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Chat Area => General Car Chat => Topic started by: Field Marshal Dr. Opti on 26 August 2018, 12:14:43
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It should be called Irish racing green.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XY0FfQB_DM (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XY0FfQB_DM)
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Thanks for that, dear Doctor - very interesting.
Ron.
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Yes interesting, thanks.
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I think the circuit involved may have been the Ards TT circuit ? If it was I lived 200 yards from it from the age of 12 to 19.
It was more or less a triangle of public roads from Newtownards to Comber to Dundonald (where I lived) and back to Ards.
I spent much of my yoof riding and falling off motorbikes around the circuit.
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I think the circuit involved may have been the Ards TT circuit ? If it was I lived 200 yards from it from the age of 12 to 19.
It was more or less a triangle of public roads from Newtownards to Comber to Dundonald (where I lived) and back to Ards.
I spent much of my yoof riding and falling off motorbikes around the circuit.
Had an unofficial blat around that in a group of kit cars a few years back now. Actually, quite a few. It was 2003, I think. My mate and dyed-in-the-wool petrol head, Johnty, who organised it, lived in Ards but passed away a couple of years back now. :'(
His final wishes were that nobody was to be held up behind the hearse during his final journey and the driver of said vehicle, who turned out to have done a bit of rallying in his past, duly obliged. :y
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A lovely story Kevin that could only happen in Ireland. :y
I always loved the twisty section from Comber to Dundonald, although I saw an old classmate die there after he and his Suzuki went right under an oncoming bus. :(
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The video evidence is still on YouTube, in fact: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4C4VmKgP_o (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4C4VmKgP_o)
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I will watch it with sentimental interest later when I get to work. :y
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I've always fancied a Lotus Super 7. It's like a four-wheeled motorcycle you can't fall off.......and no need for helmets. :y
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Our local doctor has a Caterham 7. He put it in a ditch a few years ago and took it to the local garage to be repaired.
When it was finished he went to collect it and mentioned to the garage owner owner that he was concerned the handling might not be as sharp as it had been.
The garage owner took him for a test drive along the local twisty B road to see if the handling was up to scratch. When they got back, the doctor sat in the passenger seat, unable to move or speak for several minutes, with no colour in his face.
The local garage owner is a former FF1600 british champion, drove for Lotus in F3 and has shown me his old race results where he regularly beat people like Jody Sheckter and Alan Jones. ;D
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The video evidence is still on YouTube, in fact: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4C4VmKgP_o (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4C4VmKgP_o)
Now that's what I call a funeral Kevin. :y That hearse driver wasn't hanging around. :o ;D
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The video evidence is still on YouTube, in fact: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4C4VmKgP_o (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4C4VmKgP_o)
Fantastic :y
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The video evidence is still on YouTube, in fact: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4C4VmKgP_o (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4C4VmKgP_o)
Now that's what I call a funeral Kevin. :y That hearse driver wasn't hanging around. :o ;D
Watch it every time Kevin posts it (well, I've certainly seen it before somewhere) - brings a tear to the eye every time.
Not sure what I'll do for mine.. procession of office wheeley chairs, maybe? ;D
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The video evidence is still on YouTube, in fact: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4C4VmKgP_o (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4C4VmKgP_o)
Now that's what I call a funeral Kevin. :y That hearse driver wasn't hanging around. :o ;D
Watch it every time Kevin posts it (well, I've certainly seen it before somewhere) - brings a tear to the eye every time.
Not sure what I'll do for mine.. procession of office wheeley chairs, maybe? ;D
Maybe you'll have finished the Cobra by then. ;)
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Maybe you'll have finished the Cobra by then. ;)
Maybe ;D The wiring is progressing.. what a faff that is - mostly bending over backward in the transmission tunnel staring at the bulkhead 3" from my face, installing cable tie bases ;D
But will we still be allowed to drive infernal combustion engine cars by then, I wonder?
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The video evidence is still on YouTube, in fact: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4C4VmKgP_o (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4C4VmKgP_o)
Now that's what I call a funeral Kevin. :y That hearse driver wasn't hanging around. :o ;D
Watch it every time Kevin posts it (well, I've certainly seen it before somewhere) - brings a tear to the eye every time.
Not sure what I'll do for mine.. procession of office wheeley chairs, maybe? ;D
Maybe you'll have finished the Cobra by then. ;)
Yes. You'd imagine that a young stud about town like Aaron would have pulled his finger out by now. :)
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I have told my family I don't want a funeral. Don't see the point of them tbh. Send my carcass to the crem, then do what they want with the ashes. Doesn't matter to me. :)
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I have told my family I don't want a funeral. Don't see the point of them tbh. Send my carcass to the crem, then do what they want with the ashes. Doesn't matter to me. :)
I imagine you'll be past caring. ;)
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Back in those days of course you didn't buy a Bentley[or other "posh" car]as such you bought the rolling chassis and had it shipped to your favoured coachbuilder to body it how you wanted.The style that most[all?] think of when thinking of the "blower"Bentleys etc was by Van den Plas and was in fact the cheapest of the coachbuilt body styles.
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I have told my family I don't want a funeral. Don't see the point of them tbh. Send my carcass to the crem, then do what they want with the ashes. Doesn't matter to me. :)
When my cousins wife passed her last wish was for her trip to the crem to be alone, no hubby or mourners.
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I have told my family I don't want a funeral. Don't see the point of them tbh. Send my carcass to the crem, then do what they want with the ashes. Doesn't matter to me. :)
Bloke I know's Dad left instructions for them to do the bare minimum legally allowed for his funeral and spend as little as possible. :)
I think they had to get the Funeral Directors to collect the body from the hospital as the hospital wouldn't let them take it. Him and his brother knocked up a plywood coffin and went to the Funeral Directors to get their Dad (very early in the morning at the request of the Funeral Director! ;D) and they took him to the crematorium in the back of his Volvo estate and they just left him there! ::)
They had a memorial do in a local pub though and I believe the ashes sat on the bar! :y
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Thread starts out as a brief history of a colour and next time you turn round we're talking funerals :o You've gotta just love this forum ;D :y :y
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Thread starts out as a brief history of a colour and next time you turn round we're talking funerals :o You've gotta just love this forum ;D :y :y
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