A Milestone of Sorts

Not sure why I took the picture...

http://www.sweller.dynalias.org/images/t3clock.jpg

....it's actually done more but it's something you don't see every day.

I suppose.

 

Italian speedo, innit.

I had 2 cars where they didn't register any speed under 20mph.

 

Heh.

Way back in time I remember a friend throwing a 100k mile party for his
MkI Fiesta.

 

(SteveH) struggled to ejaculate:

I did that for my 1965 Humber Sceptre (CPY 777C) in -erm ... 1980.
I'd promised to do it, so a bottle of Asti Spumante travelled taped to
a strut in the boot until it happened. It was on the way back from
Newcastle - on the Tyne Bridge, on a Saturday afternoon, when it
clicked over. So all four of us got out, ran around the car and
popped the bottle of Asti all over the car and each other.

Then we had to do a bunk - sharpish, because it was a tow-away zone
then and the tow truck passed on the other side, the driver giving us
the right beady eye.

 

ISTR he got back to the flat from Uni one day with the mileage on 99,998
so he drove a couple of miles around the student village, carefully
timing his return to the flat to coincide with 00,000 coming up on the
clocks.

 

Pip wrote

I had one of them. Mobile Greenhouse it was.

 

I understand completely. I don't know why this seemed special, but it
just seemed the done thing:
http://www.dash.dsl.pipex.com/chris/pics/odo.jpg

 

Likewise ... I have a picture somewhere of the odo when my Vauxhall
Viva went round the clock.

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sweller emerged from their own little world to say

I like the rust tidemark. Does the lower third of the dial fill with water
when riding in the rain?

 

In winter - yes. I then give it its annual weekend in the airing
cupboard followed by some windscreen sealant.

Old bikes: they're great.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, sweller

Indeed.

Now, a *properly* organised anorak would have reset the trip meter at
99,000 miles so that you could get all the digits to show 9 at once.

--
Wicked Uncle Nigel - Manufacturer of the "Champion-105" range of rearsets

WS* GHPOTHUF#24 APOSTLE#14 DLC#1 COFF#20 BOTAFOT#150 HYPO#0(KoTL) IbW#41
ZZR1100, Enfield 500 Curry House Racer "The Basmati Rice Burner",
Honda GL1000K2 (On its hols) Kawasaki ZN1300 Voyager "Oh, Oh, It's so big"

 

I need to know how much petrol is left.

Although that has become increasingly difficult now I've broken the
dangly wire reset arrangement which also explains why I didn't reset it
at 99,000 miles.