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Post by faulks on Aug 10, 2021 21:46:38 GMT
Sorry to hear about that Chris- vile b*%%*rs like that seem to specialise in taking stuff that can’t be replaced too.
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Post by faulks on Sept 11, 2020 20:30:14 GMT
Awesome. That looks excellent, and loved. It has come such a long way since you dragged it out of the undergrowth.
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Post by faulks on Apr 15, 2020 6:09:49 GMT
Yay! Well done. Looks like the red dog is in its element.
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Post by faulks on Nov 19, 2019 19:55:51 GMT
Good luck with the move (and with finding somewhere speedily). When I saw the thread title, I was afraid you were abandoning landcrabs for a future with Teutonic moderns! Heart rate now returning to normal!
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Post by faulks on Sept 18, 2018 21:23:09 GMT
I’m awestruck by the welding and finish as usual You could consider going back to York and working on getting Mallard a new boiler ticket next?
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Post by faulks on Jul 25, 2018 9:59:03 GMT
Weirdly, they found something similar when they tested the prototypes of the BMW version of the Mini.... in that changing the shape of the bit where the wing intersects the bonnet reduces the turbulence around an upright windscreen. Looking at that picture, it might be that the ADO 17 team knew that already (or enjoyed a happy coincidence).
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Post by faulks on Dec 25, 2017 19:55:29 GMT
Happy Christmas all.
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Post by faulks on Dec 18, 2017 23:37:48 GMT
Oddly, was thinking about this earlier after reading about the bloke who rolled his car off the Whinlatter pass ( www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cumbria-42379116 ). I learnt to drive on my landcrab on that road in all manner of conditions and can testify that it was much easier to control than the Peugeot my dad had around the same time (in which I did a very graceful pirouette on snow joining the A66). Down here, the issue seems to be that people don’t grasp that the coefficient of friction of rubber on ice is the much the same regardless of the number of driven wheels...
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Post by faulks on Oct 8, 2017 10:13:38 GMT
That’s a cracking car, and that dealership building is a bit of a survival too The only other BMC rosette branding I’ve seen is on a Riley dealers at the the back of the Chemistry Department in Geneva Uni (don’t know if it is still there, but it was in 2010).
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Post by faulks on May 8, 2017 19:19:00 GMT
Judging from the dvla, it looks like a perfect pass A good job, well jobbed!
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Post by faulks on Apr 13, 2017 14:55:59 GMT
I do like it, though I'm not sure how I "liked" it... all this technology is incompatible with my fat fingers
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Post by faulks on Dec 28, 2016 21:47:30 GMT
Car 2 Vauxhall Viceroy? Car 4 late TVR Grantura? Or, failing that, TVR Vixen?
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Post by faulks on May 10, 2016 8:57:51 GMT
Saw a brown (Mk 3??) heading north past Oxford Parkway station about half an hour ago. Anyone on here? If so, Ta! You made my morning. Faulks
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Post by faulks on Jan 29, 2015 20:40:15 GMT
Delurking on the subject of engine transplants, I bought a copy of Classic and Sportscar to help pass the time on a train journey last week. There's a piece in it by Martin Buckley, who's rebuilding an Austin 3 litre and installing the engine from a van den Plas 4 litre R as a variation on a period theme. Quite a good article, but I can't find it online.
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Post by faulks on Nov 17, 2014 8:07:21 GMT
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