MrWolf

He really should be in the running for a Goldsmith's Prize for fiction writing.

I'm afraid it's going to be one of my home brewed contraptions using a variety of materials, it will have a cast chassis and as much steel shot as can be crammed into the body. I spring loaded my Beyer 0-4-4 trailing bogie with a bent piece of music wire from the offset pivot to the centre of the bogie, which stops it doing it's own thing when reversing over points.

A lot of end loading docks had metal plates that were hinged to drop down over buffers onto the end of the wagon, usually hinged back to lay flat on the platform when not in use. Some were completely removable.

A bit of fixing up and removal of the black paint (Dulux applied using next door's cat as a brush?) and it would actually look pretty good. Not £175 good though.

Would it be contentious for me to respond with: Whereas politicians would prefer us to be sheep.. ? 😁

I used to have a similar problem with dogs.

And the next part of the song line "in your long black limousine" was not a reference to a 1961 Cadillac Fleetwood either...

I wish someone had told me that four years ago. I have too many* of both... *Although they're like panniers, N=X+1

2CV's and the original Ami 6 are great. Even 007 got a lift in one when his Lotus did its usual party trick of catching fire. This clip always reminds me of when we were trying to find our way out of Bradford in the Herald, not long after Miss R passed her test... https://youtu.be/DB9-NU7iRkw?si=7rvM4b_UKvHtaAyY

Great job Neal and something different from all those prairie tank variants. If and when I can get back to The Bench of Bodge I have a 2-4-2T in the pipeline and seeing your County up and running is making me more determined to see it through.

I remember someone similar who demolished a telephone pole with a new Mazda RX doing just that. As often happens he was walking wounded, she died at the scene.

No. The forward gunner does it. 🤪 Fortunately, the car is only sixty inches wide across the bumpers, so "the controls are within comfortable reach" as the Autocar reviews used to say.😆

Such a confusing array of switches on the Triumph...

I rather like scary old electrical items, like this one which lurks in our living room. Rewired, cleaned and tested by my brother in law, a former aircraft engineer, it's absolutely fine. The components are so heavy duty, you'd have to look inside a modern military radio to find anything similar.

But not those bubble switches used on 80s and 90s Fords, replace rear fog light switch every MOT.

If you work with your hands as I do, you'd find that touch screens are an absolute pain in the backside, everything from your phone and tablets to cash machines and cars. They can't always sense fingers that are in any way dry or calloused, only soft and slightly damp ones. Like a tree frog with a desk job. As for touch screens on motorcycles, pull up somewhere safe, take off your gloves... You get the idea. I prefer clunky switches.

"Self-Drive Cars and You: A History Longer than You Think" https://velocetoday.com/self-drive-cars-and-you-a-history-longer-than-you-think/

Today's amusement was provided by the 20mph zone in the next village. As it's a twisting, narrow road with high stone retaining walls and various 300+ year old buildings directly on the road side which has been the site of numerous fatalities, I don't find it as ridiculous as most. There's signs, red bands of tarmac and big white 20 symbols on the road and recently humps have been added. We were driving along at twenty (about 22-23 on the clap-o-meter) and behind us was a P.O.S. old VW Polo driven by a potato head and behind that a large Mercedes. The Polo decided to overtake us and as he got alongside pulled a stupid face at Miss Riding Hood in the driver's seat. She didn't hit the horn or swear at him, just pointed calmly ahead at the rapidly approaching blind left hander. Cue panicked acceleration from the potato head as we and the Mercedes braked and waited for the bang. Lucky for him the Polo got around the corner and away. The memsahib didn't say a word, just made a gesture with her little finger which suggested that the Polo driver either has or possibly is a pitifully small male member...

What's an FSD level 5? * I checked the 1959 Standard - Triumph parts book, no mention of it, so I probably don't need one anyway.

Indeed he can, which is the oft shouted mantra of the banger racers who will spend over £2000 on a classic car that is restorable just for the fun of being able to say to everyone else "It's mine, I can smash it up". I had a disagreement with some older chap who was busy modifying a mid 1950s Matchless motorcycle "because it wasn't safe in modern traffic", (I suspected that he'd scared himself at some point.) He was fitting a disc front brake, so needed modern anti dive forks to accommodate it and the associated re-engineering of the steering head bearing. He was also fitting indicators, hazard flashers, halogen lamps and an alternator to power it all. He was busy telling us about his struggles with finding a disc brake rear wheel that would fit in the Matchless swinging arm rear fork, or a fork that could be made to fit the Matchless frame when I asked: "If you want all that, why not just go out and buy a five year old Honda?"

I thought there was nowt going on, but there's been a fair bit of figuring out what I need to do and importantly what order I need to do it in. Unfortunately the White Rabbit has been giving me lots of stick about all the other things I need to do. He isn't the slightest bit bothered that in this Wonderland, Alice isn't a precocious little blonde girl, but a potty little brunette with access to unstable chemicals...

70 year old motorcycle components in fact! I haven't given up on Aston or completely disappeared down the rabbit hole, I've been up to my ears with work, home and getting the 500cc BSA Star Twin put back together after the fire last summer. Of course, it became a complete rebuild of the "I might as well do it now because the bike is totally dismantled" variety. I've also acquired a couple of 250 BSA's from 1951 and 53, these had been dismantled forty five years ago and partly reassembled with no regard to what part came from what bike. I'm actually looking forward to making some more trees!

Ditto. I'm also a cyclist and I find the pair of them embarrassing.

Nice bit of carcass failure. Is it just me, or would anyone else like to stick something sharp into those bubbles?

It looks like it's been off the edge of the layout and another nose panel bodged on. Might also explain the dodgy chassis?