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Wheel arches? Easily cut out and fixed. Bulkhead rust: horrendously complex. And then there’s the fragile 40 year old cabling and flexible hoses. Strictly a piece of sculpture for dry storage and very low mileage, unlike a C215 or C216 which could be used as a beautiful, but expensive, high...

Yes, well-travelled path. A bit of desk research and a chat with your local MB specialist will get it fixed for you. I didn’t have the problem with my two, but it’s a known, fixable issue.

Understood. My concern was whether the respray was done by Ahmed Motors of Slough in his booth, or to MB factory standard in a coach works. Think of all those lovely 190SL's that have come through from East Europe via Arthur Bechtel these last few years, with paintwork far, far better than...

Unintended consequences. Which reminds us of how the population got fatter after one of the most popular appetite suppressants started being elbowed out of offices and factories. (We can talk later about how US "gas guzzler taxes" on large cars brought about the rise of tax-exempt Trucks...

Exactly. More or less where we are with cannabis today. Although obviously cannabis will be legalised by then, in line with the new German model, which will have been standardised across Europe by then.

The repaint is a huge variable on this. There’s a perfect repaint and there’s a (much more likely) casual repaint to cover huge wear and tear. Without extraordinary provenance (Mansell / Sewell ownership), can’t imagine this going above £20k. But Sir Ranulph Fundanother !

For sure, for sure, but it's still the core record. That the policeman, tax inspector and NHS employee can see your image is a ...."by the way."

The more interesting contemporary case is Cannabis, which is gradually being legalised right across the States and into Germany, albeit with a few controls on volume and sales. But Hey, if any country needs something to make it relax in the run up to this year's elections - it's the US of A

I prefer to think of The Heritage Foundation as rich barking American Right Wing loonies, but even the barking have a role to play in a country with Freedom of Speech. Here's a flavour of the one of its key leaders: "After the Second Vatican Council, Weyrich transferred from the Latin...

It’s worth reading exactly what I said. “If you make it easier to buy stuff, people will buy stuff.” Applies to Heroin, cannabis, alcohol and pizza. Head to mid-Wales on a Sunday anfternoon and you’ll see it demonstrated. “Heroin, cannabis, alcohol and Pizza? There’s no call for that ‘round...

Good point. It's no coincidence that alcohol consumption, and obesity, rose when Brown deregulated pubs and off-licensed premises to allow the public all day access to alcohol. Good for HMRC revenues and for the economics of the corner shop. If we make it easier to access cannabis, cigarettes...

HMRC, NHS and DVLA all use your National Insurance number as their prime reference. That may drop into your local patient number, but it’s the NI number that’s the prime record “for most.” But obviously the systems allow for those who don’t have an NI number. You can pay tax / use the NHS /...

Yep. It’s been that way for all my career, right from introducing calculators to salesmen, through accounting software, word processing, office automation, spreadsheeting, SQL, outsourced data centres, offshored services, internet, and cloud. It’s just evolution. Should one go back to...

Could it be that passports are made abroad for the same reason that your car, laptop, router, internet, banking software, smartphone, TV, furniture, books, clothes, and much of your packaged food are made overseas?

Feature ruthlessly plagiarised from a 1973 Marina

Useful for when your EV catches fire, I guess

But everyone says there are huge queues everywhere “because the infrastructure doesn’t exist”

Here’s the story of those hybrid trucks than run on a twelfth of the power of a diesel logging truck: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/amp/business/article-hybrid-electric-logging-truck/

It’s being forgotten that Computing has a tradition of year on year productivity gains. “Moore’s Law.” My first work computer was a water cooled IBM 370 which lived in an air conditioned, soft static floored purpose built room, with a dedicated clean power supply. A powerful thing, it could...

There are Canadian Tree loggers who run electric trucks delivering logs from the mountains that run their trucks on the energy gsined from delivering the trees down from the hills and mountains. The drive down full of trees, charging from the excess energy, and return empty on the energy stored...