Biking incidents I saw today

Two.

 

platypus says...

Aston Martin made 'shooting brakes' a long time before the Scimitar came
along. IIRC Volvo made the P180ES as well in the early 60s.

 

That Sebastian Tombs had one, dinnee?

 

'77 or '78 IIRC

 

platypus said:

Mid 79 for me. Be 25 years this summer...

 

It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the

Aye, to special order, iirc. If we're going down the custom body road,
I've no doubt Panhard-LeBollocks made them for rich clientele in the
1890s.

Yeah, I can't recall whether the P1800 pre-dated the SE5 or not; I think
it did by a couple of years.

<sticks two fingers up at Volvo>

There's a damn sight more SE5s still around than P1800s.

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platypus says...

No, he had a white 'coupe' P1800, the E and ES were the estateish
version. The S stood for Sweden, to distinguish between the bodies made
in the UK and those over there. UK made bodies rotted like mad, usually
within the first two years. So Volvo took all the tooling and made them
over there instead, to a slightly better standard.

 

Grimly Curmudgeon says...

1960 for the Volvo. 1968 for the Scimitar SE5

Fibreglass doesn't rot like badly prepared steel.

 

Blimey. Didn't know they even *had* bike tests back then ;-))

 

I did mine last June (and it pissed down)

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You're a bad man.

 

You're not being stupid, just limited in your thinking - or perhaps
just in your comprehension - I forget, is English actually your first
language? If not, I apologise in advance.

You see, "with" doesn't necessarily imply ownership. It's a perfectly
valid contraction of the phrase "with access to" for example.

 

I was still 4 years short of being a mere twinkle in my parents'
eyes in 1972, let alone conceived.

 

ogden says...

So you were born 76-77 then.

<thinks>

Kin hell, you've led a hard life

 

darsy says...

...and here, kids, we see a pefect example of how the English lanuguage
can be twisted to suit any given situation

 

(The Older Gentleman) wrote

Well it said 'Paging TOG' so I couldn't have been much more explicit

HTH

Paul.

 

I have journalistic experience, you know ;-)

 

That was from when we were very young and I was four.

 

darsy says...

Not proofreading? I made a typo and you didn't pick me upon it. Either
you cba, or you missed it. I'm putting a tenner on the former.