So would it be a second car? Because I totally get the isolated and the need for spare transport.
Many cars would have trouble with 500mm of snow TBH.
A quad and small trailer would "pay for itself" too, plus the fun, and it could go to the village if needed.
Thats my man math done, Have you seen our quad?
.J
Stone56
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Would be a second mode of transport haven't seen your quad have thought about them as we could get road legal ones new for 3kSo would it be a second car? Because I totally get the isolated and the need for spare transport.
Many cars would have trouble with 500mm of snow TBH.
A quad and small trailer would "pay for itself" too, plus the fun, and it could go to the village if needed.
Thats my man math done, Have you seen our quad?
J
Stone56
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Big clean up today leaves are starting to fall but nice warm sunny day W been busy canning tomes pickling chillies tomorrow will pull the beetroot should keep her busy some rotavating done for winter crops chessnut tree's doing well from nuts planted in spring hope the storm is not to bad over there we have missed all the rain here so no flooding as yet
I scooted past a lot of it looking for specific pics, but William Towns did make a load of funny kit cars, a lot of which were real boxy.
Hustler (car) - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
I spent a load of time looking for the Mini Marcoses until I finally clicked on the last page and found them there but not named in the link I clicked on. They used to use Cortina Mk1 rear lights, which I loved.
That looks like kit car pope mobile
So would it be a second car? Because I totally get the isolated and the need for spare transport.
Many cars would have trouble with 500mm of snow TBH.
A quad and small trailer would "pay for itself" too, plus the fun, and it could go to the village if needed.
Thats my man math done, Have you seen our quad?
J
& a snow mobile for when the white stuff comes......... Snow now peeps get yer minds oot the gutter.
Stone56
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Did you get its head to if just the body thay don't move ?
DevonGuy
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Been a tough year with these little horrors. We get lots of deer ticks which get enormous. Trick is to wait until they’re nicely full and then get them when they’re less keen on the job. Then chuck them on the woodstove and watch them pop. Unfortunately they don’t scream in agony, which would be an added bonus.Yup got the whole fing oot.
Ho! Ho! There is an even worse one which really does look like a Popemobile and was nicknamed as such.That looks like kit car pope mobile
I'll have to have a look whan I've got a mo!
Don't mean much. I know it isn't in the "roolz" but if I am in any doubt at all when I have to take one off any of ours I give it a little douse with white spirit first which seems to make them let go then you can be more sure of getting the whole thing off, which is what you really need to do.
We don't have a problem in the Uk in the dark 6 months, but in Frogland, especially this year, we pay for the expensive "one for three months" pills which seem to sort the problem out. But we have seen far more ticks this year than in a normal year.
Bin working our backsides off these last coupla days.
When chatting to a bloke on another thread I went out to check the colour of my coolant and discovered a flipping rodent has been living in the lining of the bonnet of the D2.
This is the second signs of a rodent I have had this year on the D2, the first being signs of one having lived in the bigger of the two seats on the second row. I suspected that this started when I took it off and left it in the box trailer in the UK, (for the MOT, shhhhh!)
Saw a very small dried up corpse of one and thought little of it. The only signs were of the stuffing, if you can call it that, having "leaked" out around where the hinge mounts are.
But this second little son of a female dog got me more bothered as the last thing I want is one lunching on my wiring. So I took the lining down and removed the nest. It even contained bits of till receipt from a local supermarket and I don't even leave those things lying around in the car, so where he got that from I have no idea. Too chewed up to be able to make out the date!
I have owned cars since 1972 and this is the first time, well two times, that there have been signs of meeces in any of my cars.
Lesson learned, start the cars up and drive them around a bit, a bit more often!
When chatting to a bloke on another thread I went out to check the colour of my coolant and discovered a flipping rodent has been living in the lining of the bonnet of the D2.
This is the second signs of a rodent I have had this year on the D2, the first being signs of one having lived in the bigger of the two seats on the second row. I suspected that this started when I took it off and left it in the box trailer in the UK, (for the MOT, shhhhh!)
Saw a very small dried up corpse of one and thought little of it. The only signs were of the stuffing, if you can call it that, having "leaked" out around where the hinge mounts are.
But this second little son of a female dog got me more bothered as the last thing I want is one lunching on my wiring. So I took the lining down and removed the nest. It even contained bits of till receipt from a local supermarket and I don't even leave those things lying around in the car, so where he got that from I have no idea. Too chewed up to be able to make out the date!
I have owned cars since 1972 and this is the first time, well two times, that there have been signs of meeces in any of my cars.
Lesson learned, start the cars up and drive them around a bit, a bit more often!
Here is the one.That looks like kit car pope mobile
see this:
‘Ahead of its time’: wooden car goes under the hammer in Bath
Hustler DIY kit car was crafted by former Rolls-Royce engineer and school woodwork teacher in 1980s
And I know the school the guy taught in, it was pretty rough!
Didn't realise that Towns designed the Aston Martin Lagonda. I remember seeing it at the Earls Court Motor show when it first came out, so that must have been in the early 70s,
It didn't catch on.
Correction, what I must have seen was the mark 2 version the really "folded paper" design by William Towns. I love the fact that the digital instrumentation development cost more than that for the rest of the car!
"The Lagonda was the first production car to use a digital instrument panel.[7] The development cost for the electronics alone on the Lagonda came to four times as much as the budget for the whole car."
en.wikipedia.org
Didn't realise that Towns designed the Aston Martin Lagonda. I remember seeing it at the Earls Court Motor show when it first came out, so that must have been in the early 70s,
It didn't catch on.
Correction, what I must have seen was the mark 2 version the really "folded paper" design by William Towns. I love the fact that the digital instrumentation development cost more than that for the rest of the car!
"The Lagonda was the first production car to use a digital instrument panel.[7] The development cost for the electronics alone on the Lagonda came to four times as much as the budget for the whole car."
