jollygreengiant
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| posted on 31/3/13 at 10:34 PM |
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Death of an Aston/ April Fool anatomy of a wind up
Just to whet all your whistles a little bit, hear is a photo/scan of a magazine article that one or two of you might have heard me waxing lyrical
about over the past few years at some of the shows. I have finally found it and I thought that it MIGHT create some interest for the next 6 and a half
hours.
ENJOY
[Edited on 1/4/13 by jollygreengiant]
Beware of the Goldfish in the tulip mines. The ONLY defence against them is smoking peanut butter sandwiches.
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Macbeast
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| posted on 31/3/13 at 11:07 PM |
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I want to know what were the questions in the September quiz 
I'm addicted to brake fluid, but I can stop anytime.
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NigeEss
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| posted on 31/3/13 at 11:16 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by Macbeast
I want to know what were the questions in the September quiz
I missed that part of the article.
Shame about the car though 
Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.................Douglas Adams.
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Westy1994
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| posted on 31/3/13 at 11:17 PM |
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You have invented a new game Macbeast, give the questions to the answers provided, lol..
I daren't give the questions as I fear it will be severely filtered out by the software
Shame on the demise of such an iconic car ;( , but she's up there now ( where ever that may be!) telling all iher fellow car mates of all the
races she won R.I.P.
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rusty nuts
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| posted on 1/4/13 at 08:52 AM |
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Reminds me of a newspaper article that's on the wall at work about Donald Campbell crashing Bluebird through the perimeter fence at what is now
Carver barracks in Essex.
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jollygreengiant
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| posted on 1/4/13 at 12:00 PM |
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Well. I suppose that this should really have been in the 'mad house' section. My apologies that it wasn't, but. I suppose that now I
had better give you the back story to the the 'article', which does relate to real events and a real car.
Back in 1992/3 I was unemployed and found myself on a training course doing city and guilds motor mechanics. Anyway we had a lad on the course who was
absolutely useless and should NEVER have been let loose on a spanner let alone a car. One day he bought his opel 3.0 in to the course to change the
antifreeze, whilst doing so he decided that the ignition was wrong and decided to correct it by loosening the distributor (despite advice against it)
and re-arranging the firing order. Suffice to say it didn't run again for a little while even though we told him what the firing order was.
At the time of this I was running a 3.5Litre Rover P5B. Towards the end of the course, some toe rag one night broke into my car and tried to steal it.
They couldn't pick a 26 year old door lock (broke a quarter light to get in) or a 26 year old ignition lock (they broke the barrel out of the
bakelite housing and then tried to work out how to hot wire the faded cotton covered cable, with out success) and the also removed the krooklock by
breaking and bending the steering wheel. Now the quarter light was easily fixed as was reconnecting the switch to its wiring and I had a spare
binnacle front for the gauges and switches. However the steering wheel I had no spare for, so I had to repair it. This involved putting it in a press
to straighten it then cutting out and widening the cracks so that I could back fill them with plastic filler. sanding the filler smooth and then
getting a mate of mine to respray the wheel with twin pack epoxy paint and job was a good'un.
However, the sanding of the steering wheel took several days and I used to do little bits while I was on the course during tea breaks and lunch.
One day while I was sitting doing the sanding this lad (mentioned above) walks up to me and says "Is that the wheel of your Rover?."
To which I replied sarcastically as everyone KNEW it was of my Rover "Nope it's the steering wheel of my Aston Martin."
This elicited his reply of "Cor you got and Aston Martin, that must have been expensive?."
My even more sarcastic reply was "Nah not that expensive, it only cost me £20!."
"Cor" he says, "how come it was that cheap, it must still be worth a lot, what type is it?."
So of the top of my head I tell him it's a DB4 Zagato Convertible and I bought it off a mate of mine after he was working on it and a tree fell
on it and crushed it's roof. I also told him that it had a cherished number plate but that I didn't like it and was going to sell the
number plate of TW1T. TO this he replies that he might be interested in it but he wanted proof. So I said that I might have a magazine article about
it and I would try and dig it out over the weekend. That weekend I'm at my sisters place and between me and her partner we cobbled together the
article as at the header of this posting. We did try make it as SPURIOUS as possible some blatant some subtle.
So starting at the top :-
Auto Classics did exist but ceased publishing some moths BEFORE 26th November 1992.
Great racing driver Sterrling Mos. - Close but NO banana cos of spelling.
Chassis number - who knows or cares.
Car know as 'Betty' after the owners wife. Come on now folks we are talking about the nineties here, Some Mothers Do Have Them, Frank
Spencer, 'Oh Betty I think I've Done a Whoopsy', or something like that.
The millionaire owner Ivor M uney, come on now do I really HAVE to spell it out.
The owners mechanics were Larry and Mo with the owners nickname Curly. Come on now Larry, Mo and Curly, the Three Stooges.
The Car was described as a 'soft top convertible' and a tree fell on it crushing its metal roof.????????????????
The story line was by A W Yndup. HELLO.
The Picture by Drof Edsel, allegedly at Oulton park. Ok Drof backwards is FORD so that makes Ford Edsel, one of the biggest piles of motoring poo to
EVER cme out of Detroit.
As for the answers to the September Quiz, the winner of a years supply of WHAT exactly. and the winners name A V Bighern and as for the address, the
MEWS, ISHAM. do I really have to spell it alll out for you.
As for that lad I showed him this sheet and and he went off showing EVERYONE at the course all about this car that I had. The trouble was that
everyone EXCEPT him knew it was ALL bogus, but we just didn't have the heart to let him know it was all bogus, I never did have the heart either
to take the £20 off of him for the reg number TW1T.
So IF any of you got taken in by the above Death of an Aston
post......................................................................................................
Sorry, but APRIL FOOL.
Beware of the Goldfish in the tulip mines. The ONLY defence against them is smoking peanut butter sandwiches.
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clairetoo
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| posted on 1/4/13 at 01:34 PM |
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You deserve to die a slow and painfull death...........
Its cuz I is blond , innit
Claire xx
Will weld for food......
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Westy1994
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| posted on 1/4/13 at 01:44 PM |
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Not really in the 'true' spirit of the 1st of April , being posted on the 31st, but nice one all the same...
I did suspect , on seeing the name on the Sept quiz, that is was odd, but after a bottle of red I was prepared to accept it
Completely aside, my mate has just taken possession of a P5B, not seen it yet but hoping to next month, 'seems' a decent car, but we will
see....
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Westy1994
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| posted on 1/4/13 at 01:45 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by rusty nuts
Reminds me of a newspaper article that's on the wall at work about Donald Campbell crashing Bluebird through the perimeter fence at what is now
Carver barracks in Essex.
There was a good docu on TV in the last few days about him, very informative - worth a watch if you like your history.
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