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The 2000 was a nice size car for trips to Grandparents in Durham  and Aberdeen.

At some point we ended up with a Dolomite Sprint 1850 quite nippy

Dolly Sprint was 2 litre. Standard Dolomite was 1850, Skruntie.

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The sales Directer had the 2500PI different league again.

My mate had a Triumph 2500 S and another mate had the 2000. Both were bought to banger race but were too good not to have some fun in first. We were going to Wycombe up the M40 when the lead car, the 2000, called us alongside to say that he was flat out and needed a push up the hill.
We dropped in behind him, closed the gap and were giving him a gentle push when there was a clunk. The angle of the lower half of the 2500 S chrome front bumper had ridden over the top of the tow ball of the 2000 and we were stuck. We both had to ease over to the hard shoulder in tandem so that we could stop and bounce it back off. Ah, the things we did in our youth and got away with. Total madness when I think about it now. 

Yep....I owned one. Bright yellow with Stag wheels as standard. Pretty sure my car had overdrive on 2nd, 3rd, and top gear, so 7 gears to play with. Sadly, there was no fuel injection just twin SU carbs so she barely made 100 BHP. Sounded great though and the closest I ever got to a TR6.

 They werent, but it had movement, ill loosen off and try again for next go.  Can't jiggle and fit the bolt at the same time, and its never the same with 2 

f3cking EGR bolts
Can I get the last bugger to line up not helped its at the top of the engine at the back, but done from underneath
so 18 inches of 3/8 ext, Universal joint, another 6 inch extension and then the E10

Are the other bolts still loose to give some jiggle room?

f3cking EGR bolts
Can I get the last bugger to line up not helped its at the top of the engine at the back, but done from underneath
so 18 inches of 3/8 ext, Universal joint, another 6 inch extension and then the E10 

The 2000 was a nice size car for trips to Grandparents in Durham  and Aberdeen.

At some point we ended up with a Dolomite Sprint 1850 quite nippy

I wonder at what point will the Gulf states get peed off with Iran lobbing ordinance at them and decide to start shooting back?   

Presumably they actually have things to throw back

Saudi has plenty of jet fighters and, as the skies over Iran are undefended....

Yes the Gulf States have been big spenders on Western military kit over the years.

I think the Saudi air force operates a fleet of Typhoons? 

They have Typhoons, Tornados and US built F-15's. Their airforce is larger than the RAF. However, why commit your own forces when the Yanks can take the strain and blame.

All very well, Malcolm, but we are of an age where a bit of sabre rattling used to be nothing unusual. Unfortunately, the UK is now populated by wokeist snowflakes, who would rather learn to speak Russian than pick up a weapon.

Whilst what you say is true, the likelyhood of the UK actually being invaded (thus requiring a snowflake to pick up a weapon) by anyone is as close to zero as possible. Frankly, we're more likely to be invaded by little green men from outer space. Or the French . If Russia can't sucessfully invade it's (third world military) neighbour (with which it shares a land border), then it stands no chance invading an island thousands of miles from the motherland.

Our military is not what I'd like it to be, but we are still mid table in the premiership, and able to defend ourselves, even if we would (and do) struggle to defend our friends and neighbours. With the US now seen as unreliable, many European countries are re-assessing their own defensive capabilities, and learning off those with the best and most recent (and ongoing) experiance is vital.

Are we? 

As I understand it, we have very little in the way of air defences. No Patriot or THAAD batteries and five of our six T45 Destroyers with air defence capabilities are alongside in Portsmouth undergoing various maintenance/refit programmes so are sitting ducks.

So if Putin or Macron decides to send a few missiles or drones our way, there's probably not much we can do to stop them, and that's if we even see them coming!    I read the other day that all the windfarms in the North Sea cause interference or 'chatter' on ground based radar systems and it might be easy to miss a low flying 'Shahed' type drone for example coming our way.    Although I believe the RAF have recently taken delivery of three planes from Boeing with airborne radar systems? 

Maybe we could spring a couple of WW2 'Ack Ack' guns out of the Imperial War Museum? 

We - the UK - are good at submarines and anti-sub stuff. I would prefer that we had a lot more ASW frigates and AD destroyers but we do have enough (just) to defend the British isles. To get close enough to launch drones an enemy would have to use either ships or subs to launch them. Those ships or subs would be detected, and they would be shadowed and monitored 24/7.

If someone started lobbing missiles at us, then they could expect a Tomahawk type response. Or worst case Trident.

The RAF haven't taken delivery of 3 planes from Boeing yet. The E-7 project is (about) 3 years behind schedule. The first aircraft is supposed to be delivered to it's Scottish base this month, but so far the radar hasn't even been turned on despite there having been about 20 test flights. The second airframe is complete, but it hasn't flown and is sat on the tarmac at Birmingham. The third airframe is still being spannered in the hangar at Birmingham. The whole project is a fuster-cluck. The squadron to operate them is already on it's second CO, and they still haven't even seen an aircraft. We were supposed to be buying an updated version of the aircraft that the Aussies and Turks have been using for 10+ years, on the back of 20+ USAF and 10+ NATO orders. The USAF have cancelled their order, and as a result so have NATO. So we'll end up with a orphan fleet of 3 (possibly 5 eventually) that will be impossible to update/maintain.

Believe it or not, the best radar we currently have for detecting slow & low flying drones is the 1970's one nailed to the navy's Merlin HM2 AEW helicopters. It's an updated version of the one originally fitted to the Gannet and Shakleton aircraft in the 1960's and 70's. That's why some Merlins have been deployed to Akrotiri. 

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The sales Directer had the 2500PI different league again.

My mate had a Triumph 2500 S and another mate had the 2000. Both were bought to banger race but were too good not to have some fun in first. We were going to Wycombe up the M40 when the lead car, the 2000, called us alongside to say that he was flat out and needed a push up the hill.
We dropped in behind him, closed the gap and were giving him a gentle push when there was a clunk. The angle of the lower half of the 2500 S chrome front bumper had ridden over the top of the tow ball of the 2000 and we were stuck. We both had to ease over to the hard shoulder in tandem so that we could stop and bounce it back off. Ah, the things we did in our youth and got away with. Total madness when I think about it now. 

What is wrong with good old-fashioned bricks.

I need ramps because I can’t get down at my age to position my trolley Jack. I have a set of standard ramps, but, once I get down, the rotund construction of my body stops me from getting very far under the vehicle. If I need a wheel off, because the vehicle is now higher, using my kneeler, I can position the Jack to get higher and put in axle stands. I feel this new type of ramp will do all that for me, and also allow me to slither under further.😀

Also…………..I haven’t got any bricks

I can get you some bricks, Tony 

Now why doesn't that surprise me...