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Some nice cars and bikes there Dave (apart from that godawful Virago).  I drove one of those Sumbeam Rapiers back in the day, it was pretty quick thanks to the Holbay engine 👍

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  On 01/10/2023 at 16:25, boboneleg said:

Some nice cars and bikes there Dave (apart from that godawful Virago).  I drove one of those Sumbeam Rapiers back in the day, it was pretty quick thanks to the Holbay engine 👍

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I drove a Hunter GLS with the Holbay engine......bloody rapid car for it's day!

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  On 01/10/2023 at 16:25, boboneleg said:

Some nice cars and bikes there Dave (apart from that godawful Virago).  I drove one of those Sumbeam Rapiers back in the day, it was pretty quick thanks to the Holbay engine 👍

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Funnily enough I was thinking what an eyesore that Virago was.  Love the yellow Triumph and the V50. 

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  On 01/10/2023 at 15:49, Catteeclan said:

A few gems from the event today. Very small but looked to be a success.
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This was the star for me. So clean and very well restored. Was so taken by how good it was under the bonnet I forgot to take any more pics of it. 3ltr auto.

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Our next door neighbour had one of them old capris , was in the 1970's , he was a keen golfer, he would drive round the  alley where we used to play as kids  after golf as pissed as a fart... fuck knows how he got home with out hitting anything, one time he came home closely followed by the police and got nicked .

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  On 01/10/2023 at 18:13, Six30 said:

Our next door neighbour had one of them old capris , was in the 1970's , he was a keen golfer, he would drive round the  alley where we used to play as kids  after golf as pissed as a fart... fuck knows how he got home with out hitting anything, one time he came home closely followed by the police and got nicked .

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Steve McQueen did the same on a Benz 300SL during the filming of The Great Escape, being chased by cops into the film set. He must have been better than your neighbour, or more famous.

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  On 01/10/2023 at 16:25, boboneleg said:

 I drove one of those Sumbeam Rapiers back in the day, it was pretty quick thanks to the Holbay engine 👍

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Many years ago me and my older brother fitted a used auto gearbox to one and didn't quite get the torque convertor alined. 30 miles down the road the noise bearing and seal failed resulting in a long line of oil on the floor before it could go no further.

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  On 30/09/2023 at 08:58, Saul said:

We had Skoda Octavias as Doctors cars, now we have Kodiacs.  Bloody good cars.  Not without fault but our Octavias  were hammered and not really serviced properly.  Even so 10 cars over 5 years around 150000 miles each I think we only had 3 breakdowns and one burnt to the ground but that was user error.  

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I had an Octavia vRS TDI estate a number of years ago as my company car. The boot was huge and it went pretty well too! The only downside was that it didn't really like a lot of town work, so, when I'd been doing a bit of driving around London for a few days the DPF would clog and a couple of times wouldn't regenerate, so it had to go into the dealers to get sorted. Other than that it was a brilliant car. It went back to the lease company with 100k miles and still looked like new.

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Start prepping for a week w/o the missus....she's leaving Wed. for her hometown (Emmett ID) to sit with her 12y/o grand-daughter while her son & daughter-in-law pay a visit to Nashville TN. She's making me some of her kick-ass meatloaf for me to survive on while she's away.😋

Had to run off 7 deer this morning outta the backyard....keeps her dog from getting beat up by one again....gave that dog a concussion & a coupla staples in her head last time. That dog thinks she's 10ft. tall & bulletproof....she's a Chihuahua/Italian Greyhound mix & can run like a gazelle.🐎

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  On 02/10/2023 at 17:32, Catteeclan said:

Agree, mk1 escort colour, but I'd still have it.

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I have just looked on DVLA website, and the Capri (1.6 GT) is still on there!! 😲

Well sort of, last taxed in August........................1987 😂

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  On 02/10/2023 at 11:46, Catteeclan said:

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That yellow reminds me of my sisters Cortina 2.0L GT, it was a big car from what i remember and driving it resembled sailing. i changed all the void bushes on it for her but it didn't make much difference to the way it drove LOL
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  On 02/10/2023 at 17:53, Sir Fallsalot said:

That yellow reminds me of my sisters Cortina 2.0L GT, it was a big car from what i remember and driving it resembled sailing. i changed all the void bushes on it for her but it didn't make much difference to the way it drove LOL
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Once again I had a similar car, K reg too, but mine was white 👍 

 

White seems to be a recurring theme with me. 😂

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Fucking insurance company is at it again, tried to change the bikes over tonight, all that's different is the registration number and the value of the bike, they want £66 off me to do it i only paid £86 for the year and its a month old fucking twats i told them i'd phone back tomorrow once i processed it all and hopefully i'll get someone who i don't have to ask to repeat every question three times before i get the gist of what they are asking.

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  On 02/10/2023 at 17:53, Sir Fallsalot said:

That yellow reminds me of my sisters Cortina 2.0L GT, it was a big car from what i remember and driving it resembled sailing. i changed all the void bushes on it for her but it didn't make much difference to the way it drove LOL
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I had one in exactly the same colour Fred.  That looks like a GXL or Ghia, mine was just a lowly 1600L

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