Mundane News

[Andy in Germany]

Sadly we've not found a way for ice cream and a teenage child to co-exist under the same roof for more than 30 minutes. Double cream? Though she's done a good job on that too.

It's the same with Beautiful Wife and chocolate.

 

[Andy in Germany]

When do you actually move, and are you acting as your own removal service?

Saturday, and I am my own removal service, although Middle Son has said he'll come and help.

 

[classic33]

Saturday, and I am my own removal service, although Middle Son has said he'll come and help.

You trust him on your bike?

 

[tyred]

Had a nice at a local vintage rally/classic car show today. I went on my 1963 Fordson Dexta to give it some exercise and charge the battery up. Saw some nice stuff including a rat rod 1940s Ford Prefect with an Essex V6 and IFS conversion using parts from a Reliant Scimitar

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Had a nice at a local vintage rally/classic car show today. I went on my 1963 Fordson Dexta to give it some exercise and charge the battery up. Saw some nice stuff including a rat rod 1940s Ford Prefect with an Essex V6 and IFS conversion using parts from a Reliant Scimitar

Does your Fordson Dextra look like this? I hardly understood a word of your post so I Googled it.

 

[tyred]

Does your Fordson Dextra look like this? I hardly understood a word of your post so I Googled it.
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Close. That's an earlier model. Mine is the last of the line "High Performance" Super Dexta with 44.5 horse power. They also revised the styling and changed colours. This is mine.

 

[Reynard]

I have washed my hair.

Now for a and MOTD

 

[tyred]

Today was also the first time in many years that I saw one of these on the back window. I still can't work what the point was.

 

[Reynard]

Today was also the first time in many years that I saw one of these on the back window. I still can't work what the point was.

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For some reason, I always remember seeing them on Ford Granadas...

 

[classic33]

Had a nice at a local vintage rally/classic car show today. I went on my 1963 Fordson Dexta to give it some exercise and charge the battery up. Saw some nice stuff including a rat rod 1940s Ford Prefect with an Essex V6 and IFS conversion using parts from a Reliant Scimitar

Why can't you use a car like nearly everybody else?

 

[Jenkins]

Can you have a breakaway group go off the back of a peleton ?

I would have to form a different breakaway that found a flatter route as I don't do hills. Or one that found a more scenic route

 

[Reynard]

I would have to form a different breakaway that found a flatter route as I don't do hills.

You and me both.

I'd still be at the back, though.

 

[PeteXXX]

Why can't you use a car like nearly everybody else?

One can flatten more cones in a tractor 🚜

 

[tyred]

For some reason, I always remember seeing them on Ford Granadas...

That was on an early Corolla but the car I would associate them with was the Hillman Avenger.

 

[classic33]

One can flatten more cones in a tractor 🚜

There is that I suppose.