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[SiC]

Probably a cockup on the part of the DVLA or Irish licencing authority.

[Amishtat]

Local car club meeting this morning.

And a bonus daft tyre name

[catsinthewelder]

Finally got around to changing the noisy alternator belt on the 405. I should probably wash it too.

 

[Fumbler]

That concrete stack behind a car. I'm presuming it's not an ROC post.

[GeordieInExile]

Prime seventies chod in a prime seventies colour scheme.

[richardmorris]

Frosty this morning, I took the Mercedes to box hill to go for a walk.
First one in the carpark at 8.30- rammed when I got back at 12.30!



Denbies premier cru.


Also, are any Londoners able to identify the city buildings please? Looking nnw from great bookham, so it would be Heathrow for all I know. Extreme zoom on the camera. It can’t be battersea power station can it?.

EDIT: rather disappointingly it seems to be Woking - the shanghai of surrey.

Panorama south from the viewpoint at boxhill.

Edited November 19, 2018 by richardmorris

[catsinthewelder]

That concrete stack behind a car. I'm presuming it's not an ROC post.

I think it is some sort of vent for the spoil heap, it's only 2-3 feet across.

[egg]

Some nice pics today, so have a couple from Kent

 

[GrumpiusMaximus]

Just to clarify, we weren't saying a prayer to Rob's dashboard.

[richardmorris]

Just to clarify, we weren't saying a prayer to Rob's dashboard.

 

Don’t knock it, it may help. I carry a Palm Sunday cross in all my cars.

[GrumpiusMaximus]

I'm more likely to have an inverted pentagram across my back bumper...

[richardmorris]

I'm more likely to have an inverted pentagram across my back bumper...

 

Well that could work too. Have you read Neil Gaiman’s Good Omens?

[Richard]

I think Terry Pratchett might have been involved too.

[GrumpiusMaximus]

Well that could work too. Have you read Neil Gaiman’s Good Omens?

 

 

Of course.  I laugh every time I go on the M25...

[Tamworthbay]

Of course.  I laugh every time I go on the M25...

Or Milton Keynes (both god and the devil denied all knowledge)

[Jim Bell]

 

 

Don't call it a comeback!

 

Mrs Shitpeas's's first car has returned to the fold.

 

Gr8 for winter beatings.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

You can't whack a base Yaris.

[M'coli]

The value of my little Pug 106 shot up by about 15% in the space of a couple of minutes today when I washed it and filled it with diesel - it's the first time for months that I've not fed it any veg.

[beko1987]

The value of my little Pug 106 shot up by about 15% in the space of a couple of minutes today when I washed it and filled it with diesel - it's the first time for months that I've not fed it any veg.

I thought the same when I put £100 of diesel in the 406 that after asm cashback cost me £71! Got just under half a tank left and 500 miles down though so not feeling as bad as I did 2 weeks ago tonight!

[DVee8]

Don't call it a comeback!

 

Mrs Shitpeas's's first car has returned to the fold.

 

Gr8 for winter beatings.

 

 

You can't whack a base Yaris.

Where's it been?

[They_all_do_that_sir]

Probably a cockup on the part of the DVLA or Irish licencing authority.

As I understand it he has a valid UK car and bike license. Which he's been in court defending in the past, I think he has something ridiculous like 13 penalty points.

 

He also has a real or fake Irish license with HGV entitlement for whatever reason....perhaps he got it while racing bikes in Ireland.

 

He has sent that to DVLA in an attempt to transfer the Irish HGV entitlement to the UK license which is fine....but either the UK or Ireland is claiming the Irish license is a fake

 

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[stuboy]

Because im a childish and old boy racer i decided to video my exhaust through the dover tunnels....

 

[richardmorris]

Because im a childish and old boy racer i decided to video my exhaust through the dover tunnels....

https://youtu.be/FhsoMzahDEo

 

Back in 2003 when I helped organise the 2cvgb national in isleworth we arranged evening convoys though London. I can confirm that multiple horns sounded in the embankment? underpasses will set off the fire alarms. On four consecutive nights!

[beko1987]

406 has just done a grand job of piloting us very quickly to the hospital to take Amy to a 111 appointment, as she is very much poorly! Haven't driven that fast since the XM days! 406 lent a bit more in some of the corners though...

[GrumpiusMaximus]

Because im a childish and old boy racer i decided to video my exhaust through the dover tunnels....

 

 

 

Hah!  I drive through those tunnels at Hawkinge every morning.  You aren't the first to do that, neither will you be the last..

[Jim Bell]

Where's it been?

Sold to a few different people.

[D Spares & Tyres]

Just to clarify, we weren't saying a prayer to Rob's dashboard.

That is not what it looks like anyway.

 

Renault 11 Bukkake?

[dollywobbler]

Back in 2003 when I helped organise the 2cvgb national in isleworth we arranged evening convoys though London. I can confirm that multiple horns sounded in the embankment? underpasses will set off the fire alarms. On four consecutive nights!

 

Drat. Missed those! I can't really remember leaving the site much. It was Mrs DW's first 2CV camp, and the first time I let her drive my 2CV.

[richardmorris]

Drat. Missed those! I can't really remember leaving the site much. It was Mrs DW's first 2CV camp, and the first time I let her drive my 2CV.

It was a rugby club, very very flat, but decent (ish) showers and food and bar on site. Unfortunately it was the start of the demise of the club, as it was so much effort and hard work.

[Tamworthbay]

If you want to know how much safety has come on watch this-

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oaUdY8clZsw

No serious injuries at all. She is one lucky puppy.

[320touring]

Got the Oxford out into the sun for the first time since Mr Split_Pin came over to polish it..