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by GHT
Fri Dec 24, 2021 12:50 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: What would you buy & why?
Replies: 1106
Views: 1136195

Re: What would you buy & why?

They'd sold their lovely, low mileage Porsche Boxster and their daily driver, a 3 year old Civic Type R, to finance the new EV's purchase and the Honda had sold for a mere £100 less than it had cost when new! The Tesla is a very impressive appliance in many ways, not least in its crazy amount of gr...
by GHT
Wed Dec 22, 2021 11:24 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: breakdown truck
Replies: 3696
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Re: breakdown truck

The provenance of the second one must be worth something, if you know who Charles Trenet was. I do, and I expect GHT does, being a gentleman of similarly mature years. Charles qui? Charles Trenet, who died in 2001, aged 87, was the most influential popular French songwriter of the mid-20th century....
by GHT
Tue Dec 21, 2021 8:50 pm
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Topic: breakdown truck
Replies: 3696
Views: 723614

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https://www.leboncoin.fr/voitures/2079914181.htm I really want this one... https://www.leboncoin.fr/voitures/2084663751.htm The XJS is something of a cult classic. The E-Type was a hard act to follow, I never could admire the XJS' brutish appearance, but if they float your boat you can buy one quit...
by GHT
Sun Dec 19, 2021 1:12 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: breakdown truck
Replies: 3696
Views: 723614

Re: breakdown truck

Old Book Face won't let me see, not unless I sign up and give up my details. Tell you what though, does anyone know who makes these? Had one go by, couldn't catch the decal, he was flying!
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by GHT
Thu Dec 16, 2021 10:06 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: What would you buy & why?
Replies: 1106
Views: 1136195

Re: What would you buy & why?

Dick wrote:
Wed Dec 15, 2021 1:53 pm
How do you feel about the 2000 3.8 mustang convertible?? :drool:
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Seriously? You've not been on the magic mushrooms? You actually like it? There's no hope!
by GHT
Wed Dec 15, 2021 11:02 am
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: breakdown truck
Replies: 3696
Views: 723614

Re: breakdown truck

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Fab-u-lous, there's just one change I would make: The Skid Lid. https://silodrome.com/wp-content/upload ... pod_HR.jpg
by GHT
Mon Dec 13, 2021 9:08 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: breakdown truck
Replies: 3696
Views: 723614

Re: breakdown truck

Dick wrote:
Sun Dec 12, 2021 9:28 am
If its anything like the stuff on sale at the moment i will give it a miss :(
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You mean that is a boring clone of everything else? And there was me thinking that I'm the boring old fart that thinks it looks like everything else. there's hope for me yet!
by GHT
Sun Dec 12, 2021 7:29 am
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: breakdown truck
Replies: 3696
Views: 723614

Re: breakdown truck

SAIC or Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation or if you are fluent: 上海汽車集團股份有限公司 They have produced a concept MG sports car, that they claim is a worthy inheritor of the name: MG. mg1.jpg There's at least one motoring journalist that I can think of who will get so excited by this that he might ev...
by GHT
Sat Dec 04, 2021 11:34 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: What would you buy & why?
Replies: 1106
Views: 1136195

Re: What would you buy & why?

Sorry to be so darned picky, GHT, but SWMBO isn't an acronym.* It's an initialism. An acronym is an actual word ie "Fix or repair daily" (Ford) or "Lots of trouble, usually serious" (Sorry, Lotus, but I couldn't be arsed to make up anything original.) See you next Tuesday, :shock: J You are probabl...
by GHT
Sun Nov 28, 2021 10:18 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: breakdown truck
Replies: 3696
Views: 723614

Re: breakdown truck

That's fifty eight grand in British shekels. I know something else that sold for £58K.