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[artdjones]

12 minutes ago, Zelandeth said:

I'm not usually a Porsche fan, but yeah I'd not say no to a shot of that!  Probably rather not know what it's worth though!

Dont know, but they did 199mph.

Apparently, there was a 45k example up for £1.5 million earlier in the year.

[wuvvum]

I remember them being the fastest accelerating car in Test Drive 2 on the PC in the late 80s.

[chadders]

https://www.carmagazine.co.uk/car-reviews/comparison/2012/ferrari-f40-vs-porsche-959-car-magazine-july-1988-another-world/

[adw1977]

8 hours ago, Metal Guru said:

Unlikely to have many / any for George IV as postboxes

Post boxes were invented during the reign of Queen Victoria.  There are a few Edward VIII.

[richardmorris]

22 hours ago, wuvvum said:

It's the ones off of the Volvic bottles, only from a different angle. 

Ah, the puy de domes then. Volcanic!

[richardmorris]

 

he’s interested in testing other maserati @Six-cylinder

[BorniteIdentity]

A reminder to all that playing the ‘mental health’ card is no excuse for being thoroughly shit human being. 

The bloke was a charlatan, a coward and a scumbag. He will only be inside for a year, but I hope that Deborah feels that justice has been served - and that everyone who enabled that little weed thinks hard about doing it again. 

What a rancid little prick. 

[wuvvum]

And home.

Fuck me that was a long drive. 

[Zelandeth]

5 hours ago, chadders said:

According to the mot history it's a genuine 959 with less than 4,000 miles.

Wouldn't be on 4K miles long if I owned it!  No point in owning a car that interesting if you can't share the experience with people.  If I could afford to buy it I could afford to look after and use it.

[High Jetter]

Next Tuesday is my our 30th wedding anniversary. Yes, so far I've survived. Got something booked, it will be a laugh. Any guesses?

[Twin-Cam]

1 hour ago, Zelandeth said:

Wouldn't be on 4K miles long if I owned it!  No point in owning a car that interesting if you can't share the experience with people.  If I could afford to buy it I could afford to look after and use it.

Recently went to look at a Rover 200vi that was for sale. It was essentially brand new, and the clocks read 18,000 miles. I didn't buy it because I suspected OMGHGF, but I felt the need to play the part of 'careful summer use, some shows', rather than my real ambitions of *treat it like a bloody car!* 

[Wibble]

1 hour ago, High Jetter said:

Next Tuesday is my our 30th wedding anniversary. Yes, so far I've survived. Got something booked, it will be a laugh. Any guesses?

Dry cleaner’s convention at the NEC?😆

[Wibble]

22 minutes ago, Twin-Cam said:

Recently went to look at a Rover 200vi that was for sale. It was essentially brand new, and the clocks read 18,000 miles. I didn't buy it because I suspected OMGHGF, but I felt the need to play the part of 'careful summer use, some shows', rather than my real ambitions of *treat it like a bloody car!* 

Should have gone with the treat it like a car option and given us hours of content🙂

[Metal Guru]

9 hours ago, Zelandeth said:

I'm not usually a Porsche fan, but yeah I'd not say no to a shot of that!  Probably rather not know what it's worth though!

It would be lethal in that weather.

[beko1987]

According to my Facebook memories it's a decade since they got rid of tax discs

By 'heritage' disc I meant one I found on Google with the correct date for the zx I had at the time I think 😂

[High Jetter]

7 hours ago, Wibble said:

Dry cleaner’s convention at the NEC?😆

Good guess, but for once this is not work-related.

[ruffgeezer]

9 hours ago, High Jetter said:

Next Tuesday is my our 30th wedding anniversary. Yes, so far I've survived. Got something booked, it will be a laugh. Any guesses?

Colonoscopy for two?

[Twin-Cam]

9 hours ago, Wibble said:

Should have gone with the treat it like a car option and given us hours of content🙂

I have neither the space or the money to entertain it right now. Even with a working head gasket it was a bit top-endy in terms of price.

[wuvvum]

12 hours ago, Twin-Cam said:

Recently went to look at a Rover 200vi that was for sale. It was essentially brand new, and the clocks read 18,000 miles. I didn't buy it because I suspected OMGHGF, but I felt the need to play the part of 'careful summer use, some shows', rather than my real ambitions of *treat it like a bloody car!* 

I had a 200vi.  One of the best sleepers I've ever owned - apart from the exhaust they look just like your great grandma's 214Si.  Mine died of HGF in the end - I was hoping to get it sorted but the root cause of the HGF was a leaking water pump and I didn't get around to sorting it before the council started moaning about it being on the car park with no MOT.

[Marshall2810]

This arrived yesterday 😍 

[wuvvum]

15 hours ago, BorniteIdentity said:

A reminder to all that playing the ‘mental health’ card is no excuse for being thoroughly shit human being. 

The bloke was a charlatan, a coward and a scumbag. He will only be inside for a year, but I hope that Deborah feels that justice has been served - and that everyone who enabled that little weed thinks hard about doing it again. 

What a rancid little prick. 

Not sure he will find prison porridge quite as enjoyable to have sex with as a trifle, but hey ho.

[Stinkwheel]

1 minute ago, Marshall2810 said:

This arrived yesterday 😍 

You lucky man, much much want

[Twin-Cam]

53 minutes ago, wuvvum said:

I had a 200vi.  One of the best sleepers I've ever owned - apart from the exhaust they look just like your great grandma's 214Si.  Mine died of HGF in the end - I was hoping to get it sorted but the root cause of the HGF was a leaking water pump and I didn't get around to sorting it before the council started moaning about it being on the car park with no MOT.

I love them, think they're fantastically understated. Plus, K-Series best series (when working).

[Joey spud]

I bunged an alternator and a set of belts on a MK1 CRV at the weekend 

And i found this chunk of imitation grass to lay on. It was so comfy I could of nodded off.

HRW,head lights and blower fan running and it was charging really well even at idle.

Nice old thing with one owner for the last 17 years and zero rot underneath.

[Datsuncog]

1 hour ago, Joey spud said:

i found this chunk of imitation grass to lay on. It was so comfy I could of nodded off.

My spannering mat of choice also.

[beko1987]

[wuvvum]

I've done 2,200 miles in the last week in the Rover and it hasn't used any oil or coolant at all, which is reassuring.  It did use rather a lot of diesel - it averaged about 42mpg, which isn't great - but there was a fair bit of mountain driving involved and that's always going to kill the fuel economy on a heavy automatic.  Here's the old girl in the Black Forest:

And parked outside the house we lived in in 1993-4, just outside Grenoble:

It wasn't entirely problem free - it developed a small diesel leak from the pipe into the secondary fuel pump somewhere in Germany (it's more of a weep than a leak, it isn't dripping onto the road, but as the pump is right next to the cabin filter it does mean I got a whiff of diesel when sat in traffic with the fan on), the front brake squeal that developed on the way to Dover came back occasionally throughout the trip (it's not binding on noticeably, but the offside wheel is appreciably warmer than the nearside after a long motorway run), and it's now missing a section of the offside front wheelarch liner after the retaining clips (which were a bit knackered to be fair) objected to my 120mph Autobahn run and gave up the ghost - which resulted in the slightly embarrassing scenario of having to crawl under the car in the Nürburgring car park to tie the remaining bit of liner back on with a random bit of wire I'd found in the boot, to stop it hitting the wheel every time I turned left.  It also had a brief FTP in a Belgian motorway services, although that turned out to just be a loose battery earth connection.  Overall though it did bloody well considering I'd given it zero preparation (I was intending to take the Merc right up until the last minute).

This will probably be its last big overseas trip though - partly because, at 21 years and nearly 200K miles, it's starting to show its age, but mainly because there are so many low emission zones springing up in Europe now that it's becoming something of a pain in the arse to actually get anywhere in a Euro 3 diesel, which are banned from pretty much all the zones.  I've previously mentioned having to park in Germany to go into Strasbourg, but also the only day I could go and see my brothers in Grenoble was Saturday (the zone there doesn't run at weekends), and I had to do a big detour to avoid the Rouen LEZ on the way back to Calais.  And I couldn't go anywhere near Paris, not that I'd want to anyway.

Things I've noticed about driving in Europe, in no particular order:

-Belgian roads are shit.

-The traffic in Brussels is absolute fucking pandemonium.

-Lane discipline is better on the continent than it is here, but still not great.

-The absence of a speed limit on the Autobahn is, most of the time, largely theoretical.

-Diesel is no cheaper on the continent than it is here, disappointingly.  Petrol is significantly more expensive.

-Driving through rural France is nowhere near as enjoyable as it used to be.  More traffic, more dawdlers, and lower speed limits which everyone seems to keep to.  There is also far less chod on the roads now than there used to be.

-DHL drivers drive like cunts whichever country you are in.

-Audi     "               "          "         "                 "                    "            "        "    "

-Google Maps thinks that all rural French roads are still limited to 80km/h, even though a lot of them have been put back up to 90 - I thought online mapping apps were supposed to keep up with this kind of thing.

-The Germans really are good at English, at least the younger generations.  I stopped at an Avia petrol station in a little village somewhere in the Black Forest, and the cashier spotted my UK plates and spoke to me in English as soon as I walked in to pay.

-The French really are shit at English, but that's less of an issue as I can still just about remember how to speak French - my German was rubbish 30 years ago and it hasn't got any better in the meantime.

-Most French fuel pumps now have voice instructions, which automatically switch to English when they detect a UK payment card.  Which is quite clever.

[Split_Pin]

I got a bit of money for my birthday.

So I bought a big Lego Technic set, which I finished yesterday.

 

 

 

[loserone]

1 hour ago, Datsuncog said:

My spannering mat of choice also.

I thought that was the kind of droplinks which @Cheggersspotted in @New POD's place earlier 

[artdjones]

On 30/09/2024 at 04:20, somewhatfoolish said:

Bing is a scots word for a slag heap. 

It is used for that, but also for other things, as it can be used for any heap or pile.