Car in field cat and fiddle

[james_gt3rs]

Well I probably will avoid buying an X reg grey Boxster..

[Pit Pony]

FazerBoy said:

Surely the answer is set fire to it and claim it was stolen this afternoon. Then it’s your (sorry - your friend’s) insurance company’s problem...






This advice is not to be taken seriously and is merely to try and cheer the OP up a bit!

5 years later, I'm sitting waiting at schipol for a delayed flight to Manchester, and read that. Everyone around me it wondering why I suddenly burst out laughing.

You've made my day.

[Pit Pony]

ITP said:

ToothbrushMan said:

bobtail4x4 said:

wasnt there a comment on here that "someone" was pouring diesel on the bends to cause accidents?

your ....kin joking?

This is true, happened many years ago, probably 15 or so, it was actually done to cause bikers to crash, which is even more sinister.

I used to go up there regularly, but it did start to get a bit daft with people coming from miles around at weekends to prove how fast they were on their new fireblade/R1 etc. Trouble is they be following some tatty old 400, or commuter bike and crash trying to keep up, unaware it was ridden by a local cat and fiddle expert....
The road used to get closed regularly, sometimes twice or three time a day at weekends for fools overestimating their talent, so it was inevitable that the authorities clamped down in the end with the average speed cameras. Ruined by a few for everyone else. Shame.

Years ago I used to comute daily from the Yorkshire Dales to Burnley in a non turbo AX 1.4D.

With GT wheels.
Occassionally on the downhill sections, I was held up by very inexperienced bikers, who didn't know how fast you could take the bends on the dry.

[Its Just Adz]

I collect cars from recovery agents for work and we go to a place in Buxton that rescues the smashed up remains from Cat & Fiddle.
We don't have get some interesting stuff!
Not had a Boxster yet though.

Edited by Its Just Adz on Thursday 18th April 20:39

[Hub]

Pit Pony said:

FazerBoy said:

Surely the answer is set fire to it and claim it was stolen this afternoon. Then it’s your (sorry - your friend’s) insurance company’s problem...






This advice is not to be taken seriously and is merely to try and cheer the OP up a bit!

5 years later, I'm sitting waiting at schipol for a delayed flight to Manchester, and read that. Everyone around me it wondering why I suddenly burst out laughing.

You've made my day.

That's some delay if you're up to threads from 5 years ago!

[Missy Charm]

Pit Pony said:

5 years later, I'm sitting waiting at schipol for a delayed flight to Manchester, and read that. Everyone around me it wondering why I suddenly burst out laughing.

You've made my day.

People in Amsterdam looking askance at someone because he spontaneously burst out laughing? Don't believe that for a second...

[clive_candy]

A thread worthy of resurrection and nice to see it's maintaining its high humour quotient.

[Baldchap]

They obviously got it sorted because it passed an MOT in February!

[Baldchap]

Missy Charm said:

Pit Pony said:

5 years later, I'm sitting waiting at schipol for a delayed flight to Manchester, and read that. Everyone around me it wondering why I suddenly burst out laughing.

You've made my day.

People in Amsterdam looking askance at someone because he spontaneously burst out laughing? Don't believe that for a second...

Might be rubber glove o'clock if you keep doing that!

[DonkeyApple]

Baldchap said:

They obviously got it sorted because it passed an MOT in February!

Or used a mobile MOT tester?