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The G Man

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  1. you mean deep fried mars bar surely That's a treat for them. I was just trying to say that the Scots are tighter than the hypothetical offspring of a Jewish and Hindu Indian couple! That'll be a Yorkshire man your thinking of stumpy (finger)
  2. Got one of these, http://www.supercars...&products_id=21 for a birthday pressy from my girls Still think that none of them will be a match for my Zed Booked for June
  3. you mean deep fried mars bar surely No, Morris Dancers, deep fried, oh I do like a deep fried Englander
  4. Does that include The Queen, Margaret Thatcher, David Jason, Nigel Lawson, Stuart Hall, Gary Glitter, Pete Townsend, or is the pensioner list selective Edt, no sure about that Glitter Dude though!
  5. You'll be hard pressed in a Zed to do more than 120 on a track, unless seriously modified. But I understand why you would want to have the restriction removed.
  6. Does that include The Queen, Margaret Thatcher, David Jason, Nigel Lawson, Stuart Hall, Gary Glitter, Pete Townsend, or is the pensioner list selective
  7. Wouldn't ride her into battle! Reasonable chanter though
  8. Italian Lakes are pure "honeymoon" territory, very sedate, can be as cheap or expensive as you like, 11/12 euros for unlimited ferry travel each per day can make for a very relaxing exploring holiday, lots of beautiful lakeside villages to explore and te Alps are not too far away if you get access to a hire car. Your wife will love it
  9. Many moons ago I was caught doing 99.6mph on a motorway, nearly empty, Sunday afternoon, dry and totally in a dwam! I got fined £600 and had 3 penalty points lumped on me. I considered myself lucky! You were unbelievably lucky!! That was in 1996 the day after England beat Scotland in Euro '96, so the date sticks in my mind. A few weeks later, a police car in Aberdeen mounted the kerb, speeding, on a non emergency call and killed two pensioners, the officer that was driving was fined £300 and got 6 points, he didn't even lose his job!! Moral is, speed can kill, but depending who does the killing or the speeding different outcomes are the norm. You got let off, on another day with another cop, you would have been done and had there been a fatality, you would certainly been sent to jail. Count yourself lucky, twice!
  10. Not at Twickenam this year, I'm working today so even watching is not on, set the tivo for all todays matches. Going to Murrayfield on the 09th March to see if we can beat the Welsh, today won't be the day to end our Calcutta Cup drought, but hopefully the signs will be there for a better showing throughout the 6 Nation Championship. A Welsh friend tells me there are only two things wrong with going to Murrayfield for the Scotland match, having to go through Engurland, twice
  11. Whoever it is, he's wearing ma boots!!!
  12. 1759 To be exact, just about to have my tatties, neeps and haggis
  13. The tax bands changing has had an effect on new 370's along with the 350 mostly on sale for the boom years, when the crash started and bit there weren't too many people in the market for a 3.7 V6. The fuel accelerator that Brown introduced didn't help. On the plus side, it's quite nice to have such a rare care, see a fair number of 350's but very few 370's, a combination of circumstances as I've said above has contributed to the 370's rarity
  14. Never seen the post re jackets, is there a link to a picture of them?
  15. You're more than welcome Will So that's you me and glrnet Moss was certainly one of, if not the best driver of all time, the range of cars and types of races he competed in makes him worthy of his knighthood
  16. Not really, but we will certainly be going through Rheims and Champagne country, then heading south onto the Route Napoleon N85 ASAP.
  17. No funnyfrogs allowed, but you can go :wink:
  18. Ok, maybe not this year for me, still planning my Cote D'azure trip in August I knew little of this classic race until last year when I watched a programme about the petrol head chef James Martin entering a classic car in this event, it was his long standing dream which for the most part, he realized, his car broke down in the end and he recorded a DNF. Shame really as it was a real personal, in terms of time and money, effort. Anyways, Patrick Stewart ( of Starship Enterprise fame), did a programme shown last night about Stirling Moss (he was some shagger!!), not all but a large chunk of the prog was filmed with the two of them tracing Moss's famous win of the race in 1955, in a classic Merc gullwing. Well, this got me a bit excited (not as much as Sir Stirling when he was with the ladies after a race, but close) and got me thinking about the actual route as a possible Euro road trip , next year. My usual road trip partner in crime has always wanted to travel to the heel of Italy. but I've always argued that it's too far, around a 4k mile round trip, we have done longer ones, but I wasn't enamored with the idea and didn't see it as a meandering type trip. But I may have come up with a compromise, take three overnighters and blast our way down to Brescia, perhaps longer depending on route and, do the Mille Miglia route at a leisurely pace, three or four three night stays along the route then a leisurely plod back to blighty This web site that I found http://www.losapos.com/mille_miglia, gives quite a detailed route for a starter plan, but we would obviously get into more detailed planning later this year. I may not be in a Z by then, equally GTish though, so would welcome comments from any knowledgeable people on places en route worth staying or visiting, that two geriatric, functioning alcoholics might enjoy , or if anyone is brave enough to join us.... Anyways have a look at the link .
  19. Spacers or not, mud guards or not, the sills still get chipped, maybe not to the same extent with as opposed to without. Aesthetically, my preference is with
  20. Worth the wait though :wink:
  21. Uprev will help to achieve the figures quoted above, easily on a motorway jaunt, even when you "forget" to check the speedo for small periods of time. Even without UpRev, the stock tuned return good mpg, as per Jays post. The most annoying thing is the low fuel warning light seems to be designed for the litigious American market whereby if you run out of fuel you can sue Nissan for $50million!! Coming back from JapFest last year,I had 375 miles on the trip computer when the light came on, at around the 430 mile mark, my bottle went and I fueled up, I could only get 67 ltr in her!!, so at least 13 ltr left in the tank. I had just had her UpRevved that weekend and was a big run, so it was quite impressive. Don't run on 95, 97 (Sainsbury) minimum but preferably 98 all the time.
  22. Me finks its a typo or wrong box ticked
  23. Wasn't Ferrybridge services was it? I filled up there last year and was so pi**ed off at the robbing c*nts, I left my card in the reader I was ranting so much
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