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Alana & Gill wrote: 1/ why are all wheel drive vehicles perceived as superior and safer tow vehicles? Because they *are*? - I drive a 'modern' 4x4, get 38mpg, and because it's a fairly substantial thing I feel that I stand a better chance of walking away from an accident. I know that we're...

Ian wrote: I want to buy a new (my first) caravan. Something like a Swift Charisma 540, Bailey Pageant Provence, etc. I cannot find out how much I should be paying. I suspect the caravan market is similar to the new car market where nobody pays List Price. For example, a new BMW is available...

Paul wrote: hear hear, my friend. The lunatics are well and truly running the asylum. Brown & his 2nd rate Cabinet should hang their respective heads in shame.⇦br/> Ah, I don't think that you have properly understood the game that they are engaged in. The unelected Mr Brown and his coterie of...

> Prince Chump in waiting is said to be concerned about his footprint to, what a joke, yesterdays paper says again that he has 130 plus people to cope with his whims of life. He gave up a holiday last year due to his green concerns, who is kidding who.⇦br/> That, imo, is shockingly...

FWIW, I think you were probably right to remove the posts not just because they might land PC in hot water, but because the extermination of any race, group, creed, class, or belief is not something to be made fun of - even without any ill intent. As for me - why, I see my posts regularly...

mick k wrote: Today on our local tv news they were commenting on the amount of rubbish dumped by so called Fly tippers who they are going to try to prosecute the councils must be a bit dim do they not know its Those Who Travel that is the main problem & they get away with it @ no cost to them...

Ah. there is a nasty whiff of racism about this post. You should know that, at nearly

A few weeks ago I mentioned that a group of 'Those Who Travel' had stopped travelling in early November, and had set up home in the middle of an access road leading to an as yet unused section of a local industrial estate. Those Who Travel managed to contain their wanderlust throughout the...

German vans are better built than their UK counterparts - not entirely sure if this always translates into a less depreciating buy, but it ought to. Since they are much less likely to go damp, they usually attract a lot of interest in the S/H market - especially the higher spec ones. Buyer's...

Usually like a log ;) I've been awake in the early hours quite a lot lately - my son runs his own business and I've found myself doing quite a lot of work on the text for brochures and ads that he produces for clients. He's a true whiz with the graphic design/web implementation etc - but he...

emmerson wrote: Geist, petrol at 15p in the seventies? Thats three old shillings. Sorry mate, but it cannot have been. When I started work as an apprentice in the late fifties "pool" petrol was three and ten pence a gallon. During the Suez crisis it went up by a shilling. That would make it...

Royston wrote: Hi Geist, Glad that i am not the only one who has had problems with pneumatic tyres⇦br/> Hi Royston. Can't actually remember how I pumped it up - but I *think* it had a car type valve. I think the noseweight was too much for it ;) - just wound up the steadies after fitting...

Well, hurry up! - I need some new shoes.........;)

I thought a pneumatic wheel would be a good idea - bought one, pumped it up as hard as a rock, fitted the who jockey assembly, lowered the van down from the steadies - and the inner tube promptly burst. The tube had split on a seam, couldn't find another one and ended up putting the rigid wheel...