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  1. My thoughts exactly - teaching yourself advanced coding in middle age is championship stuff.
  2. Chaps, a(nother) naive question about young Fanatik: Whilst marvelling at the skill in making everything fit into the GT6, the quantity of square-section mild steel being inserted almost every episode suggests that the final product is going to be... heavy. A 2-tonne GT6..? Is it in danger of becoming over-engineered? Paul
  3. The solder also lifted remarkably easily from the fibreglass board. Great for repositioning individual traces, but a couple of potholed roads, and the whole lot may be slushing around the bottom of the binnacle. * Expert input from the comfy armchair on the left *
  4. Eavedropping. I don't want to sound like a swivel-eyed conspiracy theory-believing loon, but the number of times that a spousal conversation results in related advertising appearing in social media feed indicates that there is no other explanation.
  5. A propos this sad event, here's a piece about the penetration of private equity into all our lives: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/oct/10/slash-and-burn-is-private-equity-out-of-control A random quote: "when it comes to private equity, you don’t need to cherrypick the horror stories – you have to wade through them"
  6. As in, the distance in mm (+ or -) from the centreline of the wheel, irrespective of actual wheel width, correct? I regularly struggle with this concept and corroboration would be much appreciated Paul
  7. It's remarkable how many more TR5s there are now than were originally built. There was one in my neck of the woods, advertised as a TR5, which clearly started life as a TR250...
  8. Ah... my ignorance exposed Doubtless a tad uncomfortable at full chat.
  9. A little early in the season, but an architect chum of mine in Manchester has recently published a book, A Time - A Place, relating each Car of the Year to a relevant building of the same age. The first volume covers the first nineteen years since its inception in 1964. The history of each building is related to the design and manufacture of each COTY. No Triumphs were worthy of the accolade, unfortunately, but great to see some bread-and-butter cars of the time, loved and looked after.
  10. Reverting back to the original question, I think the AMR500 is designed for Japanese Kei cars - 660cc motors. It has a theoretical swept volume of 500cc and, if my rudimentary understanding of Allard passes muster, I believe it would have to be belted/pulleyed to turn at 3x engine speed on a Herald, no? Paul
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    Well reminded, John. I read the Sinclair Lewis novel years ago and it had slipped my mind, but the parallels are chillingly close.
  12. The Aerospace Institute in Warsaw has an open day once a year, where punters can view an eclectic mix of creaky Soviet-era real estate and (carefully redacted) cutting edge defence technology. I suspect that holding it in October dissuades the nosey from lingering too long. Anyway, I was chuffed to see the two MiG 15s that we keep airworthy on display. Not bad for a near-70 year old high performance airframe. As soon as the server allows images to be uploaded, I’ll post some pictures. Paul
  13. I'm none too proud to admit how I know this.
  14. Inserted into various slots in the communal basement garage: 1970 Jag XJ6 4.2 auto, factory gate stock 1975 TR6 CF, started life as US Stromberg spec, but has enjoyed various beneficial and arbitrary alterations 1990 MB W124 TE230, also factory gate stock (except for the gear lever, courtesy of Roger H hereabouts) CFO's daily: 2019 Volvo V60 D4 wagon/estate Sorely missed: 2008 Audi A5 3.0tdi coupe manual Less sorely missed: 2016 Audi A6 3.0tdi Avant Competition, startlingly fast, but equipped with an unhealthy power-to-safety ratio.
  15. Fascinating, but I do wish he'd wear work gloves. In the early '90s, I was working on the restoration of a pre-war building in eastern Berlin, one of the few buildings in the district to have survived the end of the war. It had been a pharmacy in the 1920s and, whilst surveying the roof structure, I found a couple of tincture bottles in the attic, complete with their hand-written labels and dried out corks, which I liberated for the sake of posterity. Shortly after bringing them back to my digs, my diligent landlady evidently decided that they needed a good scrubbing, so she washed the labels off and disposed of the moldy corks. The erasure of history in action. I'm sure that Howard Carter didn't have to struggle with these kinds of obstacles.
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