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wannabeeahack
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Pimp my wringer!

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wannabeeahack wrote:
Flash!

Pimp my wringer!


Pimp it? I couldn't move it. Bloody thing weighed about three-quarters of a ton!

Beautiful piece of engineering, though.
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I remember 5 park drive for 6d, my A reg first time round wolseley 1660, the wind up gramophone :shock:
Lost in space and the whole series of Dickson of doc green
Muffin the mule the wooden tops :shock: :lol:
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foot operated singer sowing machine
dad had a Commer Cob

then an anglia reg 272 MOK "spruce green" (my memory seems ok!)

first car a viva LRF 113F

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no, actually my first car was a pedal car
i think it was an austin

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i had a trike before that, and put the cat in the boot/carrier thing




for 3 days

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Captain Pugwash, Roger the Cabin Boy & Seaman Staines too!!

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I think you lot should be drawing your pensions ffs. My earliest memory of children's tv was Pipkins with top off the monkey in it :D It says I'm still young but I know I'm not so I must just be having a memory lapse :lol:

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I think you lot should be drawing your pensions ffs. My earliest memory of children's tv was Pipkins with top off the monkey in it :D It says I'm still young but I know I'm not so I must just be having a memory lapse :lol:


or amnesia :lol:

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I think you lot should be drawing your pensions ffs. My earliest memory of children's tv was Pipkins with top off the monkey in it :D It says I'm still young but I know I'm not so I must just be having a memory lapse :lol:


or amnesia :lol:

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That's rich coming from you :lol: :lol: :lol: it's one in the same thing anyway :wink:

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That's rich coming from you :lol: :lol: :lol: it's one in the same thing anyway :wink:


I'm just really slow :shock:

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That's rich coming from you :lol: :lol: :lol: it's one in the same thing anyway :wink:


I'm just really slow :shock:

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Slow is good :wink: Well it's certainly better than old :lol:

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Brummie Cabbie wrote:
Captain Pugwash, Roger the Cabin Boy & Seaman Staines too!!


wasnt there one called "Master Bates" as well
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Head lights dimmer switches on the floor.
Ignition switches on the dashboard.
Trouser leg clips for bicycles without chain guards.
Soldering irons you heat on a gas burner.
Using hand signals for cars without turn signals.



And

Steering Column Gear Shifts

BSF, BSC and Whitworth Threads on Bolts.

Cars without Windscreen washers

And ford populars with vacuum powered wipers..the Faster you drove the slower they wiped..
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wannabeeahack wrote:
Head lights dimmer switches on the floor.
Ignition switches on the dashboard.
Trouser leg clips for bicycles without chain guards.
Soldering irons you heat on a gas burner.
Using hand signals for cars without turn signals.



And

Steering Column Gear Shifts

BSF, BSC and Whitworth Threads on Bolts.

Cars without Windscreen washers

And ford populars with vacuum powered wipers..the Faster you drove the slower they wiped..


I have got 3 cars with column change now!

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bloodnock wrote:
wannabeeahack wrote:
Head lights dimmer switches on the floor.
Ignition switches on the dashboard.
Trouser leg clips for bicycles without chain guards.
Soldering irons you heat on a gas burner.
Using hand signals for cars without turn signals.



And

Steering Column Gear Shifts

BSF, BSC and Whitworth Threads on Bolts.

Cars without Windscreen washers

And ford populars with vacuum powered wipers..the Faster you drove the slower they wiped..



oh god.....id forgotten them......lol (and AF )

I know a motor racing swedish guy who was asked why he had Imperial spanners and replied "cos you guys won the war didnt you"

how bloody true

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