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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Good Afternoon Base Campers
News None. Wish we were News of the World - they get to get news just being News of the World it seems ... Well, a well, a well, a well We may be in for some breaking news, tho - you may call it a scoop! Let's wait and see - it could be an exclusive .... Culture Music Let's jump straight to the juke box. Rules exists to be broken and prejudices should be tested ever so often, which leads me to put up a rap song made by Jay-Z and Alicia Keys - it was the fabulous black and white pictures of the City That Never Sleeps that did me in Empire State of Mind Two friends of mine celebrate their 5-year wedding anniversary - nothing compared to the 65-year one oliviathefirst - Elaine and her Joe - have coming up soon - but a good opportunity to introduce Danish composer Niels W. Gade Bridal Waltz And now to something completely different as they say. Monica Zetterlund is an elegant Swedish jazz singer who made "Little Green Apples" into Gröna Små Äpplen Advertisement Special offer for New Base Campers: Free spot for your tent and all the music you can eat. Offer extended for a few more days ... Gnashing teeth - no takers |
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densnaps
Ace Cruncher Sunny Lancaster Windmill capital of England Joined: Apr 27, 2007 Post Count: 4205 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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The red Car Is a Sunbeam Talbot Not sure of the model or exact age as I didn't see the owner but around the 1950's
----------------------------------------cost approx £1100, might hit 90mph plus There were some issues with stopping from such high speeds  It however did win the Monte Carlo rally twice in the 1950s Stirling Moss driving . The location is Morecambe Bay With the tide out and fishing boats stranded. Drove along there last evening around 18.30 the bay was full and the sea bloooo.The Bay is famed for its sunsets as it sinks slowly in the west behind the hills of the lake district http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukf-2oQAAWg Note the way the Doors open ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Now the older car Is a puzzle that I hope to solve . I know the people in the "Motor" .Thats what it was not a car and you went "Motoring" as i said I know the Driver? and passengers but they are Motoring up above nowadays. ---------------------------------------- [Edit 1 times, last edit by densnaps at Jul 10, 2011 7:07:02 AM] |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Eeeehh, Achtung, Watch Out!
 The poor man is driving in the wrong side of the street!!! Yes, I did notice the way the doors open. In Denmark it was called "suicide doors". Funny to see the wing flipping out and in ... Had forgotten those! Remember the first time motoring in the wrong side in England (cirka 1975) quite a few motorists had sign on the back of their automobiles informing those behind them that they should expect "NO HAND SIGNALS". Only years and years later, I realised that they meant that ther new motorcars were equipped with - in all probability - unreliable blinkers. Some fixed the transition by sticking their arm out of the window, which, of course, only worked when turning right, but that was OK since that's the scarier turn when driving in the wrong side.  |
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densnaps
Ace Cruncher Sunny Lancaster Windmill capital of England Joined: Apr 27, 2007 Post Count: 4205 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Ah But No .... We Brits had a Cunning Plan
----------------------------------------The Highway Code Gave instructions about Hand signals  I wish I had the earlier edition it gave instructions on waving your whip in a Clockwise or anti clockwise direction when driving a pony and trap  What about this device ??? It was all the rage at one time every other car had one . Mind you in the late fifties all cars in UK were built like tanks big slab pushing air, windscreens only just starting to slope these might have worked if placed correctly in a spot that the aerodynamics specialist had worked out most folks have an idea about airflows nowadays having watched tech stuff for dimbos on the telly, smoke chambers swirl patterns At t'other end of the vehicle we had the PECO exhaust extractor a bolt on alloy lump with I think some sort of venturi system to pull the gasses thru the system when the car was moving I think this was going to give us better fuel consumption Thinking about it now to get the extraction effect the peco had to be in a clean air flow not just tacked on to the end of the exhaust system with a jubilee clip The underside of the car in those days was all bits hanging underneath. it perhaps a good thing it wasn't too effective as all of our petrol tanks would have been overflowing ---------------------------------------- [Edit 2 times, last edit by densnaps at Jul 10, 2011 10:14:05 AM] |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Well, we always regarded you Brits an excentric lot,
and that's exactly why we love you in the first place.  You had books! Holy Cow! My assumptions and deductions were pitily poor. Books about hand signals! For all traffic inclusive of "those in charge of horses". This is wonderful! "I intend to .." - but you could also "want to", namely when you wanted to communicate with police officers ... It's lovely and hilarious at the same time looking at it now. We never had those in Denmark as far as I know, but we do use hand signals when bicycling on a fairly consistent basis. Right or left turn and a stop signal. No wonder they never bothered to install a properly working heating systems in British cars. They didn't in the Spitfires, so why should you be cosy in your car? Well, you couldn't anyhow, rolling those panes up and down all the time. Must have taken some attention away from the traffic, really. Our first British car was a Ford Zodiac in a ghastly lemonly-greenish shade. It retained some of the post war generous use of metals. Heavy it was, but ran fast. On the autobahn it was outdone only by the biggest of BMWs and Mercedeses and the occasional Jaguar. Twice all it wiring burnt off. Its steering wheel broke as did the gear shift lever. We could not figure out why the heating controls didn't work after driving the mandatory 50 miles to get the temp up until one glorious day I sat there staring at those controls and had a vision. I pulled out the indicators for heat/cold and up/down from the two turning knobs, and switched them. You see: The guy installing them in the plant in England forgot it was a left-hand car he built and plugged in the indicators the way he used to for the domestic market! That spoiler was all the crazy in several colours here as well. In Denmark it was supposed to waft insects away before they hit the windscreen, the selling point went. Our second British car was a kitten - the beautifulliest Jaguar ever made with the slim fenders. Dark silver. I could tell a lot about that one and about the Reliant Scimitar GTE and the Granada caravan, too. They were never boring, they kept business brisk at the garage with a steady outflow of finances in our end, and you had to put your mind at work figuring out what was the matter - well, almost as having cranky relatives ... |
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Oh goodness. Things we didn't have here. Where hand signals are still on the driving test as who bothers to maintain their indicators since no one bothers to use them anyway?!
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Good Afternoon Base Campers
News None. The scoop I had hoped for yesterday didn't happen ...  Vox Pop We at Base Camp should like to know why we cannot attract New Base Campers. As the WCG Forum consists of considerably more teamless crunchers than Base Campers, there ought to be basis for a descent feed back. Our question is: Why don't you join Base Camp? Among the respondents we shall draw one person to recieve our first and only prize: A full, free imaginary set of Trekking equipment - rugged tent, sleeping bag, boots and rucksack ... We look forward to hearing your opinions, Ladies and Gentlemen. Culture Music Yesterday the Argentine singer and songwriter Facundo Cabral was shot dead in a car in Guatemala. For him there was no more un nuevo día Estes un nuevo día Roxette celebrates their 25 year anniversary and has Yukon! all the way up in the treetops to the point where he has changed his avatar. Congratulations! Neverending Love Isn't she grand, little Suzi Quatro? Breakdown |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Oh my goodness. Hadn't seen or heard that Quatro since junior high! She seemed so OLD to me at the time!!!
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Here are the veggies that didn't completely explode due to the heavy rains. 4 tomatoes completely split all the way open and the bugs got into them. Eew! But the peppers are good.
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Nice peppers.
How do they score on the Scoville scale? My plants must be the slowest ever - only now have they decided to form a few tiny flower buds. The tomatoes are fine tho, still green but promising  |
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