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For the first time in 30 years I've left my shiv and knuckleduster at home.

Best of all the house has a garage with power.

We made it safely even with 2 hours on the M25. I cheered when I got on the M3 Fiat was fixed just in time. Volvo was faultless, might have pushed some oil out of the engine on the A303 but was having fun :twisted: I don't miss London even taking into account the trauma of moving! We were living in ...

Today we are leaving London for a new life in Somerset. A massive change and incredibly stressful. I drive a '67 Volvo 121 and our modern is an '07 Fiat Multipla unfortunately with the facelift, I prefer the bug eyed ones. The removal guys were in yesterday filling boxes so the missus took the fiat ...

I took the plunge last week and did the required gymnastics (I'm a big fella) to get under the dashboard and fix the fuel gauge. Turns out some b****** had attached the wrong wire to the gauge. Only took me 6 years to sort! I did look at new fiestas at the time of buying (shudder).

Hi all, just joined today. This is my 1967 Volvo 121. http://i821.photobucket.com/albums/zz131/toadoverload/WP_20160426_09_44_09_Pro_zps1vs9yxm9.jpg http://i821.photobucket.com/albums/zz131/toadoverload/Volvo/P1000103_zps4f890506.jpg http://i821.photobucket.com/albums/zz131/toadoverload/Volvo/P10003...

Fair point! I've had one call out in the last 2 years so can't offer an average.

Here's my '67 Amazon ran out of petrol broken down on the lovely A406

I'm with Footman James. I've just got their standard included breakdown cover. On average (in London) it's been about an 1hr 20mins from them taking my call to the truck coming out. They use Lantern Group but may be different across the country. Most of them just seem to want to recover the car but ...