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    SL Shop plaudit...

    The only thing preventing me for doing just that is a marked lack of money. As the Rabbi Itzhak bar Kehany, my maternal great uncle, once noted - 'When you are rich, you can pretend to be poor, but when you are poor, it's hard to pretend to be rich.' tac
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    SL Shop plaudit...

    Hmm, never met anyone from Bornite. I know a guy in Uranium, though. tac
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    SL Shop plaudit...

    I have a 30-year-old W107 Cali-spec, tatty but still my joy. This year, for the first time in 14 years of ownership here in the UK, we found a generous friend who would look after the hardtop - and give us back the car we had loved when we last drove around Madrid in 1997/8. Needless to say...
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    Plaudit for Star Autos...

    ....in Huntingdon, Cambs. I was driving into town the other day from the west side of the A1 in our E270 station wagon, and happened to put my driver's side window down to let a bug out. I should point out that I have only 25% hearing from shooting since I was six years old, followed up by 33...
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    Anyone seen any good number plates on cars lately?

    Seen in a local village - P1NNS and P2NNS. tac
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    Murray through

    ...and he only earned £750,000 this afternoon. By golly, it's a hard life for a bat and ball player. tac
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    Legal number-plates

    I already have a unique configuration of letters and numbers on each of my cars - why should I spend from a not inconsiderable amount right up to jaw-droppingly huge amount of money on getting one or more that reads '380SL' or something just as cute? Over in Canada I can, and do, have any...
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    Anyone seen any good number plates on cars lately?

    Last night on the Huntingdon ring road, being driven like a hoon - black Vauxhall Vectra 4 1RTS I'll be charitable and assume that this illegally-spaced cryptograph has some degree of significance for the tube driving the car. tac EPT470X
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    SLS sets world record for... catching a golf ball

    Now that is useful. Why didn't I think of that? Mrs tac says that my lack of imagination here simply displays why we only buy M-B cars but don't write the publicity for them. Personally, I'd like to see them catch something useful with the car, like a large-size thin crust margherita pizza...
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    SLS sets world record for... catching a golf ball

    :confused: ...and this is useful, how? A guy hits a golf ball and another guy, somehow, catches it in his car whilst driving at over 178mph down a runway. Meanwhile, it has involved at least eighteen people, some of whom are filming the others who are also filming each other and the...
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    Vickers Tank Factory to close.

    'Those who beat their swords into ploughshares end up ploughing for those who did not.' tac
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    British Woman Faces Death Penalty

    I'm finding it difficult to imagine what £1.6M 'worth' of cocaine actually looks like...for a woman to carry. EDIT - I see, it was in her suitcase...mind you, she could have been carrying it on her person and nobody would have noticed. OK, moving on a notch.......how does an English...
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    In ear headphones whilst driving?

    o. The radio in my old 380SL doesn't work anyhow, but the wuffly V8 sounds good when the top is down... tac EPT470X
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    In ear headphones whilst driving?

    I'm way too busy trying not to get killed on your overcrowded roads and streets to even consider listening to the radio unless I'm parked up - which is usually on one of your parking-lot 'motorways', as you like to call them. Coming back from Heathrow last choosdy we saw a line of parked...
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    In ear headphones whilst driving?

    This morning, as I left to collect my wife from town, I also left about 3000 miles-worth of my expensive and hard-to-find rubber on the road after a female jogger with headphones clamped firmly over her head ran straight in front of me from behind a parked-up panel van without looking in my...
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    Independent Inspection in North Essex / Cambridge

    C&V cars gets my vote- they've been caring for my '82 SL since 1998. tac EPT470X
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    Rolls-Royce Corniche...50/50 choices.

    I'm a long-time member of the UK-base Gauge I Model Railway Association and the furthest distance member of the Ottawa Valley Garden Railway Society - feel free to look 'em up. G1MRA.co.uk and ovgrs.org as well as any of the 100+ videos on youtube - tac's trains will get you there. I also run...
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    Rolls-Royce Corniche...50/50 choices.

    Ah, fine, it's just that it has rather limited appeal as a wedding car, that's all I have to say on the matter. :D tac EPT470X
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    Rolls-Royce Corniche...50/50 choices.

    It looks a lot like this one.... www.motorbase.com/picture/by-id/1598624962 tac EPT470X
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    Rolls-Royce Corniche...50/50 choices.

    Ah, yesssssssssssssssss. Sorry about that. :o Shooting and trains are what I do. :D Does no harm though, eh? Best tac EPT470X
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