What a glorious day!

What a glorious day!

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Ace-T

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7,721 posts

257 months

Sunday 14th January 2007
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Woke up this morning with sunshine streaming through the windows. Instantly awake, I looked at Judas who grinned at me; he knew we were both thinking the same thing! (No not that! hehe) Up, dressed and one very quick bacon sarnie later we were moving the barge and opening the garage. Greeted by a wonderfully fat arsed steed we set to work:
- foam protecting the garage opening mechanism - check
- board protecting the garage wall - check
- trickle feed removed and out of the way - check
- keys - check
- local children standing with their gobs open - check
It rumbled into life, not sounding too tractorish (excellent) and we began the critical and seemingly impossible stage of manoeuvering a large mass out of a small dimension.

Finally out into the open air, roof removed, chez nous secured, children awed, we are cleared for take off.

'Give it some mister!' was the last thing we heard, how could we refuse?

Up hill down dale, Belper, Wirkswirth, Matlock, Buxton, chips and a coffee at the Cat and Fiddle, Macclesfield, Leek, stopped for petrol, chatted with owner of stunning DB6 Vantage in a beautiful dark green who followed us out of Leek and was driving in a most wonderfully spirited manner thumbup

Hang a left at the B5053, straight on cross country to the 515, peeled off on the 512 to Cromford and the A6, up to Matlock and down the 615 to Alfreton then the A38 to Raceboy's, who wasn't in grumpy. Back home for tea and scones at 5 o'clock.

What a stunning car to drive. yes One of those days you remember for the rest of your life. cool

Ace-T

Balmoral Green

41,084 posts

250 months

Sunday 14th January 2007
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Ace-T said:
Belper
Didnt stop by chez BG then? still not seen it.

You could have shared a roast chicken dinner too.



Edited by Balmoral Green on Sunday 14th January 17:48

judas

5,997 posts

261 months

Sunday 14th January 2007
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Your name did get mentioned at the time, but we couldn't remember how to get you your place and didn't have your address to hand for the satnav paperbag

Anyhow, Raceboy has a pretty good reason for not getting out to see it - what's your excuse? drunk?

hehe

sportbilly

187 posts

214 months

Sunday 14th January 2007
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Sounds Great pal.The cars a beauty.

Ive got the day to play next Saturday 20th if ya fancy doing it again and I live in Belper!!!??

Theres a few of us with quickish cars who like an excuse to take the car out smokin

The 911 wont have been out of the garage for 2 weeks by then.eek

Work, work, work and an Astra Diesel van!

Anyone else up for a spin? Keep threatening to do the cat and Fiddle.

V8LM

5,179 posts

211 months

Sunday 14th January 2007
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Glorious day indeed. Pootled up and down the M1 and around Nottingham today - first time out in over a month. God I love my cars. Roll on Summer.

Polarbert

17,923 posts

233 months

Sunday 14th January 2007
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judas said:
what's your excuse? drunk?

hehe



rofl

Beemer-5

7,897 posts

216 months

Monday 15th January 2007
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You have to make use of the nice days in January!
I took the M3 CSL out, with a friend in his Lancer Evo 360 1X yesterday. The idea was to go to Newhaven and down to Ashbourne, then back to Alfreton, but 80 miles later we were still in Utoxeter!
The 3246cc screamer showed off it's wonderful voice to the residents of about 30 villages, not all were overly impressed!
OOOpps!



Edited by Beemer-5 on Monday 15th January 07:54

raceboy

13,151 posts

282 months

Monday 15th January 2007
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Ace-T said:
then the A38 to Raceboy's, who wasn't in grumpy.

Bugger
Sunday's I get transported round to my parents for a hot meal, made to eat veg and watch pap on TV until I cry to be taken home again. rotate
I know they are only trying to look after me in my crippled state though, but looks like I would have had more fun staying at home.
Begining to get a bit bored with the sofa and daytime TV now, but not a great deal I can do about it though, sorry I missed you guys.
Managed to get a picture of my new screws today.

Balmoral Green

41,084 posts

250 months

Monday 15th January 2007
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Looks like you screwed up bigtime

raceboy

13,151 posts

282 months

Monday 15th January 2007
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Balmoral Green said:
Looks like you screwed up bigtime

You could say that......
More worrying to me is they are the only screws I look like getting for a month or two. paperbag
I may as well get that screw pun in before anyone else does

Balmoral Green

41,084 posts

250 months

Monday 15th January 2007
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Could they only find the one washer when they were rummaging around in the box?

Polarbert

17,923 posts

233 months

Monday 15th January 2007
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Looks as if you've got a screw loose! hehe

Beemer-5

7,897 posts

216 months

Tuesday 16th January 2007
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Two washers surely?

Anyhow, what the heck did you do to yourself?

raceboy

13,151 posts

282 months

Tuesday 16th January 2007
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Beemer-5 said:
Anyhow, what the heck did you do to yourself?

Short answer is I fell off a push bike. paperbag

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