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  messerschmitt owner said:
sold an xm today - now what can I spend the money on?

 

Vauxhall Corsa automatic. Your missus will be so happy you'll be indulging in some red hot horizontal jogging action whenever you please. If she doesn't like it then you can cruise past Maccy D's all night wolf whistling at spotty birds instead. It's a win-win situation.

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If he had the Caymen he wouldn't have to worry about a hair transplant as it appears to me the majority of people who drive cars like that are baldy, middle-aged gangsta wannabes.

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  scaryoldcortina said:
  Team Blitz said:
Where's Dodi's statue?

 

lobby of Harrods, next to Diana.... dancing underneath an albatross ???

 

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why have maureen lipman and al jolson been included?

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I've seen those statues - they're macabre, and in my humble art-critic opinion, not very good.

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typical crap commissioned by an egyptian arms dealer then

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As nicked from pistonheads. Never crash with paint on your back seat...

 

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The car looks pretty shite though, What is it?

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I needed a back brake backing plate and handbrake shoe mounting kit for this e46 BMW I've got. Eurocarparts wanted £19.99 for the mounting kit but didn't do the back plate so I just got them both from the local main BMW dealer and was expecting a tiger bumming in the price department. It turns out mounting kit from was £12 and the back plate £12 and I didn't have to go up to Glasgow to get it or pay to have it delivered.

Quite chuffed really as it now means i can put it all back together again.

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Went with a mate to pick a van up today (a dangerously cheap vw T5) to Dorset. 250 miles each way.

 

We drove down in his volvo estate (this shit mitsubishi charisma type), and since the van we bought had a tow bar, we put the A frame in the boot and much to the sellers amusement used the van to tow the volvo home to save diesel :lol:

 

Did 38mpg on the way back. Van was GR8. Felt good to get in a fast small car after 500 miles driving big old buses all day!

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A while ago I wrote an article on the Top 10 Worst Aircraft of WW2 and sent it to Listverse. Completely forgot about it until I log on today and it's been published!

 

http://listverse.com/2011/04/04/top-10- ... rld-war-2/

 

Except I suddenly noticed some typos in it which has annoyed me no end.

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while hiding some ebay purchases from swmbo i found a suitcase in the loft full of 1950s, 60s and 70s newspaper clippings, mostly local news stories but including kray twins murder trial, charlie richardson torture trial, a faximile of 1909 west stanley pit disaster (168 minors died in an explosion caused by unsafe lamps), a gruesome local murder or three, great train robbery (and trial, escape and possible sightings of the escapees), apollo 13 'disaster', and alleged moon landings. plus all the incidental stuff like local court reports or driving offences and drunkeness and 100s of adverts for 2nd hand cars & motorbikes.

 

i have just spent almost 8 hours reading them all :D

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Forgive me if I'm wrong but wasn't there something to do with the Comet's fuel that meant if it came into contact with oil it would go boom? The germans had some great ideas.... but let themselves down at the final hurdle!

 

m0rris

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Oil, fuel, wood, skin.... Hydrazine Hydrate is nasty stuff. Also, seeing as the other tank was full of hydrogen peroxide, accidental mixing of the two fuel components was a big problem too.

 

NC, that was an excellent list, and a really good read! My only nit-pick is that .303 and 7.62mm are not the same calibre, 7.62mm is .308 ;)

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Finally, today turned out to have a better day than expected, whilst most of it is pretty insignificant in others eyes, it was nice to have some good stuff happen today, no matter how small or insignificant.

 

Had a cooker delivered today, a day earlier than expected, the blokes who fitted the cooker were smashing, a joy to talk to, the cooker looks great. At the garage I found myself driving an '01 Mercedes S600L V12, nice. Got the 820e fixed for nothing and treated it to some new sun-visors. Wonderful.

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Car insurance surprisingly. My 'usual' insurers have quoted me £118 fully comp on the Cortina (5,000 miles p/a ungaraged) which seemed very fair so I didn't arse about getting other quotes, aside from one of £120 which was TPFT.

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  Team Blitz said:
Finally got my Dan Gurney-signed 6-ft x 10-ft shop banner of the 1967 GT MkIV en route to victory at LeMans. Over the moon with it. That's Dan's scribble below the car...

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I Bought about thirty autographed F1 programmes from the 1960s and 70s for about £6 each - included Bruce Mclaren (2), Tom Pryce (x3), Graham Hill, Jackie Stewart, Francois Cevet (x2), Ronnie Petersen, etc. and Dan Gurney.

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Haven't heard this in years:

 

 

Taxi dispatcher takes it well

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Episode 1 series 1 of The Sweeney was on ITV4 earlier which cheered me up, loads of Bedford CAs and grim looking south London suburbs, lovely stuff! Made me think of this too:

 

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  RobT said:
Episode 1 series 1 of The Sweeney was on ITV4 earlier which cheered me up, loads of Bedford CAs and grim looking south London suburbs, lovely stuff!

 

By chance I watched that, didn’t realise it was the first one. It was great! Brian Blessed didn’t shout too much either, good to see ‘Dot Cotton’ in it too - always fun to spot the Eastenders/Bill/Casualty actors-to-be.

 

This morning, driving my Laurel (itself grinworthy) and seeing a Y-reg Rialto, H-reg Mini (both suffix plates, no prefix nonsense) and a minty Capri 2.8i. I look forward to the good weather bringing more old crocks out into regular use.

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Firstly, watching the young assistant jacking the 2CV up to check the rear suspension for the MOT. Runs out of lift and has to get more blocks of wood. Happens every year, but always makes me chuckle. Foolish I know. Then a swallow flew into the workshop - undercover for VOSA? Certainly kept an eye on things.

 

Then, I get my MOT pass. Chap says there's plenty of work for me to do, but not surprising given the fact it's covered 83,000 miles. "Er, that's its second time around the clock mate!" He grinned too.

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Nice one Dolly. I once had much amusement when the Herald was jacked up by the yoof memebr of staff at a tyre shop. He thought he'd broken the rear suspension!

 

I'm happy now 'cos I've lowered my car a little bit more (hears collective Autoshite groan) but for free with the original stiffer leaf springs than those that have been on it for the last year.

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We've got a 1970 Alfa GTV and a Daimler Dart due in work tomorrow. Had a mk2 RS2000 in today.

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Had another month added to my contract. Although to be honest I'm not celebrating that much, since they told another group they would be there until the summer then called them into the office to say "we've run out of work, you can either leave at lunchtime or at the end of the day"

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Just snagged this at a much lower price than anticipated.

Been wanting one (or at least the amp, rather than a tuner) for years and managed to miss any amount over the past couple of years.

Want to match it with my Sonab 75S turntable, bought in 1971 :) and bung in the dining room.

Be nice to add a pair of OA6 or )A8 speakers but that isn't too likely to happen.

 

Should really get a SAAB to go with them.

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Also, just seen at the top of my Gmail page - where the adds that I ignore live "You can make a lovely hat out of previously-used aluminium foil"

 

Do you think they are trying to tell be something? :)

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Being given 5 busted laptops, and making 3 working ones out of them. One of them is a 286/12 with a whopping 1MB RAM, and no hard drive - LAPTOPSHITE!

 

The 286 is also the same weight as a 6 cylinder Landcrab.

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I didn't think people still used DOS programs, crt monitors or trackball mice - until I started my current job

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