Rob

Discharged before the 20th C had started, crikey. That makes me think of Blackadder..."Skirt? In my day if you saw someone in a skirt, you shot him and nicked his country"

My one has certainly paid for itself in the times I was blatting about our sceptered isle in the line of work. Nowadays I live in one of the only two counties to have no fixed speed cameras, so I rarely use it. It worked well, and also provides a good speedo when the supra one isn't wholly accurate. By using the smart mute settings, things like shop doors and traffic lights that use K-Band are not annoying. Having put the supra back on the road though last month, I have left it installed on the dash, not much risk of it being stolen here in this "estate." There have been two car-crimes in the last 17 years.

I still have a Snooper S6 Neo in the supra that I bought way back in 2001-ish. The uploading/downloading still works over a phone line.

Ahh, that'll be it then. Top work that man. He was born 1896, died 1949, it'll probably be the 1919 one then. I kinda remember it as such. The plaque used to be on the wall in my dads house, then went to his brother after he died. Now that brother has died a few years back, his wife has got it so I'm concerened they will disappear into her side of the family when she dies.

A task?

Ahh, the ribbon is green on both sides with what appears to be a blue or black stripe up the middle. Unfortunately that photo is the only one I took and its rubbish.

[ATTACH=CONFIG]141659[/ATTACH] Somewhere in the possession of my family is a wall frame with 4 medals in it. I know 3 of them are respectively the 1914 Star, the 1914-20 British War Medal and the Victory Medal. All campaign medals, as it were, not to denigrate them and what they mean of course, but that one there ^^^ I am told was awarded to my Grandad when he was made a Sergeant, and has a bar on that says N.W.F. Afghanistan. I think that was a campaign in the North West Front of India, prior to partition of course. Anyone able to clearly identify it ? That looks like George V to me.

Got to agree with Tannhauser there. I wouldn't be all chatty and noisy in a place where people were observing the 2 min silence, but I did not observe it myself in my own home. I read a lot of books about the various wars we have had, visit museums, I've been to war graves in the Somme, and I reckon in the past year alone I have spent a greater amount than 2 minutes thinking about those that gave their lifes and thanking them for my freedoms now. I don't feel the need to conform to an enforced prayer.

I have the entire "opus" of t.A.T.u's work on iTunes. I even take the time to write their name correctly.

Just shows how much we rely on computers now, and how many IT chaps there are here, that anything other than 0 is being discussed.

Edited to make point

If you are stripping the engine, how much for the two cam pulleys, please?

Indeed, its failed at the one thing its designed to do.

A short 1 mile drive left it cold, so whatever it was, has gone during the disassembly / poking about / reassembly process. I hate it when that happens.

Hmm, well had it all in pieces today, and everything was free moving. Reassembled and it was cold after a short run, so maybe whatever was sticking got moved about a bit. However, should the whole handbrake shoe assembly be movable by hand. It all pivots about the top cam thing, that the shoe springs clip onto, but I can move the whole lot from side to side from the bottom. Is this correct and normal?

To meet a new fella of course, though she might need to work on her technique a bit.

OK, I did actually think you geniunely meant while driving fast.

Will do, bearing in mind the NS will pull more during hard handbraking.

Its definitely not the pads, as the caliper was stone cold. I'm jsut wondering if the shoes can be clear on the drive, but somehow start to drag when driving. Could it worth another 2 clicks off the adjuster?

It had new shoes a couple of years ago. As I said, it'll roll on the drive with little effort as there is the faintest of inclines, which makes me think the pads can't be binding unless this is a red herring.

Having got my car back on the road after an 18month lay up, I've now found the OS rear hub drum is heating up a bit, enough to flake off the fresh undercoat and hammerite I put on to stop it looking all horrible and rusty. I spent this afternoon re-adjusting the handbrake, both with clicker barrell adjuster (8 clicks back-off) and then adjusting the cable at the lever in the drivers seat, and repainting it (the drum). The car rolled easily on the drive, so I didn't think it could still be binding, but having driven to the shop and back there is still heat in the disc/drum. The NS one was cold to the touch, the OS caliper was also cold to the touch, so it must be the drum brake thats heating. What can I have done wrong? When it was up on stands I found it hard to turn the disc forwards but easy backwards, would this be the diff as opposed to anything in the handbrake?

Wow, would you like a '99 with that?

I mean....damn...day-um.

Some friends of mine own this.... http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4106/5024351908_b07bcb999e.jpg

My insurance was £500 for 2009-2010 and its been off the road till now. I'd had it insured with LV ever since 1999. When trying for new insurance, LV said they would not insure an imported Supra. I told them they had insured it since 1999, and two other of my cars on continual renewal, but they weren't interested in keeping my custom. 10 years loyalty, x 3, means nowt. They did say if I hadn't stopped it for a year, they would have continued to insure me, but not from "new." That was confusing, they'll insure an import because its already insured with them, but their new company policy is not to insure imports. Eventually got cover with Flux for £470, so an actual saving.