Sir C where in Finchley did you live?
Sir C where in Finchley did you live?
It wasn't really Finchley, I just remember it as Finchley because, anyway, I just do.Quote:
Originally Posted by Viva Prat Vegas
Woodside Park. Northiam.
That qualifies for Finchley :thumbup:
Unlike Bushey and other places way beyond the boundary
Fash likes the Woodside Park overground tube station
Like stepping back in time, one expects Hercule Poirot to arrive at the station and get a lift from one of those old black carriages
There is also a nice Hospice to rest in nearby
I was a lad from Lewisham. A jewish princess took me to her ample bosom and showed me the delights of Hampstead, Muswell Hill, Swiss Cottage and lots and lots of naughty sexytime.Quote:
Originally Posted by Viva Prat Vegas
What a gal :love:
I saw a picture of her on facebook a year or so ago. She's a right hephelump now :-(
For a moment, I thought Hampstead, Muswell Hill and Swiss Cottage were euphemisms for her various orifices.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
They might as well have been. Christ but she showed me a thing or two. :sigh:Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
That's the one you had in the back of a mini in a golf club car park
Is there? I don't remember a hospice. I remember a jewish restaurant in Finchley called, what the hell was it? I learnt to love salt beef sandwiches and latkes.Quote:
Originally Posted by Viva Prat Vegas
Hang on...wasn't she hirsute?
Well remembered s. But it was the back of a Ford Capri 2.8i. The Mini belonged to her nan and was remarkable in that it was a Mini 850 with an automatic gearbox. A two-speed automatic gearbox. Not so good uphill.Quote:
Originally Posted by Viva Prat Vegas
She wasn't hirsute, it was the bubble who was hirsute.
ALL bubbles are hirsute, innit.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
Details again, sc. did the Capri have a black vinyl roof?
nb: The first Capri was made 50, yes 50, years ago :yikes:
To quote the Good Book, i:Quote:
Originally Posted by IUFG
God said to Moses:
"All Jews will have big noses.
Except for Aaron.
He'll have a square 'un."
Amen.
bloody god-botherer...Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
No vinyl roof, i. This was one of the last of the 2.8is. A 2.8 injection special, indeed. Vinyl roofs had fallen from favour by then.Quote:
Originally Posted by IUFG
It was a wonderful car :cloud9:
If only you'd kept it, sc...Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Ford-Capr...oAAOSwqnVb4wD2
I have just hired a Mustang GT for my trip down the Florida Keys next year. 5.0 V8 :cloud9:Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
I had three Capris, i.Quote:
Originally Posted by IUFG
A white Mk 1 facelift 1600 GT when I was 17. I soon blew the engine up and replaced it with a 2.0 featuring a gas-flowed and ported head, Piper yellow-banded cam and twin Dellorto DHLA 40 carbs :cloud9: I blew that up as well.
A black 2.8i when I was 19, and a white 2.8i special when the black one was nicked from outside my girlfriend's house.
Good timez indeed.
The 2.8i.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
Dangerously overpowered for the set up of the car. Deadly as fúck, tbh :cloud9:
160 bhp. Cart-sprung rear axle :cloud9: No ABS, no traction control, no nuffink.Quote:
Originally Posted by IUFG
Honestly, one of today's snowflakes would be dead on the first corner.
Ooh a Yanqui 5 litre! That's be almost 100 bhp then.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rich
They are about 320 horses, scQuote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
Pffft. The Japs get way more than that out of a 2l pot
Sigh. You are both missing the point. It's all about how the power is delivered. I assume a Mustang delivers it with a deep bellow when you plant your right foot.Quote:
Originally Posted by IUFG
Not that I'd have one, tbh. My old C63 AMG did all of that which actually becomes rather hard to live with. That and having to replace the tyres every 6000-8000 miles.
It does sound ok then delivers you to 60 in a relativelysedentary 5 seconds.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rich
Hang on.
You don't buy a powerful car and then moan that it is 'rather hard to live with'
That's the whole fúcking point of them.
And why you also have a rather sensible diesel to do the mundane stuff in.
Well when I bought my Merc I was hoping that it could be both an everyday car and also something to have some fun in. Fun it was... But the drone from the exhaust on long motorway runs (which is most of my driving these days) was annoying. That and it would do about 22mpg at absolute best.Quote:
Originally Posted by IUFG
Now I have a 435d which can go from 0-62 in 4.8 seconds which is fun. And on the motorway it's like a lamb. Wonderfully comfortable.
When I've finished tearing the insides of my house out I may check to see if the finances allow a weekend vehicle. A Caterham, perhaps.
They are fun. 0-60 in theme park times :cloud9:Quote:
Originally Posted by Rich
no fun in the rain and you'll have to wear specs and dress up warm.
Council estate it out there...get yourself a 3-4 year old Scooby or Evo, r.
He would die in about 12 minutes in a Caterham. Mine still occasionally causes me the odd twitch of the sphincter in the wet.Quote:
Originally Posted by IUFG
I always hire a Mustang when in the US, great fun in a straight line, cornering, not so muchQuote:
Originally Posted by Rich
My neighbour has a Lotus Elise (new one). How are they (apart from being a Lotus)?Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
Also has a Range Rover Velar which I have rather taken a fancy to.
Decent sized boot?Quote:
Originally Posted by PSRB
No, it's shocking, roof down and throw the luggage on the back seatsQuote:
Originally Posted by SWv2