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It was an age related plate before, dad had an old Austin Gipsy which was being sold and was MOT exempt and happened to have a very nice 1959 number plate on it. So we transferred it to the 100e, it's a £4000 number plate on a £50 car haha.

Lots of people do that, stupid people who don't read their SECCI' or PCE documents.

I can't believe you even asked that... You cannot sell it until you pay it off, because you don't own it. If the bike ever went missing and the police got involved, or if you stopped paying them they would find out. But either way, you shouldn't.

Oh my poor old Ford... So, time to post some pictures. I parked it up almost 5 years ago, haven't touched it since. My dad's shuffled it around the workshop, driven it around the village then parked it back up. But that's about it. When I parked it, she looked like this. Time has not been good to her... Today is the first day I have had my insurance set up on it, so I obviously took it out for a drive first! Over the last week I have stripped and cleaned the brakes, replaced the diff fluid, gearbox fluid, engine oil, brake fluid and clutch fluid, changed lots of bulbs, rewired the dash, cut new HT leads, replaced the points and condenser, repacked the hubs and bearings and dad has welded a few patches on the floor, waxoyled it and put a small patch in the boot. He rebuilt the carb ages ago, it seems fine. This video describes what happens next quite well - http://youtu.be/a9fsB3EZXko So, it drives pretty well. Rain was stopping play, so there is very little I could do to sort the paint. Didn't stop my putting my DA in a bag and gently going for it. I didn't use anything abrasive, just a finishing pad and Black Hole. Then once I had done the whole lot, I just half arsed threw some corona wax on whilst it was soaking wet, smooched it around a bit and them dried the car. Seems to have worked well. So yeah, super happy!!

If it is a secured hire purchase agreement, no. As it is a bike finance for a specific product, I KNOW you cannot sell it. As the finance company owns it, not you. If it was an unsecured personal loan you got from the bank, crack on. And no "Lord Banks" you cannot do it with a cycle scheme, your company own the bike.

So I have just got a call from my dad, the head for the engine we bought the other day is knackered. It's obviously just been thrown together to sell from an abandoned project, it's warped so far out of tolerance that it cannot be skimmed into a reasonable standard. Bums.

This thread has become the best of the internet itself. Post hoc, ergo propter hoc.

Yup. f**king ruined it. When I was young and stupid myself, not when I was old and had a family to care for and responsibilities in my life.

I f**king LOVE the internet.

Ahh, 15. One day you will grow a beard, and your voice will become manly, and you will get responsibilities. Then you will look back when you have loved ones, and families of your own. I have no doubt that what you will think is that people who do stupid shit in public (like your dad) don't deserve a driving license.

What a bellend. You and your dad. Total f**king tools, I pray to god he doesn't fall off. Not because I give a shit about his safety, more because I don't want another mindless fanny hiking up the price of my insurance or taking up a hospital bed from somebody who deserves it.

Good times. Insurance sorted for the Pop, no usable no claims, no excess, parked on the road...£103 fully comp. I f**king love being old. Took the head off my new engine yesterday afternoon and stripped it down, sending the head off to be pressure tested and leak tested. It seems like a very expensive head. I don't think the engine has ever been run since building, there are no fluids in it other than some smears of assemble oil and grease. The pistons are immaculate and everything is so tight. Fitting a new speedo cable this afternoon, dropping the oil from the old engine and giving it a bit of a service so I can start using it daily again whilst I build this engine.

Vettel is a racer, through and through. Senna and Prost were no different, still two of the best drivers in history. Senna was infamous for throwing his toys out the pram, refusing to race and causing people to change legislation, rulings, team orders and structure for him. He also happened to always have one of the best cars on the field. High horses and all that jazz, but I don't see how Vettel is any different to any world class top performing sportsman.

It does, realllly common on S2's. Google "audi S2 air filter" and see where it fits...nt clever. What a productive day I have had!!! I went to an autojumble at Pickets Piece with my old man, in my Pop. As I walked in the first stand I came too had so much old Ford shit on it, a couple of cross flows, a load of boxes, a 100e Murray overdrive unit, all sorts. Dad and I went for a walk, made a plan of action and I got hit by a wave of enthusiasm. So I just bought a built 711M block 1300 cross flow for my Pop. Burton pistons, stock rods, balanced lightweight crank and a very highly ported head with big valves and solid lifters. Along with a little T3 turbo, manifold and down pipe to suit a Mk1 Escort. Dad is confident he can get it all in the Pop. The Ford day is at Beaulieu on the 4th of May, so I need to decided if I want a 4 speed Anglia box and a 105e English axel without cutting the bulkhead or transmission tunnel or a 5 speed type 9 and a shortened atlas axel with a custom prop which will be ultimately better, but three times the work and twice the money. Anybody else going to the Ford day?

Air filter...I bet.

Vettel is king. Wait until next year when RBR have had as much time as Mercedes did to work with the engine.

I hate to say this Rich, but it looks fantastic.

Yes. Massively.

My levels of pissed off are infinite. This will seem like I am being a massively spoilt brat, but nothing is further from the truth. It's my birthday tomorrow. I f**king hate birthdays. No interest in them AT ALL. I find the whole thing hugely unnerving, and people making a fuss over me just antagonises me and makes me very uncomfortable. I have always been like it, for the last 23 years. I don't like birthdays. Last night my best mate drove all the way from Plymouth to come out with me for Saturday night, had a great night. Haven't seen him for ages. He stayed at my mums with me, because it just so happens that my girlfriend is in Wales seeing her family this weekend so I decided to stay at home for a couple of days. Went into town for breakfast this morning, mum, stepdad, Joe and I. Say having breakfast and my dad rings me, asking me what I was doing tomorrow and saying he was going to an auto jumble miles away and do I want to go with him. f**k yeah I do. So I told him to pick me up at 9, my mum starts going bat shit in the background saying "no no no, 9 at night. You aren't going out with your dad all day tomorrow!" so I told her "I will do what I want mother, I have nothing planned and I want to go out with Dad." Told him to meet me at 9. Mum starts making a massive fuss in front of my best mate in the bar we were having breakfast in. Basically she has organised this massive family gathering for my birthday and I "have" to go. I'm not f**king going. So I have been super apprehensive all day and really f**ked off because mother and I have fallen out over this surprise party bullshit. I have told my dad not to pick me up and I won't be seeing him at all. I have spent all day in a total f**king pissy because of my mother and not enjoyed my mate coming to see me at all. Just walked through the door and she is there like everything is normal, and it f**king well isn't. So I told her she has really annoyed me, she has nigh on ruined my weekend and also my birthday and that was she f**king surprised that I moved 200 miles away for 5 years and now I only come home once a week to collect the mail. So I am going to go home and sit in the living room and read my book all day on my birthday, if my family can't just pop by and say hello without organising a ridiculous f**king party I shan't see any of them. Retards the lot of them.

Sunday boost.

God knows why I read it as "got a go in". I must be going mad.

Did you drive it? I miss my old one.

Picture 2 is the best.

Shit is so good at the moment. Suns out, it's my birthday next week, not smoked for two weeks, losing a shit ton of weight, because the sun is out the girlfriend is walking around naked pretty much everywhere, work is a bit slow so I can take half days to enjoy it. Boooom.