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The marshalls at Anglesey for the 24hr 2CV race were superb. Very friendly. Some of the poor buggers were trapped at their stations for the entire race! Nowt happens without them. Very grateful that folk do it so willingly.

 

I've done some airfield stage-rally marshalling which is excellent fun, if a little windswept at times!

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I did a bit at Knockhill and East Fortune circuits when i was up north for a couple of yrs.

Now that was windswept!

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Neighbour knocked on the door earlier specifically to let me know there was a gang of kids trying to steal EVERYONE'S dice caps, but were particularly interested in mine.  Other neighbour came over to let me know the same.  Fuck me but that seems a bit like community spirit and decent folk,  I'd entirely forgotten what that was like.

Us northerners mate a friendly bunch.

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Cheers Stanky, will do!

The marshalls at Anglesey for the 24hr 2CV race were superb. Very friendly. Some of the poor buggers were trapped at their stations for the entire race! Nowt happens without them. Very grateful that folk do it so willingly.

The chap I was paired with has been doing it 12 years and was at Anglesey for the 2CVs.... Said it was brilliant, I think the gratitude goes both ways as marshalls really appreciate friendly drivers who listen to instruction.
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This never happens to me!  Mikeknight used the Xantia to do grown-up errands while I was doing some work and he went and found another Xantia estate.

 

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Did they sidle up to each other and make smaller cars? 

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Brings back memories (and I use the term in the loosest possible sense) of Saturday nights getting pissed on the cheapest alcohol available, before trying our fake ID in the local club...

 

This and Buckfast, both when I was a wayne, and occasionally now.

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Did they sidle up to each other and make smaller cars?

I think we finally know how silver Xsaras are made.

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I think we finally know how silver Xsaras are made.

If a Xantia mates with a Synergie do you get a Xsara Picasso?

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On that basis, I'd like to shag Olivia Newton John in the back of one and try and make a Xanadu.

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I really should have stopped finding this sort of thing funny about 30 years ago https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@57.6555323,-1.9997309,3a,50.1y,336.02h,82.03t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sby-8AOr1X-eOjrgPxlVnNg!2e0?hl=en

 

Also, finally got an ID on this car* I found in a quarry nearly three years ago.

 

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1957-59 Austin Cambridge. Is Rustdreamer anybody on here?

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I was out on Sunday and happened to find myself in a crowded room with lots of people chattering.  But the one voice I could hear above everything else was a foreign lady who sounded just like Latka

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I'm not a racist, some of my best friends etc, but this lady's squeaky voice in broken English made me smile.  I could almost feel myself going over the bridge following cab 804

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Finally getting Dave aka Hotwire to blow his top and cry into his fair trade oragnic mung bean dinner on this forum , completely going against his own fascist rules which dont apply to himself or the 25 or so chums that lick his botty .

 

http://retrorides.proboards.com/thread/165602/retro-insurance-scheme-brentacre-discount?page=4#.VDQ5WvldXrI

 

It is their forum, so they can do what they want. There's no point in criticising it as it will always result in the same thing (ie a flaming from the usual clique), and then you wouldn't be able to reach a very wide audience selling a retro/classic/shite car if/when you get banned.

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I though HotWire dealt very reasonably with that to be honest. My reply wouldn't have been half so polite.

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Rob Huff getting Lada's 1st win in the WTCC at the weekend

 

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Finally getting Dave aka Hotwire to blow his top and cry into his fair trade oragnic mung bean dinner on this forum , completely going against his own fascist rules which dont apply to himself or the 25 or so chums that lick his botty .

 

http://retrorides.proboards.com/thread/165602/retro-insurance-scheme-brentacre-discount?page=4#.VDQ5WvldXrI

Don't be a twat all your life,

Hotwire of retro rides fame is a good guy. I've met him in real life and honestly he's just doing his best to keep the thing from turning into a grumpy bollocks flame war. He's a bit smiley but there's a lot said for not being a bunch of moaning fuckers like us. It works here but when the numbers increase it just all turns into a pool of "grumpy old man thread"

 

Just trying to bait the guy and wind him up is a total dick move, he genuinely does it all to try and keep the forum and community on its feet.

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Didn't sound like he did too much crying, sounded like he justified a forum making a bit of cash to spend on things for the good of the forum.

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Finally getting Dave aka Hotwire to blow his top and cry into his fair trade oragnic mung bean dinner on this forum , completely going against his own fascist rules which dont apply to himself or the 25 or so chums that lick his botty .

 

http://retrorides.proboards.com/thread/165602/retro-insurance-scheme-brentacre-discount?page=4#.VDQ5WvldXrI

Can't see a problem with what they're doing with the insurance link.   Can't see what you're trying to achieve or why that would make anyone grin.

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Many whys can be asked about the Brabus G Wagon, but the most pressing one for me...

 

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... is why they fitted it with googlie eyes instead of headlights.

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It looks like it's just done a line or three of coke. 'I'm so wired right now', Brabus G-Wagen says.

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Many whys can be asked about the Brabus G Wagon, but the most pressing one for me...

 

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... is why they fitted it with googlie eyes instead of headlights.

 

...perhaps Mike Brewer now heads up the styling/faceflift/chav up dept at Brabus???

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