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Nov 16, 2010 23:53:44 GMT
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A quick Google seems to confirm the tailgate theory (well it brought me straight back here initially! ). Got to have all your lights visible when loading/unloading. Doesn't seem to apply to vans though?
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" East bound and down, loaded up and truckin' "
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Nov 14, 2010 11:46:16 GMT
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If its Diplomatic why has it stayed there so long? Because the last person to try and rescue it is still in the boot
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" East bound and down, loaded up and truckin' "
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Nov 11, 2010 22:23:59 GMT
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I had a 1L Austin Metro. Blew the head gasket within a few months (possibly not helped by the way I drove it ). First mechanical repair I did on a car-changing the headgasket on an A-series. I learnt a little bit about spannering, and a lot about skinned knuckles
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" East bound and down, loaded up and truckin' "
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Nov 11, 2010 22:15:48 GMT
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Tis a strange one - I'd expect Diamond to pay out to the passenger's family and then recover off their insured. Bit unfair that the MIB - which we all subsidise by paying correct premiums - is paying out. This is the sort of thing that pushes insurance up. He did get in the car of his own free will though. I'm sure he had a good idea of how his mate drove. That was how I thought it worked too (though it is some years since I worked in that field). As I recall, it was almost impossible to get the MIB to pay for anything. Difficult to see why they went to the trouble and expense of getting the policy voided anyway; I might be wrong, but someone who spends his evenings in the passenger seat of his mate's chavved-up corsa probably isn't a big-earner. If he did have kids who were entitled to compensation it wouldn't be very much money. Perhaps the emphasis was on the 'modifications' to the car as they had tried and failed to prove the mother was 'fronting' the policy.
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I lost mine, so a freebie is very useful
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My dad had one of these: No seatbelts in the back, so the old man bolted in a bit of scaffold tube behind the back seats and fitted four-point static harnesses No rust and a reasonably sized boot. Oh, and a V6 & no weight over the back axle ;D
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I don't think Germans use paypal IIRC, which means payment can get tricky without a credit card. As a rule, no. But not because they can't, they don't seem to trust it. They tend to prefer bank transfers; they are free over there-last time I checked with my bank it was at least £15. But, if you explain how it works, how simple it is to register, in my experience most people are willing to try it out.
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Oct 31, 2010 18:51:07 GMT
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I put one on my last car: Had a tartan blanket on the parcel shelf too.
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I don't think it's fair too out too much onus on the OP to trace the original owner.
Personally, if I'd had something of any value (monetary or otherwise) stolen I'd be up the police station regularly asking if it had turned up yet. Though they weren't the most helpful police force ever, they would have remembered someone bringing in an aging motorbike and trying to dump it at the front desk! If it was pinched from another part of the country, like someone has already said anything he did to try and trace the owner would have just been an invitation to a load of chancers.
As far as I'm concerned he did the right thing. I don't have any religious beliefs, so couldn't explain the mechanism by which karma works, but experience tells me that it does work; good luck with the sale.
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Oct 20, 2010 22:29:27 GMT
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That looks like a 'Micro Machines' car ;D More along these lines?
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Oct 20, 2010 22:18:50 GMT
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Scarys method of a hollowed out spark plug with a balloon on it works great for finding TDC and you know the valves are closed. There is something very, very amusing about this ;D
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Oct 19, 2010 23:55:51 GMT
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I wish I was cool enough to carry this off: Giggity giggity goo.
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Oct 19, 2010 23:46:14 GMT
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A canopy pick-up? It's like a pick up with a gazebo. Genius. It'd need some sort of dice/roulette wheel arrangement in the cab to decide who sits out back in the rain.
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Oct 19, 2010 23:35:46 GMT
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Concept: Exectution: Make it look like a standard SD1 with plastic arch extensions, and it'd be win all the way.
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Perspex gullwings?? That car should have a moustache.
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I for one genuinly thought this was a Ford that someone had stuck a Veedub badge onto......i was wrong and except it for what it is It is, VW did it! I think it's unbalanced; the back is too stubby; shame, a 2-door Orion (with a normal onion back end and window line) would have looked
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Oct 12, 2010 12:18:16 GMT
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My dad had a Maxi; 'orrible colour (sandstorm yellow?), with a brown velour interior. The hydrolastic suspension is great for making kids sick! Won't a Maestro Turbo engine fit in there? They're essentially the same block aren't they?
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