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Chris Lakin

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« on: September 13, 2005, 08:55:50 AM »
Was driving round at gone twelve last night, finding a garage who had petrol left and who was open, a nightmare!  :x

Got up at 6:30 to get petrol, madness people swearing at each other, i found out the garage was telling people they didnt have any rather than  and face angry and desperate customers. Some of whom were in 4x4!!! :evil:

Anybody else finding it hard to get petrol even before the protests have started?

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« Reply #1 on: September 13, 2005, 09:11:40 AM »
couldnt care less, if I have no fuel dont have to go to work :lol: these panic buyers are a nightmare and need to be shot IMO!! Use my Vespa for work and it only takes ?6 worth anyway! some woman put 63 qiud in her 4x4 and i worked out shed get about 270 miles on it... ouch!
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« Reply #2 on: September 13, 2005, 10:37:35 AM »
Yes, at present i dont think anyone needs to protest, they just say they will, let the media make a big issue of it and all the work is done for them!

I still havnt got any petrol, so i will be on my push bike  :lol:

There was a man in a big american styled truck at the petrol station, really having a go at another bloke, this was at 7.00 this morning!

I heard on the radio, they want to bring super HGV's to Britain, twice the size and weight of the current ones  :roll:

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« Reply #3 on: September 13, 2005, 10:45:31 AM »
My Dad went shopping yesterday morning and it just started round our area.
I don't have a bike or a car, so I don't care. My dad has a Grand Voyager 3.2ltr and a V8 G20 Chevy Day Van, and if he has no fuel to get to work. He won't go work.

My old Yamaha tw125 done about 120 to the tank and that cost ?6 (that was when it was 83p a ltr).

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« Reply #4 on: September 13, 2005, 10:55:04 AM »
I love American cars, they are so lucky they have cheap petrol! well not at the moment as we have all heard. I bet it costs your dad a fortune to run his cars.

I was getting nearly 50mpg in my bis, before it broke down. i got a new fuel pump for it, also i won a mini cooper chrome pancake airfilter off ebay, it came through this morning, i will have to do some cutting to make it big enough. Looks nice though! Picture doesnt do it justice!



i would love a vespa, Barry is it a new vespa or retro one?

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« Reply #5 on: September 13, 2005, 12:33:04 PM »
Got two, one is a 2002 all modded up with chrome, but looks same as old vespas, the other is a cosa which is a 80s styled model that i use every day. both are manuals not plastic autos!
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« Reply #6 on: September 13, 2005, 09:27:50 PM »
dont worry you can you get you  car fuels over the web delivered direct-

http://www.petroldirect.com/

the "vin diesel" is my fav  :D
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« Reply #7 on: September 13, 2005, 09:53:24 PM »
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I love American cars, they are so lucky they have cheap petrol! well not at the moment as we have all heard. I bet it costs your dad a fortune to run his cars.

Chris

Its not as much as you would think. The 3.2 V6 does the same mpg, as the V8 Chevy G20 Dayvan (4 tones of it). Cost 41 do get from northampton to Lancashire (don't know the miles)

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« Reply #8 on: September 14, 2005, 07:45:20 AM »
Hello all back from my jollies,had a great time but not one baby FIAT in sight,plenty of tin snails and mountain goats though :D.No problems with people rowing about petrol yet,just people using petrol to row with.
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« Reply #9 on: September 14, 2005, 12:11:51 PM »
Hi paul, i hope you had a good time, it only seemed like a few days ago ou were leaving for france.

Yes im sorry to hear about the rioting! i hope its not happening near where you are! Not a nice way to come back to Belfast from your holiday.

I've been chatting via email to a guy in NI who makes custom exhausts, stuart from the ni italian car club (who posts on  here) put me in touch with him. He seemed like a very reliable chap, hes into alfa romeos. (fast ones)

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« Reply #10 on: September 14, 2005, 01:47:17 PM »
Hi Chris, I know Stewart well,he likes his Lancias too. :lol: Was in a Lancia dealer in France you want to see the big Thesis,absolutly georgous,its a crime they dont sell in the UK.The rioting,well theres just nothing to say....... :cry:
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« Reply #11 on: September 14, 2005, 10:19:41 PM »
I love the lancia delter HF integrale  :lol:  :lol:  nicest car! and very fast. I dont think they produced a right hand drive version for over here. Shame
well our BIS engines have Fiat Lancia written on them, so in a small way i own a Lancia  :lol:

John thats really good MPG for a vehicle like that!!

126 FACT: "Graham Hill drove a 126 all the way from London to Brighton on only one gallon of petrol" - this was in a 1980 fiat 126 brochure i bought off ebay the other day.

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« Reply #12 on: September 14, 2005, 11:42:29 PM »
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126 FACT: "Graham Hill drove a 126 all the way from London to Brighton on only one gallon of petrol" - this was in a 1980 fiat 126 brochure i bought off ebay the other day.

Chris

Chris it's probably an older brochure? I think Graham was killed in 1975
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« Reply #13 on: September 15, 2005, 08:55:05 AM »
didnt he die in a mk2 jag?
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« Reply #14 on: September 15, 2005, 10:41:27 AM »
Graham Hill was killed when he crashed in his light plane into a golf course, he was the pilot. Yes that was in 1975, I looked all this up on the BBC webiste. Apparently he was a really decent bloke. a bit before my time though  :lol:

does  anybody have any tips for driving economically? i mean Graham Hill must of been traveling in neutral for most of the way to only use a gallon of fuel.

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