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  1. #6001
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    Quote Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony View Post
    traditionally MG cars had problems starting, not stopping, if my brother's old Midget is anything to go by. It was part of my morning routine: get up, have shit, eat breakfast, push MG down hill to get it started, get bus to work.
    Strange, BMC A Series engined cars were about the easiest to start. The only time I ever got stranded was when I ran out of petrol in my Morris Minor when I was a skint teenager.
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    Yeah, thinking back, it was probably just a knackered battery which he was too tight to replace. I wouldn't know, I had zero interest in cars. All my money went on records and beer.

    Customer of mine has one that looks like this. Never fails to start when he goes out for a run on sunny days or to enthusiasts' meets. Might be different if it had to get him to work every day.

    I just dropped in, to see what condition my condition was in

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    horror story cleaning spoked wheels
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    “Nothing discloses real character like the use of power. It is easy for the weak to be gentle. Most people can bear adversity. But if you wish to know what a man really is, give him power. This is the supreme test. It is the glory of Lincoln that, having almost absolute power, he never abused it, except on the side of mercy".

    “You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police ... yet in their hearts there is unspoken fear. They are afraid of words and thoughts: words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home -- all the more powerful because forbidden -- terrify them. A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic.”

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    You know, it would be easy for me to get quite jealous. Another customer has an Audi A8 (his daily commuter), in addition to a five-car garage which houses two vintage Bentleys (old enough to have running boards), a Rover P5, an "Inspector Morse" Jag, and my favourite, one of these:

    I just dropped in, to see what condition my condition was in

    T/T: Inspire Monarch, X200 tonearm, Ortofon Quintet Blue. Phono: Project Tube Box CD: Marantz CD6006 (UK Edition); Amp: Musical Fidelity A5 Integrated.
    Speakers: KEF Reference 3, REL T9i subwoofer. Cables: Atlas Equator interconnects, Atlas Hyper 3.0 speaker cables

    T'other system:
    Echo Dot, Arcam A75 integrated, Monitor Audio R852 MD speakers
    A/V:
    LG OLED65 G56LS, Panasonic Blu Ray, Sony a/v amp, MA Radius speakers, REL T9i sub.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony View Post
    You know, it would be easy for me to get quite jealous. Another customer has an Audi A8 (his daily commuter), in addition to a five-car garage which houses two vintage Bentleys (old enough to have running boards), a Rover P5, an "Inspector Morse" Jag, and my favourite, one of these:

    you wont be so jealous if you had to pay to fill the bugger up
    Regards,
    Grant .... ؠ ......Don't be such a big girl's blouse

    I've said it before and I'll say it again: democracy simply-doesn't-work
    .... ..... ...... ...... ................... ..... ..... ..... ..... .....
    FIIO K7 BT, M11 PLUS, BTR7, KA5 - OPPO BDP-103D - PANASONIC UB450 - PANASONIC 4K ULTRA HD TV - PIXEL 6 - AVANTREE LR BLUETOOTH - 2* X600 SOUNDCORE - HEADPHONES INCLUDE, FIIO, NURAPHONES', FOCAL, OPPO, BOSE, CAMBRIDGE, BOWER & WILKINS, DEVIALET, MARSHALL, SONY, MITCHELL & JOHNSTON - 2*ZBOOK'S- MERCURY BD ROM, ROON, QOBUZ, TIDAL, PLEX, CYBERLINK, JRIVER - MULTI HDD'S -

    Oh my god! There's nothing wrong with the bidet is there?

    “Nothing discloses real character like the use of power. It is easy for the weak to be gentle. Most people can bear adversity. But if you wish to know what a man really is, give him power. This is the supreme test. It is the glory of Lincoln that, having almost absolute power, he never abused it, except on the side of mercy".

    “You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police ... yet in their hearts there is unspoken fear. They are afraid of words and thoughts: words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home -- all the more powerful because forbidden -- terrify them. A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic.”

    "You don't have free will. You have the appearance of free will.”

    “There's a war out there, old friend. A world war. And it's not about who's got the most bullets. It's about who controls the information. What we see and hear, how we work, what we think... it's all about the information!”


    ***SMILE, BE HAPPY***

  6. #6006
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    dads last car was a jag xj6... had 2 fuel tanks plus an emergency... gas gobbler it was.

    looked like this and same colour

    Regards,
    Grant .... ؠ ......Don't be such a big girl's blouse

    I've said it before and I'll say it again: democracy simply-doesn't-work
    .... ..... ...... ...... ................... ..... ..... ..... ..... .....
    FIIO K7 BT, M11 PLUS, BTR7, KA5 - OPPO BDP-103D - PANASONIC UB450 - PANASONIC 4K ULTRA HD TV - PIXEL 6 - AVANTREE LR BLUETOOTH - 2* X600 SOUNDCORE - HEADPHONES INCLUDE, FIIO, NURAPHONES', FOCAL, OPPO, BOSE, CAMBRIDGE, BOWER & WILKINS, DEVIALET, MARSHALL, SONY, MITCHELL & JOHNSTON - 2*ZBOOK'S- MERCURY BD ROM, ROON, QOBUZ, TIDAL, PLEX, CYBERLINK, JRIVER - MULTI HDD'S -

    Oh my god! There's nothing wrong with the bidet is there?

    “Nothing discloses real character like the use of power. It is easy for the weak to be gentle. Most people can bear adversity. But if you wish to know what a man really is, give him power. This is the supreme test. It is the glory of Lincoln that, having almost absolute power, he never abused it, except on the side of mercy".

    “You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police ... yet in their hearts there is unspoken fear. They are afraid of words and thoughts: words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home -- all the more powerful because forbidden -- terrify them. A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic.”

    "You don't have free will. You have the appearance of free will.”

    “There's a war out there, old friend. A world war. And it's not about who's got the most bullets. It's about who controls the information. What we see and hear, how we work, what we think... it's all about the information!”


    ***SMILE, BE HAPPY***

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    Quote Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony View Post
    You know, it would be easy for me to get quite jealous. Another customer has an Audi A8 (his daily commuter), in addition to a five-car garage which houses two vintage Bentleys (old enough to have running boards), a Rover P5, an "Inspector Morse" Jag, and my favourite, one of these:

    My father used to drive Jaguars and Daimlers. They all had large engines and all had automatic transmission, so not very fuel economic. Fortunately he was able to write off the running costs as expenses.

    His last car was a Daimler 'Double Six' with 5.3 litre V12 engine. There was a display device which indicated fuel consumption in real time. Most of the time, on level ground, it read about 10 - 15mpg; downhill maybe 20mpg, but uphill it was down to single figures!
    Barry

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    Quote Originally Posted by struth View Post
    horror story cleaning spoked wheels
    Yes - my father had a Daimler (similar looking to the Inspector Morse car), dark blue in colour and with wire wheels. Looked lovely - it certainly turned heads.
    Barry

  9. #6009
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    Quote Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony View Post
    You know, it would be easy for me to get quite jealous. Another customer has an Audi A8 (his daily commuter), in addition to a five-car garage which houses two vintage Bentleys (old enough to have running boards), a Rover P5, an "Inspector Morse" Jag, and my favourite, one of these:

    Mk.IX was a bit of a lump, the later 420G was a bit better but not much (420G had the chrome strip down the sides), things got rather good when the XJ6 arrived.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony View Post
    Yeah, thinking back, it was probably just a knackered battery which he was too tight to replace. I wouldn't know, I had zero interest in cars. All my money went on records and beer.

    Customer of mine has one that looks like this. Never fails to start when he goes out for a run on sunny days or to enthusiasts' meets. Might be different if it had to get him to work every day.

    MG TF was pretty. Last of the T series before the MGA came along, both nice cars.
    It is impossible for anything digital to sound analogue, because it isn't analogue!

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