Tell us Something Really Trivial about your Life (VOL 30)

[DickyC]

V6Pushfit said:

Two less than the V6 Tuscan
Of which I have found 53 survivors.

Is 50% the recognised survival rate for TVRs?

[Pericoloso]

He's found 53, others could be in hiding.
Anyhoo,I have a possibility of 2 different "things" this weekend,go to 1,both,neither. ?

No idea
Can a responsible adult please make my mind up ,please.thank you.

[Dibble]

Pericoloso said:

He's found 53, others could be in hiding.
Anyhoo,I have a possibility of 2 different "things" this weekend,go to 1,both,neither. ?

No idea
Can a responsible adult please make my mind up ,please.thank you.

I’m not sure I qualify as responsible or adult, but give us a bit more info and I’ll have a look see.

Ideally, venue, style of “do”, male:female ratio, availability or booze/food, your friends or the OH’s, will you have to drive, will it cost you?

[Pericoloso]

No other half to nag me.
Both are free .
Both could involve breakfast .

I'm leaning towards Goodwood on Sunday TBH ,if I can stomach all the annoying kids and selfish stick holding car bloggers.
That's supposed to be selfie but I'm going to leave it as is.

[fatboy18]

Someone say 53

[Pericoloso]

I've just seen the spilling mystique .

We should adopt Tel in the same way as Battert.

[glenrobbo]

Bobberoo99 said:

Dibble said:

Bobberoo99 said:

I'm home, and we had Fajitas for tea!! MON!!!
I see the not posting is going well Peri!!
I reckon you could be right GOG440, glenrobbo is probably going to need a good scrub with a brillo pad to get that stuff off!!!

I know you can still get Brillo pads, but can you still get Vim/Ajax scouring powder in those paper canisters?

Good question, I shall task Mrs Bobbers with finding out tomorrow when she's shopping!!!

You can still get Vim & Ajax if you have the right connections in the underworld. ( I think Bomma still has a few liberated "Govt. Surplus" crates of the stuff in the hangar next to the huge stock of IZAL & Bronco bog rolls so beloved by itinerant musicians of days gone by. )
Sometimes even the bald ones always carry a comb.

Dibble, please don't worry about not being allowed a beer or two, because I can solemnly promise to drink your share on your behalf, as I have just become a granddad again...again!
Yes, Robbopops is proud to announce the arrival of the second new trainee TVR marshall within two weeks!
Big George arrived at roughly 14:09hrs on the dot on Friday 1st June.
He weighed in at a hefty 8lb 15 and a half oz.
A day early, which shows he is keen to get started.
Mother, Big Boy, Big Sister ( 2 & a half ) and proud Dad are all doing well.

Robbopops is pleased everything is good, and is sat in bed typing this with a 1/2 pint of iced gin & tonic with a slice as a cooling, calming nightcap.

Peri, whatever and wherever the venue of a classic car gathering, if you can get to it, then do so.

I am trying to get 90 TVRs to attend a Classic Show at Bywell in Northumbria on Sunday 1st July, but so far have only 56 confirmed. It's organised by the MG Northumbria Owners Club and there should be over 1000 Classics on display.

Check out the TVR S Series forum for details of our full 3-day programme.
Pushfit, Tuscans are more than welcome!


Tel? Is it Tel Aviv?

Edited by glenrobbo on Saturday 2nd June 00:39

[DickyC]

100% of the driver polled this morning is delivering a small Peugeot to Birmingham.

[glenrobbo]

That's an excellent bit of trivia to get the day off to a really trivial start, Dicky.

Will he be driving it?
It's not every day somebody gets the chance to drive a small Peugeot.


Oh, wait. It is every day....

[DickyC]

Pericoloso said:

I've just seen the spilling mystique .

We should adopt Tel in the same way as Battert.

Tel is Frank's mate. They met on an Away Day to the Transport Museum in York organised for veterans and survivors of the disastrous 1982 Trivwick Cheese Rolling Competition held for reasons long forgotten on Trivwick Flats, the floodplain of the River Triv between Trivwick and Trivingham. The going was soft. The AEC single decker Q-type bus used to transport the Trivton Magna team to the event sank without trace in what was wittily dubbed "The Car Park" and was never seen again. Tel and Frank have long sought backing for a Discovery, Recovery and Restoration Program for the bus whose name was Florrie.

[DickyC]

glenrobbo said:

That's an excellent bit of trivia to get the day off to a really trivial start, Dicky.

Will he be driving it?
It's not every day somebody gets the chance to drive a small Peugeot.


Oh, wait. It is every day....

No, it's on the truck. It was loaded last evening in an unprecedented outbreak of forethought and planning.

The driver plans to stop at Warwick Services for a coffee and a croissant and could be persuaded to post a picture.

[DickyC]

Right, must go.

[Bomma220]

A double granddad glenrobbo? Two in the space of what, a couple of weeks? Marvellous news, top work by all concerned.

I'm having lunch at the B&L today, Pulled Pork substitute in a baguette / pint jug of Absinthe (?) £9.99.

I'll raise a glass to you old boy

[Bomma220]

Thinking about it, we should get a team together and go over to the flood plain, see if we can recover that AEC bus.

It's a shame to leave it languishing there, it'd be a useful vehicle if we could get it running again. It'd be a step forward in the Village Terrorization programme, we could go mob handed instead of going round in twos and threes.

I'll see what suitable kit we've got lying around.

[anonymous-user]

DickyC said:

Is 50% the recognised survival rate for TVRs?

I think it will be somewhere around 75% as there will be stored etc cars, which is high for 48 years given many other cars of that era are sub 5%

[glenrobbo]

DickyC said:

No, it's on the truck. It was loaded last evening in an unprecedented outbreak of forethought and planning.

The driver plans to stop at Warwick Services for a coffee and a croissant and could be persuaded to post a picture.

I shall look forward to a picture of Warwick Services. Or do you mean a picture of a coffee and a cwassaunt?


Thanks Bomma, yes, two in a fortnight, just like buses.

And now to cap that, the news of Florrie!

I did hear of a Florrie who sank to low depths, but she wasn't an old bus!

[DickyC]

glenrobbo, congrats on team enlargement. Marvellous. I'm concerned about the car event though. Yesterday afternoon travelling in the opposite direction to me I saw a brace of Bullnose Morrisses - MG ancestors as you will be aware - and this morning an MG TC in the opposite direction on the M40. My point is none were heading to Northumberland! Should I give chase?

[DickyC]

glenrobbo said:

I shall look forward to a picture of Warwick Services. Or do you mean a picture of a coffee and a cwassaunt?

Too late!

[DickyC]

Eight men unknown to one another walked into the Gents at Warwick Services to stand in quiet contemplation at the urinal. Business concluded six left immediately. The chap next to me at the wash basins said, "Just the two old boys washing their hands then."
"Young lads have hygienic wipes in their cars."
"They don't, do they?"
"No."

[Bomma220]

I saw a yellow TVR Griffith, the original model, in Northumberland if that's any help? Parked up in the Fish Shack car park in Amble it was.

Probably a good forty miles from Bywell though. I suppose he might have just rocked up a bit early, make the most of the sunshine. Lovely weather up there at the mo.