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Old 21 Jan 2019, 18:00 (Ref:3877563)   #901
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She was on Jeremy Vine today trying to sound like some kind of road safety expert. Pathetic. Desperate for her 15 minutes of fame.

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Old 21 Jan 2019, 18:08 (Ref:3877564)   #902
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She was driving an Eclipse or an Elise…
No, just a Ford Sierra. I was crossing a side road on my way home from collecting my Autosport from the newsagent (it was a long time ago!!) & she turned into the road on the wrong side, cutting the corner, which meant that we were each unsighted of the other.

When she came round she asked if I'd reported it to the Police. I said I hadn't as I would still be sitting in the road waiting for Pinky & Perky to turn up. She then introduced the friend who was with her - she was a WPC...
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Old 21 Jan 2019, 18:09 (Ref:3877565)   #903
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Just out of interest, has anyone on here who has had the misfortune to be involved in a RTC ever received a phone call from the other party, whether they were or were not to blame, to say that they were sorry that a collision had happened? Or, did you phone the other party to state regret that the collision happened?

Furthermore, did you either receive or send a bucket of flowers?

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The most i've ever done is phone a hospital to see if the bloke that ran into my truck was still alive, more out of concern for my licence than him, that was 30 years ago and I haven't heard anything since so I assume he was OK
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Old 21 Jan 2019, 18:17 (Ref:3877568)   #904
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I knocked a bloke of his push bike way back in 1969. I was on my Scooter. I did go and see him in hospital I was only 16. For some reason he was not very happy with me.
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Old 21 Jan 2019, 18:35 (Ref:3877571)   #905
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Going back to the Super Moon, I did laugh this morning when the beeb asked for photos to be sent in. One enterprising viewer sent a pic of a slice of chorizo on a black background....... Very realistic!
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Old 21 Jan 2019, 18:52 (Ref:3877572)   #906
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I knocked a bloke of his push bike way back in 1969. I was on my Scooter. I did go and see him in hospital I was only 16. For some reason he was not very happy with me.
Times have changed quite a bit since them in some cases ,and not so much in others.
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Old 21 Jan 2019, 20:01 (Ref:3877585)   #907
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I knocked a bloke of his push bike way back in 1969. I was on my Scooter.
A push bike and a scooter then… let me see… ha! you invented the Piaggio MP3. Many things have been invented by accident. Me for instance!
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Just done my Motorsport 2019 Calendar
50 Plus I'd like to go to hahaha.Getting a bit OTT now I think.
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Old 21 Jan 2019, 22:31 (Ref:3877604)   #909
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Old 22 Jan 2019, 06:32 (Ref:3877632)   #910
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Midget, may be you mean something like " If youth knew, if old age could"…
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Old 22 Jan 2019, 12:09 (Ref:3877675)   #911
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I guess the wind is blowing from the west… 'cose we now have 2 inches of white snow spread over Paris. Should be five centimeters, no…*Bob, any idea ?
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Old 22 Jan 2019, 12:15 (Ref:3877678)   #912
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I guess the wind is blowing from the west… 'cose we now have 2 inches of white snow spread over Paris. Should be five centimeters, no…*Bob, any idea ?
Similar here too, Gerard. Snowed for most of the morning but brightening up now. Just seen a BBC weather map that showed it moving away up north this afternoon.
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Old 22 Jan 2019, 12:17 (Ref:3877680)   #913
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I guess the wind is blowing from the west… 'cos we now have 2 inches of white snow spread over Paris. Should be five centimeters, no…
All these years I've been learning to think and work in metric- Km, Kmh, kilos grams etc...… And you're now using inches?
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Old 22 Jan 2019, 12:18 (Ref:3877682)   #914
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Old 22 Jan 2019, 13:18 (Ref:3877693)   #916
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Speaking of the snow, I understand Eurostar is delayed because of snow in France. If that was in the UK the Daily Mail/Express lobby would be foaming at the mouth about Britain's unpreparedness for snow......

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I recently answered a knock at the door to find a man standing outside who was exactly 39.4" tall.
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"I'm the metre man" he replied...
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See that, bauble, "our" Viva met the real GT 39.4! Ford interesting, is it?
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See that, bauble, "our" Viva met the real GT 39.4! Ford interesting, is it?

This gets me reminiscing about my yoof days, when I and chums would often drive to Heathrow Airport very late on a Saturday night/early hours of Sunday morning for a late night snack - Sunday being our only day off work, and having been working behind the bar until gone 11 p.m. or even later if I was at the restaurant.

Anyway, our route would be to take the North Circular to Chiswick, and then on to the M4 to the airport. The connection with this drive and the GT40 is that John Wyer's boys often took the race cars out for testing during these quiet hours in the night, and it was down to Chiswick and back to Slough on the M4 that they would drive with their right feet pushing the pedal to the metal as they roared past us.

Of course as far as driving was concerned, those were the good old days when speed on the motorways was unrestricted. Not that many of our road cars would do anything like even a ton. Unlike these days when some of our cars are restricted to 145/155 mph, but the maximum speed limit is 70!
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And of course there was the monthly Chequered Flag race to Bristol and Back.
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My former boss had a green road legal GT 40 he loved to use to visit some important Pioneer clients. Sometimes when the rains came, the car had to be towed because it was running on slick tires! I remember our private mechanic being rather angry sometimes with this kind of whim.

By the way, I totally ignored you need a PPL to work at the Heathrow restaurant…
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No they wouldn't , those fascist rags would be blaming the French!

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