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General Discussion Area / Re: What has P*ssed you off today?
« on: 06 September 2023, 13:33:01 »
Saw the other day they've shut the Argos shop on the trading estate near me and moved into the Sainsburys in town.
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General Car Chat / Re: Thirty minutes to kill so...
« on: 04 September 2023, 18:30:36 »
Dad ran Humber Supersnipes as company cars from the middle '50's to '67[apart from one month with a MkI Van den Plas 3 litre]and I had a '64 MkI Sceptre.Neither of us nor my siblings had a Marina :'(
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General Car Chat / Re: Thirty minutes to kill so...
« on: 04 September 2023, 07:47:31 »
What pictures 
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General Discussion Area / Re: Any saddos on overnight?
« on: 04 September 2023, 07:43:51 »
I tried it about 10 minutes ago and it came up "This site cannot be reached" but came back to it just now and all fine.
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General Car Chat / Re: The insanity of 'so called classic car' prices.
« on: 03 September 2023, 18:45:31 »
If they'd stuck a Ford badge on it it'd have fetched at least twice as much! The prices of practically any Ford these days is frankly stupid.Most were rubbish when new and I can't see them having improved with age.
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General Discussion Area / Re: Early parachute.
« on: 03 September 2023, 18:38:16 »
Once read a book about the bloke who was the test "dummy" for the Martin Baker ejector seat.To begin with they capped the tower that the seat shot up so it got to the top,stopped and then slowly came back to the bottom.Many tests were carried out in this manner until eventually they removed the cap.First test without the cap man and seat shot skyward and returned to earth on a parachute whereupon he suffered severe injuries[broken bones etc]because they'd forgotten to tell him that he was supposed to separate himself from the seat so each would come down on their own 'chutes so he'd come down still strapped in the seat and the one 'chute wasn't enough to slow things down enough before hitting the floor!
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General Discussion Area / Re: What has P*ssed you off today?
« on: 03 September 2023, 18:28:26 »
Yes TB it is an e-bay purchase. looked again this morning and the tracker is still showing nothing more than despatched.
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General Discussion Area / Re: What has P*ssed you off today?
« on: 02 September 2023, 12:50:57 »
Ordered rear springs for the V70 last Monday notified that they'd been despatched on Tuesday and according to tracker[they're coming by Hermes]they're still showing as despatched,not even to "in Transit" let alone out for delivery! Well they are coming from London 
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General Discussion Area / Re: Dead Person
« on: 02 September 2023, 12:45:13 »
Marylin Lovell wife of astronaut Jim Lovell[Apollo 13] aged 93 also for motorcycle race fans Paul Bird[BSB team owner and ex racer]aged 56.
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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« on: 27 August 2023, 11:01:59 »
Yes to undoing the damper from the trailing arm,however there is a nut under the trailing arm which holds the lower spring mounting and the "bolt" that this screws onto has a tendency to spin when undoing the nut Volvo in their wisdom gave this "bolt" a round flat head [rather like a rivet]making it hard to get a decent grip on especially as it's in the centre of the spring coils.