What is it about this country that causes people to pimp the registration plate?!!?

I don't recall this happening in any other European country.

Of course, the DVLA is partly to blame as they make a fair bit of money out of it. But for every £250 that they make it must cost everyone else way more than that to police their correct use.

Personnaly, I think that it looks daft, raises the profile of the car and/or driver and is open to abuse. In a bizzare sort of way, it is another stealth tax! Read more

I saw a DVD of the ?Bullitt? movie and remembered that HJ had described it as the definitive car chase movie. So I indulged and bought it. After watching it I had to agree. I thought that the baddie was the better driver though because the Bullitt character almost lost it a few times.

I think that the Bullit?s car was a Mustang ; how thin those tyres look now.

Can any BR tell me
A. what model the other car was
B. how many Mustangs were written off in the production
C. did Steve McQueen do the driving ?
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The driver looked like Luca Brazzi, had the forearms of Popeye and the torso of Raging Bull. His voice was like the smoke from a thousand chimneys, and his eyes like bullets. He was master of the 52 seater coach taking us down from the car park 1000 metres up the side of Mount Vesuvius, Naples.

He almost wheel spun away from the car park. Right foot like he had Jacques Cousteau's diving boot on, right palm permanently on the horn daring all to come within 50ft of him.

He hung out of the window and yelled curses and shook his fist at every woman, man, donkey, sheep, pig, goat, dog or cat he passed, he almost power drifted around hairpin bends and overtook timorous tourist coaches he deemed to be too slow, even in places where there was no room, and with on coming traffic!

We thrashed down the mountainside, swaying left and right, tyres squealing, hurtling around bends.......packets of crisps, chocolate bars, apples, old ladies and babes in arms flying around inside the fuselage of the demented rocket.

Finally, we landed at Herculaneum and screeched to a halt outside the station. We clapped and cheered and shook his hand as we got off the coach. Whether out of sheer relief at arrival in one piece, or in admiration of a performance of theatrical bravura.....I cannot say!

Funny what being on holiday does to you. Back home, we would have complained to the bus company. Read more

Can anyone explain why lpg fuel pumps are not all set at the same pressure.
The reason I ask this is having used quite afew pumps Iseem to get different fill levels.
I have 70lt toroidal tank-56lt capacity, only two pumps managed over 50lt and most seem to be 37 to 40lt. As the switch to petrol is automatic I am assuming the gas tank has been empty when I have re-filled.

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I had my RAC renewal this week. They needed me to ring them because there was a change in my bank, and gave the number 0870 ......
These numbers are the ones where the receiver of the call makes money out of a caller, and I refuse to use them. A quick search for "Say no to 0870" gives a useful website, which listed several free phone numbers, one of which I managed to use. No-one noticed what number I used.
I believe that we are, here, too ready to allow ourselves to be charged for things such as making a phone call.
End of bee in bonnet. Read more