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wasn't a recommendation, it's a very rubbish phone mount. The grin was for the "Similar seen on TV" badge!

 

I keep my phone in the door pocket and ignore it until I've stopped driving.

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I want mine tappable so I can change radio stations as per the streaming radio thread. And sat nav purposes should I ever need them

 

But the windscreen is far away, and would look stupid, and I hate having stuff on the dashboard/infront of the windscreen

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Whereabouts in Fl are you darkfour?

I'm in St Augustine, in North East Florida and the hurricane turned out to be a non event here. It's a bit windy at times but we escaped most of it. Still, the boss gave us the whole day off.

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The oldest City in America, a beautiful place to be. I had lunch at Georgie's Diner there, years ago. Flagler College is an amazing building - glad the Hurricane went tropical and went north.

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I got one of them phone holders that go into the CD slot, they're surprisingly robust for £3 off eBay. And the chances of me relying on a shiny round thing to play music is minimal so not really that fussed that it's occupying the slot.

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I got one of them phone holders that go into the CD slot, they're surprisingly robust for £3 off eBay. And the chances of me relying on a shiny round thing to play music is minimal so not really that fussed that it's occupying the slot.

I want the same sort of thing but for a tape player! They seem to be not made though

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I'm in St Augustine, in North East Florida and the hurricane turned out to be a non event here. It's a bit windy at times but we escaped most of it. Still, the boss gave us the whole day off.

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I was there when Floyd went through....

Watching all the "rednecks" dragging their trailers up north through Kissimee to get away from it made for entertaining viewing..and seeing all the local malls being cleared of water,baby food and bbq's too

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Sort of car related. Has anyone else seen the Range Rover in the new Churchill advert?

 

But did you notice the crafty "Penis Rover" number plate?

 

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I was watching Keeping Up Appearances on one of the freeview channels last night, and in one episode the sisters decided (actually I think Hyacinth did) to take Daddy out for a picnic.

Yes, it's this one...

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I hadn't seen this one before!  A whole chase with the Rover and Cortina, during Mary Millar's tenure as Rose (always liked her version).  Top Autoshite telly!

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Not seen this mentioned anywhere on here, but I seem to have recorded "All Aboard: The Country Bus" off BBC4 a few nights back.

 

It's been playing for ten minutes and there's been zero talking, just camera mounted on what appears to be a single decker Optare, driving through the Yorkshire Dales, panning around to see the scenery with the odd fact popping up on screen here and there.

 

Bascially, 2 hours of landscape porn. It'll be on iPlayer for a bit.

 

Edit: Half an hour in and there's some talking when the driver stops and takes a fare. "£1.50 please love" is about the extent of it. You can also hear the indicator bleeper. And now it's back to silent countryside.

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saw this hero earlier on the way to pick up my cylinder head, just look where the trolley jack is, I think he'd have a headache after an accident

 

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Carry on caravaning on channel 5, just caught it after flicking through. No idea if it's a one off or series but it's full of utterly tragic people, sad but strangely funny at the same time. The fat guy trying to do a YouTube video on bog paper while his other half sorts the awning in the rain was surreal. Proper old school car crash TV.

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saw this hero earlier on the way to pick up my cylinder head, just look where the trolley jack is, I think he'd have a headache after an accident

 

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Didn't the boss of Renault in the 50's or 60's get killed by a simularly placed briefcase hitting him on the head?.Maybe this is some sort of tribute?

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Not seen this mentioned anywhere on here, but I seem to have recorded "All Aboard: The Country Bus" off BBC4 a few nights back.

 

It's been playing for ten minutes and there's been zero talking, just camera mounted on what appears to be a single decker Optare, driving through the Yorkshire Dales, panning around to see the scenery with the odd fact popping up on screen here and there.

 

Bascially, 2 hours of landscape porn. It'll be on iPlayer for a bit.

 

Edit: Half an hour in and there's some talking when the driver stops and takes a fare. "£1.50 please love" is about the extent of it. You can also hear the indicator bleeper. And now it's back to silent countryside.

 

The mother told me she'd been watching that, she got bored after about ten minutes. 

 

I'll have to give it a watch.

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saw this hero earlier on the way to pick up my cylinder head, just look where the trolley jack is, I think he'd have a headache after an accident

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I think a trolley Jack to the back of the head would be preferable to having to drive a Scenic.

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Is it sad that while watching never say never again on itv4 I've just spotted a BTH210 120hp trolleybus motor in the background?

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There's a fair bit of quality chod in obscure old bongo films - I saw one the other week in which one of the female protagonists turned up in a white LHD SD1 - I think it was on German plates.

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Just sat in the local tyre place getting them to fit my supplied tyres.

 

The bloke on the desk is talking sooooo much shit to people it's outrageous lol proper bollocks spilling out his arse.

 

 

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Anyone catch the new Jay Leno show in the week?

I only caught 10 mins of it and was all about the Great Era of American Muscle Cars.

He paid a visit to his friend Tim Allen for a chat,but the cameraman always managed to keep this little beauty in the background of most of his shots...

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^^^I watched the first 10-15 mins this morning then Dave playback through a wobble and kicked it off.

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So dragged kicking and screaming around Tesco yesterday,bored lets see what car mags there is.

 

This caught my eye.

 

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I have read the first 6 pages or so,so far.It seems like a good read.

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There's a village show on in Sudbury,near Eccleshall N Staffs and they are having a classic car show

As I passed the queue to get in there were at least 3 white Metro s going in,1 was a GTA with a GTA reg plate

Other 2 had consecutive reg numbers....

Also going in were a couple of minis,minors and a yugo van.......

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So dragged kicking and screaming around Tesco yesterday,bored lets see what car mags there is.

 

This cought my eye.

 

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I have read the first 6 pages or so,so far.It seems like a good read.

I picked up a copy of it too and loved the test they had between the 740 & Mk3 Granada. The next issue with the Sierra, Cavalier and Montego face off looks like it will be good too.

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2 minutes to go!

 

We had curry last night, I had a vindaloo with 4 beers, was fucking ace!

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Ordered! One chicken tikka Jalfrezi for me on the way! Plus a load of other stuff for everyone else of course....

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