THE GUBBERMINT ALWAYS KNOWS BEST

[RoadworkUK]

Trouble is after such a good experience with mine, I just know that if I get another it'll probably be a bag of trouble. I'd love to try a HOT, though...

[Shep Shepherd]

A good friend has a 52-plate 9-5 LPT estate, which is really quite amazing (inaccurate fuel computer notwithstanding - getting stuck on the A34 at midnight two miles from the nearest petrol station when the 'DTE' is 10 miles isn't much fun), although it somehow doesn't have the 'personality' that a contemporary Volvo V70 has and is let down by the distressingly-fake wood-effect dashboard. His Dutch Shepherd Dog seems happy in the back, though

[cort16]

I've finally got the wing and bumper painted on my W124 and it looks great. I need to give it a good polish, get a years mot on it then finally sell it. The problem is it's just so damn handy,

[Guest]

 

I've been here almost a year, and haven't seen too many (any?) racing photo essays like this....

 

I've done a couple Norm - I photographed a day out at Curborough and when I went to Oulton Park in an old 944. If you could explain the various drag classes that would be awesome as well. Having backcombed the huge pile of Hot Rod magazines I can just about work out the FAST classes, but everything after that is a complete mystery.

[Guest]

Notch up another victory for the Scouse Team of Excellence. Beats standing by the photocopier, like a cunt.

This one has been in the post for a while if I'm honest. With Pete-M's help, I finally scrapped the white 480S I bought for spares back in January.

 

 

Great number plate on the lighting board there.

 

 

Being craned on to the Cargo of doom.

 

 

Laters.

 

Should I render the rest in HDR and post them on the VOC Forum? I think we all know the answer to that.

[Negative Creep]

Off to view some new shite later today. Owned by a little old lady who's given up driving. Certainly sounds very interesting.....

[nigel bickle]

Barkas passed its first MOT today (after my friendly local VOSA man suggested that 2 years on foreign plates might be extracting it)

 

[andrew e]

As this is the news thread:

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14295653

 

WOMAN BUYS VECTRA AND UNDERSTEERS OFF CLIFF

[Lankytim]

Repaired the Volvo's fuel pump relay at work today by re-soldering all the original joints. Works a treat now!

 

I was so impressed I used the special magnified component camera we have at work to capture all the red hot action.

 

Before.. (Note crack around the soldered joint, causing an intermittent FAIL)

 

After- WIN.

[TagoraSX]

I need to replace the 165 SR 14 tyres on my 100 as they were last changed in 1979!

 

Is 165/70/14 the correct one to go for?

[barefoot]

No, I think it's 185/70 X 14 to keep the same rolling radius.

 

because the 165's are 80% profile - 132 mm

& 185 X 70% - 129.5

 

much the same

[Shep Shepherd]

Just replaced TV2 manky old expansion tank with a lovely brand new one (a £25 genuine Volvo part!), which, if nothing else, will enable me to keep a more accurate check on the level and condition of its coolant:

 

 

Can you tell which one is which?

 

However, it makes the rest of the car's engine bay look pretty nasty in comparison:

 

 

Just as well that I'm not one for immaculate engine bays, isn't it?

[Guest]

TagoraSX, you need 165/80s.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Yeah, or you could go up a notch in width to 175's and down a notch in profile to 70 section

[ashmicro]

I had to go and see a client in Ballyclare today (sheep-shagger country town). Only 8 miles each way, lovely day for a drive in the countryside. On the way I spotted a Vauxhall Inshitnia with the bonnet up. I stopped to see if I could help. The driver was a chap in his mid-twenties in a Burton's suit, you know the type. He was SHITTING himself. This was a company car whose engine had let go in a big way, oil all over the engine bay and all over the inside of the bonnet. Poor sod couldn't get a signal on his mobile either. I let him use my phone, gave him a couple of rags out of the Rover's boot to clean his hands, and told him not to worry as I didn't reckon it was his fault. I've rarely seen anyone look so relieved!

[Cavcraft]

Fleet twinging ahoy!

Someone's coming to see the Clio on Sunday and I've (very reluctantly) decided the Cavalier might as well go. Crying shame but the veg-oil friendliness of the the poxy VAG estate I have means it's a more financially sound daily runner. If a certain internet auction site isn't totally full of f*cking morons then the Vespa will be off to a new home before too long then I'll list the Jag on there too I think.

 

That should hopefully narrow me down to the dialy, my lad's 106 and Fronterror and precious little else. HOWEVER...I'm off to see a camper van tomorrow and possibly a Peugeot 406 V6 too.

What could possibly go wrong?

[ashmicro]

Burton's, UK High Street retailer. Purveyors of the latest fashions which fall to bits quicker than an unpainted freighter.

[Justin Case]

Burton's suit?

 

Montague Burton, the Tailor of Taste. Sellers of formal clothing for gentlemen:

 

Montague Burton: The Tailor of Taste by russell_w_b, on Flickr

 

Slightly more upmarket than their deadly rivals, the Fifty Shilling Tailors (I believe that is about $4 at current exchange rates ):

 

THE FIFTY SHILLING TAILORS by old school paul, on Flickr

[barefoot]

Fifty Shillings - I feel that this has been inadequately explained

 

1 shilling = 5p

there were 20 of them to a pound

this was pre decimalization currency

 

so 50 shillings - £2.50

 

this is pre 1971 so a £1 was worth about $3.50

 

hope that helps

 

 

please thank me by posting me some grits

I've looked on the net but can understand only that you eat them with gravy

[myglaren]

 

I was of the understanding that one smothered grits in Maple Surple . If you want gravy though then that's your choice

[Cavcraft]

Clio has gone! Buyer was a mate of a thoroughly decent, awfully good bloody nice bloke from Retro-Rides. He was cool about the stupid RFL business too (which was handy) so I lobbed £20 off the asking price out of fairness.

[barrett]

Burton's suit?

Montague Burton, the Tailor of Taste. Sellers of formal clothing for gentlemen

 

And also the origin of the phrase 'The Full Monte'. Burton's supplied most of the de-mob suits after WW2 and chaps were incredibly proud of their new full (3-piece) suits!

[Rod/b]

A shilling was 12 old pence, 240 pence to the pound. Wasn't it?

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Burton's suit?

Montague Burton, the Tailor of Taste. Sellers of formal clothing for gentlemen

 

And also the origin of the phrase 'The Full Monte'. Burton's supplied most of the de-mob suits after WW2 and chaps were incredibly proud of their new full (3-piece) suits!

 

I never knew that! Very interesting.

[warren t claim]

Burton's suit?

Montague Burton, the Tailor of Taste. Sellers of formal clothing for gentlemen

 

And also the origin of the phrase 'The Full Monte'. Burton's supplied most of the de-mob suits after WW2 and chaps were incredibly proud of their new full (3-piece) suits!

I thought Burtons was famous for Their boss Randy Ralphs five times a night sexploits with the insatiable Fiona Wright? (Copyright N.O.T.W 1986)

[mk1_4dr]

A shilling was 12 old pence, 240 pence to the pound. Wasn't it?

 

I thought so.

 

And 5new pence is a 'bob' hence 50p being 'ten bob.'

 

Or is that a Yorkshire thing...?

[Rod/b]

I think a shilling= a bob. When decimilisation took effect the 5p was the same size coin as the old shilling, though, so maybe it came from there?

[barrett]

Jeez. I've never understood pre-decimalization monies and even after all this explanation I still have no fuggin' clue. Much as I like to think I could happily live in the 60s with no modern 'conveniences' I'm glad I do't have to deal with that lot every day!

[scaryoldcortina]

Yeah, bob=shilling. Not only was the new 5p the same size and shape as a shilling, pre-decimal coins remained legal tender up until the '90s size change for both 5p (shilling) and 10p (florin). 1/2p, 1p and 2p replaced halfpenny, penny and thruppeny bit, sixpence (2 1/2p) stayed legal until the '80s - I used to get them in my pocket money. 50p coin replaced the 10/- note (ten bob note), half crown (2/6) was phased out. 20p coin added later.

 

Farthings had already gone by 1971 (was 1/4d), and the reason for old pence being d not p is because we inhereted the pre-decimal system from imperial rome - Librae, Solidus, Denarii (the pound sign being a fancy L)

[Rod/b]

I don't really get it to be honest. Why there was such reluctance to adopt decimal currency and drag the UK into the 20th century is beyond me.

 

I don't have a clue how imperial weights work either.