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Rich, it's the vehicle that set Toyota on their way to becoming the world's largest manufacturer of stuff. Everybody** likes a decent BJ and that one with the wooden bits added is giving me quite a thrill I don't mind admitting!

**OK, so maybe some folk need an MG instead..

JPB wrote: ↑

Sat Feb 25, 2017 9:48 pm

Rich, it's the vehicle that set Toyota on their way to becoming the world's largest manufacturer of stuff. Everybody** likes a decent BJ and that one with the wooden bits added is giving me quite a thrill I don't mind admitting!

**OK, so maybe some folk need an MG instead..

On the contrary, I like a decent BJ, that's one talent that the missus is really good at.

I don't need to read this sort of dross, so I'm leaving this site for good.
Goodbye!

Tigdlo wrote: ↑

Sun Feb 26, 2017 10:55 am

I don't need to read this sort of dross, so I'm leaving this site for good.
Goodbye!

Did I overstep the mark with that last remark?

Maybe she's angry about something else? We can't all like the same makes & models and some folk only like one particular car, so become quite vexed when people try to discuss others. Maybe the inability shown by some of us, always to have a camera at the ready while we're driving, is the issue? But more worryingly, maybe it's some sort of anti-Japanese sentiment that led the woman to get into a strop, and that's not healthy.


As she clearly didn't know what we were talking about, here's an image of a BJ 40, not seen by myself, but borrowed from the web to inform and illustrate:



Look at how original that one is, it even has its factory wheels with the little lumpy bits in the nave plates to accommodate its free wheeling hubs.
I'm sorry that it's not a 1970s Reliant - which, by the way, I also find fascinating - but hey-ho, such is life.

JPB wrote: ↑

Sun Feb 26, 2017 1:18 pm

Maybe she's angry about something else? We can't all like the same makes & models and some folk only like one particular car, so become quite vexed when people try to discuss others.

There's no point saying that I was referring to The Toyota, mine was a crude definition of the BJ acronym. It was meant as a joke, sometimes though, I forget that my humour isn't shared by others, even though I share the humour of most members liking BL & Vauxhall cars. Personally, I think that such appreciation for dross proves that their Mothers didn't love them, forcing them to run the gauntlet of shame among their peers, as they sit in such cars on the school run.

JPB wrote: ↑

Sun Feb 26, 2017 1:18 pm

Maybe the inability shown by some of us, always to have a camera at the ready while we're driving, is the issue? But more worryingly, maybe it's some sort of anti-Japanese sentiment that led the woman to get into a strop, and that's not healthy.


As she clearly didn't know what we were talking about, here's an image of a BJ 40, not seen by myself, but borrowed from the web to inform and illustrate:

Talking of shame, Toyota lack no such emotion, blatantly ripping off an icon.

Pretty sure it was a Lancia Fulvia on the M40 going south near J10 yesterday evening around 5:30pm .. competition stickers etc but road-legal. No pics as I was driving .. and the rain was pretty yuk!

Earlier that day, a model T on the back of a flatbed going north near J9.

And in the car park near the A30 & A35 Owners' Club committee meeting unsurprisingly an A35 and A30 van. Being wet they are normally kept tucked up in the warm and dry!

Oh and a Jag XK-R Supercharged!!

A few from the weekend:

That Carina looks mightily clean. Certainly brought a to my face. Only one MOT fail on its record and even that was just for a tyre being a little bald, which is one of these fails which shouldn't happen, like lamps not working for the want of a simple 50p replacement, or PW bottles being empty.

I saw an Austin A40 of the Mk1 Farina shape, which appeared very tidy in its Farina grey with the black roof, on a D road at 55:24.9722N 1:55.2595W this morning, but by the time I'd established the location and switched on the camera, the car was well away. Hey-ho, at least I know what to enter in my nav app if I want to go back there again!

That Toyota and that Hillman are lovely things. Cortina's not bad either.

@GHT: my late mother is directly responsible for my love of dross, she was very fond of old Datsuns and my Princess and was quite happy up to her elbows in grease and broken bits of car.