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A foreign advert, perhaps South Africa? I'm assuming that over here that'd be a 1275GT?

For those who aren't aware or are new to this there are places dotted around the UK where you can go and try out various adaptations to see if any are suitable. Motability can put you in touch with them if needed.

Even better where the wheelchair seat itself transfers! Honestly BB we have had 20 years of this illness and we've looked into all adaptions and ruled out most of them. Perhaps I wouldn't be as bias against suvs if it wasn't that motability, manufacturers and many other people think they are God's gift to us. They have serious shortcomings but no-ones listening and they continue to be pushed on us! Sorry, major thread drift, I apologise, it just gets to me when people say you should get an suv!!

Or we may have actually gone and tried them, as we have done! ;) Bear in mind that just getting in and out is only part of our requirements, there's also boot capacity for the multitude of things we have to carry. Small SUVs are notoriously small in that area, even many medium hatchbacks tend to be bigger. Style over substance, the designers have won over the engineers.

When comparing scales I feel that its "volume" that makes the difference rather than lengths. Look at the photos of the locos which show the bulk of the various models. An easy one to see is to compare an N scale building alongside an 00 one, they are massively different, TT comes in the middle so has the best of both worlds.

£1.60 a litre for petrol?!! I take it that it was written a while ago, at £1.85 it would work out at £34.78, virtually the same as the EV.

You can still get them, but they aren't cheap! You can also get a fitting which goes on the seat and twists round but that requires the user to have full use of their core muscles as they have to twist their body when using it.

Only three diesel/electric chassis, though, Keith, I was thinking more about steam loco chassis!

That's an interesting point, there certainly are some suitable chassis around in 12mm gauge but they come as a complete locos! I'm not sure how (for instance) Tillig work regards their manufacture whether they could be persuaded to manufacture and sell chassis separately. Though it has to be said the market would be very small!

How much range did you have in it when you stopped to charge, or were you right on the limit? Whilst I agree to a certain extent the post you replied to was talking about SUVs which are different in that you have to "climb" into them like most 4x4s. My wife cannot climb into any car (we checked out an SUV at our last change), so the answer to your question is that "not everyone has the same requirements"! In our case we are very concerned about the manufacturer's strong leanings towards SUVs and Motability's (in our case) pushing of them but at least Ian will be happy! ;)

Formula One... (Stock Cars) Well there's nothing else happening and its more interesting than reading about Horners latest moan!!

Certainly the ones I saw were, but they were in the late 70s when BB was top dog in F2. Pitcher was the reigning F2 world champion in early 1974 so the choice was logical. Smithy was 72 WC and runner up to Dave Chisholm in 73.

Trevor Redmond promoted it, Markku Alen was the Rally Driver in the match race with Smithy, Lee and Tom Pitcher (F2) all in Ford Escorts. 29 June 1974.

It probably was Parker, it was his style, I wasn't there but I think you are right. He also set up a match race between F1 and F2 stockcars. Smithy was the F1 driver can't remember who the F2 driver was but he was from the South West and was a top driver. That was the days of F2s using full race 1300cc engines and the F2 ran rings round the F1. The track was White City, Manchester, and was tarmac which suited the F2.

Maybe, but he'd have to be a bit more subtle about it, even in stock cars deliberate fencing isn't allowed! ;)

Just a little bit of a contact sport, though not as much as it was! Though I think the F1s would come out top these days, SR71, certainly when I started watching them back in the 70s the F2s were quicker but not now, they did some F1 vs F2 lap times a few years ago and the F1s were now faster. The F1 chassis have caught up with F2s and the tyres they use are more racing than the road ones they used to use, not to mention the racing spec V8 up front! If it were Hot Rods I'd have said Lewis, but with an F2/Superstox it'll be whoever learns quickest how to dispose of the car in front with the bumpers!

I'm sure he is an intelligent chap and can think for himself... ;)

Whilst I accept that ( it's also what I said!) he still must take a lot of the blame, there is such a thing as taking personal responsibility for his actions and he'll have seen enough in the press to realise what others think of his driving, together with the odd time he's been penalised.

I'm afraid that I do, someone has described him as a bully, and that's just the way I see him. I won't deny that he's a fast driver but his over aggressive driving removes any chance of him ever being regarded as the best, regardless of the results he gets. Considering his age I feel that his bullying mentality should have gone by now if it was ever going to, as it hasn't... Several other great drivers have had their reputation ruined by over aggressive (bullying) driving, Schumacher being the best known, in Max's case it's not helped by a team leader that fawns all over him and never admits that he is in the wrong, and by poor and inconsistent stewarding.

Compromise probably!

No, I don't know of any either, though even though H0n3 is used to represent 3ft gauge (hence the "3") it could also be used to represent 900mm gauge which is quite common in Europe, the Molli being the best example. I've not seen that modelled (though no doubt it has been!) so i don't know of they used 9mm or 12mm gauges!

I was making the comment that your solution (enclosing the track either fences as Monaco) doesn't work. They need a deterent but one that doesn't lead to broken cars if they exceed limits, fencing is not the solution as Monaco shows.

Yes and there's no racing at all, just a high speed procession.

I'm pretty sure that's what Rolt said!

When the use of CCTV is extensive, i suspect many of these crimes will have been caught on camera and could be prosecuted, if there was the will from the promoters.