On 02/09/2021 16:04, Turby wrote:
> On 9/2/2021 12:36 AM, Eddie wrote:
>> On 01/09/2021 22:55, Turby wrote:
>>> On 9/1/2021 1:05 PM, Champ wrote:
>>>> On Wed, 1 Sep 2021 08:10:50 -0700, Turby <xsurf@xmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On 9/1/2021 4:20 AM, Champ wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> This.  With nobs on.  Modern cars are fucking huge compared to what
>>>>>> they used to be
>>>>> Over here it seems just the opposite.
>>>>
>>>> Are you kidding me?  Have you seen a GMC Yukon?  I recall parking my
>>>> hire car (itself not exactly small) in a Californian ski resort car
>>>> park near one, and thinking my car would fit inside the fucking thing
>>>>
>>> You think a truck is a car? Oh dear.
>>
>> Redneck pedant.
>>
>> Two words that you don't often see used together.
>>
> If I need 4 wheels, it's to carry something, so I have a truck. I put
> lumber, garden supplies, etc, in the bed. I drive it less than 1500
> miles a year. If I had a family, I would probably get a sedan.

Why bothr, when you can bung them in the bed s well? Yeeehaaaarrr!!!!

>
> (I ride my motorcycle >12000 miles per year and can carry all my
> groceries, beach gear, etc.)
>

--
Bruce Porter
"The internet is a huge and diverse community but mainly friendly"
http://ytc1.blogspot.co.uk/
There *is* an alternative! http://www.openoffice.org/

On 31/08/2021 03:36, Turby wrote:
> On 8/30/2021 6:21 AM, Mike Fleming wrote:
>> On 30/08/2021 11:40, Cab wrote:
>>>
>>> IME, most bikes do filter between the outside lanes. Those that do
>>> otherwise are probably coming off the motorway or are moving somewhere
>>> else. Filtering in other lanes, for filtering's sake, isn't seen that
>>> much (unless it's to overtake a filterer that's too slow in the outside
>>> lane).
>>
>> That's what I've found too. I think it's because you can finish up
>> going up a canyon of lorry sides if you filter between lanes 1 & 2. I
>> only use that if there's stationary traffic and somebody blocking the
>> filtering between 2 & 3, or overtaking a slower filtererer, or
>> allowing a faster filtererer through (there are some, not many though).
>>
>>
> This is confusing. Over here, the inside lane is the lane closest to the
> centre divider, also called the #1 lane, and the fastest.
> It's not the same over there?
>
>
Having thought about this, it is not as illogical as it sounds to count
from there in the US. As we read from the left, it actually makes sense.

--
Bruce Porter
"The internet is a huge and diverse community but mainly friendly"
http://ytc1.blogspot.co.uk/
There *is* an alternative! http://www.openoffice.org/

On Wed, 01 Sep 2021 21:06:20 +0100, Champ <neal@champ.org.uk> wrote:

>On Wed, 01 Sep 2021 16:44:05 +0100, Mark Roberts
><mark@markr.myzen.co.uk> wrote:
>
>>One of our neighbours has a penchant for 1980's hot
>>hatches. A 1987 Golf is tiny....
>
>Compare that to a 1970s Golf, and it'll look bigger

"This car is old, that one is far away"

--

-Pip

On 1 Sep 2021 17:47:05 GMT, "sweller" <sweller@mztech.fsnet.co.uk>
wrote:

>My 1965 Jaguar 3.8S is positively tiny compared to modern stuff - it's
>quite long but narrower and shorter.
>
I followed an old Jag on the motorway some weeks back, and was taken
by just how narrow it was.
--
Salad Dodger
1690 FLHTK;GL1800D
Previously ...
CB1300SA8;GL1800A6;GL1500SEV;CBR1100XXX;
CBR1000FL;CBX1000Z;GPz750R;Z750E1;Z650C2;
KH500A8;KH250B3;TS250c;TS185c.

On Fri, 03 Sep 2021 18:06:32 +0100, Pipl <pluscher@live.co.uk> wrote:

>On Wed, 01 Sep 2021 21:06:20 +0100, Champ <neal@champ.org.uk> wrote:
>
>>On Wed, 01 Sep 2021 16:44:05 +0100, Mark Roberts
>><mark@markr.myzen.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>>>One of our neighbours has a penchant for 1980's hot
>>>hatches. A 1987 Golf is tiny....
>>
>>Compare that to a 1970s Golf, and it'll look bigger
>
>"This car is old, that one is far away"

#Echo Beach, far away in time

--
Ace
http://www.chaletbeauroc.com/

On 03/09/2021 20:54, Salad Dodger wrote:
> On 1 Sep 2021 17:47:05 GMT, "sweller" <sweller@mztech.fsnet.co.uk>
> wrote:
>
>> My 1965 Jaguar 3.8S is positively tiny compared to modern stuff - it's
>> quite long but narrower and shorter.
>>
> I followed an old Jag on the motorway some weeks back, and was taken
> by just how narrow it was.

Oddly, my X-type, which is a Mondeo in a posh frock, is narrower than
said Mondeo. I'm pretty sure my old XJ6s were quite wide cars for the time.

Salad Dodger wrote:

> I followed an old Jag on the motorway some weeks back, and was taken
> by just how narrow it was.

I was following a nice example of a DS 21, hadn't noticed before how
much narrower their rear axle is than the front one, at first though it
was "crabbing".