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1 hour ago, Wack said:

Very envious 

If I had a big lottery win the first thing on my buy list would be a fully restored DS , or buy one and give it to a trusted restorer with an open chequebook.

I love everything about  them 

Well funnily enough he had an SM too which was given a very expensive engine rebuild by a specialist down south and then promptly shat itself. He sold it shortly after and is fairly sure they fucked something up.

He rebuilt the engine in this himself?

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15 minutes ago, dome said:

Well funnily enough he had an SM too which was given a very expensive engine rebuild by a specialist down south and then promptly shat itself. He sold it shortly after and is fairly sure they fucked something up....

Possible candidates:

Brodie's

B.L. Autos

Peacock Engineering 

Those are the only ones I can think of who would touch the SM's engine.

 

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It does seem to be a particularly terrible bit of engine design and manufacture even by Maserati standards; hilariously high-maintenance, unmaintainable and several critical components were made out of steel the consistency of smelly french cheese. Sounds nice though.

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19 hours ago, dome said:

Had the pleasure of a prod round this today, belonging to a friend of a friend.

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He's had it for 15 years but it's been off the road a while. He's in the process of getting it back on the road so hopefully I'll get a run in it at some point ?

Well if you're going to have a go in a DS you might as well jump in the deep end with a LHD semi-auto - that way absolutely nothing on the car will be anything like anything else you've driven...

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21 hours ago, Tadhg Tiogar said:

Possible candidates:

Brodie's

B.L. Autos

Peacock Engineering 

Those are the only ones I can think of who would touch the SM's engine.

 

B.L. Autos, are that the Citroën specialist chaps in Welwyn Garden City?  If it is we used to take our XM there back in the '90s - they were great to work with and I always really enjoyed the walk over the railway bridge by the Shredded Wheat factory, the smell was lush!

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12 minutes ago, nomiST said:

B.L. Autos, are that the Citroën specialist chaps in Welwyn Garden City?  If it is we used to take our XM there back in the '90s - they were great to work with and I always really enjoyed the walk over the railway bridge by the Shredded Wheat factory, the smell was lush!

Yes, BL are in Welwyn. A bit far up to bring my CX, but if there's nobody else available to do CX jobs, then it would have to be them.

Brodie is nearer to me but I was dissuaded by their considerable reluctance to book the CX in.

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They always treated us really well!

I think I know Garage Dubois too, if it's in the industrial estate by Tesco Colney Hatch, our neighbours have a unit nearby from which they make a very good living selling kilts to Americans!

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Had an announcement today from the NZ govt. that as of tonight, our last stage of lockdown will be over and, barring border controls, all travel restrictions and social distancing rules will be lifted!

Ties in nicely with the last person with coronavirus being symptom free for 48 hours, as of today, too.

Hope this doesn't sound too political but I am rather impressed by how my adopted country has dealt with this all. Now maybe I can get back to work, after an 11 week break!

 

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I was watching The Day Of The Jackal last night.  Not the Bruce Willis remake but the 1973 original.  I haven't seen it for years and so had forgotten that it was set ten years back, in 63.  Oh boy, did they need a traffic consultant!  It can't be that difficult to get cars right, can it?  The traffic was full of R12s and 16s and even Capris, none of which were even made in 1963.  I wonder if there's a new career here for me?

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1 hour ago, Jon said:

Had an announcement today from the NZ govt. that as of tonight, our last stage of lockdown will be over and, barring border controls, all travel restrictions and social distancing rules will be lifted!

Ties in nicely with the last person with coronavirus being symptom free for 48 hours, as of today, too.

Hope this doesn't sound too political but I am rather impressed by how my adopted country has dealt with this all. Now maybe I can get back to work, after an 11 week break!

 

How much of the economy requires students from the UK on a sabbatical? 

My friend's daughter and her boyfriend are somewhere out there, having been sacked from their jobs in a hotel.  They were due to stay til October.  

No point in them coming back to the UK as they both finished university a year ago and there won't be any jobs here. 

 

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2 hours ago, New POD said:

How much of the economy requires students from the UK on a sabbatical? 

My friend's daughter and her boyfriend are somewhere out there, having been sacked from their jobs in a hotel.  They were due to stay til October.  

No point in them coming back to the UK as they both finished university a year ago and there won't be any jobs here. 

 

We had friends from the UK come to stay with us for a week, as they were part way through a 10 month world trip. The day before heading off to tour the rest of the country, lockdown was announced, 2 days in advance of happening. So we told our friends to stay with us; their week long visit became 8 weeks!

They're on sabbatical and are applying to lengthen their visa but likely not by much and not for work purposes, just to stay here a while longer whilst they've no need to be in the uk with no job and no house (they were renting), living as cheaply as possible.

Frankly, I reckon there's enough residents here out of work to cover current positions but the NZ govt. has a budget to help stricken tourists and unemployed overseas workers, if they're running out of funds.

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3 hours ago, eddyramrod said:

I was watching The Day Of The Jackal last night.  Not the Bruce Willis remake but the 1973 original.  I haven't seen it for years and so had forgotten that it was set ten years back, in 63.  Oh boy, did they need a traffic consultant!  It can't be that difficult to get cars right, can it?  The traffic was full of R12s and 16s and even Capris, none of which were even made in 1963.  I wonder if there's a new career here for me?

You're doing the same thing that I do with period dramas and things like Poirot and Foyle's War.....

I once thought I spotted a Rover 200 in the background of one scene of The Wind That Shakes The Barley.

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4 hours ago, paulplom said:

There's websites and websites of computer generated schpiel like that, its quite interesting.

Basically some dude writes a program which pinches content off other websites, rewords it and rejigs it into random "lists" that match good search engine keywords. Once going it will just build its own website of more or less nonsense day by day, getting clicks on google and making him 0.05p per pageview in the adverts he shows.

After a few months a site will get too popular and end up blacklisted, but the guy already has another 100 of them on the go.

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4 hours ago, Tadhg Tiogar said:

You're doing the same thing that I do with period dramas and things like Poirot and Foyle's War.....

I once thought I spotted a Rover 200 in the background of one scene of The Wind That Shakes The Barley.

I watched a police drama set in the 60s , there was a wide shot of them leaving a police station with mini vans and morris minors outside and 2 whacking great security cameras over the door

 

a bit later they were having a conversation under a bridge with the thames in the background , literally 3 feet from them right inbetween their heads was another security camera

 

I turned it off then as it was doing my head in, just shoddy

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