TheRealNips

Happy birthday!

@Raja93 You could ignore the interior for a couple of years and actually get out and drive it/enjoy it 🤣

@ianl how are the rubbers on your shorty?

Thats good to know @arthur. I must have been really really lucky and I think I have swapped clocks on my various cars4 or 5 times!

He is going topless!!!!

Happy Birthday Ian!!!!!!

At least there is a positive to you having to keep running it to the tuners and back....!

Sperm donation is less intrusive...

Thanks Richard, That will be a great help! At the moment on the event page we have 22 people down as going and 173 as interested. The stand size and placement is dependant on how many people buy tickets and use our club code when booking. I have no way of seeing how many people have bought tickets unfortunately. I posted about it yesterday to remind people and I will keep doing so. If @Raja93 is still going I can meet him beforehand and give the flags to him so that you are not without them.

You can tell when Richard has been to a show....!! It was an excellent show, I do hope we get invited back! That GT40 was perfect!

Happy birthday art!

Just realised this is the same weekend as the Rugby world cup that I am attending. So I will have to hand the baton over to @Raja93 for this one. I can meet with you to give you the flags for the show and ill keep advertising it on social media.

Happy Birthday!

Yes indeed

Google has me coming up the A12 after the Dartford crossing and then some of the A14. We could meet somewhere and then drive to Richards hotel together? Or just meet at Richards hotel?

I'm driving up early, so we can meet somewhere nearby. Good news, the hosepipe ban has been lifted so I might be able to clean the car before the show!

Hi, All information is in the Events UK thread. I have linked it below. The instructions are in the first post at the top, but you need to buy the tickets from their website and make sure you use our club code when booking so that you are included on the stand.

I can't make this I'm afraid 😭

Happy Birthday!

Insured for another year with performance direct. 5000 miles, £10000 agreed, social and commuting, all for £145.10 😁

Looking at the three sockets size and shape and number of contacts, although their placement is different, the earlier ones seem to be the same. They have 1x 12 contacts (6 each side), 1x 10 contacts (5 each side) and 1x 8 contacts (4 each side). The different one being the type three which has 2x 12 contacts and 1x 10 contacts. Ive bought and sold different clusters for all of my cars over the years and until this thread had no idea that there were different versions. Every one I plugged in worked, so I must have been really lucky!

Does greater London not fall under his jurisdiction? I believe he is what's known as a metro mayor. The devolved system was setup in the 2010's and include places like Manchester and Liverpool. It gives the mayor's office devolved powers from the government to run multiple local authorities as one big authority. So I think, if I have got this right, the government gave the London mayor the devolved governmental powers to make these decisions, the councils are controlled by the mayor's office, so they couldn't argue or stop him and finally the public voting for him made him democratically chosen and able to exercise the mayor's power. If I'm right, him extending the ULEZ zone, which was set up by Boris Johnson, I think, is well within his powers as mayor and because he has governmental devolved powers, there isnt much the government can do. Short of a revolution, I can't see a way out of it. We should be more European and set cars on fire, block roads with tractors rather than mumbling and groaning in true British style and then paying the £12.50 anyway... Viva la revolution...

I feel that the environment does need to be saved, but that there are other methods that could be used. Passing a law that says all new builds must have solar panels and/or wind turbines on chimney pots would wein us off fossil fuels for producing electricity. This would help the environment. Improving public transportation OUTSIDE of London. While London has a good 24/7/365 service, our local estate only has an hourly service that only runs after 9am and before 5pm. Build it and they will come. More people on public transportation would help the environment. More education aimed from a young age to be more aware to the environment, saving electricity, not dropping litter. If everyone did their bit, we would be contributing and helping. The problem is that everyone wants everything now, look at things like Amazon prime and on-demand. This has lead to a distribution network based on the "just-in-time" philosophy. Companies order their stock as and when it's needed so you end up with lots of deliveries to warehouses and end users. If everyone was prepared to wait a week for their delivery, companies could order stock in bigger bulk and less offen meaning a reduction in actual fossil fuelled journeys. Also looking at how those goods are moved. Why are we still moving goods around on lorries when trains are much more efficient at moving big loads. The Beeching cuts in the 60's ruined out rail network, all because he owned a motorway construction company. The ideal solution would be transport via train between cities/big towns and use electric small vans to distribute around the local area. Either way nothing will change because "saving the environment" is used by government and companies to actually create more money. Revolution I say, off with their heads, then we can actually make change happen...! 😂

Happy birthday!

Great photos, although no one will come next time as they just need to wait for your photo dump! 😆