Delta's Twentea-Twentea Break

[Peter Mallett]

Happy new year everyone.

[Mike Bell]

Yippee! I hope....... welcome to 2020 everyone.

[justracing]

Happy new year to all.
Kicking off with a visit to Brooklands this morning.

[delta]

Nearly forgot . Happy Birthday Max

[John Elwin]

Originally Posted by delta

Nearly forgot . Happy Birthday Max

I'll second that, & a Happy New Year too.

Weren't the London fireworks spectacular! They were not allowed in Paris this year...

[Peter Mallett]

Didn't see them but have recorded them. Pat and I had a nice quiet meal at the pub, a particularly good game casserole, a bottle of wine, then back home for Jools Holland's hootenany. First new year at home for ages.

[John Elwin]

Originally Posted by Peter Mallett

Didn't see them but have recorded them. Pat and I had a nice quiet meal at the pub, a particularly good game casserole, a bottle of wine, then back home for Jools Holland's hootenany. First new year at home for ages.

Well worth the watch. St Greta will have had a coronary!!

I was with friends - French & English - in the village, so we did New Year twice, then a very frosty walk home under the most amazing starlight sky at 3am.

[delta]

Fireworks don’t really do it for me . Seen one show then they all look repetitive . That’s just me . Could have a few sparklers and build a new hospital for the money .

[Mike Bell]

Happy birthday Max!

[Willmaz223]

Happy Birthday Max .

[midgetman]

Thank you all, but it's the 32nd of December here in Bromham so not.my birthday. Tomorrow is 2nd January, neatly bypassing the first, so I'm no older. I think I've found the secret of eternal youth!

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[Peter Mallett]

Originally Posted by delta

Fireworks don’t really do it for me . Seen one show then they all look repetitive . That’s just me . Could have a few sparklers and build a new hospital for the money .

An interesting point. There are lots of things I'd like to be stopped in order to spend the money on more worthy projects, like hospitals. However there are plenty of reasons why the fireworks thing has taken off. Part of it is national pride; if you were in the UAE or New York or those other places like Sydney then you'd realise what impact these displays have on the populace. That said, I'm still not sure the Sydney display should have happened.

As to what to stop. The foreign aid budget could build a few hospitals and shut down HS2 and replace it with more funding for local integrated transport systems.

But happy New Year anyway.

[delta]

Think we should wait until tomorrow before we get back to the heavy stuff . In the meantime I am waiting for Gordon to post picture of him in the Sea . 😀

[John Turner]

Agreed Ian, although you both make valid points.

Happy New Year to all & Happy Birthday, Max.

Clever little thread title, Peter!

[Peter Mallett]

Thanks John but actually it was John Elwin who provided the inspiration. I just typed it in.

[Mike Bell]

Originally Posted by delta

Think we should wait until tomorrow before we get back to the heavy stuff . In the meantime I am waiting for Gordon to post picture of him in the Sea .😀

Nooo..... Spare Us!

[Cliff Ryan]

Following on from last year’s tea break natter about Capris, I had to dig out this photo of me showing off my my Capri 3000 GT XLR with it’s newly fitted wing still in transit primer mid rolling restoration in summer 1981 outside my parents house with their Mk3 Cortina estate behind.

Happy New Year to all.

[Peter Mallett]

Wow! I had one of those in white, in 1980.

[Mike Bell]

Originally Posted by Cliff Ryan

Following on from last year’s tea break natter about Capris, I had to dig out this photo of me showing off my my Capri 3000 GT XLR with it’s newly fitted wing still in transit primer mid rolling restoration in summer 1981 outside my parents house with their Mk3 Cortina estate behind.

Happy New Year to all.

Cool wheels and even cooler tyres! Not impressed by your parking though....

[Cliff Ryan]

Mine was originally metallic green, but I didn’t manage to finish the paintwork before I blew the engine and scrapped it.

I loved those wheels & tyres, they cost more than the car but they tram lined like hell and were useless in snow, which made it great fun.

Back then you could just park anywhere Mike

[Mike Bell]

The early 3 litre Capris I got to drive were fitted with 185/70x13 tyres from the factory, and they were bad enough! Also diabolically difficult to balance.....

[Cliff Ryan]

My friend had a 3.0 GXL & we came up with a plan to go through a set of rear tyres in a day. A pair of remoulds were duly purchased and deposited in black lines all over NW London - mission accomplished

[bauble]

Originally Posted by Cliff Ryan

My friend had a 3.0 GXL & we came up with a plan to go through a set of rear tyres in a day. A pair of remoulds were duly purchased and deposited in black lines all over NW London - mission accomplished

"Ruddy 'ooligans!"

[delta]

Originally Posted by bauble

"Ruddy 'ooligans!"

Yeaaaaaa,
In 1980 I had a Volvo 145. That was my trusty tow car. happy days.
Another story for Will about this car. I was working at Volvo and my manager let me fix up the car in the body shop. I had done all the welding and started getting ready for a respray. We were allowed one paint job a year FOC. That evening I was called away on a fire,. We were out all night and I came back into work in the morning and my mates in the paint shop had resprayed the car. Happy days. I loved the 80's.Life was simple back then.

[grantp]

Originally Posted by Mike Bell

The early 3 litre Capris I got to drive were fitted with 185/70x13 tyres from the factory, and they were bad enough! Also diabolically difficult to balance.....

At recommended pressures the tread on the 3000Es went concave so one ended up running mainly on the outer edges. Grip and tyre flex in the dry sort of provided a reasonable ride if one lived with the tram-lining as being "muscle".

In the damp the worst thing one could do was threaten to move a shoe in the direction of the throttle pedal. The contact patch for each of the rear tyres was about the same as 2 road racing bicycle wheels.