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Gaz supply F&R dampers for the Esprit. Call them for P/N’s

FTFY

Good grief! What started off as a C-Service is now turning into a full-on Six Million Dollar Man restoration project. It’s not all bad news, but as it’s NHS-funded he’ll only be able to ”run” at about 3 mph for about 100 yards although this should at least allow him to keep up with the local traffic flow. He’ll soon be able to read a curry house menu from 2 feet away, and the multiple colorectal incursions mean he should be comfortably inside Mayor Kahn’’s emissions levels for Greater London without having to pay the ULEZ charge.

Give the man a coconut! Rescued by Sparky and Chris Internets, using a fag-packet sized battery booster.

If you leave the alternator excitation wire off, I can confirm with 100% certainty that an Esprit will run from Margate almost to Brand Hatch before it farts around and dies by the side of the motorway.

Having already watched “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest”, I know what happens in the end.

I’ve got a cam belt that wants doing, so quit your bed-blocking antics.

These days, he just leaves skateboards on the stairs.

In your case it allowed you to spend more quality time with the MIL.

Retiring was one of my best ever moves. Never regretted it once, it’s allowed me to spend more time with my wife.

Good to see you adhering to all those principles, Pete.

Unless you’re single, or prepared to be single, pre-heating the component parts with a hot-air gun is the answer.

Entries for the Fifth Edition are now open for CLF members. Non-CLF member applications will be open from 20th May to 16th June. Should you wish to participate this year, e-mail the organiser, Hugues Bigot, at bigot.hugues@orange.fr The hotel and driving area this year will be south of Brive-La-Gaillarde, in Correze. Only if you’re there, Bazza.

VHT Wrinkle-finish red, SP204. Or black, SP201.

I spent a month in New Zealand in 1977. But it’s difficult to comment on the quality of the local scenery from the inside of a taxi cab and the Whangerei Hotel’s public bar. New Zealand was the car theft capital of the world a year or so ago.

You’re doing fences now?

That’s Kimbers? Just shows you how wrong you can be, I had him pegged as a Brad Pitt lookalike.

It’s getting closer!

Alec Guinness on the left, no idea who the strange bloke is on the right.

Ah, yes, I see where you’re coming from!

If you like it so much, how come you’re not already in Cyprus? Putting a Kimbers poll up about it kind of tells me there’s a stumbling block somewhere!

What colour are the wires that go to the mystery Delco connector?

A good friend of mine is moving to Spain this year, him and his missus have bought a house there. Neither of them can speak the lingo, and despite being retired, he went back to work after two years cos he couldn't stand being at home staring at the old woman all day. However without the lingo skills, he won't get a job there, so if he does get work it will have to be in the black economy working for other expats. The heat in Spain in summer is crippling, I've been enough times in the past to attest to it, but his wife moans it's too hot in the UK in summer, so she'll be housebound when the ambient gets up to the average 40C. They're taking the dog, which is a fat old Husky cross, and I'd give it about a week before it bakes in the heat and expires shortly after. They both like a drink, and in my opinion the likelihood is that the pair of them will drink themselves into an early grave, due to them not having anything to do all all day, apart from stare at the TV, and post shit on Facebook. My wife doesn't like Spain at all, and I'm not that fussed, however they're already banging on about us going to see them, which ain't gonna happen. They seem to think that they're going to have all their friends visiting them on a regular basis, but I reckon that isn't gonna happen, either. I won't be leaving the UK any time. Some people think their problems can be solved by moving to a different country, but they might well end up with a different set instead. And if we're talking politicians, then don't for one moment think that politicians in different countries to the UK are pillars of moral integrity, 'cos they're no different.

The heater contril fascia is attached to a steel subframe. The hot/cold and direction knobs operate cables, so not fixed as such. The A/C and fan controls are just wire connections.