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Wack61 said:
Oh the Bedford Midi , for a couple of months I worked for a courier company , I started at 11am , I knew the *** midi would be the only thing left , it was awful , i dont know if it was just because theirs was *** out
I remember it being really hot in there with that engine alongside you screaming its tits off , somebody blew it up the week before i left , can't say I was sorry
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Funny you should say that. Had left the office in Stevenage one morning on my way to Central London to do a job. Just coming down the Stevenage South A1 junction slip road accelerating briskly in 2nd......up into 3rd.....bang.....followed by lots of smaller bangs and bits hitting the underside of the vehicle. Followed by rear glass tailgate covered in oil. Pulled over and stopped immediately. Am I right in remembering the engine in between the front seats so heck it made me jump?!

Engine and gearbox toasted. Made it into an upgrade (questionable!) to a Vauxhall Combi
 
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outrun said:
You were lucky. I got stopped at 145mph about 20 years ago and was fined 10,000 francs on the stop or the other option to take by chance with the local magistrate. And it was Friday and so it would be jail for the weekend while i waited. I couldn’t get my MasterCard out fast enough! It was about £1200 from memory.
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Yeah ageed i was lucky ,this was on the way back sunday evening , just minutes before that i was up in the 150+ but the tank was going down too fast, and had made the decision to stop off at the next gas station, which is when i got camera'd , they were hiding behind the concrete stations of the flyover, and had heard the horror stories of cars getting impounded the the heart was pounding, they escorted me to the gas station and stopped my right outside the ATM lol , gave me the ticket once i paid the money and then asked me to open the bonnet lol fair cop , arrse twitching moment though
 
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Yeah ageed i was lucky ,this was on the way back sunday evening , just minutes before that i was up in the 150+ but the tank was going down too fast, and had made the decision to stop off at the next gas station, which is when i got camera'd , they were hiding behind the concrete stations of the flyover, and had heard the horror stories of cars getting impounded the the heart was pounding, they escorted me to the gas station and stopped my right outside the ATM lol , gave me the ticket once i paid the money and then asked me to open the bonnet lol fair cop , arrse twitching moment though
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I was following a Belgian Ferrari 456 in my 911 964 Carrara 4. Minutes earlier, he was following me. Just unlucky to be at the back. The cop car was Peugeot 406 Mi16 which was actually quite cool! Oddly, my first though was “I’m going to be on the front page of The Sun and my mum is going to go mental. Headline reads Idiot Brit on French jolly ignores traffic laws” We were up in Deauville and Trouville-sur-mer, in Normandy. Very nice places, the original Parisian holiday destination, much like we have Margate and Blackpool but they do it with so much more style!
 
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