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Dec 19, 2016 13:18:50 GMT
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Don't know how well this is going to work, but I started a map with all the places I have had parts for this car. Only car parts, not bits and bobs for tooling or machines. New to this map thing. Hope it works! mapfling.com/q57iff6And I seriously doubt anyone,without inside information,could guess where the next lot of bits are coming from 😳😂 Quick glance at the map and I reckon Russia or Chile need pins so those are my random guesses for next parts location. |
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mk2cossie
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Dec 19, 2016 13:23:05 GMT
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Don't know how well this is going to work, but I started a map with all the places I have had parts for this car. Only car parts, not bits and bobs for tooling or machines. New to this map thing. Hope it works! mapfling.com/q57iff6And I seriously doubt anyone,without inside information,could guess where the next lot of bits are coming from 😳😂 Quick glance at the map and I reckon Russia or Chile need pins so those are my random guesses for next parts location. hmm, I'm going to say Egypt or Asia way. Nothing around the raft of Stans either, so Russia maybe  |
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Dec 19, 2016 14:06:48 GMT
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Awesome, read as always  I'm sure this has been covered before but would you mind my asking what you do professionally? I'm an engineer myself and the length and breadth of your knowledge and skills is incredible. Thanks for the kind words. I run the machine shop for an Engineering company down in Kent. |
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Dec 19, 2016 23:58:17 GMT
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I was going to say Russia or South America as well.
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Some interesting ideas as to where the next bit maybe coming from Guys 😊
I had looked into buying some parts from Zimbabwe a couple of years back when they still had their own currency. Had to sack that idea off as the cost to ship over a container of Zimbabwe dollars to pay for a £20 part was horrendous.....
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MiataMark
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Some interesting ideas as to where the next bit maybe coming from Guys 😊 I had looked into buying some parts from Zimbabwe a couple of years back when they still had their own currency. Had to sack that idea off as the cost to ship over a container of Zimbabwe dollars to pay for a £20 part was horrendous..... I visited Zimbabwe(admittedly a long time ago) and you weren't actually allowed to take the currency out of the country not that you'd particularly want to. |
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I was there about 12 years ago. They insisted you pay in US dollars or Rands, for petrol and hotel bills. It was law. Then they gave your change in Zim dollars that you couldn't spend. You could use it though ,as it was softer and less expensive than their toilet paper....
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Along time ago,back in the days when men were men and sheep weren't nervous,sex was safe and skydiving was dangerous,in a land far away, there was a boy. Johnny. Just Johnny. Not little Johnny,as he had successfully left his "knee high to a grasshopper days" ,well and truly behind him,towered over 6ft ,and was busy doing his Apprenticeship. He was building a rotary powered vw beetle,quite how on that money,nobody knows,but some say It was the beginnings of his magician days. Johnny fell in love. At Kyalami racetrack. She was a stunner. She wasn't a moaner,she was a screamer....A Mazda 323, widebody kit,running in Thunder saloons, with a three rotor engine. I'll be having one of them engines thank you very much....
With yooffull enthusiasm ,a fax was duly send to a land even further away. Days went past. The roll of thermal paper in the fax machine was continually checked. The handset was lifted to his ear at least ten times a day to check that the greater spotted ,Velcro crested wallet snatchers hadn't nicked the telephone line. Eventually it came through.Having picked himself up off the floor he went around muttering "how much?" ,to himself for weeks. £80 a month Apprentice wages didn't go far,and having realised he would be 193 before he could afford to buy a three rotor motor,he decided that one day he would make one. How hard could it be? And that was the beginning of a long journey. Anybody up for a road Trip? Welcome aboard the Christmas express...
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Davey
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I like the sound of this. You may proceed!!
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It would seem that the line "Jou Bliksem" will be becoming my mantra while this all unfolds. Yes of course we are onboard for the Christmas express. Go ahead JohnnyBravo.  |
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Ive got my bottle of baileys in one hand and a family box of quality street in the other......lets go!!!!!!
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Anybody up for a road Trip? Welcome aboard the Christmas express... Well, we've come this far..! |
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Darkspeed
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One of my passions - Ginetta - with one of yours a Rotary motor.
Just a pity about the background music drowning out that motor - With Mark Walklett trying his own form of track drying.
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Dec 23, 2016 13:30:57 GMT
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cadwell park ?
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Dec 23, 2016 17:34:50 GMT
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Thats the basic construction of a two rotor motor,in a nutshell. A bit of background information that hopefully makes the Christmas special a bit clearer....😉
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logicaluk
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Dec 23, 2016 20:41:24 GMT
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Its such a ingenious idea, an engineers engine.
Looking forward to the Christmas special.
Dan
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bstardchild
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Dec 23, 2016 21:21:27 GMT
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Meh not interested at all
- poxy thread
- not seen a picture of a bloody car in 60 pages
But the bloody thread is already bookmarked and because I keep chipping in it's firmly wedged in my participated I'm powerless to stop the roller-coaster that I'm on
I bloody give in - do your best - it'll be 89,000,000 times better than mine and I'll probably learn a bunch of stuff that I'll spend my life wishing I could do
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Anybody up for a road Trip? Welcome aboard the Christmas express... Seat booked! Seatbelt buckled! Let the adventure commence! Loving this! |
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Seat booked! Seatbelt buckled! Let the adventure commence! Loving this! Shame about the hostess service!  |
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eternaloptimist
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I'm in!
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I'm sure this has been covered before but would you mind my asking what you do professionally? I'm an engineer myself and the length and breadth of your knowledge and skills is incredible.
