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kevstar said:
Little miss muffet fell of her tuffet when down came a spider when she was drinking some cider.....hic
All the kings horses & all the kings men had to carry her home (again) 🤣🤣
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Simple Simon met a pieman going to the fair
Said Simple Simon to the Pieman - what have you got there?

Pies you simple (choose your own word) -------
 
Wimblowdriver said:
I had an Ami 8 when I was a lad (until I swapped it for a Vauxhall Victor). Great fun car, fond memories of it. But rusted quicker than a Freelander, had to have the sills plated at 5 years old). There was an Ami 8 Super, which had a 4 cylinder 1015 engine from the Citroen GS (they had a stock of engines to use up when the GS got a bigger engine). This is a pure guess, but I reckon the Super would have used 4 bolt wheels. The Super also had floor change gear stick as opposed to the dash mounted hockey stick of the two cylinder range. Any pics of the inside of the funny car?
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My mom bought an Ami Super off the neighbour's son, who she once went out on a date with back in the 60s. He was late and she gave such a load of abuse for being so and then he apologised and said it was because he crashed his motorbike and thought he'd broken his ankle but still made the effort to walk to see her. So she 'dialed it in' a bit.
When she told me we were having a Citroen i went through the list of possible Citroens i knew about at age 14 or so and she said no to every one of them but couldn't remember what model it was, but none of the ones i'd mentioned. When it turned up i had no idea what the hell it was! It was weird1 The door handles inside were weird. The suspension was weird. It sounded weird. Went alright. Driving home one night in the dark we noticed the headlights were shining into bedroom windows! She was divorced so had to do things herself. She decided one saturday to check the oil and water. After a while she came into the house and asked me to come out and see if i could find the radiator top up tank. I couldn't find it either. So she popped over the road to get the son's telephone number to ask him where it was. He made the mistake of laughing. Mom went nuts and started yelling at him. He apologised several times until she calmed down enough for him to tell her that the engine is air cooled so she didn't need to top up the radiator because it didn't have one. I'd never heard of an air cooled engine in a car either.
We went down to London one weekend. She went to a funeral and i went train spotting. On the way back she was hot so asked me to pull the sleeve of her cardigan off her left arm while she drove. She suddenly yelped as she noticed the speedo was reading 90 mph! She was never one for speeding. A bit later on it staered to rain so on went the wipers. The passenger one squeeled when it went in one direction. After about half an hour of this noise, and both of us making jokes about it, it suddenly stopped as the blade and arm flew off the car. The errgh errgh errgh followed by sudden silence as it bounced off the roof was so funny we both cracked up for about ten minutes. And then one of us would make the noise and we'd be off again! It seemed to have the same suspension as a 2CV. When you stopped it would rock backward and forwards for a second or two. We discovered you could dial the headlights up and down which meant they aimed at the road again and not at bedroom windows. Again we didn't know that was a thing. Considering it was only 1200cc it seemed weight didn't affect it where speed was concerned. It went just as well with us three kids, mom's friend Kim and a week's worth of holiday luggage in the boot as it did with just me and mom. Eventually it got sold and it was quite sad when about fifteen years later i was touring scrapyards for parts for whatever car i had at the time i found it half stripped down. I'd have another one tomorrow. I think i've seen maybe two in the last twenty five years! I had a Dyane a few years later. That was the most funnest car i've ever owned. If i wanted to i could pretty much guarantee to get ANY passenger screaming in it and at such low speeds too!
 
Stanleysteamer said:
A few more pics possibly of interest as seem pretty rare to me, three of these in the show, I'd never seen one before.
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Fugly or what?!^^^^

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A few of these beauties.

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A fair few but so many more modern ones we were tempted to put the Pluriel on there.
Not one Jag!
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Site was biggern this, but we only stayed 45 mins. Lots of R17s, not ONE Opel, which was weird. Lots of Triumphs, TR4s etc, some Caterhams, (How they get them in the country I have no idea!)

I seem to be getting a bit bored of car shows and have no idea why. Plus we arrived at lunch time so the bar was mobbed. (2 1/2 hours driving, there and bac, for this. ) No LR vehicles at all. :(
I do have a good pic of the car's with the single back seat, I'll put it up later. Nice car, expensive as heck nowadays.

Just realised I have boobed and possibly given the rear seat game away!!
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Not seen a R17 in a long time. I think the last time was while driving through France in fact, in about 2010.
 
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