Road Traffic Act 2005

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

Unnecessary. Mercs will be dealt with under a... "special" provision, to
be brought in at a later date.

--
Wicked Uncle Nigel - "Oh Bollocks" said Pooh, having forgotten his lines.

WS* GHPOTHUF#24 APOSTLE#14 DLC#1 COFF#20 BOTAFOT#150 HYPO#0(KoTL) IbW#41
SBS#39 Enfield 500 Curry House Racer "The Basmati Rice Burner",
Honda GL1000K2 (On its hols) Kawasaki ZN1300 Voyager "Oh, Oh, It's so big"
Suzuki TS250 "The Africa Single" Yamaha GTS1000

 

Why use it?

 

On most autos afaik, putting them in park locks the gearbox by locating
a pin into a shaft. If you stop on a hill & put them in park without
first using the handbrake, it can be a right bugger getting them out of
park again once you've taken your foot off the brake & the car's rolled
forward to take up the strain.

The pin & shaft don't like to be separated once they've got a tonne or
two of car forcing them together. At least that was the case on the
three autos I've owned (two Cherokees & a Saab 900 Turbo).

 

Fun being young innit. I remember the first (& only) time I tried to do
a handbrake turn in my parents Subaru pick-up. Those who know Subarus
will realise why that was a particularly dumb thing to do :-/

 

The latter. I'll never live that one down.

 

The XJ12 didn't like that at all, as I found out. Oops. No parking brake
anymore.

 

Saabs are/were the same.

 

Krusty says...

You twat.

--
Lozzo
Track pixie
GSX-R1000 K1
I haven't lost my mind, it's
backed up to a floppy disc
that's around here somewhere.

 

I loved 'em. Couldn't keep it though; it drank juice like a Russian
sailor.

 

Bear emerged from their own little world to say

http://www.kwengineering.org/news.html

40 mpg from an XJ6 or 350 bhp from an XJ12. Take your pick

 

It says that everyone thinks the series III XJ6 was the best looking.
I don't. I think that the series I was the best looking.

 

You do know how expensive using the trains are, yes?

 

No idea now, I rarely use them and of the last dozen or so occasions
when I've had to around 60% have been cancelled or delayed for some
reason. The nearest usable station being ~9 miles away doesn't really
help the cause.

 

Ben Blaney says...

Only in SWB form, the lines were spoilt when they stretched it.

--
Lozzo
Track pixie
GSX-R1000 K1
I haven't lost my mind, it's
backed up to a floppy disc
that's around here somewhere.

 

Always the way.