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Delta's Twentea-Twentea Break
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Yippee! I hope....... welcome to 2020 everyone.
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Happy new year to all.
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Nearly forgot . Happy Birthday Max
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Didn't see them but have recorded them. Pat and I had a nice quiet meal at the pub, a particularly good game casserole, a bottle of wine, then back home for Jools Holland's hootenany. First new year at home for ages.
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Fireworks don’t really do it for me . Seen one show then they all look repetitive . That’s just me . Could have a few sparklers and build a new hospital for the money .
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Happy Birthday Max .
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Thank you all, but it's the 32nd of December here in Bromham so not.my birthday. Tomorrow is 2nd January, neatly bypassing the first, so I'm no older. I think I've found the secret of eternal youth!
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As to what to stop. The foreign aid budget could build a few hospitals and shut down HS2 and replace it with more funding for local integrated transport systems. But happy New Year anyway. |
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Think we should wait until tomorrow before we get back to the heavy stuff . In the meantime I am waiting for Gordon to post picture of him in the Sea . 😀
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Agreed Ian, although you both make valid points.
Happy New Year to all & Happy Birthday, Max. Clever little thread title, Peter! |
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Thanks John but actually it was John Elwin who provided the inspiration. I just typed it in.
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Following on from last year’s tea break natter about Capris, I had to dig out this photo of me showing off my my Capri 3000 GT XLR with it’s newly fitted wing still in transit primer mid rolling restoration in summer 1981 outside my parents house with their Mk3 Cortina estate behind.
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Wow! I had one of those in white, in 1980.
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Mine was originally metallic green, but I didn’t manage to finish the paintwork before I blew the engine and scrapped it.
I loved those wheels & tyres, they cost more than the car but they tram lined like hell and were useless in snow, which made it great fun. Back then you could just park anywhere Mike Last edited by Cliff Ryan; 1 Jan 2020 at 13:26. |
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The early 3 litre Capris I got to drive were fitted with 185/70x13 tyres from the factory, and they were bad enough! Also diabolically difficult to balance.....
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My friend had a 3.0 GXL & we came up with a plan to go through a set of rear tyres in a day. A pair of remoulds were duly purchased and deposited in black lines all over NW London - mission accomplished
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In 1980 I had a Volvo 145. That was my trusty tow car. happy days. Another story for Will about this car. I was working at Volvo and my manager let me fix up the car in the body shop. I had done all the welding and started getting ready for a respray. We were allowed one paint job a year FOC. That evening I was called away on a fire,. We were out all night and I came back into work in the morning and my mates in the paint shop had resprayed the car. Happy days. I loved the 80's.Life was simple back then. |
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At recommended pressures the tread on the 3000Es went concave so one ended up running mainly on the outer edges. Grip and tyre flex in the dry sort of provided a reasonable ride if one lived with the tram-lining as being "muscle". In the damp the worst thing one could do was threaten to move a shoe in the direction of the throttle pedal. The contact patch for each of the rear tyres was about the same as 2 road racing bicycle wheels. |
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