Tony B

What do you mean Cyprus? UK can be just as bad, three hot days and a hosepipe ban. :-D

You could add one third at least for a male. Why I don't know. Females can be just as stupid behind the whel as males.

:-DUnless it has been chewed up, gritted and driven over. Then it ends up looking more like the product of Ex Lax! :-\

Insurance for young males is phenonamly expensive.The starting quotes are well over a thousand pounds!!

I've seen clips of the show. The people who operate the horse are astounding. I've been involved with horses since age three, and they impressed me!

101 is everything the Hummer tried to be. :nono:

Yes, no problem jumping from 12 volt. No need to disconnect battery. Just touch on and take off as soon as it starts. Make sure all the lights or other accessories are switched off.

Briitish car insurance, and I belive its an EEC requirment, will cover you to drive your vehicle abroad for up to ninety days. Though some companys insist you tell them if you are going abroad.

Well it was a very spectcular skid!:-D At least he got out of the traffic on the roof!

If you want a V8, go for a Stage one. I've gone back to a 2A 109 ex military. The old 101 ambulance was nice, but a pig to keep running.

Hey Tony, why not try a scale model Havachuck aircraft carrier to go with the Weaseal?:-D

LGV catergory is now C, you then do a trailer entilment +E for artics. So as a rigid you need C. As you are NOT doing the driving profesionally you wont need the Driver's CPC. You need HMSO LGV Theory anmd LGV drivers manaul. You will ned a medical before the provisional is granted, and to atke a Hazard perception and theory test. The theory/hazard lasts two years. Get that done before the practical. The system for training used to be 1 Training and one test 2 Training and a number of tetst at extra cost. Most places that train should give you an assesment before the course. If the Foden is auto you can dio an auto only test. Your licence would be marked with 78 on the catergory.Better to do a manaual as that covers auto anyway.

You can quite easily stick a 2.8 Isuzui in a Range Rover. Bit of efort with a grinder on the bell housing to get the startwer in. And Boy do they go. Best of all worlds.

Douing 60mph through a river. Followed by about five hours sorting out electrics, when it finally decided to stop! :-D Bet it wasn't at night. If the lights had been working before, they wouldn't be afterwards. If you do give in to insanity, join the 101 club, you'll need them for parts.

A packet of Smash, and the Baby's head (Single helping Fray Bentos Steack and Kidney pudding)

Or call Trumpton!! They had an Ariel out in the high street Orpington on Friday. Taking down icicles and snow of roofs, plus collapsed guttering, unsafe scaffold.

[sorry mate! Olaf it's been a looong week! :blush:

Yeah well they won't get that one! :-D My Volvo sat under snow for a week, then kicked over and started first time. I'm still going to use the Discovery though till there is a marked improvment. Cold freezing fog all day. Feels colder than any day last week! :shake:

Not our bunch Joris. Due to various wrangaling, over money of course, the fleet was only of the road last Wednesday. Hasn't been much safer any other day, but if the wheels don't turn the company don't earn. It's the driver ends up with any fines or points on their licence.

Conversions can be done. Value of a conversion would depend on how much you want to use it. The hard top versions were the Radio and ambulance , or very rarely the Vampire. Though I would say, they are a vehicle that need a lot off dedication to keep running.

Now they are nice!

You'd lose!! Belive me Mon V, there have been some clowns out there with windscreens and roofs covered in snow. I saw one car with the roof laden come up to a junction at at stupid speed. They then realised the car in front of me was at the junction on the main road, braked hard. The snow on the roof went sliding off straight into the path of the other vehicle, in large lumps. The second car hit the lumps and went into a slide. Fortunatley no one hurt. The $%^&** who caused it? Span round onto the road and skidded off with tyres squealing.

Bl**dy carefully!!! The best conditions are rough brocken ice, at least you have some traction. Allow anywhere up to ten times your usual stopping distance. Move off in a higher gear than usual, and don't get heavy on the right foot. Never go faster than than stopping allows. Try and stay on the top of the camber, but be prepared even if at a complete standstill with hand brake set for teh vehicle to start sliding under its own weight. Assume every other road user is a paranoid manaiac out to get you.

Our local Trumpton had a great job on Friday. They had to get an Ariel into Orpington High Street to clear icicles and unsafe roof loads.

It is stupid things that help. Tom and I readjusted a windscren wiper for a neighbour. Citreon wanted £75 for him to bring it to the gagarge so they could look at it, Then a minimum of £75, plus parts to fix it! All for five minutes work! I'm in the wrong buissnes.