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Probably best to leaf it alone now………..

I would go out on a limb to say carry on

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It’s finally the weekend! I’ve had a shit week thanks to work so they can suck my chicken skin scrotum now until Monday!

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Just joined a Facebook group of old pics from where i grew up.

 

Someone has posted this ( which I remember well!)

 

I think that’s the one and only time I’ve been in the press. 1976.

 

Edit. I’m the one staring into the gates of hell. My best friend Chris looks quite happy to be frozen to death in tiny shorts and a cardigan!

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Spotted a fox at work today. Hoping it was the one who looked very poorly the other month, as this one looked very healthy so fingers crossed it got better.  Relatively safe there too, away from the red coated wankers on horseback.

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Be careful putting a frozen soft top down. Makes them brittle.

Yes, I've smashed it already. New one.. one day

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Shaping up to be quite a night at Casa Datsuncog. A load of attic-blackened cars to be scrubbed AND a goodly haul of traybakes rescued from an abandoned plate outside a meeting room in work. Some of them are barely nibbled.

 

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Result.

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Wanted to see what the Pontiac looked like with UK plates*.

 

Apologies to the current owner of DDM 798C. :D

 

Phil

 

 

 

*One thing it does do is make me realize just how big that car actually is. Compare to the same size plate on another blue vehicle:

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Wanted to see what the Pontiac looked like with UK plates*.

 

Apologies to the current owner of DDM 798C. :D

 

Phil

 

 

 

*One thing it does do is make me realize just how big that car actually is. Compare to the same size plate on another blue vehicle:

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And yet, it doesn't look that big in it's natural habitat. 

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I was part of a world record attempt today, the worlds largest cheese tasting, and we bloody smashed it!

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And yet, it doesn't look that big in it's natural habitat.

 

I wonder why :-)

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Son is at his guitar lesson learning the offspring - kids aren't alright, bugger me there's a lot more to it than on first listen!

Great to see him fully engaged and listening/ working hard at the same time as enjoying himself :)

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Son is at his guitar lesson learning the offspring - kids aren't alright, bugger me there's a lot more to it than on first listen!

Great to see him fully engaged and listening/ working hard at the same time as enjoying himself :)

The offspring are a great band and very underrated. Quite a few of their songs are a lot more complex than first impressions would have you believe.
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Turns out there was another (third!) fusebox hidden up inside the dash, which I discovered whilst dismantling the dash to try and find the ECU.  This fusebox also had engine-related fuses in it, in addition to all the engine-related fuses in the fusebox under the bonnet, and two of them were corroded tae feck.  A liberal soaking in contact cleaner, a thorough scraping of the contacts with the point of my test light and two replacement fuses and it was away.

 

As an added bonus, the gearbox now changes gear too. :)

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I've spent the last 2 days doing bits in the Beetle that the casual observer wouldn't even notice.

Replaced front N/S wing and liner yesterday,fitted stereo and took off smashed for light.

 

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Today I did the other side. Sheered 1 bolt but the bracket was bolt on not welded so it came to be drilled.

Re-re-fixed the stereo after working out there was no permanent live, turns out i need to swap the red and yellow wire!!!

All in all a great couple of days playing with cars.

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Oh and I gave my neighbour a hand putting the bumper back on his Range Rover P38, so he let me have a play in his 2010 supercharged 5.0 V8 L322 Range Rover Autobiography. 510 bhp, fuck me is that thing rapid!!!!.

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My youngest bought a Megane C+C that we collected on Thursday.

 

Friday the EML is on, the passenger window won't open and the timing belt that was logged as being done at 54,000 wasn't actually done.

 

She was getting her tame mechanic to fit a new belt & water pump but phoned the seller and he has arranged for an auto-spark to fix the window and the garage that did the service and MOT on Thursday morning to fix the EML.

 

Not to bad for a £1500 car that she paid £1250 for.  She loves it and says it is nice to be back in a 'grown-up' car after that last two Fiestas and a heap of a Clio.

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Contentment is sharpening your woodchisels on a Saturday night with a few cans of beer.

 

Would you not be better using a whetstone?

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