Barn Bragging - House of Heaps
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Lovecraft was a weird person with unpleasant views, but he was good at depicting nameless dread. The real expert at that, however, was M R James. Try "Oh whistle, and I'll come to you, my lad", "Number 13", or "The Treasure of Abbot Thomas".
I like a clever feature of the 1980s role playing game "Call of Cthulu". Each character engaged in paranormal investigations in foggy 1920s New England, armed only with a revolver, a torch, and the uncertain power of reason in the face of Eldritch abominations, starts the game with a certain level of sanity points. Each time that a character encounters one of the Old Ones or their minions or familiars, the character loses sanity points, and he or she will eventually, unless helped by a psychiatrist, end up in Arkham Asylum.
I like a clever feature of the 1980s role playing game "Call of Cthulu". Each character engaged in paranormal investigations in foggy 1920s New England, armed only with a revolver, a torch, and the uncertain power of reason in the face of Eldritch abominations, starts the game with a certain level of sanity points. Each time that a character encounters one of the Old Ones or their minions or familiars, the character loses sanity points, and he or she will eventually, unless helped by a psychiatrist, end up in Arkham Asylum.
Here it is.
https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?t=18...
In my opinion, a very good modern Grand Tourer, and just on the cusp of still being an oily, partly analog, mechanical car, albeit one heavily burdened by (and also benefiting from) computers.
XKs are now available cheap as chips for what they are. Some future classic potential (subject to large displacement petrol engines still being lawfully usable in a few decades hence) because designed to be beautiful and not just aerodynamic. Aluminium bodies. Build quality seems pretty good. Paint a bit thin and easy to scratch in the colour that mine is.
I am too old and slow to need an XKR - the bog standard XK five litre is plenty powerful and fast enough as far as I am concerned, and its fuel economy is not insanely terrible.
Fuel economy was, however, often thrown to the winds during the height of the lockdown, when I was lawfully shuttling between Oxfordshire and Norfolk on an almost weekly basis. All that I am saying is that the deserted A11 has long smooth stretches with no cameras, and at that time no or almost no traffic of any kind. That is all that I am saying.
PS: unlike an Interceptor, discussed nearby, an XK does not try to lift its front wheels when operated in the manner in which a 1970s Grand Tourer was intended to be operated.
PPS: The XK8 is maybe more trad Jag, but all of them are now oooooolld, and they are often rusty. The XK is I think quite a step ahead of the XK8, but the XK still looks and feels Jag.
PPPS: It won't out corner a 911 or an Evora, but why would you want it to?
https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?t=18...
In my opinion, a very good modern Grand Tourer, and just on the cusp of still being an oily, partly analog, mechanical car, albeit one heavily burdened by (and also benefiting from) computers.
XKs are now available cheap as chips for what they are. Some future classic potential (subject to large displacement petrol engines still being lawfully usable in a few decades hence) because designed to be beautiful and not just aerodynamic. Aluminium bodies. Build quality seems pretty good. Paint a bit thin and easy to scratch in the colour that mine is.
I am too old and slow to need an XKR - the bog standard XK five litre is plenty powerful and fast enough as far as I am concerned, and its fuel economy is not insanely terrible.
Fuel economy was, however, often thrown to the winds during the height of the lockdown, when I was lawfully shuttling between Oxfordshire and Norfolk on an almost weekly basis. All that I am saying is that the deserted A11 has long smooth stretches with no cameras, and at that time no or almost no traffic of any kind. That is all that I am saying.
PS: unlike an Interceptor, discussed nearby, an XK does not try to lift its front wheels when operated in the manner in which a 1970s Grand Tourer was intended to be operated.
PPS: The XK8 is maybe more trad Jag, but all of them are now oooooolld, and they are often rusty. The XK is I think quite a step ahead of the XK8, but the XK still looks and feels Jag.
PPPS: It won't out corner a 911 or an Evora, but why would you want it to?
citizensm1th said:
Breadvan72 said:
PS: Also, no Audis, because Audis are s.....
... slightly boring.
I have just had that very conversation with a work colleague who is thinking about buying a just as boring bmw 135.... slightly boring.
PS: Have you bought that Flavia Coupe yet? If not, DON'T, because I want to. I just need to scrape up some cash. I will flog you one of my rotters as a consolation prize if you like.
Edited by anonymous-user on Friday 18th September 17:41
I was not posh enough to live on Dovehouse Lane. I lived on Castle Lane, with the povs. We always said Sole lee HULL, and assumed that only the poshos said SOLeehull. It means "Mud Hill" anyway. We were at the Hobs Moat end of Castle Lane, near Lode Lane, but later we moved to the slightly posher Olton end of Castle Lane. Social mobility!
I have owned four Series 3 Land Rovers, dating from 1973 to 1983, and the chances are that I walked past each but the last one while it was in the factory yard awaiting consignment to a dealer when I was on my way to Elmdon Park to play football. There used to be row upon row of Landies lined up in the yard, in every colour and configuration available.
I used to have a West Midlands accent, but apparently I lost it somewhere on the road between Solihull and Oxford one day in early October 1981. It may have fallen out of the back window of a Princess laden with books and clothes, two proud parents, and a somewhat anxious soon to be nineteen year old, suffering with a case of Imposter Syndrome from which he has never quite recovered.
I have owned four Series 3 Land Rovers, dating from 1973 to 1983, and the chances are that I walked past each but the last one while it was in the factory yard awaiting consignment to a dealer when I was on my way to Elmdon Park to play football. There used to be row upon row of Landies lined up in the yard, in every colour and configuration available.
I used to have a West Midlands accent, but apparently I lost it somewhere on the road between Solihull and Oxford one day in early October 1981. It may have fallen out of the back window of a Princess laden with books and clothes, two proud parents, and a somewhat anxious soon to be nineteen year old, suffering with a case of Imposter Syndrome from which he has never quite recovered.
Jasper Carrott started his career at The Boggery, a folk music club in Solihull. I used to go there for under-aged drinking sessions circa 1979-80.
Lapworth has a lovely church, a good gastropub called The Boot, and an interesting and regularly used flight of canal locks. The road from Lapworth to Warwick is a great sportscar or motorbike road.
Lapworth has a lovely church, a good gastropub called The Boot, and an interesting and regularly used flight of canal locks. The road from Lapworth to Warwick is a great sportscar or motorbike road.
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