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£1.80 to drive the Spartan over last year, but it was well worth the money to see the look of horror on some peoples faces:-D.

Some photos of the inside of XL426 for those that are interested.

Spent a pleasant day with the VRT at Southend Airport on Sunday. Now I want one, its Bigger and makes more noise than my other toys!

Drive it, got to use up my fair share of the worlds petrol reserves!

Not Scary Jack F@%*$NG irritating, lost a fair bit of hair off my hands and arms trying to suffocate the fire with a blanket before self preservation made me shut the bonnet and in finest tradition RUN AWAY! Neil (Have you had a chance to review the actual extent of the damage yet Nigel?? ) There is nothing plastic or rubber left under the bonnet :cry: the engine will need close inspection, unfortunately the bonnet release didn't and so trumpton needed to use their largest pry bar to gain access, their hose nozzle also made some interesting dents in the wing tops:argh:(not their fault really they did need to put the fire out after all). Then there is the matter of having lake Windermere pumped into the car flooding it up to sill level (getting in to steer it on to the recovery lorry was fun! and got better when the car started up the incline and I got all the water hiding in the dash deposited on my lap - laugh I nearly pissed myself). Many thanks for the well wishes and commiserations, information on the possible location of spares etc but for now I am awaiting the insurance assessor and the “it’s only worth fifty quid mate it’s an old car” bun fight that’s sure to follow:(.

Merrily on my way to get an MOT yesterday morning. Filled up with petrol, car purring along nicely when cough---cough splutter---splutter------------BANG! (nice misfire) followed by loss of power, luckily I was near a bus stop and managed to pull off the road then:-- BUGGER! sorry vince you and your good lady will need to wait a while for our ride out!

Hi Joris, am trying to edit & upload but you will all need to be patient as my computor is not recognising my video file format:banghead:. Mark I will try again at the weekend and if i fail again I shall send you an un-edited copy with all the boring bits :sleep:.

Mark I have Video of the car tug-o-war, pm me address and your choice of dvd+ or dvd- an I shall send you a copy.

Going next week for a look at the beaches and to say thanks.

Remember the 60 mile smile Vince:-D the 60 mile smile:cool2:

So they work then:-D.

My Spartan - Coz it's MINE!

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Vince, the whole CVRTs'R'Us shopping experience is great fun but such a distraction:shocked:it takes hours just to pick up a couple of simple bits. Must phone Andy about some bits and pop up for a chat:)

I did same reasoning as agripper, oh well. However I have found Andy and the boys helpful and a good source of spares:). Chris you still want a new in box Ferret radiator?