I would just like to say

[kevstar]

Just realised you posted "that recording" so we agree, it can't be the original!

1974 apparently when peeps thought brown was a great colour....

yes sir we have one in the showroom....so you'd like a brown Allegro with rank interior to match

 

[Wimblowdriver]

1974 apparently when peeps thought brown was a great colour....

yes sir we have one in the showroom....so you'd like a brown Allegro with rank interior to match

That'll be the one with a square steering wheel. Not used again until the designer got hold of the drawing board for the Freelander

 

[kevstar]

That'll be the one with a square steering wheel. Not used again until the designer got hold of the drawing board for the Freelander

 

[Wimblowdriver]

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Cool . That would have got me trotting down to the Austin dealership back in the day ------- it was next door to the Datsun dealer

 

[Stone56]

1974 apparently when peeps thought brown was a great colour....

yes sir we have one in the showroom....so you'd like a brown Allegro with rank interior to match

With a square steering wheel, went to the launch of it and are ashamed to say test drive on the day
Oops should have read to the end sorry

 

[Hippo]

Didn't watch it the first time round then ?

Probably. Remember it being on the telly when eye were a nippa. But that were years ago.

 

[DanClarke]

Morning All.
R.Knee & Hip are complaining and that is now throwing the back into spasm. Grrrr...
To make matters worse I put the bins out, hobbled round to the petrol station for a paper and found I had brought an old pound coin instead of a new one. All the way back home and then do it all again.
Now all uncomfortable and achy.
Need to get a new patio gas refill and get the wife's car washed.
Have a good day!

 

[Hippo]

Need some ideas for numbers, dots etc fo me clock, need to be 5cm if numbers but anythin will do, something different.
Used an old Mini wheel disc for the centre

12 freelander pic's around it.

 

[Wimblowdriver]

Need some ideas for numbers, dots etc fo me clock, need to be 5cm if numbers but anythin will do, something different.

12 freelander pic's around it.

I know @landowner said ANYTHING will do, but I don't think he meant Freelanders were included.

 

[landowner]

I know @landowner said ANYTHING will do, but I don't think he meant Freelanders were included.

I'm thinking now maybe it should be Mini related

 

[6pot]

As you have a irrigation system do you grow commercially or just for home use

Only for home use. Its very difficult growing much here really and the irrigation makes constant watering easier or helps make sure everything isn't dead when we come back from having been away.

 

[6pot]

Living in the Montagne Noire, so called because the mountain sides are covered in Oak trees, or pines, more recently. We do worry a bit about fires. In all the time we have holidayed here and since then lived here 6 months of the year, there have been fires. So far we have been lucky, but you do wonder how long your luck will hold out. I feel for those poor sods in the Aude. Next dept to us and we are right in the corner next to them.

And then there is the Barsteward Frog insurance which will only pay out on fire if the culprit who set the fire can be caught. I know of one couple who live in France who refuse to pay house insurance. You can kind of see why.

Yes it is a worry in a wooded area and its terrible seeing what happens when there is a fire. My favourite part of France is Landes department and it has a huge amount of pine forest, I worry about what would happen if there was a fire there.

Bemusingly most of the fires I've seen here have one border at the edge of a road suggesting it was someone chucking a fag-end out. How stupid is that in a place which is literally tinder dry by late August? They have signs up saying if you throw one out its points on your licence but its amazing anyone needs to be told not to.

I asked our insurance company about 'acts of God' claims after the flooding damage seen last year and was told there is a state fund which pays out for that kind of thing and a proportion of all house insurance premiums funds it. When we have claimed for lightning damage of electrical equipment we have had to write to Sevillana de Electricidad first to report the 'fault' and then the insurance pays us, then claims it back from Sevillana.

By the way we're driving through France next month and wondered about popping in and saying hello if you're there but if your next to Aude, sadly that is way way off our normal route...

 

[kevstar]

Anyone know what the tiles are in the pic, they are in a 1934 boat thats getting scrapped seams a shame to bin them
I was going to try n save them along with some other stuff. Its mostly teak with the owners add on poor carpentry..

One for @Stanleysteamer he was just retiring when this was launched.

 

[landowner]

Anyone know what the tiles are in the pic, they are in a 1934 boat thats getting scrapped seams a shame to bin them
I was going to try n save them along with some other stuff. Its mostly teak with the owners add on poor carpentry..

One for @Stanleysteamer he was just retiring when this was launched.

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Similar to tiles I had around my old Victorian fireplace

 

[saxavordian]

Jamie is now a happy Landrover Discovery driver since his visit to E.C.T.
If you feel you're interested in Homo Evoque magazines and concerned it's effect you. Then do something about it soon, before the urge to buy an EV Evoque.
Church of Latter Day Landyzoners
Thruxton Spollox
Mid Hamptonshire

 

[kevstar]

Similar to tiles I had around my old Victorian fireplace

Ive had a quick look for them aint got much time atm & im off out in the Waverley tonight.

 

[Stanleysteamer]

1974 apparently when peeps thought brown was a great colour....

yes sir we have one in the showroom....so you'd like a brown Allegro with rank interior to match

Well before that we had things like "Dove grey" yuk!
Then in came all the metallics, which seemed cool until the lacquer coat "went".
Car colours at the present seem to me to be totally boring.
Talk about 20 shades or is it 40? of grey. Or silver.
Or it looks like a Tonka toy in flip flop orange and summat.

 

[Stanleysteamer]

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Propah instruments though, not a ton of warning lights that tell you nothing except that you MAY need to worry about summat.
It used to be "consult your handbook, or Haynes manual", now it's "plug in your diagnostic then go see someone who MIGHT be able to help."

Those were the days!!

 

[Stanleysteamer]

Yes it is a worry in a wooded area and its terrible seeing what happens when there is a fire. My favourite part of France is Landes department and it has a huge amount of pine forest, I worry about what would happen if there was a fire there.

Bemusingly most of the fires I've seen here have one border at the edge of a road suggesting it was someone chucking a fag-end out. How stupid is that in a place which is literally tinder dry by late August? They have signs up saying if you throw one out its points on your licence but its amazing anyone needs to be told not to.

I asked our insurance company about 'acts of God' claims after the flooding damage seen last year and was told there is a state fund which pays out for that kind of thing and a proportion of all house insurance premiums funds it. When we have claimed for lightning damage of electrical equipment we have had to write to Sevillana de Electricidad first to report the 'fault' and then the insurance pays us, then claims it back from Sevillana.

By the way we're driving through France next month and wondered about popping in and saying hello if you're there but if your next to Aude, sadly that is way way off our normal route...

Yes we are in the south-east corner of the Tarn so couldn't be much closer to the Aude. Soz and all that it'd have been fun.
Never actually physically met a member on here yet although have had invites and one has watched me drive onto a ferry! Get in touch if your route goes anywhere near Mazamet or Castres. We are 3/4 of an hour from Carcassonne.

 

[Stanleysteamer]

Anyone know what the tiles are in the pic, they are in a 1934 boat thats getting scrapped seams a shame to bin them
I was going to try n save them along with some other stuff. Its mostly teak with the owners add on poor carpentry..

One for @Stanleysteamer he was just retiring when this was launched.

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You'd have to do a google pic search to see if any of the tiles are worth much, some, like the ones in old hallstands and fire surrounds can be worth stupid money.
Some people buy the old hallstands just for them. We were very lucky to get one with all the tiles intact and then to be able to transport it over here without damage. They are brown and white and the pattern is a central circle with flowers in it like you were looking down on the bowl, set inside a square on top of another square, set at 45 degrees to it. Then what looks like mosaic around it. If anyone is bovvad I'll take a pic.

Looking more closely at them, they may be worth a bit, the whole ones that is!! Looking at the backs of them you may be able to identify them more closely. via marks.