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Old 15th February 2020, 12:18
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The "Coolies" as you so delicately put it, will be assembling the microchips for the digital signals and arranging the finance for HMG to issue as Bonds. HS2 may have to introduce the snowflake generation to picks and shovels. FCUK Savid Javid has just resigned.
But who, exactly, will be foolhardy enough to invest lifetime savings or pension funds in those Bonds? The Victorians raised private finance for their railway building orgies by similar processes, issuing Bonds backed by fanciful promises that were impossible to uphold, causing much financial misery to the investors who appear to have not learnt from the South Sea bubble or Dutch Tulips. It was all very well for the Government of the day to nationalise the system after WWII while it was struggling to recover after 6 years of highly intensive operations and considerable neglect, but no new lines were built for years and the "Modernisation Program" of the 1950's was all about using imported oil that was cheaper than domestic coal supplies, and building new diesel powered locomotives that were capable of sustained high speeds on a railway that was essentially the same one built by the Victorians but designed for slower speeds and semaphore signalling systems.

No amount of bombastic hyperbole about getting things done can hide the fact that HST is an answer to a question that nobody asked.
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Old 15th February 2020, 12:41
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You can't help but wonder if Brunel and Telford and Co are turning over in their graves.

Not without first submitting an action plan, a method statement and a full risk assessment.
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Old 15th February 2020, 14:22
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You forgot the traffic cones and environmental impact statement.
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Old 16th February 2020, 14:16
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Hold hard! Surely if we having two lines on the new permanent way judicious avoidance of interconnecting points may reduce signalling requirements to a schoolboy level of sophistication while still being safe or perhaps safer. It would be interesting to see how budgets for signalling replacement on the existing mish-mash network compares with that proposed for HS2.
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Old 24th February 2020, 13:52
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Took this pix at the Earl's Court Motorcycle show back in the 70's. I came very close to signing my life away in order to buy one of these, the classic Triumph Trident 'Slippery Sam' replicas of the bike that won the TT production race 5 years in a row in the early 70's. And this against some pretty serious competition.

I wish I had now, I shudder to think what one of these would cost these days ...
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Old 22nd March 2020, 14:02
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A few more vintage vehicles to jog the memory.

A nice little Austin drop head - 8hp.
Jowett Javelin.
Armstrong Siddley Saphire.
Triumph Mayflower. My father had one of these. When you see these
old cars they were so small compared with todays models. The baby of the Renown.

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Old 22nd March 2020, 22:36
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Took this pix at the Earl's Court Motorcycle show back in the 70's. I came very close to signing my life away in order to buy one of these, the classic Triumph Trident 'Slippery Sam' replicas of the bike that won the TT production race 5 years in a row in the early 70's. And this against some pretty serious competition.

I wish I had now, I shudder to think what one of these would cost these days ...
You would have to have a very neat little bum to be comfortable on that.
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Old 21st August 2020, 10:04
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Ford GT40

Being advertised in Car & Classic is a 1967 Ford GT40, of "The Ford that beat Ferrari fame in the mid '60s.
It's very rare to find a genuine and not a kit copy for sale anywhere. When they do change hands it's usually in the £millions and this one is POA.

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Old 21st August 2020, 10:59
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We shipped one from somewhere to somewhere else I think. It seemed impossibly glamorous when it was off-loaded (non crated) and went off.

I may be pessimistic here, but I don't think "POA" means it is for my pocket.
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Ah, amazing how a pic will bring back a memory....
Changing wheels, tyres, was intended to be done with the race-pit jack. Doing the job with a standard trolley jack was a real pain, just getting the jack underneath was a two man job.
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Old 22nd August 2020, 10:52
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FJ. My guess would be £2-3mil. I sent an 'e' to the seller but he would not disclose as confidential to prospective buyers only!!

I had to buy a racing jack when I got my very low Firebird Formula 400 (6.6ltr), back in 1977 and it's been invaluable ever since. The car was very cheap and unloved with a "knock" which turned out to be a cracked flex plate.
The picture is not my car - I took very few photos back then.

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Good choice JJ. Firebirds just looked better than the Chevrolet equivalent, the Camaro. I had a friend with a Firebird when I lived in the US. My chariot back then was another Pontiac, a GTO ragtop. 400 cu.ins. of mayhem and unbridled fun with the top down.

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James Garner's car in, in, ........what was the name of the series?!
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Old 22nd August 2020, 21:43
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James Garner's car in, in, ........what was the name of the series?!
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Jeeez all this makes my Reliant Regal Van (AKA Del Boy) look a bit uncool. (I only had a bike licence, and I was starting to feel the cold.)

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Bet you wish you'd kept it.
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Old 23rd August 2020, 10:05
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I used to work with a man who's pride and joy was a Bond Bug. What a vile joke that was, I only rode in it if I had to.

What were the other 3 wheelers, when in trouble you could open the bonnet and there was a kick-start?
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Old 23rd August 2020, 19:20
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FJ. Bond Bug?

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Old 23rd August 2020, 19:22
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Good choice JJ. Firebirds just looked better than the Chevrolet equivalent, the Camaro. I had a friend with a Firebird when I lived in the US. My chariot back then was another Pontiac, a GTO ragtop. 400 cu.ins. of mayhem and unbridled fun with the top down.

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That's for you to "JUDGE" Roy.......

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Old 23rd August 2020, 19:31
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The Bond minicar had a Villiers motor bike engine mounted on the front wheel and did indeed have a kick start pedal.
Some were fitted with Dynastart and later models had a 'reversible' Dynastart so that you could make it go backwards.
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Old 23rd August 2020, 20:50
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That's for you to "JUDGE" Roy.......

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AAaaaaarrrgh, hated the "Judge". A stupid concept model inspired by Rowan and Martin's Laugh In. What the publicity guys were thinking of, only they will know. Strangely they are now collectable, with many bog standard GTO's and Tempests of that era being converted into "tribute" Judge replicas. There's no accounting for taste, especially in the USA!

Now for a fun muscle car concept, the Plymouth Road Runner was brilliant. It even had a horn that went "beep, beep," just like the bird in the cartoons.
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For "Bling" Mobiles or "Pimp my Ride", once, when visiting my sister-in-law in Philadelphia, she had to go somewhere on a weekend and arranged for me to borrow, from the Consulate, a pool car. It had been confiscated from a "drug lord". All chrome was gold plated and it was armoured. Additionally, it had diplomatic plates and couldn't get ticketed, as long as I didn't get out of the vehicle. Boy, did I draw a crowd and funny looks when I went IHOP on Saturday morning for breakfast! I think it was an 80's Le Baron, not the tops in the look stakes standard when new!
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FJ. Bond Bug?

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bond_B...orth%20factory.
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Didn't they fit some Bond Bugs with the alloy Hillman Imp engine ?
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Old 24th August 2020, 11:03
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Didn't they fit some Bond Bugs with the alloy Hillman Imp engine ?
Maybe you are thinking about the four wheel Reliant concept car based on the Bug.

My enduring memory of a Bond Bug was of one attempting to overtake me in an open area of the New Forest, when he was about level with me the front end was noticeably lifting - I thought that it was about to take off, before he dropped back.
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