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« Reply #991 on: July 11, 2010, 11:13:51 PM » |
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I am interested in the invisible cows because I think I have an invisible rabbit. He doesn't bother to run away because he knows he is invisible.
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« Reply #992 on: July 11, 2010, 11:19:13 PM » |
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25 horsepowers! Be still my beating heart.....  And yeah, fine - all those open pick-ups are great in toasty India.... But small vans and cars have to be the way to go dont they? Light, basic, reliable, fuel-sippin' footsoldiers is what we should all use whenever possible. It WILL NOT happen until 'The Man' can convince bling-addicted, power mad Westernites like us (and US.. ) that we need them so that they can hoik the price up and make loads of wonga out of us. Again. Small groups of relatively enlightened souls such as our good selves are all very well - trouble is most of the Clone folks really want all that shiny stuff and them enormo-powerwagons so its just too easy to give 'em what they want, smile, and trouser the folding. Pff!  |
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« Reply #993 on: July 11, 2010, 11:44:02 PM » |
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The Japs started it all: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kei_carThey just keep the good ones for the home market, and, let the likes of Vauxhall (pronounced Bedford) pop a bigger engine in for the UK market. |
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« Reply #994 on: July 12, 2010, 12:07:54 AM » |
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You see them everywhere in India as 6 seater taxis, and I have seen many more than 6 being transported. If I am not mistaken the Moozuki Carry is made in India and sold there as the Maruti Suzuki or would that be the Mooruti Moozuki?
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« Reply #995 on: July 12, 2010, 07:15:29 AM » |
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Used to have great fun with the companies Rascals...... if you turned the ignition off briefly at speed when you turned it back on you would get a fantastic bang from the exhaust. It would scare the hell out of pedestrians and other road users. Great fun until the exhaust system fell off.......
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« Reply #996 on: July 12, 2010, 09:43:01 PM » |
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I am interested in the invisible cows because I think I have an invisible rabbit. He doesn't bother to run away because he knows he is invisible. are there any other symptoms ? can you post a picture ? I have an invisible wallet, bunch of keys and mobile phone  . We should be careful not to let the genetic material for invisibility proliferate. if you turned the ignition off briefly at speed when you turned it back on you would get a fantastic bang from the exhaust. It would scare the hell out of pedestrians quite popular in Belfast apparently, back in the days of Rascals, for those who enjoyed living dangerously  |
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« Reply #997 on: July 12, 2010, 09:56:32 PM » |
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Used to do it on a sliding door Bedford van whilst driving for a local greengrocer as a summer job circa 1966 - no steering locks in those days - blew the end clean off the silencer.......   |
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« Reply #998 on: July 12, 2010, 10:03:17 PM » |
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Used to do it on a sliding door Bedford van whilst driving for a local greengrocer as a summer job circa 1966 - no steering locks in those days - blew the end clean off the silencer....... My old man had one identical to that - may be the paint was a pale green colour - is only young and I remember driving along with the door open! Can you imagine doing that these days..... |
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« Reply #999 on: July 12, 2010, 10:06:38 PM » |
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they were brill for deliveries......... yank on the handbrake, and out of the door way before it's stopped rolling...... time it right you open the back doors as they come alongside Safety belts? - don't be silly! |
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« Reply #1000 on: July 12, 2010, 10:16:31 PM » |
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Best car I ever encountered for exhaust 'grosspoppenbangens' (as we used to call 'em..) was my mates Moggy 1000. Enormous loud reports, especially under bridges AND the exhaust never suffered any mishap. Unlike my rubbish V4 1700 (sliding door!) transit whose enforced flatulence inflated its silencer balloon like until it disappeared into rusty metal shreds. 950 Vauxhall Viva i had afterwards didnt want to play at all......  Modern cars are SO dull! |
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« Reply #1001 on: July 12, 2010, 10:38:52 PM » |
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« Reply #1002 on: July 13, 2010, 07:55:32 AM » |
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Posted by: Stuart haha thats what i miss on fuel injection bikes too Have you ever been to the TT? My first trip wasn't until 2002 but my lasting memory is of laying in my hotel bed just off Douglas Prom (probably around 2am) listening to a bike being pinned on the limiter and then the kill switch being flicked off and back on. WaWaWaWaWaWaWaWaBANG WaWaWaWaWaWaWaBANG WaWaWaWaWaWaWaWaBANG WaWaWaWaWaWaWaBANG Strangely enough, at this year's TT due to the profileration of modern fuel injected bikes I didn't have the pleasure. Did I really miss it at 2am, probably not if I'm honest....... Having said that though, the journey over there was always livened up as we rode down one of the Mersey Tunnels heading for the ferry and one or two folks would accidently knock the kill switch off, wonder why their bike had slowed down, try opening the throttle back to the stop for a few seconds to see if that made a difference and then notice they'd caught the kill switch 'by mistake' and flick it back on. Even wearing a helmet, the noise that makes inside one of those tunnels just has to be heard to be believed |
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« Reply #1003 on: July 13, 2010, 08:47:48 AM » |
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Ruben Codd, the last man to farm Skomer Island, used to drive us to school in a green and cream mini bus version of this van. We would sing all the good old songs like, 'In the stores, behind the door' and 'Ten green bottles' Ah, thems were the days.......nostalgia, ......its just not what it used to be.  |
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« Reply #1004 on: July 13, 2010, 11:16:12 PM » |
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Its a girl my lord in a flat bedford, slowin down to take a look at me...............??
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