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Post by Deleted on Sept 10, 2019 7:01:01 GMT
A clamped TT with a large 'untaxed vehicle, do not attempt to move' sticker on the rear screen. I wonder what the complete set of implications are for them?
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Post by Tim on Sept 10, 2019 8:05:41 GMT
Did you fly to Scotland to seek out all the Tesco stores with cheap chamois offers? No, I flew to see the V&A, RRS Discovery, Lighthouse museum, Dunottar Castle etc but Tesco are prolific now (RIP William Low) and have some great-value cafes in their stores for hot snack lunches, and/or "meal deals", and they also have customer toilets, something you may appreciate when you get older and your bladder's strength deteriorates I prefer Sainsbury's hot snack lunches but Morrisons are also worth a visit - there's one on the left as you come into Dundee from Aberdeen and it has a large cafe.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 10, 2019 10:52:30 GMT
A clamped TT with a large 'untaxed vehicle, do not attempt to move' sticker on the rear screen. I wonder what the complete set of implications are for them? And a Corsa VXR in the same village with the same.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 12, 2019 20:48:59 GMT
A B-2 Spirit this afternoon heading west at about 5,ooo feet. There have been sightings recently but I did not believe it tbh.
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Post by Tim on Sept 13, 2019 8:00:29 GMT
A B-2 Spirit this afternoon heading west at about 5,ooo feet. There have been sightings recently but I did not believe it tbh. There was a Hercules circling tightly over Leuchars this morning. I know there's some sort of exercise going on based there at the moment, Mrs Tim's work (based in St Andrews) got an email to warn them of increased flying including at night.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 13, 2019 9:19:26 GMT
Apparently the Spirit has been a regular visitor to the UK, mostly to Fairford.
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Post by Roadsterstu on Sept 14, 2019 9:56:58 GMT
A clamped TT with a large 'untaxed vehicle, do not attempt to move' sticker on the rear screen. I wonder what the complete set of implications are for them? And a Corsa VXR in the same village with the same. Pay any outstanding VEL or it's towed, I think.
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Post by Roadsterstu on Sept 14, 2019 9:59:40 GMT
Saw yesterday what I think is the first Aston Cygnet I have seen on the road. It was a lurid metallic yellow. We'd been in Stratford Upon Avon for a brief visit and passed it was we were leaving. Then, in a weird little coincidence, as we entered the village at the other end of the same journey, a bright orange Toyota IQ.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 15, 2019 16:05:39 GMT
Two very classy original Beetles yesterday while visiting family in Staffordshire. The first very original trim but show standard and the second an interesting silver custom motor right at the end of my trip. For some reason my new sat nav went into Czechlanguage mode and could not be got out of it. On the way back I again got caught out by the splat nave going all the way around the town and up over the hogs head. Annoyed? Very. I toped up with Shell super at the other end and found bit of improvement mileage wise and did not expect better usability but that hogs head was better than last time out on regular unleaded. Would this be expected?
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Post by Roadsterstu on Sept 16, 2019 7:59:53 GMT
Higher Octane rating than regular unleaded, so it should feel a little better.
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Post by johnc on Sept 16, 2019 8:35:01 GMT
I came round a corner in my town on Saturday night to be faced with a red Corsa doing a poor job of a 3 point turn at a point in the road where there is a lot of traffic and two sides roads (one either side of him) where a lot of traffic joins the road. He faffed about a bit and a pizza delivery idiot coming the other way squeezed past the front of him causing more delay. He finally managed to find a gear and get going and as he passed me I looked over and saw it was the son of my manager ....................... he had only passed his test on Friday!
I'll suggest some fatherly words when I see him this morning.
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Post by Tim on Sept 16, 2019 9:28:37 GMT
Spotted a brand new Suzuki Jimny with German plates this morning, it was lime green so hard to miss.
Not sure it's the ideal vehicle for a European road trip....
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Post by Tim on Sept 18, 2019 10:00:16 GMT
I saw a Pug 1007 yesterday! What were they thinking!
Also what looked like a very early Bentley Conti GT in a sort of sage green metallic. It looked quite restrained (and under-wheeled) compared to the current iteration.
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Post by humphreythepug on Sept 19, 2019 11:46:10 GMT
According to an Autocar from 2009, only 10 to be produced at £500,000 each with 789bhp!! Not too bad a spot.
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Post by michael on Sept 19, 2019 11:59:03 GMT
Didn't someone on here link to that recently? Impressive spot, ugly car.
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Post by Tim on Sept 19, 2019 12:45:12 GMT
The spoiler looks like a bit of cardboard that's been coloured in with a magic marker and if the spats are to improve airflow/reduce drag then presumably if the car goes fast enough it'll go round in a big circle because one of them is missing.
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Post by ChrisM on Sept 19, 2019 12:47:37 GMT
Only one of the rear wheels is covered by a spat ??
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Post by johnc on Sept 19, 2019 18:20:06 GMT
Just passed the office: a tow truck towing a tow truck with a Zafira on the back. Tow rope was some elastic type rope which I fully expected to see snap as it went cheese wire tight followed by dragging along the road. The towed driver didn't have a clue obviously even though that was his job! I fully expect to see it abandoned further up the road when I go home.
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Post by Roadsterstu on Sept 20, 2019 8:17:38 GMT
Didn't someone on here link to that recently? Impressive spot, ugly car. Indeed. Impressive for its rarity but it looks like a shit aftermarket lash up.
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Post by Tim on Sept 20, 2019 9:01:08 GMT
Spotted an early 2000s Mondeo ST220 in great condition last night.
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Post by Tim on Sept 23, 2019 9:16:37 GMT
I got followed by a Dutch registered Maserati 4200GT from Pitlochry to Blair Atholl yesterday. Lovely car but not as lovely as the similarly Dutch registered 2 Meraks, 1960s Mexico and couple of other classic Masers (can't remember what they were, sadly) that were refuelling in Blair Atholl!
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Post by Boxer6 on Sept 26, 2019 20:48:34 GMT
An '06 plated RRS in gangsta black, where the yop bar of the 'SPORT' badge had corroded or tarnished, making it read 'SPURT'.
Made me chuckle, which I definitely needed today.
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Post by Martin on Sept 29, 2019 21:07:51 GMT
A newish full fat Range Rover with L plates and a teenage girl behind the wheel. I wonder how much the insurance was?!
When I looked, it was around £2,000 and it’s been a few years since I was a teenager.
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Post by Tim on Oct 1, 2019 8:17:59 GMT
I forgot I saw a new Supra on Sunday. It was only a brief glimpse, going the opposite way in traffic, but it looked quite good in a frosted metallic grey. It had a git plate ending SUP.
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Post by michael on Oct 1, 2019 10:46:24 GMT
I saw three cars I haven't yet seen on the road yesterday and in a very short space of time. New Wrangler, hard to tell the difference from the last one but that's perhaps to their credit. They are priced in the same ballpark as the new Defender which makes the latter appear good value. Jaguar F-Pace SVR, it had so much more presence than the regular F-Pace which looks dated by comparison. I hope the facelift offers this bodykit across the range, it'd fly out the showroom. Finally I saw a new G Wagon. I've coveted the G wagon for a while but this new version with it's circular DRLs looked like a caricature of itself.
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Post by Tim on Oct 3, 2019 12:13:44 GMT
I saw a new Bentley saloon last evening, it was silver over grey and while that may have been a classic colour combo on their 1950s products it really doesn't look good on something that, from the rear, reminded me very much of the Merc Maybach thing from a decade ago.
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Post by Alex on Oct 3, 2019 21:58:42 GMT
I saw McLaren's test fleet if GT's last week on the A283. There was a dark blue 720S followed by three gold GTs. Then another grey 720 followed by two blue and one grey GT. Couldn't help thinking that the front profile looks very akin to the current R8.
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Post by Bob Sacamano v2.0 on Oct 4, 2019 7:56:49 GMT
Came up behind a M760i X-Drive in the Coast Road. Didn't realise they did a V12. Quite surprised at how small it looked. Maybe it's just the way all cars seem to have grown.
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Post by Martin on Oct 4, 2019 16:45:05 GMT
I saw a UK registered, camouflaged Aston Martin SUV yesterday, in Vegas.
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Post by Roadsterstu on Oct 5, 2019 19:47:47 GMT
Saw a camo'd Defender 110 on the A46 today.
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