and rendering software!

(kinda disapointed I did not hear a POP! as it continued to inflate off screen LOL, but the sound effects are really good!)

also have to link this LOL

 

[LightBulbFun]

  On 22/12/2020 at 18:35, vulgalour said:

 

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LOL I found more! the TR7 one looks especially derpy LOL

https://vimeo.com/281591614

[MarvinsMom]

So Kerry said to me last night, "do i want to drop the Rover off in the morning as i pass, and i take the piece of shit turd toyota?"

"no" said i, "no, i'll stick with the Rover, that other thing, you can keep it, i want nothing else to do with it, and besides, i know it won't start"

"oh yes it will"

"no. no it won't, and i'd bet you it won't"

"how much?"

ah a challenge, "i'll  bet 400 Quatloos that the turd won't go in  the morning"

well, apparently. it did. with no jump leads involved.

cos Kerrys brother was pushing it!

needless to say, i am now 400 Quatloos richer.

though i dunno how many quatloos there are to the pound......

 

[rickvw72]

Just been to collect a set of tyres from Buxton, I won on eBay.

Sat in sellers garage, was a 1989 I think, proton saga automatic.

14k from new, owner says it might be oldest left. Had left my phone down the road In the car, otherwise would have pictured it.

Nice bloke who owned it. Was a banger driver too but the proton is saved from that fate. 

[Banger Kenny]

  On 22/12/2020 at 14:43, loserone said:

@Banger Kenny

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Fame at Last!

And they all thought I was mad when I proclaimed that "One day, you will see my name on the back of a Peugeot 205"

- Not so smug now, Roland Garros.

[Lacquer Peel]

Up yours Donald Turbo. 

[stuboy]

  On 22/12/2020 at 12:33, Jenson Velcro said:

Had to collect the bosses’ daughters mini from the dealer today . Looking across the used car lot what a load of monochrome misery . Had to laugh that the bill for the small service was for the same amount that I paid for my r50 Cooper

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he he he 

[w00dy]

  On 22/12/2020 at 18:27, Stanky said:

What horn sound did it emit first time around? I'd like to think it was a slightly sad sounding, descending 'peeeeeeeeeeep' noise not unlike a clanger.

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Sadly I'll never know since I can't remember ever having used it. Apparently I'd managed to bend it round so that it had filled with water. 

 

[Cord Fourteener]

  On 22/12/2020 at 19:14, rickvw72 said:

Just been to collect a set of tyres from Buxton, I won on eBay.

Sat in sellers garage, was a 1989 I think, proton saga automatic.

14k from new, owner says it might be oldest left. Had left my phone down the road In the car, otherwise would have pictured it.

Nice bloke who owned it. Was a banger driver too but the proton is saved from that fate. 

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There's a ages old banger and caravan racing track at Harpur Hill, near the Mines Research place who developed computer modelling investigating the King's Cross fire. That's all within the confines of Buxton.

As is the International G&S festival.

[captain_70s]

  On 22/12/2020 at 18:35, vulgalour said:

 

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Bet that's a fetish.

[holbeck]

Haynes are a slow seller at my local factors

[Cord Fourteener]

  On 23/12/2020 at 10:25, captain_70s said:

Bet that's a fetish.

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It's how BL would have planned future styling updates. They would have called it computer aided design...

I mean compare the R8 Rover 2/400 with the next gen Rover 400 and the 100 series metro with the next gen 200 that replaced it.

I rest my case.