[Bob Williams]

D-Dan wrote:

Pistol Packin’ Momma or Be Bop a Lula?

Actually, it was “Over the Rainbow” ?

Forgot that one Dan, it was an unusual song for Gene. Think I’m right in saying that he had Polio as a kid, which is why he had an unusual stance onstage at the mike, leaning forward.

 

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Now playing (whilst I’m typing) Gene Vincent ?

Pistol Packin’ Momma or Be Bop a Lula?

That’s some heavy nostalgia, Dan! Remember seeing him in Nottingham ** years ago, with a load of 50’s and early 60’s stars. Some still doing it, some fell of their perches.

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“…this was my 8th Motability lease and the 24th lease. ” – nonsense! Should have said “22nd. YEAR of leases”! Brainfart…

I can use sensors better than a camera, don’t have a garage so it sits immediately outside my front windows. If we get the kind of weather again that we experienced in 2010, I do have a full cover that fitted the first C-Max, a MK.1 which was taller than the last one. There are just too many oldphart insomniacs here for tea-leaves, plus it’s a cul de sac. Always at least 2 or 3 lights on in the Close at night, some have a kip in the afternoon and are baffled when they can’t sleep at night. :scratch:

My lad has just bought himself a Transit diesel, for transporting his Stationary Engines to & from Shows. As usual, his inventive brain and clever hands are at work. So far he has floored it, put in an electric winch, (uprated the battery, fuses and alternator) fixed a folding table to the bulkhead, acquired and fitted Ford stereo, ramps, side boxes, and fitted LED lights in the roof. Next is a cooker and rollaway bed. My lad is a genius with his hands, but dyslexic.

Steve I had forgotten about the Koreans and their steel, but I do remember the first Hyundai in the UK. That was a Stellar, and I worked on the first one in my area. Check out the Stellar here:   https://tinyurl.com/mh7kzl6

An old Cortina MOT fail was the void bushes on the front suspension. In the pic, N.1 refers to these bushes. I didn’t know it at the time, but the Stellar was built with Cortina MK1 & 4<span style=”font-size: 14pt;”>*</span> chassis & suspension. When I tested the car, I saw immediately that the bushes were worn and thought they must be the same as the Cortina: I had tested and worked on so many Cortinas, including 3 of my own! So I took a chance and ordered Ford pattern parts. They fitted. Reading the rest of the link, you see the car was a Bitsa – Mitsubishi-derived engine, etc. Now the Hyundai company has come a long way from those days and may be about to do to the Japanese motor industry, what the Japanese did to the UK. What goes around, comes around…

• – There never was a “MK.5” Ford Cortina. It was a redesigned MK. 4  and caled by Ford a ‘Facelift’ MK. 4. The difference is mainly in the roofline, which in the MK. 4 Facelift, is higher than the previous MK.4. More ‘Oldphart mechanic knowledge’ – my head is full of this crap. :wacko:  :good:  :yahoo:
• EDIT: Forgot the suspension pic. It’s been a hard day…
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Creedence, Elvis, Stones, Dylan, and – Joe Brown! Also Buddy Holly, Beautiful South ( going through my CD’s & recording to the NAS, keep stopping “OH YEAH! have a listen!”)

Elvis with the RPO, 2 albums, “If I Can Dream” and “The Wonder Of You.” The one thing that annoys me is the CD liner crap from Priscilla, who gushes about the guy as if she never left him for his karate instructor, when Elvis was quite candid about all his own (many!) extra-marital adventures.

There is a lot of good stuff from Elvis that most people have never heard or heard of, on some beautifully-produced albums in the late 60’s and the 70’s.

Such as Elvis singing Blues:     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmNXXUmP8W0

Yes I know, Oldphart music! :yahoo:

 

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Nolan I think what you experienced was the successor to the Hercules:     https://tinyurl.com/lcfsu4y

Interesting that you are seeing them training in the West, and we see them doing the same in the East.

The Airbus A400M is now proving-up and coming into service with the RAF and other NATO air forces. Yesterday SWMBO and I were out in our tiny front garden, when one of those things screamed over our bungalow at zero feet from behind us, I could see the two pilots. Turbo airscrews screaming, I thought my missus would have a heart attack!  I could actually hear the turbo whistle before it got here, turned to warn my OH too late. As I was Army Air Corps and always been aircraft-mad, it never bothers me. When I was at Middle Wallop, my bunk was on the top floor of a flat-roofed block. Helicopters, Austers and DHC Beavers used to practice night flying whilst we were in bed. I was never woken once, most of my mates would complain of broken sleep, but as my SWMBO says, I could sleep for Britain.

The A400M was very low though. Dogs were barking all over the village. I had a sudden thought about a neighbour behind us who is epileptic and we went round to see if she was OK. She had not fitted, but was shaken.

These guys have to learn their trade I suppose.

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Pic from the Hyundai PR demo, may be in the Motability “Lifestyle” mag. The guy giving me the keys, is the Motability sales bloke, a real good guy, Wayne Healey. Read Hyundai could not do enough for us, this was my 8th Motability lease and the 24th lease. It was the best experience of any, they were great with us. Tuesday it was freezing, hence the coats. Last 2 days have been lovely and warm.

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Richard: No passenger seat height adjust, a source of much grumbling from SWMBO: “The test car had it!” Then I reminded her that the test car was top of the range and would have put the deposit above £1,400, it had electric everything including seats, with motors under the seat lifting the seat higher. Expense was the reasoning for not taking a C-Max, not paying more than £1,000 deposit. Tucson was £899 and I also bought genuine Hyundai Tucson carpet and rubber floor mats, with a boot liner: just a tad over £1,000. Bought rubber and carpet mats for the times we take it to the beach and when I pick up mucky engineer No.2 gson. The rubber mats have a ‘lip’ to stop any muck spreading to the floor, as does the boot liner.

Nolan: no, they are defo not as big as they look, although the front end looks a bit brutal (Drivers in front seem to move over a lot). Loads of legroom and the boot is a bit high, due to a genuine 17″ alloy spare wheel, which is better IMO than those daft tyre inflation kits. Monster No.2 gson is quite comfortable and is pleased that his knees are no longer up by his chin when there is a rear seat passenger. Rear seats actually recline a bit, pronounced “cool” by No. 1 gson, who can fall asleep on a clothes line.

Steve: red was my choice this time, C-Max was SWMBO’s choice of blue. All my Forest-supporting relatives criticised that, none has anything other than a red car, they are all FTID bonkers. I also prefer sensors rather than a camera, but only the top range choice has a camera anyway. I got used to sensors with the C-Max and have learned to judge the difference with the Tucson, which starts pinging fast before the C-Max did.

Before the VW takeover, the Czech’s used to make cars in a convict factory. True – I met a Czech guy on holiday once and he told me about it. There was a tunnel from the factory to the prison and at every shift, they took the convicts to and from work. Not as bad as it sounds though, apparently they offered engineering training to the ones with enough smarts and many of them had jobs waiting for them after serving a sentence. They were also paid reasonably well, having nothing much to spend it on, they had a good sum and good training to restart their lives on the outside. A lesson there for us, I think. The cars were not always as bad as pictured either, my lad had one (120 I think) and loved it because it was so cheap and easy to work on, he could afford to run it. I worked on a few, quite easy to work on, but I hated those bloody awful Lada’s. To get at the starter motor, for example, you have to remove the manifolds. Only a former Russian tractor factory would throw together an engine like  that.

Getting 42 mpg atm from the Tucson, keeps increasing a bit each day.

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I used to see the Red Arrow Hawks quite a lot around here until a few years ago. Nowadays they practice around South Lincs, until they go to Cyprus. I have another Gt-nephew who is RAF groundcrew tech and goes everywhere with them, lucky lad! Don’t see him much, as his mum and dad (my deceased nephew) parted years ago. The Hawk is built at BAE Brough, over the Humber from me in East Yorkshire. Last year the factory almost closed, until the MOD gave another order and HAL (Hindustan aeronautics Limited) bought even more, for the Indian Airforce and Navy:     https://tinyurl.com/nx4p8tm

As they are wont to do, the Indians have taken a British machine and reworked it, then improved it. The Hawk is a very long-lived aircraft, being used as a trainer since the late 60’s, with ongoing improvements. The predecessor was the Folland Gnat, two of which formed a Display team at some shows. I have seen them twice at Cleethorpes Airshow: unfortunately, this year the town cannot find enough sponsors to fund it. They were really good shows, 2 Para carried out a Free Fall drop over the estuary beach and the town was absolutely packed, it was really good for Cleethorpes businesses. It was quite hazy closer to the ground. mist was moving in over the Humber as 2 Para made their final drop, see pic’s –

 

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As a lifetime aircraft enthusiast and ex-Army Air Corps Tech, I have taken every issue of Flypast for years. My No.2 gson stores the collection at his dad’s (who is not too happy about it) and one of gson’s presents is always a Flypast Binder.

I count myself very lucky to live in the area over where so much RAF activity takes place. When the BBMF are ‘working up’ for the Display season, I often see Hurricanes, Spitfires and the Lancaster overhead. A rarer sight is the DC-3 Dakota, which takes longer to fly over than the fighters. I hear the Merlins and Griffons before I see the fighters of course, it’s an unmistakeable racket! Typhoons often go screaming out over the North Sea in response to the latest ambling Bison from Putin. They come back a lot slower, at lower heights. Sometimes the Sentry AWACS goes over on its way out or in from the Middle East, that still cracks me up, to see the huge “flying saucer” above the body of the aircraft.

June 8 and 9 is Duxford Flying Legends and I am trying to convince SWMBO that I should take my grandson. Can’t make my mind up whether to do that one or the 23/24 September Battle of Britain show. Maybe if I am very, very good I can make both. B-)

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Leave it be Lee, it adds another dimension to some of Steve’s posts! :scratch:  :yahoo:

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This is my ‘Dumb’ TV:

https://tinyurl.com/j3ondts

Maybe not cutting edge, not UHD and perhaps lacking in the bells & whistles department, but we like it and the picture is great. 40″ is quite enough for our tiny lounge, with the TV on the chimney breast and us on the reclining settee, viewing is fine. It is connected via Optical, which defeated a tendency to lose speech sync occasionally. They do come in larger sizes. I got mine at a lower price after a haggle with the Sky and Curry’s guys, but I believe the set is cheaper at Argos atm.

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Please, FFS, let us not descend into this Brexit Slough of Despond again.

Jason, I apologise if my comment seemed to ignore the tongue in your cheek.

Has anyone seen the report of a 17 yo Kurdish Asylum seeker being kicked to pieces and badly injured in Croydon today?  At least 20 people involved in this terrible crime. There are so many sites now that are involved in what they see as “Patriotism” but which is complete racist xenophobia. If these violent idiots only knew it, the boy is from a Middle Eastern people who oppose Assad and the Turks.

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It would be good to know that someone is actually listening when I shout at the TV, though.

Steve & Richard: I look at X factor as Televisual Torment. I don’t know of anyone who likes it, but it is just another of those talentless shows that are accompanied by moronic screaming, whistling and whooping. Every public performance seems to be subjected to this nowadays. When my gdaughter’s Dance Company put on a show at the local theatre, the young performers (some as young as 4) were screamed at by two teenage girls behind me. I asked if they needed medical treatment for their hysteria, or were they subject to Epilepsy?

That seemed to quieten them.  :wacko: :yahoo:

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Jason wrote:

It’s the will of the people! It’s democracy! 52% can’t be wrong!

 

Depends on your interpretation and definition of “wrong” Jason! IMHO, a large proportion of the citizenry of this country struggle to read and interpret information correctly. Which brings the result of their decision-making into question. Another large proportion do not vote, “Because it makes no difference.” People I know cba’d to walk down the road 150 yards and use their democratic option. They then complain about the decisions made by a government whose election was unopposed by them.

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I have a Sony ‘dumb’ TV, connected to a Sky Q box. As it receives a DVB-T signal, I guess that includes my service. Now, if they want to hear two somewhat deaf septuagenarians shouting at the TV and each other, they are very welcome. If they want to confuse my dear SWMBO even more by hacking the thing, they can be my guest.

As long as they ignore what happens when some political dipstick opens his/her orifice and attempts to make me believe in the sincerity and truth behind his/her words.

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We are ruled by people who have two simple aims:

1 – once elected, myour main objective will be ensuring that you remain in power after the next election.

2 – if (1) does not work, ensure that you have applied enough effort into making the contacts that will supply you with another career. Or Careers. Or anything that will keep you in a suitable remuneration, whilst also retaining a healthy pension.

This whole situation is further complicated by an Opposition that refuses to deal with 20th Century issues, never mind the 21st Century.

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Apart from the usual “I Told You So”, I can only say that there has been a flurry of temporary good news. When it has all gone completely TU, I will return to that statement. I seriously fear for my grandchildren’s future when the brown stuff finally reaches the rotating object.

Lies, damned lies, and government statistics.

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Workers in our Louth Morrisons are responsible for mishandling stuff I buy:

They break my McVities Digestive and Hovis biscuits. I am addicted to them. 🙁  🙂

Damage Soup and other cans.

Burst cereal packets. :unsure:

Crack eggs in the egg boxes.

That’s a small selection of their work! 🙁 I once took a box of cracked eggs, a burst pack of Shreddies, and a creased can of soup to the manager, who is about 18 stone and maybe 5’7″”. “Would you buy these?”  –  “No.”   – “Then why put them on the shelf?”   –  “At the end of the day, we give them to a homeless Shelter.”  –  “Oh, so it doesn’t matter if they get food poisoning!” His expression became ever more vacant.

This does not happen at the Cleethorpes Morrisons, which is unfortunately 22 miles up the A16. We go there every 3 weeks and stock up.

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Just been flamed on MSE site for posting this. Several have said that there is a ‘cancel’ option, completely missing the point that there are others who would miss that in an eagerness to take cashback, and continue to lose £15 a month.

Just 2 people realised that and posted thanks accordingly. That is a Money Saving site!? I suspect the ‘Flamers’ have already been caught. What a funny thing is self-pride!

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Many thanks guys, my No.2 gson says TYVM! :yahoo:

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