@jaymekds A surprising number of RHD American cars were sold here right into the 1970s. Watch old movies shot in the UK and they turn up a lot. I still own a RHD 1927 Model T that was built here in the UK.
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Mark Dixon
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Mark Dixon
@OctaneMark
Contributing editor to Octane magazine and partial to anything with a V8. Failed archaeologist in a previous life.
Herefordshire Katılım Temmuz 2011
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@OctaneMark That’s amazing, I do love seeing old US cars in England, including those rare few domestic ones, like the RHD mustang 2 I saw in 2023 when I was there buying the calibra
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My Favorite genre of imports, British
Andrea Petersen@Neondancer
I've had to chase turkeys away from my Marea today...
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@TrenchTrotter Nearly ran over this one in 2016 that had been lying half-hidden in the grass – just before, we had pulled onto the verge to let some walkers past.
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Some big lads out on the Somme at the moment. British 9.2” and 8” H.E. shells.
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@GuyInFlight @tom550993 I was on a classic Lamborghini drive for Octane magazine several years ago (but long after the introduction of smartphones). Without exception, all the millionaires and billionaires had those old Nokias. One guy said he bought them in boxes of ten at a time.
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@tom550993 My prehistoric father bought about 10 used ones, as they were no longer available new, and kept using the damn things until about 5yrs ago. When one stopped working, he just reached into his desk and took out another one. You can imagine how the migration to a smartphone went...
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Probs my fave
2001 Live@25YearsAgoLive
Nokia introduces a new mobile phone model, the Nokia 6310.
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@militaryhistori Sorry, I saw too late that someone beat me to it in a reply to a reply…
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@militaryhistori Ha! It’s a Minerva automobile badge. Quite an unusual find, especially in Ukraine…
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@andyps1275 @GeorgeCochrane1 @phn16 Nonsense lettering on all the reg plates and some dodgy rooflines strongly suggest it’s AI 🙄
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@Neondancer Just to reassure you that I like to keep it real, US-style – my Model T ‘pub car’ outside my local, last week.
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@SimonCarGuy @Timoldland Back in 2010, the Transport Minister, Philip Hammond, claimed in Parliament that winter tyres ‘damaged roads’. My rant on Facebook that he didn’t know the difference between studded and winter tyres was picked up by MP Gisela Stuart, and a debate/correction recorded in Hansard!
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@Timoldland Yep. Total lack of knowledge here. They’re not just for snow 🙄
But if it does snow, anything on them works fine.
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Lots of questions asking why winters in UK:-
1. Spread tire wear
2. Will get % cost of 2nd set back come resale
3. Winters work significantly better than summer tyres below +8°C - plenty of info available online
4. They (or chains) are legal requirement in Alps during winter 1/2
Simon Lane@SimonCarGuy
Winters off. Summers on. Excellent service from @kwikfit St Albans (Hatfield Rd) who took 30 x mins and charged very reasonable £40 inc VAT for swap. Nice friendly team. Car has 25k miles but still has 5mm tread left on all 4 x original summer tyres.
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@RichardBratby It was dreadful. I remember shouting at the TV at the time!
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There was a BBC one a couple of years back but you knew they were going to mess it up; you knew exactly how they were going to mess it up; and they duly did mess it up, comprehensively.
Tim O'Neill@TimONeill007
@adrianmckinty It’s bizarre that there have been dozens of film, TV and radio adaptations of Wells’ novel, and not one of them has set it in Victorian England. Talk about missing the point of the book. The only adaptation that really gets it almost right is Jeff Wayne’s rock opera version.
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@katiemedleyy Morrisons in Evesham, Worcs, had its own much-loved cat a few years ago. After he was, sadly, run over in 2021, a memorial plaque was set into his favourite spot by the entrance.
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@hiltonholloway Remember when Clarkson said ‘a bonnet the size of Essex’ and for years afterwards it was a regular trope in road tests by younger hacks?
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In Motoring Hack land, estates are 'load luggers' and interiors are 'swathed in leather'.
Ian Leslie@mrianleslie
Why is it always, *always* "skewers"
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@william_whyte Former partner was head of HR at the Uni of Worcester; soon after starting there, she spotted a typo in a ‘what to do in case of fire’ doc that directed disabled people to assemble at the ‘refuse point’ rather than ‘refuge point’.
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@FalloonMark I’ve heard so, so many similar experiences about the RAC, not least my neighbours (Discovery 3 failed at 11.30am with wife and kids on board, RAC time kept slipping until they finally quoted 6am next day!) A friend recovered them in the end. The RAC’s reputation is utter toast.
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So at that point I started putting my own vehicle recovery in place. My car was limped into a storage yard and will be collected tomorrow, fault unknown. The kindness of a stranger got me home around 2000 and I’m £80 down. Not entirely sure what I pay my annual fee for?
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A big sarcastic thanks to the @TheRAC_UK today with whom I have been a member for well over 5 years.
My car broke down 15 miles from at around 1310. I was on the busy A41 Whitchurch Road in a lay-by. ETA for patrol 1830-2130.
At 1830 the eta slipped to between 1820-0030
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@1940Andy With my editorial hat on, I reckon that should be ‘fuckwittery’ with two ‘t’s like ‘witty’. It’s important to look professional 😉
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@markchristie @LUDENClassics I came close to buying a really, really nice Storm edition in Orange last year. Kinda wish I had, now.
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@LUDENClassics Cheated and looked it up - I was nowhere near. That’s remarkable.
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I guarantee you will not guess the mileage of this car
Matthew Tyson@TibsGTE
Without cheating, have a guess at how many miles this had done at its last MOT?
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@Marc_Allum As long as you don’t stop on that two-foot bit of tarmac, you’re safe 😉 On a more serious note, the car park by the beach that was there when I first came in 2024 has now been permanently sealed off due to the ongoing erosion.
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Couple of hours this morning on my favourite Sussex beach – which is rapidly being eroded by the sea to give strong ‘Planet of the Apes’ vibes - yielded finds ranging from a nice piece of a Roman Black Burnished Ware bowl, c140-250 AD, to a 1980s Golden Wonder crisp packet 😁
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Am reminded that it is the 7th anniversary of the last proper Geneva Show.
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