with spring starting to spring, daffodils coming out and the weather kinda picking up the time has come to start to think about getting the miniture cars out of the garage. and also to start to think about what downgrades are needed to them. with that in mind i have taken the plunge and bought a sta...

Fiat 500 - gayest little car in the village
Toyota Avensis - pensioner express, not quite given up on life, but getting close.
Mini's - mingbag motoring in a moving fossil of a car, times 2.
Metro - mingbag motoring in a forgotten fossil of a car.

in town this morning, top entitled cunt level achieved......

today i've been and taken the orange Mini over to the storage spot for winter. the tax is up at the end of the month and i won't be using the car again this year, so i've been and put it away until the spring. its now parked up next to a Range Rover classic, and a Manta A. both are resto projects, o...

i had one on Saturday when shopping in Morrison's in Redcar. we went in Cocopop cos, well, why not, and its on the way home from Hartlepool. now in Morrisons there is 2 story concrete carpark, and we always park on the ground under cover, and if possible next to the zebra crossing/walkway bit so i o...

the tour around the Trincomalee is excellent and runs the full length of the ship, the gun deck, the keel and though both powder magazines just like the tour of the Victory also covers the whole ship. it is certainly worth a visit if you are interested in history or like ships. the odd Renner migrai...

this weekend i went to Hartlepool, both by my own free will, and not to buy some exploding trousers. cos the weather is still ok, i took Cocopop. we actually went over there to see the toy trains on show at the Technical College. i dunno why there is a Jet Provost in the car park, but there is. ther...

SiC wrote: ↑Fri Oct 14, 2022 9:00 pm Are any v12 easy to own?

I guess possibly the yank ones when run in the USA.

nope. the yanks tend to prefer to pull the V12 out and replace it with some big block V8 instead.

the V12 is too complicated and fragile for them, even when they can afford the fuel!

oh now that is a sweet looking little thing, vamillion (or is it blaze, they kinda both look the same to me) paint, a webasto sun top, 10 inch revolution 4-spokes and a button steering wheel, just how i like to remember a lot of the Mini's running about in my youth!

no sadly not! its over at Kerry's and i haven't taken any recent pictures of it, but just for you have uploaded some from the summer.

which as its now dark and clod and seemingly wet all the time, cos well, winters coming (as is Christmas) seems like suck a LONG time ago!!