During a recent sojourn in Cuba, I passed by a van in the centre lane of a three lane carriageway near the harbour in Havanna.
The van had not only stopped but the occupants were carrying out some sort of repair which had involved removing the front driveshaft as well as the wheel, goodness knows how long they had been there and how long the job was going to take. As one might expect no one, apart from myself, was taking any notice at all; putting Dulwich Estate's ticket for a 10 second stop in some sort of perspective.
.....ermm, come to think of it, didn't Ken recently visit Cuba on a fact-finding jolly.....
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One mans junk is another mans treasure
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My strangest sight was a very old bike and side car pulling a cut in half caravan/ diy tariler with a sofa hanging off. the whole rig was swaying from side to side alarmingly. I saw this whilst driving through milkwall forest of dean.
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I saw a BMW driver indicating the other day - something that I've never seen before and probably never will again.
Obviously a fault with his car.
MTC
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I was on in the middle lane of the M1 last Sunday and a guy in a red audi convertable pulled out on me after just joining from a slip road and then sped of at about 95mph. Nothing strange there.
The odd thing was the convertable was down.
It must have been under 10C and the road was damp so I had to use may windscreen washer every 15 min. He was wearing a thick coat and hat, but I hope he gets a cold and a black face from the dirt.
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Torque means nothing without RPM
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Broken-down breakdown truck being loaded on to a low-loader - what happens if low-loader breaks down?
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The Skoda Fabia yesterday with two white cats on board. Followed it for some miles much to the delight of the kids. One on the parcel shelf and the other slipping and sliding but never actually falling off the instrument binnacle bulge of the dashboard.
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Perhaps ought to go in unusual sightings, but yesterday saw the roughest 911 in the world, which lives round here, haven't seen it for a while. Several colours, mainly muddy blue and rust, covered all over in raw welds, but sits up all right and seems to track straight and not sound too bad. Must be legal too as it belongs to a grey-bearded black guy. Combined with its cosmetics I wd think that must get it pulled fairly regularly.
Great motor. I am envious of the owner and curious to meet him.
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Which one was driving ?
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I saw a Police patrol car heading north towards Leicester this week on the M1, that's a very strange sight on the roads today.
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Lots of Police vehicles about M5 Almondsbury at the moment. They got a load of new bmw's 5 series and X5's lookout for nice new black X5 unmarked camera car...Keo
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A dozen or so, Asian ladies, in brightly coloured saris (spelling), standing on the hard shoulder M1. No vehicle though!!
3 greyhounds & an alsation strolling up the hard shoulder A1.
Yes I did call the Police each time - just to entertain them, also!!
VB
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About a week ago, on a fairly busy local road, saw a person riding a unicyle! in all the traffic.
It was not a jokey bike of the circus type, but had a nomal type narrow racing wheel, but just the one.
He was kitted out in full skin tight colourful lycra and ventilated crash helmet and was pressing on at a respectable speed.
I was so surprised it was only afterwards that I wondered how he was pedalling and also how did he stop.
Perhaps I should get out more.
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