DonW

My sister drove a Messerschmitt for a while in the sixties. You really do pull the cockpit canopy over your head and feel like a fighter pilot, especially with that abbreviated steering wheel.

I'd suggest dragging out the vehicle and getting rid of it humanly so as not to pollute or otherwise mess up the environment. Drop a food parcel to the idiots who stuck it there and leave them to it. And if they make it back home, invoice them for all costs. On second thoughts, forget the food parcel.

That catches the spirit! Thanks.

It'd be worth more as a good runner. What's a 2200/6? Cheers, -Don.

Back to the future part 101.? I really like the wheels though.

I'm glad she was OK. I'd feel safe in an E36, I knew I was safe in my E30 'cos I hit the Armco at 80 mph in it and walked away unharmed, and in a 2002 I rolled into a dry stone wall once years ago. Not that I walked away from that! The metal was better back then. My E34 is very solid too, but my E46 was not quite the same, the beginning of the end... I was fortunate to do the Mille Miglia Storica with my dad in his 1934 M45 Lagonda. We chased one of these for many miles through winding mountain roads at entertaining speeds and the die was cast for me: . BMW 328. The new ones I wouldn't be seem dead in!

Maserati Ghibli, '66 to '73. Looks pretty accurate.

Yes they have got even worse since his day! I just happen to prefer the earlier cars. The merger with Rover in '94 led to the use of cheaper materials and components as well. It's why the older cars are much sought after! .

They began to go downhill after the eighties in my opinion, though the E34 5 series and E46 3 series were OK. Chris Bangle has a lot to answer for!

Sorry to hear that Ryan. All I can suggest is not to give up! It can be hard to work out why people do what they do sometimes.

Thanks Kurt I do appreciate your aim is to share something of interest re the design process, and I did watch the clip, it was very interesting even if I don't like the outcome. At least I know more about how it came to be. Cheers, -Don.

The so-called 'New Mini' isn't so much a design as a cross between a rip-off and a practical joke that seems to still be fooling a lot of people. I still wonder what BMW were thinking of. Just my opinion.☺️ Sorry this was a bit of a knee-jerk reaction of mine, I know it is a good car underneath the skin and many people like them.

It's funny because I read this a few times and loved it but after re-reading through my factual WW2 flying books such as Dambusters and Reach for the Sky, I started to read it again but couldn't engage with it, I actually found it disrespectful to the memory of the real aircrew and ground staff who gave everything they had for their cause. Very clever and funny but not for me right now. If you weren't so far way you could have mine to enjoy with pleasure!

Oh yes, I'd forgotten this one. Read it as a teenager, very powerful.

What set them apart from the other American V8 powered European GTs such as the later Bristols, the Jensen CV8 and Interceptor and the AC 428 was that all 99 or so GKs except one had a manual gearbox.

Yes, I suspect the same thing is on the 1:1 with the wing on the trunk. It's still a good model, I always enjoy seeing your work!

It's good. Worth putting more time into the stance, and the wing would cause the back to lift and slow the car down at that angle. It needs to be lower at the front edge so the air passing over pushes it downwards. Cheers, -Don.

On balance maybe most Supergroups weren't as good as the sum of their parts. For me, Jack Bruce was diminished by the other two idiots in the Cream. And as for the Wilburys... They were all individually far better than that. The Firm is another example in my opinion. ELP are on the other side of the coin. And Bad Company. Steve, BCC aren't too shabby! I'd never heard of them. Cheers, -Don.

Yep! but they began as a bunch of working lads from the Midlands. None of them were famous before Sabbath. So not a SuperGroup. Tony Iommi's book Iron Man is worth a read, if you haven't read it. Cheers, -Don.

Great as he is, I don't think even Ozzy can be described as a group!?

Well done. It looks like the bonnet opens, does it have an engine?

I've noticed that music critics and journos will praise unknown bands to the skies, then when they make it big and become well known the same bands become irrelevant dinosaurs. And I forgot one of my all time top ten, Led Zeppelin II - oh, and Led Zep I. But I can't decide which ones to replace from the ten below! Which tells you something about 'top' lists. My own current top ten - pretty much constant over the years. Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - The Beatles Dark Side of the Moon - Floyd No Sleep 'til Hammersmith - Motorhead Space Ritual - Hawkwind Blood on the Tracks - Dylan We sold our Soul for Rock and Roll - Sabbath Sticky Fingers - The Stones Uriah Heep Live - the Heep Electric Ladyand - Hendrix The White Room - The KLF So we chime on at least one, Snake! I didn't look at the Rolling Stone list, it would probably make me cross. Mr Young's Live Rust is the eleventh.

I can just see this cruising the one way system round Aberdare town centre. Not sure if it would get round the roundabouts in one go! Very nicely done.

Which guy?

Yes please!