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Spider was in cupboard, I think Razzle or Fiesta was under the table

This one is clearly gonna rumble on, so before it does, I'm gonna have my say. Which whilst I agree with much of the sentiment that has been said, we have to remember that it is generally not the immigrants that come into the country that either demand these ridiculous PC policies, nor is it them that set them. We voted the government and councils that introduced them into power and are now paying the penalty of a left wing government. No matter how close to centre Tony Blair tries to bring labour to make them electable they are STILL LEFT of it. And WE voted them in. Further, alienating those that we have come to resent because of the problems introduced by the policies made by the central government and local councils that we voted in, will only serve to compound the problem. I moved to a small island in the pacific when I was 7 years old, the people there welcomed us as one of their own and we all learnt the language fluently and became totally familiar with local customs. After about 18 months, a blindfolded man would not have been able to tell the difference between us and them if he were sat in a room with us. Had they shunned as white men, we too would have ended up distant and resentful, mistrusting all around us. Just a thought

Looks good, definitely wise not to sell those wheels! Unusual number plate too.

I had something similar when I was at school, only it was a spider instead of a worm. I was caught playing with in an art class and my art teacher confiscated it The following week I caught him reading porn under the table and took the opportunity to ask for my spider back Spider was promptly produced by a sheepish looking teacher

I've had similar things done when I've been parked outside someone elses house when visiting friends overnight. Some people see the space in front of their house as their own personal parking space.

Looks nice, I miss my old 2.8i special too, it came up for sale recently still with the same owner that bought it from me in 1996! I came close to buying it back, but when I sold it it was a low mileage minter, and now it's very high mileage and very tired inside and out so I cried off.

Terrible terrible car, I only wish the back to the future series of films had smashed a few of them up. They were over priced, badly made, under powered and handled terribly! Worst of all that Crook John Delorean did a deal with our government of the day, and funded a lot of the build and development costs with grants from the British tax payer!

Yep, the hole is a tell tale and does indeed mean a replacement is due, bummer eh?

Hmmmmm tough call, there are so many great cars out there, but I do think the Italians are generally the best at making good looking ones, I'm gonna go with ummmmmm......................................Ferrari Daytona, and as luck would have it here's one I snapped at Bristols Auto Italia day back in April

sorry mate no way i can post a pic of it on here, if it was seen by the wrong people it would cost me my job. However I can post this one, this is the last one I was involved with, we took her through her machinery trials earlier this year and have now handed her over to her owner. She's 77 metres so bigger than the current one and very lavishly equipped with a pool, gym, Jet skis, 3 motor launches etc etc!

Man I'd sell my granny (and everyone elses too) just to get a drive in this! http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... :IT&ih=004

It's a model, look at the window frame behind it. Looks good and well detailed though.

Perhaps the question should also be asked, "Why do sports bike riders always feel the need to be first away from the lights?" I'm also a biker, but I often wonder what batfink "wings of steel" the two wheeled morons I see in the wrong lane that scream away and cut across you think they're wearing! Bikes are dangerous, regardless of whether the car driver was at fault or not, and with the increasing number of bikers on the road there are more and more that seem to have little respect for their own safety nor the safety of others. But what really gets my goat is the ones that think it's ok to filter at crazy speeds often coming past you within a couple of feet with their engine screaming, I nearly took one out last week when he made me jump so much I swerved!

It is indeed a cool job and I enjoy it very much, but as with testing any untried machine it has its risks. It's a privately owned 50 metre motor yacht that is extremely fast very powerful and very expensive. A comparison we sometimes make is that she is to sea going ships, what Concorde was (and still should be in my mind) to aviation. I'd love to be able to post a pic, but being bound by a confidentiality agreement what I've said already is probably too much.

I'm a Marine Engineer, I work as Chief Engineer for a shipyard that builds superyachts, my role is to work with the design and production staff who have little or no sea going experience, assist them in producing the final product, then take them to sea and put them through their paces. This particular project has been ongoing for some 6 years, and has cost in excess of £100 million. We were at sea working her up to power (she has some 40'000 horse power, fancy that under the bonnet of an OSF?) then it all went Pete Tong. No it isn't mine, but after that length of time and so much blood sweat and tears gone into to it you get kind of attached. Still there were no casualties (I was the only one that came close) thank god.

John "line my pockets" Hill prices!!

Until you get to a corner, there's no substitute for grip!

My ship caught fire in the engine room, major damage that runs into the millions, and a 9 month set back to our program. Next to that moving back in with the olds or some old skool breakdown is minor. Still, glad to see someone is still knickerless

Sounds like a question for the AVO club registrar!

Nice Pics, it's a great museum and well worth a trip, the Haynes museum at Sparkford is worth a look too, but not quite in the same league. However....................................... Come come let's not be hasty, tuneable, yes, powerful maybe, but best ever?? Think not, that honour would in my book have to go to something from Cosworth.

How about a MkIV Tina 2.0s Doc? by all accounts they're pretty rare. Check out my post in the cars for sale section. I look forward to the naming and shaming ceremony for our Car "restorer" friends north of the border.

But it's only an 8 valve? Why bother when you can do as much with a pinto?

Gonna be impossible to guess at, remember we are being stung according to the size of the items being posted too now. Only way you'll know for sure is to package them up and take them to the post office for a quote.

You can if you wish to take the risk of getting busted. In truth it's a lot harder to tell with cars the age of ours than it is with more modern metal. As long as you don't make any obvious mistakes like registering it on a plate when the car simply wasn't available. A Mk1 RS2000 on a K plate for instance would attract two lots of unwanted attention, you'd either get the "it's a replica" folk busting your chops or you'd get the ones that realised it was the real thing but clearly had had an ID change. The latter is ok providing it's not the wrong person that spots it.

You're quite right, providing you spot the car has gone quickly and activate it, Trackers are top. Unfortunately they're rendered largely useless by something as simple as an underground car park or a I believe even a shipping container, so if your car gets that far it's likely you'll not see it in one piece again (if at all)