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GHT, how do you suddenly have access to this Allegro swarf? Are you torturing Allegros with machine tools?

Penguin45 wrote:A certain air of "Mr Bridger".....

GHT, if you buy Mrs GHT something with no great smell, but which is sparkly, make sure you keep the receipt!

That scene from that film, wrote:John Bridger: [over the phone] I'm sending you something.
Stella Bridger: Does it smell nice?
John Bridger: No. But it's sparkly.
Stella Bridger: [sounding slightly angry] Does it have a receipt?

JPB wrote:GHT, how do you suddenly have access to this Allegro swarf? Are you torturing Allegros with machine tools?

Oh to torture that square steering wheel monstrosity.

JPB wrote:GHT, if you buy Mrs GHT something with no great smell,

I should be so lucky!

At that price, it had better get one really, really pished, 'cos even the best rum is cheaper than that foreign muck!
Mind you, I prefer the smell of the rum on my women.

GHT wrote:I should be so lucky!

Just for a split second, I thought GHT had bought Kylie.....

P45.

If money was no object, it would have to be Yaya Han. Who? She's a model.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Truly-unique- ... rmvSB=true

rich. wrote:http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Truly-unique- ... rmvSB=true

NURSE!!!

The bloke selling that is clearly totally off his head as would anybody purchasing such a heap Then again it would look far better on GHT's drive than the Nissan Joke that his other half now fancies

Actually, apart from the colour, I quite like that! But then, I am rather partial to Cortinas.
I can imagine trolling up to the average campsite in that, and the look of horror on people's faces!

Happy New Year to you all.

Tigdlo wrote:Actually, apart from the colour, I quite like that! But then, I am rather partial to Cortinas.
I can imagine trolling up to the average campsite in that, and the look of horror on people's faces!

Happy New Year to you all.

I liked the Starcraft. I loved it in fact, so I scrounged a hurl in one at a show some years ago and then, suddenly, in spite of its fine looks, superior wheel count and ridiculously easy - 2.3 Ghia spec - power steering, I stopped liking the idea. I'm sure that there must be some mechanically better sorted examples out there somewhere but the one I drove suffered from dreadful handling as the live axle would dictate its course through a bend, yet as soon as the corner became a little skitey the dead axle would load up and effectively lengthen the beast's wheelbase mid-bend! I don't think that I've ever driven another six wheeled device - unless you count two Reliant Rialtos in the same day? - so maybe any car with three axles is similarly random but I'd have had to redesign the dead axle to give the vehicle a touch of rear wheel steering and by then, the money would have gone into a nice JDM import HiAce van with a proper toilet, a shower and a decent cooker.

There was that Ambassador-based, six wheeled camper van in one of last year's PC mags, it was a clean sheet design and looked incredibly clever, but it had front wheel drive and two dead axles at the back. I wonder whether that arrangement is more or less stable than the Cortina with its "middle wheel drive"?


Rich, I found the car of your dreams, go on, you know you need one of these:



The point there being that if you must have six wheels, then the majority of them should be at the front. Possibly?