Where.....

[Evans Electric]

Ah some suburban , sleepy  affluent suburb with the village church to the left with about 3 cars an hour passing by ?  

No..you may not believe it but  ..   2 miles from  Birmingham city centre.

Apparently  Joseph Lucas once lived just across the road  ( Founder of now defunct Lucas Automotive electrics. )  And Frederick Lanchester  , one of the early motor car designers and builders lived to the right. 



And then back into reality on the way home  !! :C

 

[ProDave]

I really must post some pictures of rush hour up here.

I left my job at 5pm today, that's a late finish for me.  Well bu99er me, there were other cars on the road, I had to wait 20 seconds at a give way as there were at least 4 cars coming.

 

[Evans Electric]

OMG  !    How do you put up with it !! :innocent

 

[Riggy]

I'm a bit like Dave, got caught in the School Run traffic this morning, 5 car tailback at the junction! Like Piccadilly Circus it was!

 

[pewter]

an old N  reg escort van  !!!!!!!  

is it ex BT?

was this picture taken in the 1990s?

 

[ProDave]

Ah yes. Avoid school start and finish times. That's a licence to dump (rather than park) a car anywhere and block the road, oblivious to the fact some people might want to drive past the school without stopping.

I also avoid filling my car with petrol between 12 and 2pm. Normally quiet petrol stations have actually been known to have queues during normal people's "lunch break" Queueing is not something I normally expect to do.

 

[m4tty]

an old N  reg escort van  !!!!!!!  

is it ex BT?

was this picture taken in the 1990s?

That's not very nice . Don't be horrible to thunderbird 2. Rock solid them escort vans

 

[Evans Electric]

Ah well ...many seem to take the Part Pee out of the trusty Thunderbird 2 .        The chairman of a printers I used to look after asked me not to park it on the front car park .    They were a big customer of mine .......so.....park in the loading bays  .but it cost them from then on :innocent

Oh ...and they went bust , so what goes around , comes around.

Yep ..its  ex BT ...that old number plate certainly worries some ..but 200,000 miles later I'm still not taking much notice.

I used to get the same with a  Mk 4 Cortina .  it was Armourglazed by  the previous owner and the floor pan sealed , so it refused to rust away . Actually the wife's car , a couple of so-called mates felt it necessary to make comments about that car too .   

It may be clear by now that I don't trouble about what car someone has ....its the person inside it that counts.

 

[wozz]

Today I drove from ashford Kent to near Lincoln, to find nvc had ballsed right up and left me 40 fitting not delivered and not even made despite being ordered to the 12th. Done a bit and then drove to Essex where I am staying to night to work nearby tomorrow, reckon I have done 350 miles today, fed up think I earn more driving around at home fixing broken things and people seem grateful for that!

 

[revjames]

yeh bummer my commute took at lkeast 2 minutes

 

[Doc Hudson]

I really must post some pictures of rush hour up here.

I left my job at 5pm today, that's a late finish for me.  Well bu99er me, there were other cars on the road, I had to wait 20 seconds at a give way as there were at least 4 cars coming.

And I guess three of those were the landed gentry coming back from the afternoons shoot with a brace of pheasants each!

Doc H.

 

[Technician]

Doc; awfully sorry...Pheasant shooting season ended a while ago.

Grouse...OK till November.

:Salute

 

[Doc Hudson]

Doc; awfully sorry...Pheasant shooting season ended a while ago.

Grouse...OK till November.

:Salute

I stand corrected!

Doc H.

 

[Technician]

Doc;  Just checked again;  Grouse OK from August to November in any one year.

Cooks excellently by the way.

 

[SLIPSHOD & SLAPDASH]

Unfortunate number plate for a tradesman,  BOJ   :B-

 

[ProDave]

And I guess three of those were the landed gentry coming back from the afternoons shoot with a brace of pheasants each!

Doc H.

Yes, easy to spot.

The Landed gentry are the ones driving the brand new Range Rover.

The Ghillies are the ones driving the brand new Land Rover defender station wagon.

And their clients are the ones driving a nearly new sports car caked in mud and with the exhaust hanging off, as it never dawned on them the shooting lodge is 5 miles down a rough track and they arrived in the most inappropriate car possible.

 

[Evans Electric]

Unfortunate number plate for a tradesman,  BOJ   :B-

HHmmm...now then Slippers.... I think I may have possibly heard that one before ...  Ahhh!   Thats why they call me and my sometimes partner  Bodgett and Scarper .   :B-