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Re: phwoar pauline, nearly
cor it sounds fabulous, or of course will be in v near future.
GW, fraid you are wrong about XK-florpan cars: we bought two, from the same dealer, feeling dead pleased that we'd be "known" customers and all ooh yes Mr S no Mr S. Unfortunately the salesman got promoted to be a manger another branch cos he had sold lots of cars. Then XK taken for wap down Fr autoroute above 120 for an hour showed a little light saying "too fast". rangem up and sed oi a light has come on at 120, saying too fast. Well sir mebbe try going a little slower? So they DO make "wind-up" cars.
Meanwhile, with a Merc ( imay have told this but anyway....) we did same sort of speed for hours BUT little vibration, so into merc dealer in Nimes, France, to explain le vibration. Mrs S first off shouts how "c'est come un oeuf dans le tyre" so ahem I took over being better at the lingo, explinaed cxarefully that indeed there was vibration, peut etre les pneus? le vibration, c'est a quelle vitesse, asked the nice Merc people. Explained in french that the vibration at all speeds really. Then followed test drive by head mechanic. Appeared quite sensible at first, but soon apparent a total total nutter driver. Instead of trying to feel the vibration at the wheel at fifty or so, he caned the thing. On dual-carriageways around Nimes. eek, 120+ towards roundabout, while I sit in front and realise my French is not up to "ah well, soddit, it's probly nothing". Anyway they found flat spot on the tyres...but I still wondered why on earth he drove so very very fast? Following day I realised that he asked "at what speed" in French and I responded "A toute vitesse". Which means at MAXIMUM speed, and not "at all speeds". I should have sed "A toutes les vitesses", I think.
cor it sounds fabulous, or of course will be in v near future.
GW, fraid you are wrong about XK-florpan cars: we bought two, from the same dealer, feeling dead pleased that we'd be "known" customers and all ooh yes Mr S no Mr S. Unfortunately the salesman got promoted to be a manger another branch cos he had sold lots of cars. Then XK taken for wap down Fr autoroute above 120 for an hour showed a little light saying "too fast". rangem up and sed oi a light has come on at 120, saying too fast. Well sir mebbe try going a little slower? So they DO make "wind-up" cars.
Meanwhile, with a Merc ( imay have told this but anyway....) we did same sort of speed for hours BUT little vibration, so into merc dealer in Nimes, France, to explain le vibration. Mrs S first off shouts how "c'est come un oeuf dans le tyre" so ahem I took over being better at the lingo, explinaed cxarefully that indeed there was vibration, peut etre les pneus? le vibration, c'est a quelle vitesse, asked the nice Merc people. Explained in french that the vibration at all speeds really. Then followed test drive by head mechanic. Appeared quite sensible at first, but soon apparent a total total nutter driver. Instead of trying to feel the vibration at the wheel at fifty or so, he caned the thing. On dual-carriageways around Nimes. eek, 120+ towards roundabout, while I sit in front and realise my French is not up to "ah well, soddit, it's probly nothing". Anyway they found flat spot on the tyres...but I still wondered why on earth he drove so very very fast? Following day I realised that he asked "at what speed" in French and I responded "A toute vitesse". Which means at MAXIMUM speed, and not "at all speeds". I should have sed "A toutes les vitesses", I think.
