Tell us something really trivial about your life (Vol 28)
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Iva Barchetta said:
In the "more stuff you may like" on eBay,there's a Fiat 600 license 750 pickup Zastava.
Looks hilarious,coincidentally also in Port Talbot,different seller.
That is hilarious! I like that.Looks hilarious,coincidentally also in Port Talbot,different seller.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/FIAT-600-LICENSE-ZASTAVA...
Iva Barchetta said:
I don't seem able to read a description on the phone,has it been stamped on by an oik ?....body is awful.
Mileage ,only 45K though.
I wouldn't worry about the description on this one, yes it has body damage, the engine has been replaced with another one, but unfinished and doesn't run. Supposedly good interior and hood, but it's been up on those containers a while (I took that photograph about a year ago). Mileage ,only 45K though.
That look what other people are watching/you may also be interested in bit on ebay is very dangerous, look what it has come up with now.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Fiat-Vignale-600/2525145...
Jim AK said:
I read in the S
horpe Telegraph that one of the Red Arrows had to divert to Cardiff Airport due to a bird strike.
wonder if it was Penrose!!!
ETA. Swear filter don't like that place then!!
Shorpe Telegraph that one of the Red Arrows had to divert to Cardiff Airport due to a bird strike. wonder if it was Penrose!!!
ETA. Swear filter don't like that place then!!
Edited by Jim AK on Wednesday 31st August 18:26
horpe gets filtered but Penistone is ok?Ridiculous swear filters
Imagine the Motor Park in the Kazbah. Got it? Narrow, bustling, sharp corners, rammed with cars, many of which will never move again. It's in Reading. I drove the truck in forwards because I was dropping off and so could reverse out with no car on the back. "These are the wrong keys." Oh, bks. Before reversing out with the car still on the back, there was one possibility. The end business, the Morris Minor specialist, had a bit of space. Maybe I could execute a three point turn. Or a twenty seven point turn. As I drove carefully forward towards the Minor men a chap walked along with the truck and spoke to me through the cab window. "See my car? Two hundred quid. That's all it was. Just needs a clutch and a cam belt and it'll be good to go. Two hundred quid. Can you believe it?" The Minor men were packing up. This was odd as it was only just after lunch. I explained my dilemma. "Yeah. If we put those two away and find out who owns that one, you're good to go. Do you know what pisses me off about making a living from Morris Minors?" "Er, no." "Morris Minor wkers. A bloke booked his Minor in months ago, for a week's work, starting today. He rang up this morning and said he doesn't feel well and can't come. Known him for years. I said we'd go and get it. He said we wouldn't find it. I said we've got your address and postcode. He said you won't find it. We've got satnav in the truck and we've both got smart phones with GoogleMaps. He says we won't find it. Now we're packing up early. Morris Minor wkers. Fking sick of them. Suppose it makes us Morris Minor wkers too." We couldn't find who owned the other car and I reversed out. I was good to go.
ks. Before reversing out with the car still on the back, there was one possibility. The end business, the Morris Minor specialist, had a bit of space. Maybe I could execute a three point turn. Or a twenty seven point turn. As I drove carefully forward towards the Minor men a chap walked along with the truck and spoke to me through the cab window. "See my car? Two hundred quid. That's all it was. Just needs a clutch and a cam belt and it'll be good to go. Two hundred quid. Can you believe it?" The Minor men were packing up. This was odd as it was only just after lunch. I explained my dilemma. "Yeah. If we put those two away and find out who owns that one, you're good to go. Do you know what pisses me off about making a living from Morris Minors?" "Er, no." "Morris Minor wkers. A bloke booked his Minor in months ago, for a week's work, starting today. He rang up this morning and said he doesn't feel well and can't come. Known him for years. I said we'd go and get it. He said we wouldn't find it. I said we've got your address and postcode. He said you won't find it. We've got satnav in the truck and we've both got smart phones with GoogleMaps. He says we won't find it. Now we're packing up early. Morris Minor wkers. Fking sick of them. Suppose it makes us Morris Minor wkers too." We couldn't find who owned the other car and I reversed out. I was good to go.Yay, a new volume!
When you mentioned Morris Minor walkers, I thought this was going to progress into a rant about trendy hipsters now snapping up old Travellers and the like....
Another trivial fact here, this time from Phoenix: under State Law, it's illegal to photograph the majority of the cars in the Penske racing museum - even for private use.
Why, I hear you ask? Well, a lot of the cars in there are wearing Marlboro sponsorship, and the act of photographing them is considered to be advertising tobacco
Interestingly, all the cars in the museum and at the team HQ are maintained in perfect working condition but Mr Penske refuses to run them, even for a demo rather than an actual race, for fear of them being crashed.
When you mentioned Morris Minor walkers, I thought this was going to progress into a rant about trendy hipsters now snapping up old Travellers and the like....
Another trivial fact here, this time from Phoenix: under State Law, it's illegal to photograph the majority of the cars in the Penske racing museum - even for private use.
Why, I hear you ask? Well, a lot of the cars in there are wearing Marlboro sponsorship, and the act of photographing them is considered to be advertising tobacco
Interestingly, all the cars in the museum and at the team HQ are maintained in perfect working condition but Mr Penske refuses to run them, even for a demo rather than an actual race, for fear of them being crashed.
Bomma220 said:
We did try tethering him to an Ash tree in the paddock with a 20m length of 16mm anchor chain but that only landed us in trouble with the Parish council.
I didn't know there was a protection order on the tree, nor did I think he'd uproot it...
Expect the worst & IME he wont disappoint.I didn't know there was a protection order on the tree, nor did I think he'd uproot it...
F
g Pelican!Made the Heathrow dash ok, takes ages @60 mph.
DickyC said:
Won't they be suspicious?
In a slightly related story when my brother in law was in hospital earlier this year there was a bloke in the next bed who had been quite badly attacked, and had his hands bandaged up as he had deep knife woulds all over them he had also been hit on the head fairly hard which is why he was on a neurosurgical ward. He was fairly pleasant but obviously not the brightest. How thick he was was brought home when the police appeared on the ward one day to talk to him, the copper offered to go somewhere private but he refused so they just pulled the curtains around. The copper then gave him a formal caution for attempting to steal drugs from the medicine trolley (the nurses had caught him in the act twice!). 
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