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Hello youngster ! Can we have free Duxford Picnic admission when we reach 80 ! Nick

A Bond Equipe needing TLC and only half a mile from me !

A Mayflower not in the best of shape, despite being seen at Whitewebbs Motor Museum:

"A salvage team from SMIT is en route to the retreive the abandoned M/V Felicity Ace, which continues to burn near the Azores. BERLIN/LISBON, Feb 18 (Reuters) – A ship carrying around 4,000 vehicles, including Porsches, Audis and Bentleys, that caught fire near the coast of the Azores will be towed to another European country or the Bahamas, the captain of the nearest port told Reuters on Friday. Lithium-ion batteries in the electric cars on board the vehicle carrier Felicity Ace have caught fire and the blaze requires specialist equipment to extinguish, captain Joao Mendes Cabecas of the port of Hortas said. It was not clear whether the batteries first sparked the fire."

Our TV aerial has been torn of the chimney and is hanging by it's coax on the roof.

.. I made the same mistake too !

No personal experience but I have read very mixed reviews on AT so I got my Strombergs refurbed at Leighton Buzzard Carburetter Exchange instead. They were cheaper too.

Run by Letchworth GC Classic & Vintage Car Club and always a great event !

Tesco Momentum for me. Used it in the GT6 even before E10 arrived and am now using it in all our cars both ancient and modern.

My old Morgan +8 certainly had a quirky front suspension. It still used the "Sliding Pillar" IFS designed by Morgan in 1910. This was lubricated on a total loss basis by oil from the engine sump. Every 200 miles or so the driver had to depress a foot switch/valve which allowed a shot of oil into the sliding pillars. Most of this oil ended up rust proofing the underside of the front wings.

There is a Tatra that appears at many of our local shows. Seen here at a classic car show at the Shuttleworth Collection, Old Warden:

Not sure if this one qualifies as "Quirky" but it attracted a fair bit of attention when I owned and drove it. Not only could you hear my Lotus 6 but you could also smell it as the sump was filled with Castrol R40 !

Thanks Colin ! Can you find my old Jupiter too, I believe that it is red now. Nick

I believe that Ed Nankivell was the Jupiter Registrar. I had his book but lent it to a colleague and never got it back. My Jupiter was mentioned in Ed's book and recorded as the last one registered long after the Jowett factory closed.

My Jowett Jupiter, flat four engine, the radiator at the rear of the block, column change, torsion bar suspension, tubular chassis, aluminium bodywork, built at Idle !

I worked for Ford Motor Company throughout the 1960's. I believe that it was common practice for manufacturers to strip down and fully analyse and cost the competitors vehicles. Not with any intention of copying the entire vehicle itself. Within Ford at that time we believed that the Mini was losing BMC £12 on each car sold.

Thanks for passing on the invite, Pete. It was great to get out and see some interesting and unusual cars. Luckily the Green was dry and mud free and the weather was warm and dry with just a little sporadic light showers on the way home. Nick

Socially distanced queuing outside the pub for burgers and drink !

There were a fair number of Triumphs at The Royal Oak, Barrington, classic car meet on New Year's Day

Happy New Year to all !

Pete's heart is in the right place but his fingers aren't. I think he meant 97 RON fuel ! ☺️

I finally got a refund of just £210 of the £280 VED I had paid under protest. I believe that the problem was caused by the DVLA recording my car as built in 1981 as well as first registered in 1981. I had to get them to change the build date to 1980 and then apply my request for change to Historic Vehicle tax status. Despite the error being theirs they did not backdate the refund payment.

After the second attempt at corresponding with DVLA Swansea with a Heritage Certificate to prove a 1980 build date, I have finally received a new V5 which now confirms the tax class as "Historic". Next problem is how to retrieve the £280 that I had to pay for VED when it should have been free.

Got mine on ebay https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/203584847407?hash=item2f669a3e2f:g:XPgAAOSw-CpX-11u

Thanks for the video Pete. What is he in real life - a butcher ? At least my mechanic has the proper tool for unscrewing and screwing up the steering rack end caps. I guess if all else fails we can resort to just tightening the caps a tad like our American friend and hoping that will do for the time being.