Nick, Thanks for the post. You'd be surprised how ignorant we in the States are ......  https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/feb/02/how-peter-mandelson-links-jeffrey-epstein-came-to-light

One very small silver lining is it may, in a very roundabout way, finally finished Mandelson off. The cold, dead tentacles of Epstein retain power not yet spent!

Back on modified Spitfires….. this is the baby of the original creator of this site.  Not a quick read though 

Yep. Forgot about that. Had a mate with a Mk1 GTI he'd had for years. Until a rather unpleasant divorce.

Mk1 Golf RHD (apart from 1100, which had no servo) had a cross shaft so they could leave servo and master on the left.  That’s one I know for sure. I’m sure there are others.

odd folk out there

Possibly true, but I guess my point is that this thread has gone on long enough to become completely reductive and in essence an echo chamber all of it's own. And no-one else here seems to have noticed. Which is what I find depressing.

To answer Nicky's Q about mods.  No worries, this IS the modifyers' site!   It was founded by one who loved mods, and was made so cross by traditionalists on the usual sites that he started his own! John

Don't know about 2+2=7 but "In the end the Party would announce that 2 and 2 make 5,and you would have to believe it. It was inevitable that they should make that claim sooner or later."    1984, George Orwell, plus so many other prescient quotes, starting, "War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength." We may truly be living in the End of Days. John

Please stop that, it's bad enough as it is....