Tell us something really trivial about your life (Vol 27)
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DickyC said:
leglessAlex said:
Words cannot describe how much I want one of these. Sadly even if I could afford one they're manual only 
Oh, do come along. You're an injermanear. You could have the one and only automatic.Impasse said:
DickyC said:
leglessAlex said:
Words cannot describe how much I want one of these. Sadly even if I could afford one they're manual only
Oh, do come along. You're an injermanear. You could have the one and only automatic.From the Telegraph this morning about Hamilton starting - in principle - from 76th on the grid:
The restrictions on engines, limiting their use to just five a year, were designed to keep costs down. But all it has resulted in during this supposedly post-factual age are paradoxical statements such as: Hamilton could take a 75-place grid penalty but start 22nd.
Just five engines a year. I see.
Although not Formula 1, when I read stuff like this I remember the anecdote about John Wyer being spirited to Stuttgart to speak to the Porsche family about running their racing team. Wyer was overseeing the GT40 project at the time having taken Aston Martin to win the World Sportscar Championship in 1959.
Porsche: "In the 1959 season, how many cars do you think we had in the Porsche team?"
Wyer: "I don't know. Twenty four? Twenty five?"
Porsche: "Thirty one."
Wyer: "Ah."
Porsche: "How many did Aston Martin have?"
Wyer: "We had three cars and one spare engine. And we didn't use the spare engine."
Yes, I know they were different times. So much so, in fact, that when Wyer realised he had been spotted at Heathrow waiting for a plane to Germany he asked the journalist not to mention it. The journalist agreed and the meeting remained a secret. Like that would happen now.
The restrictions on engines, limiting their use to just five a year, were designed to keep costs down. But all it has resulted in during this supposedly post-factual age are paradoxical statements such as: Hamilton could take a 75-place grid penalty but start 22nd.
Just five engines a year. I see.
Although not Formula 1, when I read stuff like this I remember the anecdote about John Wyer being spirited to Stuttgart to speak to the Porsche family about running their racing team. Wyer was overseeing the GT40 project at the time having taken Aston Martin to win the World Sportscar Championship in 1959.
Porsche: "In the 1959 season, how many cars do you think we had in the Porsche team?"
Wyer: "I don't know. Twenty four? Twenty five?"
Porsche: "Thirty one."
Wyer: "Ah."
Porsche: "How many did Aston Martin have?"
Wyer: "We had three cars and one spare engine. And we didn't use the spare engine."
Yes, I know they were different times. So much so, in fact, that when Wyer realised he had been spotted at Heathrow waiting for a plane to Germany he asked the journalist not to mention it. The journalist agreed and the meeting remained a secret. Like that would happen now.
Am I the only one who has gone off F1 and Premier League football fir those reasons? Overpaid nannied participants when at club level it's done for next to nothing and just for the sport.
Anyway there y'all go. Into the more mentally demanding aspects - I'm lifting an engine this weekend, a V6 Essex as it 'appens. It's in the way and I'm using levers and blocks as there's no room for any 'overhead beam apparatus'
Anyway there y'all go. Into the more mentally demanding aspects - I'm lifting an engine this weekend, a V6 Essex as it 'appens. It's in the way and I'm using levers and blocks as there's no room for any 'overhead beam apparatus'
Morning all.
Penrose is down on the beach, think I'll leave him to it for an hour or so.
V6Pushfit said:
Anyway there y'all go. Into the more mentally demanding aspects - I'm lifting an engine this weekend, a V6 Essex as it 'appens. It's in the way and I'm using levers and blocks as there's no room for any 'overhead beam apparatus'
Marvellous stuff chap. I'm in Whitley Bay, will be going to Blyth soon so I'll see what the situation is with the lifting equipment there & send some laminated pic's as promised.Penrose is down on the beach, think I'll leave him to it for an hour or so.
Bomma220 said:
Penrose is down on the beach, think I'll leave him to it for an hour or so.
Noooooo he'll get the tag off and get up his antics with the locals. We can't have any more shenanigans he's on his last chance. Remember what happened last time when he was left to go to the Brighton Pier toilets on his own and the search party only found him by chance three days later with that 'Mans Man' dumper truck driver in a Hartlepool bedsit surrounded by empty Chardonnay bottles and pizza boxes. The Anusol costs alone ran into thousands after that sordid episode.PoleDriver said:
Carthage said:
I have bought a new (to me) car - but what do I do with the ex-car?
Insurance write off, 170k, French....I bought it back from the insurance for £50.
What on earth possessed you to buy it back?Insurance write off, 170k, French....I bought it back from the insurance for £50.
1.It still worked.
2. Only looks a bit dented here and there.
. And the mud hides that quite well.3. I needed transport so the herd didn't expire through lack of food.
4. I needed to car shop; not all of us have a 'fleet'.
g Pelican!!Iva Barchetta said:
There's a carnival this weekend.
Welcome to boarded up city.
What? seriously?Welcome to boarded up city.
Makes me appreciate living in a relatively small high income town. All we have is a few festivals half a mile from where i live, which mean that even with the windows shut ill hear some mild "thump thump thump" a few nights a year.
Vitorio said:
Iva Barchetta said:
There's a carnival this weekend.
Welcome to boarded up city.
What? seriously?Welcome to boarded up city.
Gardens are boarded to prevent use as a toilet.
Company has supplied 7 packs of 70 boards each of OSB to the local glazing people,in the last 2 days.
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