Me too.

Drum wrote: ↑Sun Mar 10, 2024 5:52 pm Saw a new advert on Facebook for a lotus elite project not too far from drum towers.
Sent a message but it was already sold. Advert was less than half an hour old.

The original or the Eclat type one?

You can blame asset strippers like Lord Hanson and Gordon White for a lot of that and also City 'short termism', being driven by quarterly reporting. GEC, subsequently Marconi, is a casebook example. Obviously there's a lot more to it, Sterling being a petrocurrency for a period screwing up BL US ex...

You'll be envious when it protects me from any nuclear radiation.
Lead shielding is for proles.

That sounds cheap to me but then again I've no idea of the prices they go for.

Are you having a clearout so that you can open your castle to visitors?

I was briefly behind something with an MG badge yesterday. More or less a Suv. That unfortunately is what sells nowadays. They do have an electric sports car, expected to cost about 50k, which is not too far adrift of previous MG sports car costs when adjusted for inflation I understand. EC32_Side3...

Nothing I think to people under 30 or so, at least the ones I know. None of my sons mates, girlfriends, friends etc. appear to have the sllghtest interest in cars apart from reliably getting them from a to b. The only exception to this is our mobile crematorium which is pretty much in a class of its...

Yet another reason why a perfectly usable car might be scrapped.

How did we ever manage without it?

We can do it so we did, 'technology' gone mad.

At least the name is right.