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Turktowner said:
Yankee Doodle Dandie?
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Ladies in the works cafeteria used to say "what you having for lunch Jimmy?" LOL
At the next job I had a Manager ask me to sit down and not turn around and then he brought the sales team in one by one and asked them what they thought and the all went oh yeah that's uncanny. Eventually I turned round to see he had put Jimmy Cagney on a big screen behind me. LOL
 
Stanleysteamer said:
How do peeps fell about Ant Anstead? I find I am a bit "Marmite" about him.
Been watching the "Born mechanic" thing, a bit because the first car he did was a Dolly Sprint nearly exactly the same as mine, although mine was the same colour it didn't even have the MOD gearbox, too early.

But just watched him lose money on a fairly lovely Jag XJS.
Where is Mike Brewer when you need him?!
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Pretty sure he aint a mechanic but did restore cars as a business, no keen on him tbh I likes Guy Martin.
 
Stanleysteamer said:
No idea where the joke is in all that!
Maybe someone will eggsplain? 🤣
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In the "Swinging" 60's an indicator that the residents of a house were into the "swinging" lifestyle was the planting of a Pampas Grass in the front garden. Much like bored Army wives and their packet of OMO in the front window.
 
kevstar said:
Pretty sure he aint a mechanic but did restore cars as a business, no keen on him tbh I likes Guy Martin.
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Edd China did a degree in engineering product design, then went off making bonkers things like the motorised sofa, office, supermarket trolley etc, his book, Grease Junkie, is a real good read and explains why he left WD. I liked him because he was a real human being and not a bad mechanic, although possibly not as good a fabricator as the other two.

Ant Anstead has a harder edge to him, used to be a copper, keeps getting married and divorced (!) but has a long association with building cars starting when he was 16 which must account for why he fabricates well. No professional qualifications as a mech. Done loads of stuff on TV. which might account for why I am not so keen on him. It was only on reading up on him that I realised how much TV he has done.

"Elvis" Priestley I like, he really knows his stuff and does more machining than any of the others which makes me think he must have some sort of training in it. I like him because he is less up himself than some!

Guy Martin is a real one off, and comes from my part of the country, so his bluntness and semi-silliness reminds me of me! I like him too.
 
Stanleysteamer said:
Edd China did a degree in engineering product design, then went off making bonkers things like the motorised sofa, office, supermarket trolley etc, his book, Grease Junkie, is a real good read and explains why he left WD. I liked him because he was a real human being and not a bad mechanic, although possibly not as good a fabricator as the other two.

Ant Anstead has a harder edge to him, used to be a copper, keeps getting married and divorced (!) but has a long association with building cars starting when he was 16 which must account for why he fabricates well. No professional qualifications as a mech. Done loads of stuff on TV. which might account for why I am not so keen on him. It was only on reading up on him that I realised how much TV he has done.

"Elvis" Priestley I like, he really knows his stuff and does more machining than any of the others which makes me think he must have some sort of training in it. I like him because he is less up himself than some!

Guy Martin is a real one off, and comes from my part of the country, so his bluntness and semi-silliness reminds me of me! I like him too.
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DanClarke said:
In the "Swinging" 60's an indicator that the residents of a house were into the "swinging" lifestyle was the planting of a Pampas Grass in the front garden. Much like bored Army wives and their packet of OMO in the front window.
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Well that is hilarious cos when I met W she had a pampas grass in front of her place.
And in France we have a whole row of them down one side of our land!
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Neither of us had ever heard of this thing.
They, her and her ex, had planted it to try and stop the clumsy old dear who lived next door driving over their lawn.
It didn't work very well. By the time she and I got together and moved back into her place we had decided to build a low wall with a reinforced pillar opposite her garage, that worked! So the whole lawn flower beds and pampas came out. Lots of lovely room for our motors!!
 
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