ChrisEdu
MB Enthusiast
- Joined
- Sep 5, 2005
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- Location
- By the southern sea
- Car
- E320CDi Estate - gone E320CDi Saloon - written off CLS 350CDi Coupé
Somebody called Big Janner - keeps posting extremely dodgy claims about being a winner!
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Later that evening I learnt that he was one of the Brinks-Mat armed robbers, and had a personal vendetta against those he described as "petty thieves"
Short and sweet, but I have met and spoken with Peter Sutcliffe.
Homestead brings back memories! Been there twice - first time I met Janis Ian in a diner. The second time we stayed in a B&B whose hosts were the most flamboyant gay couple ever. One graduated from Julliard and was lead dancer on the Tina Turner "Private Dancer" tour. I also remember that stay for a different reason - we left there early morning to drive to Sarasota and heard all the 9/11 events unfolding real time on the car radio. Surreal journey! (We arrived in Sarasota just as a hurricane set in - but that's another story!)I love the word Dodgy!!
Non moreso than in the business of selling cars!
For short while I worked for dealership in Homestead Florida.
One day an Hispanic young woman with limited English skills, came into buy a Pontaic Grand Am.
Normally the car came with a std build 4 cylinder engine, but with a V6 variant which was in very special order supply status at the time .
Not wanting to lose a sale because she insisted on the V6 or nothing, one of the sales guys sold her a 4 cyinder model quote "And we will put the other two cylinders on order for you delivery in 90 days".
She bought the car in green as I re-call.
Suffice to state that three months later she was back "looking for her two extra cylinders"! (whoops)
I interpreted her remarks & comments to Pete, the sales manager .
Then got laughed out of the place !
BUT SHE GOT THE LAST LAUGH!!
She came back with two Florida bi-lingual fraud gorillas from the Attorney Generals office!
Oh Me Gawd!
Tuercas viejas
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Life in Florida then!Homestead brings back memories! Been there twice - first time I met Janis Ian in a diner. The second time we stayed in a B&B whose hosts were the most flamboyant gay couple ever. One graduated from Julliard and was lead dancer on the Tina Turner "Private Dancer" tour. I also remember that stay for a different reason - we left there early morning to drive to Sarasota and heard all the 9/11 events unfolding real time on the car radio. Surreal journey! (We arrived in Sarasota just as a hurricane set in - but that's another story!)
We have a winner
Oh, and I think I bumped into Rudolph Hess at Spandau Prison in the late 1970s
I've been to Joseph Goebbels house.Oh, and I think I bumped into Rudolph Hess at Spandau Prison in the late 1970s
Rubens Barrachello??Whilst there have been a number of dodgy geezers in motorsport, I've managed to be protected from them rather than known them.
One good example is in 2007 when we had a former Brazilian F1 driver join us too drive at the Interlargos sportscar event. After the event we had a day to spare prior to the return flight and we were asked if we would like to see a 'few classic cars' that his father and uncle had. Early the next day 3 sinister 'murdered out ' black SUV's rolled up to our hotel. I jumped in an ML in the middle of the convoy with our Brazilian driver. I noticed there was slightly more wind noise than standard and then that the windows were all about 20mm thick. Turned out the car was also armoured and bulletproof. As the son of a family with money, they took precautions on his safety (yeah, I know he's a former F1 driver!) Had kidnapping ever been attempted? Not on him but he had friends who had been!
The few 'classic cars' tuned out to be 6 large halls full of beautiful restored cars in a huge estate in the middle of the jungle....with some considerable security.
This was the hall for European cars, others were for American, racing, Brazilian, vintage etc. View attachment 110116
How did the family become so wealthy? They had the contract to supply packaging (the most expensive bit!) to Philip Morris (Marlboro) for the whole of Brazil.....
Some would regard that as dodgy, but then I used to dress up as a cigarette packet for a living. The Papal Purple trousers for Silk Cut were something to behold
No, It wasn't Rubens and for security reasons (!) I won't say who it was.Rubens Barrachello??
Thats an incredible collection and surely must rival that of Jay Leno.
Fair enough although with a little bit of digging it would be easy enough to find out.No, It wasn't Rubens and for security reasons (!) I won't say who it was.
But the American car section may well rival Jay Leno's collection.View attachment 110315
...but a bigger surprise was finding this in the middle of a jungle in Brazil...
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Even more of a surprise was that they knew of 4 collections in Brazil which were considerably larger!
Where do the words 'copper', 'bottom' and 'investment' come from ....and should they be used together?Just seen this large-scale dodgy!
Trader gets painted stones instead of $36m of copper
The company says it took delivery of six thousand tonnes of spray-painted rocks instead of the metal.www.bbc.co.uk
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