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philw696

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Morning all.
Great news Stevie and hope you beat the cold.
Matt never new you were a Rally Driver loved all the years I did it not competed now for 9 years and no car since 2014 when I went to NZ.
Loafing around Cholet today.
Stay Safe all.
 
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Morning all, middle daughter off to big school today, so she has the joy of a school bus.

Otherwise WFH and organising Irish insurance, you guys should never complain about insurance costs as here it is a least double. BMW was £180 last year here the best I can fund is €415 and road tax is €1080
 
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philw696 said:
Morning all.
Great news Stevie and hope you beat the cold.
Matt never new you were a Rally Driver loved all the years I did it not competed now for 9 years and no car since 2014 when I went to NZ.
Loafing around Cholet today.
Stay Safe all.
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Yes did a couple of seasons 2000-2002 in our Group N Pug 106 Rallye. Great fun but horrific on the wallet.
 
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conaero said:
Yes did a couple of seasons 2000-2002 in our Group N Pug 106 Rallye. Great fun but horrific on the wallet.
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Ah Cool were you driving or navigating ?
Hate to think how much I spent doing it for 25 years going in the Forest's exceptionally costly.
Could have been in an Italian V8 many years ago but it was addictive.
 
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conaero said:
Same year it knackered my group N rally experience. What series are you racing in? My mate Steve O’Brien has that race cancelled too. He races some sort of Alfa Cup in his 147
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HSCC Historic Touring Cars. It wasn’t cancelled this year but after an event at Prescott we didn’t fell comfortable so have decided this year is a bit of a miss.

Will be out next year with HSCC and hopefully the Vette too in GT/Sportscars of some description.
 
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MrPea said:
Hello you lot!
The first day of full operation of the company went well yesterday with customers biting already. More contacting potentials today.
I also have a stinking cold but a variety of drugs and honey, lemon and ginger tea should sort that.
HapPea Wednesday!
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Good luck with the new venture
 
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Well I have woken to glorious sunshine here in Hertfordshire, leisurely breakfast before packing the car and heading off 5 days at Lake Windermere where it’s apparently raining and will see a months rain this afternoon as the tail end of some storm or another hits, hopefully the rest of the week won’t be as bad.
Lovely hotel overlooking the lake a good book and decent wine, some decent food is lao on the cards and maybe the off walk.
Mrs Scar is insisting on the Jag XJ as she hates the GTS, that might be be the way I drive it though.
Stay safe everyone, it’s not over yet.
 
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Scaf said:
Well I have woken to glorious sunshine here in Hertfordshire, leisurely breakfast before packing the car and heading off 5 days at Lake Windermere where it’s apparently raining and will see a months rain this afternoon as the tail end of some storm or another hits, hopefully the rest of the week won’t be as bad.
Lovely hotel overlooking the lake a good book and decent wine, some decent food is lao on the cards and maybe the off walk.
Mrs Scar is insisting on the Jag XJ as she hates the GTS, that might be be the way I drive it though.
Stay safe everyone, it’s not over yet.
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Kirkstone Pass to the Inn then left and back down "the struggle" to Ambleside.
Better in a Maserati. My 4200 loved it. Wife not so much....
First time I tried that one was with a caravan towed behind a Ford Granada.
'Sailed' into Ambleside with no brakes worth speaking of and the paint had boiled off the wheels. Interesting drive!

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GeoffCapes

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Morning all. Exciting day today.

Have just taken delivery of a new Maserati Grancabrio!!!!

I've also got to arrange house insurance as we will either exchange today or tomorrow and have a completion date of the 18th September.
So loads of expense this month!
But very exciting.
 
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RobinL said:
Kirkstone Pass to the Inn then left and back down "the struggle" to Ambleside.
Better in a Maserati. My 4200 loved it. Wife not so much....
First time I tried that one was with a caravan towed behind a Ford Granada.
'Sailed' into Ambleside with no brakes worth speaking of and the paint had boiled off the wheels. Interesting drive!

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Try the Hardnott pass... far better esp the downward section into Patterdale... my first outing was in a Ford P100 pickup truck with 3 50 gallon barrels of acid for Sellafield... boiled the brakes and almost ended up as sticky residue but managed to put it into a bank to slow down the far too rapid decent.
 
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safrane said:
Try the Hardnott pass... far better esp the downward section into Patterdale... my first outing was in a Ford P100 pickup truck with 3 50 gallon barrels of acid for Sellafield... boiled the brakes and almost ended up as sticky residue but managed to put it into a bank to slow down the far too rapid decent.
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Cyclist's 'recommend' that for going up! Would be like climbing up a ladder on your bike!
 
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safrane said:
Try the Hardnott pass... far better esp the downward section into Patterdale... my first outing was in a Ford P100 pickup truck with 3 50 gallon barrels of acid for Sellafield... boiled the brakes and almost ended up as sticky residue but managed to put it into a bank to slow down the far too rapid decent.
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Taking advantage of the road recommendations will have to wait for another trip, Mrs Scaf gets car sick and miserable very quickly he se the GTS is at home and we are in the XJ - even on a gentle drive to the hotel I have bruised ribs already !
 
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