collection mission to SPAIN!!!! COMPLETED IT M8

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Don't know tbh,  boarding any minute though

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Flippin lucky find those tyres eh. Blimey I dodged a bullet there. Fair play to the Habileads, they don't vibrate and both their inner edges seem happy enough

[auntiemaryscanary]

1 hour ago, Mr_Bo11ox said:

Someone's been for an adventure in this cheery little thing

I do miss my Nippa 😞

[Mr_Bo11ox]

[fatharris]

We were at Emwalhalla car show

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[hairnet]

if youre peterboghorror then youll avoid the m25 closed bit 

theyre putting a bridge in in surrey - been talking a while

came across that the last time i was down there but was able to swerve it

[Vantman]

@Mr_Bo11ox We will attempt a cheery wave at Ashford from the footbridge just past Junction 10 of the M20!!

[fatharris]

if youre peterboghorror then youll avoid the m25 closed bit 
theyre putting a bridge in in surrey - been talking a while
came across that the last time i was down there but was able to swerve it

I'm hoping to take the A31 through Guildford and cut that lot out, fingers crossed!

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[hairnet]

1 minute ago, fatharris said:

I'm hoping to take the A31 through Guildford and cut that lot out, fingers crossed!

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south downs it and head for winchester

[egg]

I asked Gemini AI the following question: can you please write a short poem about a man driving a Simca 1100 from Spain to the UK?

Through Basque hills the Simca strains,
A Gallic sigh, a box on wheels.
A lone Brit at the wheel it reigns,
Chasing memories, sun-kissed fields.

The engine hums a steady song,
Miles tick by, the landscape flies.
The Pyrenees they lumber along,
A ribbon unwinds beneath blue skies.

French countryside, a blur of green,
Then darkness falls, the Simca dips.
Beneath the Channel, unseen,
The tunnel swallows them in its grips.

On English soil they burst anew,
A world transformed, yet strangely near.
The Simca sighs, its journey through,
A Spanish dream, forever clear.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

What!!!!!! That's fantastic. Chew on that John Betjeman!!!

[fatharris]

Can tell it's AI, has anyone ever heard a Simca engine hum?

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[High Jetter]

I'm more worried by the Pyrenees being on the move!

[jim89]

26 minutes ago, egg said:

I asked Gemini AI the following question: can you please write a short poem about a man driving a Simca 1100 from Spain to the UK?

Through Basque hills the Simca strains,
A Gallic sigh, a box on wheels.
A lone Brit at the wheel it reigns,
Chasing memories, sun-kissed fields.

The engine hums a steady song,
Miles tick by, the landscape flies.
The Pyrenees they lumber along,
A ribbon unwinds beneath blue skies.

French countryside, a blur of green,
Then darkness falls, the Simca dips.
Beneath the Channel, unseen,
The tunnel swallows them in its grips.

On English soil they burst anew,
A world transformed, yet strangely near.
The Simca sighs, its journey through,
A Spanish dream, forever clear.

A man with a Simca so keen,

From Spain to the UK was seen.

In sunny weather so fine,

He drove, feeling divine,

In his trusty 1100 machine.

 

(ShatGPT I hasten to add)

[wesacosa]

brilliant follow. Sounds like an epic 

Don't forget to pay your Dartford crossing charge in plenty of time in all the excitement of getting it home

 

 

[Vantman]

We have have just seen and waved to a brown Simca piloted by @Mr_Bo11ox at a good turn of speed heading west on the M20 at Ashford!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  Well done that man.

[Christine]

That's the road  that goes ...  gadung , gadung  gadung  gadung  for miles ! 

[sutty2006]

6 minutes ago, Vantman said:

We have have just seen and waved to a brown Simca piloted by @Mr_Bo11ox at a good turn of speed heading west on the M20 at Ashford!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  Well done that man.

I hope you took a photo, like them trucking photo folk, with the driver giving a “tang” as he passes by on the limiter. 🤣

[coachie]

1 hour ago, Mr_Bo11ox said:

Flippin lucky find those tyres eh. Blimey I dodged a bullet there. Fair play to the Habileads, they don't vibrate and both their inner edges seem happy enough

155x13 80 FTW.  They really are perfect for our modern day road surfaces. 

Good luck for your last leg home.  I am currently watching hailstones bounce off my cars outside at 45 degree angles.

  

[vinyljunky]

Boll went for the brown west of the Pyranees

Continentally planned to journey with ease

Rattling smartly along then the liquorice blew

He was up the creek on a hand powered canoe

Till he stumbled across a brace of pricey pneu

 

 

[sutty2006]

Surely he’s landed……. Or has it fallen to bits blues brothers style right outside his house!?

[tooSavvy]

4 minutes ago, sutty2006 said:

Surely he’s landed……. Or has it fallen to bits blues brothers style right outside his house!?

It's an episode of the "A [frame] Team"!

Anything could happen, It's "Mr T"(..err, .B)

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[egg]

Possible his phone is out of juice too, 12 hours on the road and lots of updates for us!

[Mr_Bo11ox]

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Last leg!!!!! Dear God man

[tooSavvy]

$63,000 Question....... 😯

What does SWMBO say when the 'biscuit tin rattler' rolls up....

We Really, REALLY Want to No 🤣🤣

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[Dyslexic Viking]

This is over far too quickly, can't someone kidnap him and the Simca and take them back to Spain so he has to start all over again?

[richbraith]

I'm now looking at an Audi 100 C3 in Madrid and thinking, hmmmmm....

Maybe one day.

 

[loserone]

12 minutes ago, tooSavvy said:

$63,000 Question....... 😯

What does SWMBO say when the 'biscuit tin rattler' rolls up....

We Really, REALLY Want to No 🤣🤣

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I get the feeling from comments of the book of faces that she is none too impressed.  Could be wrong!

[tooSavvy]

6 minutes ago, loserone said:

I get the feeling from comments of the book of faces that she is none too impressed.  Could be wrong!

Well..... No sense of occasion + who wants to be left standing in the [.. possibly Brand New] kitchen. 😕🤪

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