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….I used to live in Camberwell ! 😃 I, remember, I was 14 and purchased a large framed pen and ink drawing (mono)/ portrait of the head, helmet, goggles and oxygen mask of a wartime pilot from an old junk ship in Peckham - name of the shop? Austin’s - remember them, Malcolm ? cost 2 shilling’s and sixpence (25p), as I compose this post it’s hanging up in my hallway !😲 anthony

….now that is spooky, Malcolm ! I too, flew from Biggin Hill, would be early 60’s ! visited airfield at week-end’s, the apron outside the flight office was alway’s surrounded by crowd’s, in the summer, gawping at all the frequent aircraft traffic movement’s. I flew an ageing de Havilland Chipmunk, tandem 2 seat, single engine ex-RAF trainer. I say flew, I twigged the reason why so many local flight’s were solo single pilot’s. the reason ? private / commercial pilot’s needing to maintain their annual flying hour’s to keep their licence’s ! circulate in the flight office watching for a pilot kitted out ready to leave to embark on their hired aircraft. ask them, politely, if I could join them for their flight - never declined ( alway’s free ).! de rigeur to wear the raf blue cloth skull cap with in-built headphone’s, would swagger out onto the apron, my comms lead trailing 😳 crowd’s gawping - felt like Biggle’s or a Spitfire pilot as I crossed the tarmac, climbed into the cockpit of the Chipmunk and taxied away ! 😂 🤣. oh happy day’s - an era long gone ! anthony

….from Scotland to Capetown flying, in my Blackbird, in a straight line would take me just less than 3 hour’s ! and you wonder why I just take my SR-17 up for a brief joy ride, occasionally, around The Scottish Border’s airspace burning c 40.000 lbs. per hour? how I love my Shell Fuel Card !😃😲 anthony

….alway’s good to hear classic car’s like your Triumph is being used, Malcolm - well done, you ! so many classic’s die simply through storage and lack of use. machinery does just not like remaining inactive. having said that my W123 has lain idle for nearly 3 year’s, now. no evidence of rodent residence and the interior is bone dry, thank heaven’s. 100 % confident she, him, her will start as soon as I turn the key. new Michelin’s, of course, look good and are the same pressure as they were at the start of storage ! …wow, Malcolm ! a Coventry Climax 8.9hp power plant in your Triumph Southern Cross, eh. going to be totally honest here, Malcolm, up against my Blackbird in a standing start - even if I gave you a handicap start at say, Capetown, and even if I agreed not enable the afterburner’s I might, I say might, struggle to catch you - much good luck to you Malcolm, if you accept the challenge. be a nice holiday for you and the family, though, Malcolm. happy to take you all for a spin in the Blackbird - but, sadly, only room for one at a time, sitting behind me - CIA could ask me for intelligence photo’s out there - Malcolm, tell me, would you feel competent and comfortable operating a Kodak Instamatic at 80.000 feet ? anthony .

….have pm’d our Wonderful and oh so Generous, Steve, with my address detail’s for The Unicorn of Torche’s - 🦄 The Lexus LS 400 Tool Kit Torch 🔦 🦄. I, sincerely, THANK YOU, again, Steve, for releasing your own beloved Lexus Torch to me, am absolutely thrilled and delighted !!😃😃😃😃. after a few mail exchange’s we came to a very amicable agreement whereby The Lexus Owner’s Club UK will pay me £1 gbp Sterling Cash for each View accrued, to be confirmed in writing I could be a millionaire, this time, next year ! gang ! get all your friend’s and family (even enemie’s) to search and view this site ! maybe, get some exercise and go up to complete stranger’s in the street and encourage them to search for this site - I will give you a cut, cash, of what I earn ! how generous is your Leader, trust me - like a chicken would Colonel Sander’s ?? 😲😲 😃😃 (one day we could take over the world ! 🫣)…..I may, even, sell my year 2000 Lexus LS 400 😲😲😲😲😲 anthony

…..please, I beg you all all to search YouTube: Danny and the Juniors - Rock’n roll is here to stay in mono, it’s a live show at the Odeon, Peckham, SE London… a 3.50 minute clip - that’s me, middle row, clapping along ! halcyon day’s enjoy anthony

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….unfortunately it’s a no from me, Malcolm ! bit of a sad old ‘git - no family now but I will have my BCF W123 to care for + of course , mean’t to mention this in the last post, the, now, withdrawn from USAF service in 1999, Lockheed Martin SR-71 ‘Blackbird’ Reconnaissance aircraft ! one of the last ( like my Lexus LS 400! ) fitted with dual P&W JT11D - 20K turbojet’s with afterburner’s creating 34.000 lbft . have had her up to 2.200 mph but I know she, him, other has more to give !😲 height ? last summer we ascended to 85.000 feet but, like the power she, him, her could climb even higher ! purpose built to take picture’s, this summer, plan to take snap’s of the WeCrushAnyCar scrap yard site - just for the memorie’s really 😃. not cheap to run, but hey, life is not a rehearsal, it’s only money, after all ! 😃 ( thought - do the landing light power washer’s work on The Blackbird ? will have to check them….😳 ). ….furthur to my last post - those Merc’s, BMW’s, A8’s and Jaag’s I listed are all, imminently, destined for The Crusher - none of them will return, ever - unlike my year 2000 Lexus LS 400 - she, him, other - will never die, to exist into the future aeon’s of time, eternity and infinity 😲😲 (….I’ll get my coat, then and leave, now…). anthony

….I hear you, Malcolm ! previously, my daily torpedo was an SL 500 (R129) - beautiful car (glass hardtop) but in fact, turned out to be a ‘money pit’ - alway’s making constant demand’s on my piece’s of plastic. not cheap when first purchased, the W123 was to be my Last and Final Car - I would be burie’d in her, him, other - which will be a little inconvenient as I am down for a cremation in a wicker basket ( how green am I - following a billion ton pollution footprint over 6 + decade’s !! ☹️ ). ….as previously released, I am 6’ 5” ( benefit ? I am alway’s the first to know when it rain’s ! 🤭 ). a lifetime of a range of MB’s, because they alway’s deliver…..legroom ! found my Lexus LS 400 on the east coast, north of Berwick, way out in The Wilderness, who would schlep out there to view a car ? the fascination was the X plate, had seen series 4’s with T,V and W reg’s but never an X ! it was ‘love at first sight’ - I wanted it - but did I need it - no, already had my BCF. sod it, will have 2 BCF’s - use one as ‘back up’ 😲! if I am honest, The Lexus is not ideal for me, that damn sunroof lower’s the headroom. the legroom is not as generous, for me, as an MB - but the overall Build Quality and Precision Engineering - is to die for, unique ! 😃👍 would I consider a similar age, even with low average mileage like mine, MB S-Class 420 (w140/220), BMW 7- serie’s 450, Audi A8 or a Jaguar XJ……would you ? no, neither would I - they are all now, at this age, ‘moneypit’s’ ! ☹️ 💷💷💷💷💷 Lexus ? in a League of it’s Own - even in the 21st Century grudgingly reaspected and regarded as the best quality and most reliable prestige brand in The World 🌍 !! truth be known Malcolm ? yes, I shall be sad to see her, him, other depart from my life - a bit like the film Brief Encounter (1945 with Trevor Howard and Celia Johnson)……I love her, him, other ♥️♥️ anthony

…..well, regular and so loyal reader, I have a feeling we are, finally, approaching The Final Curtain ! ☹️ (😃). for 10 day’s, now, you have all endured my, almost, ceaseless, targetted, devastating and withering ‘post barrage’ of over 6 post’s per day, this is number 68 ! 👨‍🚀👨‍🚀👨‍🚀😲😲. prepare to throw off your flak jacket’s, bin the helmet, stand down, relax and walk free into the Spring sunshine and fresh air ! you will be released from the confine’s of your armoured fortification’s where you have merely existed, cowering, pinned down from the continuing, blistering onslaught of incoming armour piercing and anti-personnel Post’s ! the war to sell my year 2000 Lexus LS 400 is, I believe, nearly over ! 🙄. I have noted, since studying The Lexus Owner’s Club UK, over the month’s that Malcolm will infrequently refer to his Triumph, a true classic within his personal collection. perhap’s, some of you may be thinking what will happen when I, finally, sell my year 2000 Lexus LS 400 ? what will I drive - I’m an old, but healthy and able, old ‘git, will I hang my clog’s up and cease driving altogether, maybe ? …..will I …….! well, dear reader, I do still own my original BCF ( Best Car Forever ) - before it’s crown was, abruptly, taken by The Lexus LS 400 ! for nearly 3 year’s this ‘back up’ car has been stored, under cover in an old stable block, on a farm less than 3 mile’s from my home location. the car ? a mint condition, Japan personal import (2016), 1985 Mercedes-Benz W123 230e auto+aircon saloon, showing just 74k mile’s from new ! classic white with blue cloth interior - and not a black box in sight !😃😃. once known as ‘the Berlin taxi’ over 2.9 million unit’s were made and considered, today, as the zenith of MB precision engineering and design ! now, 40 year’s old next year ( free road tax 😃😃 ) nearly all the northern hemisphere car’s have rusted away - such a rare sight on the road’s, even rarer on the show circuit. really, too good to daily but shall for a while then, reluctantly put her, him, other up for sale - time,then, for me to recommence a ‘post barrage’ on the MBOC site…..😲😲🙄! value? mmm dealer’s are asking £20k+ - private early/mid teen’s ? ….big thrill for me, last week. preparing to recommission the MB - decided, for the first time ever in my life, to change the Oil and Filter - so easy ! 😃 my local go-to engineer, Dougie, would be seriously naffed off if he knew - normally, I supply the Oil and Filter and he charge’s £25 to change them on his ramp !! (Scottish Border’s, see 😃 ). anthony

….Paul - you too are a magician ! your point about power headlight washer’s only working when switched on has caused this gentle giant to arise from his slumber’s and go out to The Car to investigate ! ignition on, compressor’s on, fuel pump’s on, gyro’s on, vhf on, nav on, run up turbofan to test afterburner’s ok, brake’s on, landing light’s on - press instrument panel key to operate power washer’s - green light on and there’s water sprayed all over the light’s and windscreen - Paul - they work, thank you for the head’s up !! 😃😃😃😃 belay what I stated in an earlier post - not three failing’s at 24.5 year’s and just south of 171.000 mile’s but…….two ! ( remember, this car could have accrued c 250.000 mile’s by now 😲 ! ). now I have a serious problem to consider - I have falsely accused and made a previous written statement that The Car has 3 failing’s at this age / mileage ! 😲😲 but, in truth, it is now only 2 !! Gordon Bennett - if The Car ever find’s out I lied about the headlamp washer’s - believe me, it will surely kill me - I am now a dead man walking😲😲. please, someone purchase this, pure evil, motor car - I am now absolutely terrified for my life - help me, please !! 😳😳😳🙄 anthony

….2.700+ View’s to date - but no one has picked up on the credit for the film ‘ Christine ‘ ! written by Stephen King in 1983 and not Steven Spielberg as I quoted. phew ! glad I got there first - you guy’s would have shredded me ! 😲 my bad - I apologise Stephen ( cheque in the post ). anthony

…..Steve - are you kidding me ? 😃😃😃😃😃 as Victor Meldrew would say ‘ I SIMPLY DO NOT BELIEVE IT ! ‘ (in a very, very nice way!). as rare as hen’s teeth - a Torch to complete my Lexus Toolkit collection !!! 🫠 including you, Steve, everybody is so nice and kind here, on the Lexus Owner’s Club Forum - just, another, wow ! coming back to you, Steve, again thank you so, so much !! 👍🔦👍🔦👍🔦👍🔦. ( this man, Steve, loyal reader’s, is a true Diamond Geezer+ ! ). anthony Malcolm - your view - worth upgrading Sale Price of my year 2000 LS 400 from £4.495 to £6.495 - could the market take it, though ? 🤔

….sad but true, readet’s…….x4 Lexus LS 400 Repair Manual’s NOW SOLD ! ! ! 😢 anthony

….Ken, you like Malcolm, are so kind ! thank you - glad you enjoyed your Final Chapter - perhap’s some other reader’s saw it too ? 🤔 again, thank you anthony

…..on- going, intermittent, discussion’s, Malcolm. promise to update as soon as payment transfer is imminent. anthony kind regard’s anthony

….good day / evening to you, my regular and so loyal reader’s and follower’s ! following a very kind recent post from our esteemed Gold Member / Supporter, Ken R I should like to quote his concluding sentence to me, to you (chuckle brother’s ? 🙄🤭) : ..’good luck Anthony and I look forward to the next chapter’. the fact was - my last ‘Christine’ post ( last Tuesday at 9.35pm ), I had decided, was to be my last chapter ☹️ - the pending flagellation of my, dreadful, year 2000 Lexus LS 400 clearly the prelude to her / him / other’s demise at the local scrapyard ! well, by popular demand, from Ken R, I shall now conclude the story - The Very Last Chapter !! - Ken, this final chapter has been written just for you - enjoy ! 😃 …calm now, before I start I feel duty bound to answer a question some, not many, of you will be asking - who the hell is Christine ? 😳. well, if you are a petrolhead and / or an avgas fuelhead, like me, the movie is a ‘must see’ and shame on you if not yet seen ! 🙄. written by the legendary sci-fi author, Stephen Spielberg, the mild horror / black comedy (1983) film tell’s the story of junk car renovated to mint condition then destroyed by 4 vandals then, the car called Christine by it’s teen nerdy owner, proceed’s to, driverless, murder all 4 vandal’s, continuously regenerating itself ( v spooky 😲). ( factoid: 18 - 23 Plymouth car’s were destroyed in the making of the film - but no animal’s 🫠 ! ). infrequently on TV but can be viewed on alternative media - I beg you to watch it - in the same league as The Italian Job, British not US version (!), (1969) etc.… ….my hateful year 2000 Lexus LS 400 remained parked outside my home. as previously promised I wrenched off a long, strong branch off a nearby ash tree and proceeded to take my wrath out of the wretched car by giving it a damn good thrashing ( just like my tall counterpart, 6’5”, actor, John Cleese in Fawlty Tower’s ). within a few minute’s the whole high gloss paintwork was marred, scarred, scratched that only a total respray would recover ! did I care ? - did I …..! me and The Lexus were done ! following the very intense corporal punishment I called my local WeCrushAnyCar.com centre to collect the now sorry looking vehicle- the collection completed promptly. keen to witness the death of my Lexus I called Norman, the yard Manager, who willingly agreed I could attend The Execution the next day. arrived on site to see The Lexus being lifted up by a claw grip then rotated around to be then dropped, unceremoniously, and deliberatlly into the welcoming arm’s of the vehicle crusher - your going to die now, your just reward for being such a crap car with 3 failing’s after nearly 24 year’s, I thought. 😲 ! the crusher closed itself around my Lexus LS 400, like a boa constrictor , crushing the life out of her /him / other ! after a few minute’s of scream’s my car came to a painful but deserved death. a single bale of scrap metal was ejected onto the muddy ground. I walked over to idly look down on the remnants of my car - finally, it’s over, I am free of this once pale imitation of a proper prestige car ! as I turned away to return home I almost imagined I could hear the very, very faint strain’s of ‘rock’n roll is here to stay’ by Danny and The Junior’s emanating from deep inside the bale - silly, I thought, how could that be - impossible ! I shrugged and kept on walking. no more than 6 hour’s later my mobile trilled, it was Norman, site manager. Norman was hysterical and almost incoherent on the phone - finally, I managed to piece together his delirious message and demand’s ! Norman explained it had taken awhile to pick up the lone bale of Lexus scrap. watching from his office window he noted the fork lift approach to lift the bale - then the impossible happened !😲😲😲. he witnessed, in horror, as The Bale commenced to totally reincarnate and transform itself and return to it’s original Lexus LS 400 form, but looked so much better! utterly terrified, Norman,demanded I return immediately and drive the evil , possessed, satanic car off his site - he never wanted to see it again ! having duly collected my car - I was so impressed. it felt better, drove better and performed better than ever before. the paintwork was so high gloss shiny, never so good as when I previously owned it . what a happy ending !! 😃😃😃 now back on sale at £4.495 - the car is absolutely stunning to survey ! ! ….buy the car, imagine your ‘special’ year 2000 Lexus LS400 suffer’s a supermarket ding or a rear shunt or a T-bone impact !😲😲, any body damage whatsoever - do not panic, like everyone else, just relax go and have a cuppa - return to find your car absolutely, as new at no cost at all ! unique and miraculous ! THE END 😃 anthony

….my 60th post and 2.300+ View’s to date ! to thank you all for your continuing support and repeat visit’s I am going to make you an, exclusive, one off offer by releasing to you the advanced detail of an extremely rare ( I believe ) item destined for our ‘The Buy and Sell Accessorie’s Forum’ ! 🤔🤔🤔🤫🤫🤫. Malcolm, yes, I have recently received a provisional interested party - early day’s but will keep you all in the loop ! ….the exclusive, one off offer to you, dear reader, is a set of 4 Lexus, year 2000, LS 400 Repair Manual’s published by The Overseas Service Division of The Toyota Motor Corporation ( in the USA ). apparently now no longer available from the supplier I imported these directly at considerable expense awhile ago. these tomes remain unused, unopened and sealed in their original shrink wrap ! ….you really, really have to love, indeed adore, your Lexus ( in this case The LS 400 ) to invest in these 4 comprehensive technical bible’s ! copy for the forthcoming ad is currently under construction but I am delighted, to release to you all, the associated photo’s that will follow the ad !… I shall return 😳🙄😲☹️ anthony

….apologie’s for slight delay in responding - my Lexus LS 400 was working today collecting and returning home 6 ladie’s ( not all at once 😲! ) from a social centre c 20 miles’s from my home location ! Ken, thank you for your kind note and following the so kind post from Malcolm, 19 hour’s ago, was going to throw a cloak over the continuing storyline and assume the Christine adventure as concluded. ☹️. am rethinking, now 😲. however, being a dutiful Member, albeit a humble Contributor, of The Lexus Owner’s Club UK, I felt duty bound to respond to another honourable Member’s post ! would be good to keep The Car in Scotland, I agree with you Ken. she / him / other has become used to free parking, no rush hour’s, low volume traffic flow’s, no gridlock’s, few if any ANPR vehicle’s and low labour cost’s ( excluding the Big 5 Citie’s ) 😃 ! as a, now deregistered, ex M25 Parking Permit Holder - these benefit’s are unthinkable in The South ! I well know, having spent 69 year’s there ! 🙄. Malcolm, re your post concerning boot’s, following pix refer: anthony …..the 4 boot’s were £550 delivered, free (?) fitting by 5* refurber!

….Malcolm - just wow ! thank you anthony

…..congratulation’s to every one of my reader’s 😃😃😃😃😃😃😃 we just smashed through our / my target of 🎉🎉🎉🎊🎊🎈2.000 View’s 🥇🏆🏅🎖️!! 🎉🎊🎈for my Lexus LS 400 in the For Sale section on The Lexus Owner’s Club UK site !! next target is 3.000 View’s 🎉🎊🎉 - we can do this, between us !😃😲🙄 I thank you all, humbly, for all your interest and support and I know many of you make regular return visit’s to keep up to date with our latest post’s. took the liberty (🫣🤫🤭) of just placing a very brief ad topic on the Lexus Owner’s Club UK Central Forum site - might add 1 or 2 extra ?🤫 …..video shortly of my demise by our splendid Moderator’s…..l🫣🫣🫣🪓🔪💣🗡️⚔️ anthony

….Hugh, thank you for your note. any opinion’s expressed are, of course, merely personal and in no way represent those of anybody else, except, moi ! remember well the Volvo 760 and 790 - much used by the Swedish Goverment fleet, at the time. 68 year’s driving? yes, would refer you to my post of last Saturday @ 13.30 hour’s. was ploughing dead straight-line furrow’s ( no gps, then 😳 🚜 ) on a farm near Barnstaple - 1956. 😲 anthony

…..Malcolm, yes. £460 for 5 year Ceramic Wax+ Headlanp Polish + Windscreen coating.

….Steve, thank you for your note. how much do you want for your Torch ? Malcolm has promised me I can increase the sale price of my year 2000 Lexus LS 400 by £2000 to £6.495 if you sell it to me - now ! 😃 anthony