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Old 03-23-2022, 10:02 AM
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I was curious as to just which old British car that was so I did some googling. I came up with Alvis Speed 25. Rare, lovely, fast for its day. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvis_Speed_25
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Old 03-23-2022, 10:20 AM
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Originally Posted by wdb
I was curious as to just which old British car that was so I did some googling. I came up with Alvis Speed 25. Rare, lovely, fast for its day. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvis_Speed_25
You're right! It was a 1938 Alvis Speed 25 Roadster! It looked beautiful in the flesh and the owner was very cool. Some fun characters show up to this show, including a character that drives an old British race car that looks like it hasn't been washed in a year. He wears a full period correct racing suit and helmet. Legend.

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The copper hammer is for the knockoffs on the wire wheels. I've not seen one displayed like that in the engine bay before. They are usually rolled up in the tool bag - which is an essential companion for a British sports car!
Awesome - thanks for explaining this. I was curious what it was there for. It looks like the hammer was used here and there!
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Favorite 2 cars from my local C&C last year



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Old 03-23-2022, 01:39 PM
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Wow! Love the Superbird! That's one of my all time favorite cars! I am jealous, I have never seen one in person.

You all have some really nice cars around you! The events I have been to in Western and Eastern WA haven't had anything nearly this impressive.
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Definitely pretty cool seeing that Superbird driving in.

These 4 drove in together.
I’ve never seen a Rossion before
Then an LFA shows up



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A white LFA would be an end game car for me.
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Originally Posted by Type65

You all have some really nice cars around you!
It’s not LA but there’s definitely some nice cars.
This guy with a Bugatti Chiron has passed me twice on the roads near my house.
I was driving home from work in my 350Z and I managed to catch him at the light
He’s driving it around on semi salty roads in late January



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Old 03-24-2022, 12:32 AM
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I bought my house 23 years ago. Its paid for and I loved it here, now my neighbor who’s a police Sargent insists on smoking marijuana in his backyard with family and friends. I told him many times to please do that inside his house. No compromise, so now I go
outside and pee in the back yard without giving a hoot if his daughter or son are there. Tomorrow I’m taking delivery of a large quantity of rabbit ****, that I’ll be spreading around my connecting fence to his, on top I have moved my Bose sound system to the patio that’s next to him and I’m playing my jams till midnight every night, this is rouge warfare.
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Originally Posted by 3/98 911 coupe
I bought my house 23 years ago. Its paid for and I loved it here, now my neighbor who’s a police Sargent insists on smoking marijuana in his backyard with family and friends. I told him many times to please do that inside his house. No compromise, so now I go
outside and pee in the back yard without giving a hoot if his daughter or son are there. Tomorrow I’m taking delivery of a large quantity of rabbit ****, that I’ll be spreading around my connecting fence to his, on top I have moved my Bose sound system to the patio that’s next to him and I’m playing my jams till midnight every night, this is rouge warfare.
So you admit to sexually assaulting a police officers children as retaliation for his choice of legitimate legal medicine?

Then you brag about it to strangers in the internet... You continue to impress!

Perhaps you are in fact the ******* neighbor...The old fat guy who is always smoking meats, getting drunk, rambling about all the women he slept with, while blasting crappy music at all hours.... While the guy nextdoor is a civil servant with kids who chooses to medicate on his own property in a safe outdoor environment.

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This is gonna escalate to guns, I know it.
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Old 03-24-2022, 09:13 AM
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Originally Posted by Fishah
So you admit to sexually assaulting a police officers children as retaliation for his choice of legitimate legal medicine?

Then you brag about it to strangers in the internet... You continue to impress!

Perhaps you are in fact the ******* neighbor...The old fat guy who is always smoking meats, getting drunk, rambling about all the women he slept with, while blasting crappy music at all hours.... While the guy nextdoor is a civil servant with kids who chooses to medicate on his own property in a safe outdoor environment.
had a conversation with my neighbor in uniform while he was fixing to go to work early this morning while we were both taking out the trash. He commented to me
about the music, and how sometimes it bothers him when he needs to go to work early in the morning. I said yes sir, thank you for your service, then I proceeded you are the law and marijuana is illegal here in the state of Texas. If I’m at a bar or restaurant and I smell it I talk to the owner I now quite a few if they don’t do nothing I call the cops. Anyway he now took me seriously about the marijuana issue and agreed not to do it in the back, I agreed to if I’m playing music I’ll stop it by 10 and I’ll control the volume. I made sure he understood that it wasn’t an issue with him, I have never done drugs because my father told me I could forget about being his son if I ever did drugs. Everything cool now, my end was get him to take my request seriously, so we ended up with a win win agreement. 7 habits of highly effective people (Stephen R covey) begin with the end in mind. I didn’t assaulted no one, there is a double red cedar fence between the yards. You call me an ******* you are probably a stoner, you live your life, I live mine.
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Alcohol is a drug fella.
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Who will be our final 4 teams in the tournament?

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