A supercar has set a new land speed record for central London of 175.7mph on an airport runway.
h ttp://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/5184756.stm
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TourVanMan TM < Ex RF >
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"But it's as much a test of braking performance, not least because the runway ends in a dock."
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Around 1960, knew slightly a chap with a tuned Jaguar XK 120 (or perhaps 140) with a very, very loud straight-through exhaust. He claimed it could do 115 in third and that he regularly hit 100 driving down the Mall with that blaring tailpipe aimed at Buckingham Palace. No speed cameras there either, or indeed anywhere in those heavenly far-off days.
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regularly hit 100 driving down the Mall with that blaring tailpipe aimed at Buckingham Palace.
He a republican then?
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In the 1960s test pilot and racing driver Desmond "Dizzy" Addicott reached 200mph on the M1.
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L\'escargot.
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No doubt others have seen today's story about the two estate agents racing to Italy who have had their tasty motors seized by the French authorities for exceeding twice the speed limit... I usually sympathise with speeders who don't cause death or injury but in this case I don't for some reason. Something to do with their obvious idiocy perhaps.
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No doubt others have seen today's story about the two estate agents racing to Italy who have had their tasty motors seized by the French authorities for exceeding twice the speed limit... I
In case you missed it
news.scotsman.com/uk.cfm?id=1037672006
observer.guardian.co.uk/world/story/0,,1821543,00....l
tinyurl.com/hqea2
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Idiocy? no you can forgive that for tidiots they know not what they do. However estate agents and sympathy are mutually exclusive and can not be used in the same *sentance,
*well actually anytime really.
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Perchance is it because they're estate agents?
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