Car (or bike) Chat!

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Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony

Just had insurance renewal notices for my FireBlade and my Vito van.

Bike premium gone from £150 for the year to £140.

Van insurance has gone from £531 last year to £852.

On last year's policy I paid extra for personal accident cover, which has now been removed. They say that the additional cost of this has been removed accordingly, but this just makes their taking-the-piss quote even worse!

They (Dialdirect) won't be getting my money now, on principle. Even if they come back with a reduced quote.

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Who did you use for the Blade Steve? Just insured my yamaha and expected it to go down a bit , stayed pretty much the same

I m fortunate i dont have to bother with car insurance now.. Buch of crims

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Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony

Van insurance has gone from £531 last year to £852.

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That's about what I paid for my sub 1000cc little Suzuki car.

Insurance is terribly pricey here. It's all the useless bloody drivers in the area that have endless accidents and the car thieves to blame.

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Originally Posted by Pieoftheday

Who did you use for the Blade Steve? Just insured my yamaha and expected it to go down a bit , stayed pretty much the same

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Hi James, that's with Bennetts. I won't be shopping around, I'm happy with that quote. Far cry from when i bought it 17 years ago, when it was about 800 quid, and uninsurable without alarm/immobiliser.

I suppose it all comes down to how often a particular model is nicked or crashed. Which in the case of Geoff's insurance is pretty much everything, as he lives in That London, where you can be the best driver in the world and still be at the mercy of all the knobheads.

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Originally Posted by struth

I m fortunate i dont have to bother with car insurance now.. Buch of crims

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Oi! Who you calling crims? And it's Butch, not Buch!

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Originally Posted by walpurgis

That's about what I paid for my sub 1000cc little Suzuki car.

Insurance is terribly pricey here. It's all the useless bloody drivers in the area that have endless accidents and the car thieves to blame.

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It's a shame that insurers base their quotes on post code instead of, well, I'm really not allowed to say. But if they were penalised with higher premiums they just wouldn't bother getting cover. And that's another way that law-abiding folk end up paying more.

rereading a good article re ford's old flathead rebooted.. great stuff


https://www.autoweek.com/news/a20574...just-wont-die/

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Originally Posted by struth

rereading a good article re ford's old flathead rebooted.. great stuff

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I expect it will only sell in smaller quantities. Demand is unlikely to be great, hotrodders may like it though. Other modern sidevalve designs exist, Gas Gas motorcycles developed a modern sidevalve trials bike engine, not sure how far that got to.

My brother had a Ford V8 Pilot in the sixties. Not his cup of tea these days :).

When was the last time you saw a Peerless GT, if ever? They were a small British firm from Slough and made some pretty cars, they raced at Le Mans. This is a 1959 2 litre. A rare sight now and they were never common.

https://i.ibb.co/wY54w1x/Screen-Shot...t-11-06-AM.png

never seen one. Cool car though.