There has been a bit of a setback in the A30Racer family. The mechanic & chief minion has broken his right ulna and is now in plaster! A bit frustrating, but hopefully a short term setback. The dear old Rangie has been pressed into service this week, taking my wife to work. The central locking is playing up (I think the master actuator in the driver's door has failed), but other than that it has performed well. The Discovery 3 is still at the garage with a big canbus fault and the Passat has a broken front spring as a result of the huge pot holes in Wiltshire. Hope progress will get going again when the cast is taken off my arm.........

Bubba died in a fire and his body was burned pretty badly.   The morgue needed someone to identify the body, so they sent for his two best friends, Darryl and Gary. The three men had always done everything together! Darryl arrived first and when the mortician pulled back the sheet Darryl said, “Yup, his face is burned up pretty bad. You better roll him over.” The mortician rolled him over, and Darryl said, “Nope, ain’t Bubba.” The mortician thought this was rather strange. Then he brought Gary in to identify the body. Gary looked at the body and said, “Yup he’s pretty well burnt up. Roll him over.” The mortician rolled him over and Gary said, “No, it ain’t Bubba.” The mortician asked, “How can you tell?” Gary said, “Well, Bubba had two butt holes.” “What? He had two butt holes?” asked the mortician. Yup, I’ve never seen ‘em, but everyone knew he had two butt holes. Every time we went to town, folks would say, “Here comes Bubba and his two butt holes!”

Hello never things always go to plan(sometimes) off subject but me and the memsahib are going to book a trip to Portugal tomorrow for I hope 10 days in April ! Then off to Spain in   June in Spitty Its a hard life but we do our bit Roger and the Memsahib                       h

Nice work Roger. Managing to successfully folder something like that is very satisfying. And for me makes up for all the other efforts where it doesn't go "quite to plan".

Wonderful Hamish. As for shock absobers "rulz is rulz mate. More'n my job's worth mate" 

Bloody brilliant. The guys in the workshops are superb.

Lower frequency anyway which I think helps the A part of dBA.

Header and pipes will all be Zircotec black . Hopefully the 6” might give lower DBs on track ? 

4” pipe .  Looks a bit more legal . 

Hey John you're saying I'm wrong but then confirming all the things I said.   Britain, our Empire allies and all the others I listed in my post stopped the GERMANS* at the Channel. We got away, thanks to the sacrifice of the Army at Calais, the British and French rearguard at Dunkirk, the RAF and the Navy. The Germans were unable to follow which is the definition of stopped.  * Britain, the nations of the Empire and all the other allied combatants were at war with Germany not some imaginary country called Naziland that magically dissappeared in 1945.  Exactly. All the others were beaten and their goverments and armed forces had to surrender. Which is precisely my point. The only reason any irregular combatants were able to fight at all and certainly to be able to maintain it for so long was because there was an insinkable aircraft carrier off Europe occupied by us. Escaping in any meaningful numbers to anywhere but Britain would have been impossible. And even if they had then they would have been disarmed and interned by any non-combatant country. Anyarriving in America in 1939 or 1940 weren't going to be able to fight anyone. That's not to decry the heroism of these people whatsoever but it doesn't change my point. Without Britain stopping the Germans at the Channel it wouldn't have been possible. And on its own wouldn't have impacted any final outcome. Just look at what happened to the truly heroic  Polish Home Army in Warsaw in 1944 at the hands of the Germans and complicity of Russians. The reason they were even able to create and arm the Home Army in the first place and then hang on so long during the siege is because unoccupied Britain was able to fly supply drops to them. Even so there were basically exterminated. The Danes played thir hand well, after surrendering without a fight ( no criticism there just a fact). But look at what happened to the Dutch railway workers who refused to run trains taking Jews to camps in Germany The Germans round up a few of the workers AND their families and packed them off to the camps as an example and the strike collapsed. Again one cannot criticise the Dutch for that. But all that does is support my point that without an undefeated adversary in Europe actually fighting the Germans it would have been a toss up as to whether the lingua franca of Europe would have been German or Russian. Final demonstration of the effectiveness of l guerilla resistance movements at a distance just look at what happen to all those in Russian occupied Eastern Europe after the war. Supposedly supported by the Americans SIS/CIA post war  they were all fairly rapidly and brutally extinguished achieving nothing meaningful spite of their heroism.