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General Car Chat / Re: Project anyone?
« on: Yesterday at 23:25:55 »
Can't be many of these left? 
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General Discussion Area / Re: What has P*ssed you off today?
« on: Yesterday at 23:18:57 »Omega was £415 to tax so that's gone up £20
Still .... at least the council will have that cash to fix all the bloody pot holes
car insurance renewal £100 too much (compared to other sites) so I'll have to waste my time arguing them down again
C'mon Dave you know that's not how it works.
Your twenty quid is more likely to go towards Mohammed's nice hotel than a pothole.
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General Discussion Area / Re: Rwanda
« on: Yesterday at 23:15:58 »
Because the British Govt are utterly spineless and don't want to upset the French.
Rishi should tell Micron that if they don't stop the boats from launching off the beaches, we will!
Rishi should tell Micron that if they don't stop the boats from launching off the beaches, we will!
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General Discussion Area / Re: Sticky for Jokes
« on: 26 April 2024, 10:54:26 »
My wife and I were watching Who Wants To Be A Millionaire while we were in bed...
I turned to her and said, 'Do you want to have Sex?'
'No,' she answered.
I then said, 'Is that your final answer?'
She didn't even look at me this time, simply saying, 'Yes..'
So I said, "Then I'd like to phone a friend."
And that's when the fight started...
I turned to her and said, 'Do you want to have Sex?'
'No,' she answered.
I then said, 'Is that your final answer?'
She didn't even look at me this time, simply saying, 'Yes..'
So I said, "Then I'd like to phone a friend."
And that's when the fight started...
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General Discussion Area / Re: SMETS2 smart meters
« on: 25 April 2024, 22:02:53 »Finally got around to agreeing to have the meters replaced. Both gas and electricity were over 20 years old so 10+ years overdue.....
Waited all afternoon on Monday - no show.
Rescheduled for this morning - British Gas installer arrived and got on with swapping the meters.
Electrical meter swapped first and left to establish communications while the gas meter was swapped.
Gas meter swapped. Waited. Waited a bit longer.
I now have two shiny new dumb meters
To be fair, Auckland is a fair way for the British Gas installer to go between jobs.
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General Car Chat / Re: Cadilac Catera 3.0 V6 is it worth to buy for fun or collection ?
« on: 23 April 2024, 20:49:53 »
Nice car and I love the badges! 
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General Car Chat / Re: Bavarian brawn
« on: 14 April 2024, 21:33:24 »Sorry Nick, Don’t think they were ever respectable 😁 on the other hand the Morris Marina …….🤣🤣
The woeful Marina was laughably seen as 'the future' when introduced in 1971......despite the antiquated engineering coming straight from the mid 1950's.
For a long time now I've had a hankering for a morris traveller with a V6, Vauxhall or jag as a bit of a runabout, would make an amusing sleeper.
My Mum had a Morris Minor with an engine from a Austin Healy Sprite and Dolomite Sprint running gear. At least that's what I think it had, but whatever it was definitely a sleeper. The only clue was the slightly fatter wheels.
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General Discussion Area / Re: Going to take a look with maybe a purchase.
« on: 12 April 2024, 21:48:32 »please go for a louvered rear window kit , just so 70s
Awesome!
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General Discussion Area / Re: Going to take a look with maybe a purchase.
« on: 12 April 2024, 20:15:57 »Agreed.This one is midnight blue with tan leather, I'm going to keep the colour the same but although the seats look in good nick I know of someone local who can refurb them completely, I'm going to keep them the same colour but will have the leather in the "diamond quilted" pattern that can be seen on most Bentleys.Keep them original, Mick.
^This!^
How original though?
Say, for example, you replace points and coil on a sixties classic for electronic ignition. Or modern tyres and brakes.
What Rangie describes sounds like an 'acceptable update' to me.
Just wanted a slight difference to make it more "personalised" to me, everything else exactly to as new condition, even my missus liked driving the Granadas at one point we had two she had a 3.0 GL & I had the 3.0 Ghia, the MK2 I had was only a 2.3LX in gay gold 👍
You go for it, its your car, purchased by you, for you, do to it what you want.
though Mick will have to get the fuzzy dice for hanging on the rear view mirror
Yes along with the green sunstrip with Kevin & Sharon on it for authenticity!
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General Discussion Area / Re: Gas & Leccy Bills
« on: 09 April 2024, 18:19:57 »
Who are you with Tunnie? 