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1 hour ago, Sybaris said:

No that was something to do with a dyke.

Hmm, something lost in translation.

Could always put your finger in it. It worked for the Dutch.

https://www.mikkistelder.com/blog/finger-in-the-dike#:~:text=The Dutch proverb “to put,finger the dike might burst.

Well I queried my premium and they told me it was higher, because I was worth more. 🫣

29 minutes ago, Malc1 said:

we'll never know unless someone here gets it !

malc

I take a different view. Take account of the vendors disclosures then extrapolate from those based on your experience of such cars and I think the highest probability outcome is already 'known' statistically. Moreover we now also know that it is a 'fact' that I was blessed with zero imagination.

I don't see the appeal for a car like this. Age and mileage effectively caps it's value. Restoration costs on top of the buy are highly likely to soar past that value even if you are a mechanic using your own labour. Parts and paint alone will surely account for that. Perhaps it needs a lot less than I think, but we have seen quite a few like this have we not so think that is not likely to be the case.

1 hour ago, GMB said:

Maybe I am getting too soft but I try not to go over 100mph even for the shortest bursts of speed on "apparently" quiet roads as it is an instant ban followed by the insurance rip-off merchants jumping on the bandwagon. Too many cameras.

When I first got the isf I gave it a little test - kick down at 65 mph on the motorway. Before I knew it the thing had leapt up to 120mph and was still picking up speed very rapidly. I had heard that the UK export models were limited to 176mph - I will not be finding out if that is true.😉

When I went up to Heysham to see a SC 430 I took the seller out in mine to show him the effect of the throttle controller as his car did not have this feature. Down the dual carriageway and wallop the ton. Coming back I pass the police car parked up....they heard me gulp in Tokyo. My passenger insisted it had not been there when we came past, but I sweated for a couple of weeks expecting the worst.

1 hour ago, Malc1 said:

you walked to Chatsworth House ?   👋👋👋

Malc

Nope, wife's Cooper. Wouldn't trust Lexigirl to a car park I don't know.

Just coming off my murial and hitting at least 1.5 kmph using the walls for support.

I did have mid project overnighter in Buxton to decompress. Whilst there paid a visit to Chatsworth House.

Sometimes you see things and think may be there is something to the idea that superior beings dropped to earth a long time ago and they ,or their progeny have been with us ever since. How else do you explain how some people are just so gifted they don't even resemble the rest of us in terms of skills, or abilities.

I look at the stuff below and I cannot even imagine having the skills to do anything like that.

I have not read that ,but it would not surprise me were it true. The issues surrounding EV and batteries have become more and more manifest over time. Clearly, there are yet further technological hurdles that need to be jumped to make this more than a '8 track' route to obsolescence.

With justification you may have been thinking has that guy dropped off the edge of the world, or something , because he's been conspicuously absent from this place for awhile.

I have been busy for some time now with other matters. Even my poor cars have been gathering dust on the driveway.

So, full disclosure, I was never happy with my wife's idea of doing a stencil on top of my scumbling. My alternative was to do a murial (sic). Unfortunately, a great imagination I have never been blessed with albeit I know one end of a brush from another. Anyway with not too much research I found a bit of interesting Victoriana to copy. It took 4 days marking out followed by a couple of weeks plus of paint work, but finally I am finished. It's down below for anybodys interest.

In that Bond movie he says "Never say never". Codswallop, I am saying never again will I suck myself into this. i HOPE i NEVER SEE A PAINT BRUSH AGAIN !

On a positive note the wife bought me a lovely Carmenere from the Colchagua Valley, my favourite wine of all as a thank you.

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45 minutes ago, Spock66 said:

Unfortunately an insurance policy is just a piece of paper until you need to make a claim, then you find out if the policy is any good.

My personal experience is LV were very good, Direct Line a nightmare.

Interesting, because paper money is almost the same. All it says is "I promise to pay the bearer". Note the word "promise". I might argue that an insurance policy is perhaps a stronger form of contract than the paper in your wallet.

My 1959 LWB Landrover.  😪

3 hours ago, GMB said:

Ah, those were the days!  Certain folk in our motorcycle g*ng used to kick them over as they passed on their Bonnevilles, Tigers,  Road rockets, Interceptors, Nortons etc etc....... I never stooped to that level of delinquency of course😁.  BTW Nobody had a Vincent they were simply unaffordable.  Then the Japanese arrived and that was the end of all that.............

"Tiger".

Funny story. My very oldest friend Pip bought a Tiger. Whilst we were on a night out at the Bierkeller Leeds he made a date with an attractive girl. On the day he turned up in Leeds to pick her up. No helmet etc etc. Turned out she was a police woman. Not only did she not ticket him. She married him. The power of the bike !

On 5/21/2024 at 4:55 PM, runsgrateasanut said:

Enjoyed my LI 150 at that time - still got the moth eaten Parka bought from Army & Navy Stores, Baddow Road roundabout, Chelmsford.  I think they were ex-Canadian Forces?

2 wheels and me don't get along. My friend Paul let me have a go on his Lambretta. Think it must have looked farcical with me trying to hold it off the wall whilst simultaneously revving it (unknowingly).

Riding back pillion on it we went across a railway crossing and l levitated to having the rear passenger bar wedged right where it was excruciating. In blind oanic I tried to hang on to Paul. We were saved by our other friend coming up behind and literally pushing me back into place. I don't understand why I never got to ride the scooters again (sic).

1 hour ago, Malc1 said:

But who knows what on earth you’d uncover after 3 years with no MOT and presumably off the road in benign storage 🤔

Malc 

I have to say I find it strange that someone opts to try and sell without an MOT. Not only does the task become harder in terms of finding a buyer, but obviously buyers are apt to assume the worst and mark the price down before they even decide to look. At least I would. Hence, the conundrum is does the seller opt to do so , because they already know something that we do not, or are they simply trying to sidestep the uncertainty of putting it in and it failing in some major way? Coin flip.

Alternatively, bite the bullet and then take it to a show and you will probably have the only one there.

You know looking the price of these relative to some other collectable cars having seen the turn out at the show the other week I don't know why they are priced so cheaply.

2 hours ago, Malc1 said:

The suspense is excruciating   🤣

Malc

Lucky you it's usually the EXPENSE that's excruciating these days.

Like the car pics, but it's nothing like the SC.

24 minutes ago, Mossypossy said:

Well it underdelivered last night. Me gob was not smacked.

One only hopes a mop and a bucket were not required.

8 hours ago, Mossypossy said:

Bought a fancy new toilet seat today. One that lights up in the night!

Obviously made in China. Don't think there is a secret webcam attached.

I wonder if it is even possible to buy one made in the UK?

No secret web cam ,but somewhere in China is a big red button. When pressed the West has an whole new crop of Eunuchs ready to sever it's new masters. 💥

12 hours ago, Malc1 said:

And the Chinese have been around some 5000 years too maybe …….. they have a looooong perspective and very very loooooong term  aspirations 

Malc 

Well Malc there is a price to pay for democracy. Certainly when you don't need to get your party re elected every few years then you can plan long term without the ever present threat of being thrown out of power.

1 hour ago, dutchie01 said:

In the West we are too naive and continue to look at situations through our western eyes with our values. China has been undermining western economies for decades by undercutting all they supply heavily in price compared to our home production. And we all fall for it. Buy jeans for 9 euros, fake cartridges, cheap toys and so on. It is only now with the EV business that it gets more attention. In the same time we are witnessing european de industrialisation with companies de investing and moving production out of europe. Automotive, chemicals, steel the list is endless.  Remember China is subsidising all export they are fighting a war without guns.

 

    

I don't think we are naive so much as poor decision makers too often. For example, we can perceive the monetary benefit of buying product X from China for less money than it's Western alternative, but we cannot or do not take the process steps further to account for the costs to the West in losing productive jobs. You see the benefit is personal and tangible to a greater degree than the social costs via taxation to support people who have either lost jobs ,or been diverted in lower paying jobs. The latter is harder to identify and indeed less personal.

13 hours ago, dutchie01 said:

Some in the West are more afraid of a trade war with China Malc. Biden just increased import tariff for Chinese cars to 100%

In my view absolutely the right thing to do. Trade supremacy has been Chinas long term plan and it's worked very well for them. I remember doing a business model project has part of my Quants. In essence to win I priced/scaled the rest out of business. Hardly real life of course, but the underlying concept is the war we have been in with China for decades. We reaped the benefits of low inflation from that of course, but the downside was also massive, but of course harder to see.

1 hour ago, levensnevel said:

Nice wrap-up of what we experienced & done during our lifetime.

Only a few things are missing of what we, as a generation, failed to mitigate which resulted in the current state of our planet.

Like e.g. the climate crisis, the economical crises; the health crisis, extinction of animal life,  and war.  

Perhaps we shouldn't be too hard on ourselves. Apart from the first item on your list any student of history could reasonably say the rest have been with us since  we first crawled out from our cave. Even a generation that lived through such an age of dynamic change should be modest enough to accept you cannot unravel what is so firmly imprinted onto human DNA. Let's leave future generations something to do.