What did you do today?

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The question I have to ask is, where is the other half of your Dipstick ?
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Normally in some old granny
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Visited the transport museum in Dundee today. Some nice displays but only takes about 30 minutes to see it all.
Highlight for me was a Lincoln Continental that someone must have loaned them. Sorry, no pics

The old Rav I bought a couple of weeks ago has been impressing with its mpgs.
They've been creeping up since I got it
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Drum wrote: Mon Mar 25, 2024 1:23 am Visited the transport museum in Dundee today. Some nice displays but only takes about 30 minutes to see it all.
Highlight for me was a Lincoln Continental that someone must have loaned them. Sorry, no pics

This one?
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Seems to be a local Yank club rotating some of their vehicles in and out of the Museum. They have listed this as a '61 but that's a 1962 all day long, I would imagine it was built in 1961 as a 62 model. Been airbagged too by the look. Beautiful cars, though.
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I collected my A8 from Newcastle yesterday.

For £1900 I expected it to be hanging but it's now the nicest condition car I own and my others are already half-decent.

I'm delighted with it. The 150-odd mile journey back felt like just 10 and I got 44.8mpg.
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I have a sneaking regard for those, a bloke at work bought one. Had absolutely no bother with it all the time I worked with him and he would very much have bought at the bottom of the curve. They even look decent for the age, too, a linear descendant of the 100s...
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Being the larger examples of that age of Aldi, they do seem to have mostly escaped the chavscum who run all the A3/A4s of a similar age.
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Readied myself for the coming Non-Winter season(s). Chrysler put to bed up the barn with a list of jobs on the passenger seat, most important being nailing the coolant loss but also a couple of wheel bearing advisories to look at. Van is now out and about but has developed an occasional misfire which is going to be an arse to solve unless it gets worse. Need it for some weekenders in May so I have to get on that sooner rather than later.

Cowley is now in the garden carport, the Minor is having a rest in the lock up garage. Focus recovering from its thousand-miler last week, I even liked it enough to clean it yesterday and am just loading it up for a gig this afternoon at a local over-60s club - I do a rock and roll afternoon every other month. Them grannies can dance, I tell ya!
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That A8 looks a great buy, and you can trace its history through AS and here.
Found something very similar here. Except the price.
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mercrocker wrote: Mon Mar 25, 2024 11:14 am Readied myself for the coming Non-Winter season(s). Chrysler put to bed up the barn with a list of jobs on the passenger seat, most important being nailing the coolant loss but also a couple of wheel bearing advisories to look at. Van is now out and about but has developed an occasional misfire which is going to be an arse to solve unless it gets worse. Need it for some weekenders in May so I have to get on that sooner rather than later.

Cowley is now in the garden carport, the Minor is having a rest in the lock up garage. Focus recovering from its thousand-miler last week, I even liked it enough to clean it yesterday and am just loading it up for a gig this afternoon at a local over-60s club - I do a rock and roll afternoon every other month. Them grannies can dance, I tell ya!
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