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..........didn't go through Paris then! The peripherique is always either totally standing still or belting along like a touring car race, and as for the roundabout around the arc'd'Triomphe....pick a big truck and follow it closely behind...it's worse than driving in Malta![/quote]
That big truck used to be me, my running buddy used to be climbing out if I drove round the Peripherique, as I took no prisoners, when in France and all that, yet he'd be like Miss Daisy trying to get round. The wife was so happy I chose to come home from Disneyland that way too. Well she did say she wanted to see the eyeful tower...
crossing a bridge near here yesterday i was over halfway across & the council workmen were working on the bridge when a tit on a motorbike came flying towards me. i was doing 15 kmh pulled over & let him through.. wish id made him back up now
Either someone started drinking REALLY early or the average IQ in this country has just dropped 25%
Understeer: when you hit the wall with the front of the car.
Oversteer: when you hit the wall with the back of the car.
Horsepower: how fast you hit the wall.
Torque: how far you take the wall with you.
It's just outside Southampton, enough said. Mind that bit where it's filmed, that dual carriageway is not very long, however, it is the main link to/from the M27!
What vehicle from the 1960's could acheive 86 MPH? Jaguars, MkII Zodiac, Aston Martins and how about a Midland Red BMMO CM5T Motorway coach that in 1959 was doing 100 MPH on a scheduled coach run from Birmingham to London and back every day. One of these actually topped 135 MPH on test and lapped MIRA at well over 100 MPH. Twin turbocharged 8.6 litre underfloor diesel engine and disc brakes all round. plus rubber suspension. BTW the T in CM5T didn't stand for turbocharged it actually stood for on board toilet fitted!
I did 86 in 1995 in a Capri 2.8 Special that went like stink!! Ex Manchester Police. D450 KVM. Then some scum bag stole it off a secure car park by cutting through the fence. He was seen and I had his name given to me by somebody who knew him. I told the local Police. There comment. "Keep away from him sir he's not a nice man. He could hurt you quite badly. If we see him driving it we will stop him. In the mean time here is a crime number!"
At least you got a crime number. They are so lazy around here that they don't even bother filing crime reports half the time.
Understeer: when you hit the wall with the front of the car.
Oversteer: when you hit the wall with the back of the car.
Horsepower: how fast you hit the wall.
Torque: how far you take the wall with you.
Phil P wrote:
I did 86 in 1995 in a Capri 2.8 Special that went like stink!! Ex Manchester Police. D450 KVM. Then some scum bag stole it off a secure car park by cutting through the fence. He was seen and I had his name given to me by somebody who knew him. I told the local Police. There comment. "Keep away from him sir he's not a nice man. He could hurt you quite badly. If we see him driving it we will stop him. In the mean time here is a crime number!"
I'm sorry but if that happened to me and they gave me that response, i'd be dealing with him myself and a sledgehammer to his kneecaps. My car is my pride and joy, and I work hard to pay for it. If some scumbag thinks he's got a chance of taking it then he better be prepared for the wrath.
As Walter Sobchack said "Whats mine is mine"
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Welshie wrote:.....if that happened to me and they gave me that response, i'd be dealing with him myself and a sledgehammer to his kneecaps. My car is my pride and joy, and I work hard to pay for it. If some scumbag thinks he's got a chance of taking it then he better be prepared for the wrath.
As Walter Sobchack said "Whats mine is mine"
Imagine that. Taking your values from a work of fiction that isn't the Qur'an!
Offa, for your dyke we thank you from the bottom of our hearts but why did you have to let the Daily Mail's delivery van cross? Grrrr.
rich. wrote:my bank are a bunch of twats,not only did they lose my salary for 2 weeks they just refused me a home improvement loan.....im still seething
Sadly mate, it's not just your bank. Did you know that a certain bank - naming no names but their origins lie in a hilly town in the West Riding and their staff can't sing - won't accept property as collateral unless you lodge your deeds with them and have kept a mortgage open at a minimum of 7% of [the building's] value? Now that is proper twattery!
J "Home is where you park it", so the saying goes. That may yet come true..
The peripherique is always either totally standing still or belting along like a touring car race, and as for the roundabout around the arc'd'Triomphe....pick a big truck and follow it closely behind...it's worse than driving in Malta![/quote]
