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The brakes of my Rover Mk8 have been overhauled (under my strict supervision, of course) by a couple of guides (11 years old) as a requirement to get their mechanics badge... ... now the car brakes correctly and straight!!!!!! Andrea

Wow! That's nice!!! In my uni (in Italy) i put on an automated epidemiology surveillance system a troubleshooting section and named it "System Help Instruction Table". Still no one has yet noticed the abbreviation..... 8-) And another coupla italian ones: F.I.A.T = Fix It Again Tony A.L.I.T.A.L.I.A. = Always Late In Takeoff Always Late In Arrival (and noone wants to buy it, too!!!!) Andrea

'nuff said? Andrea

Yesss... there seems to be someth8ng with the website and hotlinks. If any of you will have patience to cut and paste the link will have the pleasure to see a nice way to park a tank.

maybe it's a picture already known, but it's impressive. http://www.micom.net/oops/on_the_face.jpg[/img] Andrea

As an Italian former Guzzista I always loved the V50. Expecially shifting down gears quickly and trying to control the jumps that the cardan transmission made the rear wheel do. The good thing with the old Guzzi twins was that the colder the weather the better they performed! Andrea

Surely they'll literally get caught, at least according to this old thread: http://historicmilitaryvehicles.com/index.php?option=com_smf&Itemid=38&topic=3381.0 Andrea

Definitely kids. When I won't be no longer able to drive my olive painted toys, no dogs will... Andrea

It all depends on the need for type approval or not for the "hooks" on the vehicle. I've made on an agricoltural vehicle a few fixings to fasten solidly a child seat with its own belts for my three years old daughter. I'd do the same on my rover 8, but being the fixing point not "type approved", i could weld the child seat on the frame and the Banania Police Forces wouldn't be happy all the same. Andrea

I'd fancy a VM90 or a Centauro..... Andrea

Depends on how deep you need the engraving and the level of detail you need. A possibility is to apply strong adhesive plastic to the parts that need to remain raised then have a go with a sandblaster.... Andrea

I can see no landies in the picture, but i can spot some oil drippings under the vegetables collections. where there's an oilleak there's also Solihull's finest :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D Andrea

I second this proposal! Andrea

Something used before D-day just to confuse axis observers? Andrea

I wish I could, but I am in Italy, it would be a nice journey with the Rover8, but I fear that SWTSMBO wouldn't approve. Maybe next year. Andrea

Better good old rope, or you'd have to cut the cable ties every time you'll need the sprog to do some errand.... ...just to retie them when they finished. (at least this is how we do here with the scouts) Andrea

As a Hebrew speaker (although not as fluent as I would like) I can confirm that it's no Hebrew therefore I suppose that IDF never used that MUTT. Andrea

Four years ago a middle aged man was thinking he was smart enough to overtake a queue of vehicles, but when he saw a bus coming the opposite way he squeezed at the back of my UAZ 469, obviously without a proper distance. That was the moment the queue came to a stop... Final score: UAZ 469 - flakes of paint coming away from the Warsav tow hitch. Fiat Uno to the wrecker; Driver's wife to the hospital (she wasn't wearing seatbelts and tested the laminated windscreen with her skull); driver without license. Luckily two cars behind mine there was a Land Rover of the Carabinieri who saw everything... I love my Land Rovers but I still miss the UAZ... Andrea

Well, a few years ago I rode around Milan a sidecar with a "Regio Esercito" (Italian Royal Army) registration plate... And we are a Republic since 1946!!!!! Police around were waving and cheering but no one stopped me.... Andrea

Not necessarily. They rust as any other car of the seventies, but the gauge of the body panels make them easy to restore. Engine and drivetrain are even simpler than Land Rovers' one! Andrea

I'd go for a galvy one then paint it black.... Andrea

I am pretty sure I've already read about this somewhere, is there anything like a table with the different UK military registration numbers and their year of issue? A literature reference,too, would be useful. Andrea

I love the kid's Land rover! Is it custom made or commercially available? Andrea

I agree 100%, on my Rover 8 the screw jack is kept only for display purposes. In the event of a flat tyre I'd use the bottle jack. I don't agree with the use of hi-lifts however because they can drop the car in a very spectacular and dangerous way.... Andrea

20th of September 1870. The Bersaglieri regiment breaks the walls of Rome at Porta Pia, putting an end to the temporal power of the Pope and making rome the capital of Italy. Andrea