breakdown truck

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TerryG
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Re: breakdown truck

#411 Post by TerryG »

I'm pretty sure you have posted that before. You do have a knack for finding strange things.
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.
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Re: breakdown truck

#412 Post by rich. »

have I? :lol: :lol: :lol:
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Re: breakdown truck

#413 Post by JPB »

TerryG wrote:SHOCK news, Triumph dollies are available in colours other than orange!
Yeah, most of the later ones are Gusset Brown just like the specimen in the link. Not as classy a brown as Sienna or Maple, terribly infra-dig don'tcha know! :lol:
rich. wrote:have I? :lol: :lol: :lol:
The answer is yes, now what was the question again? :P
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Re: breakdown truck

#414 Post by mach1rob »

JPB wrote:
TerryG wrote:SHOCK news, Triumph dollies are available in colours other than orange!
Yeah, most of the later ones are Gusset Brown just like the specimen in the link. Not as classy a brown as Sienna or Maple, terribly infra-dig don'tcha know! :lol:
That looks carmine red not brown to me, like a very dark orange :P
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Re: breakdown truck

#415 Post by JPB »

You're more than likely right, Rob. I have trouble with telling one from the other. Amazingly, none of the electrical work I've done on various cars over the years has resulted in death by burning. :oops: On the other hand, Carmine usually looks like this:

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Or like this one, with the usual front indicator issue:
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(How do so may people do that? It's actually harder to get them on that way)! :lol:
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Re: breakdown truck

#416 Post by mach1rob »

JPB wrote:
(How do so may people do that? It's actually harder to get them on that way)! :lol:
Perhaps it's a mirror image seeing as the Triumph badge is on the wrong side too :lol:
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#417 Post by JPB »

mach1rob wrote: Perhaps it's a mirror image seeing as the Triumph badge is on the wrong side too :lol:
What really scares me is that I had to think about the above words for a good three minutes! :oops: :lol:
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Re: breakdown truck

#418 Post by suffolkpete »

You may well laugh, that horribly mutilated example has been on before, no takers even in a country with quite a large Matra following.
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Re: breakdown truck

#419 Post by rich. »

no takers for the ferarri either?
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#420 Post by TerryG »

If the seller would accept the (checks pockets) £2.17 and a Tesco receipt for screen wash in exchange for his Ferrari, I would more than happily arrange transport for it ;)
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.
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