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Took the Mrs Christmas shopping today, she called me a 'Fucking Twat!' before we even left

Winter! fucking phone!!!

What show of yours is this then? Always knew there was something odd about you now we all know

We taking about the fat thing?

If one of my household told me they were getting a Beemer I'd kick them square in the nuts. Breakdowns involving self igniting egr valves, limp mode due to gear change position faults. Most of the older ones along with some mercs and VWs are being bought up by the immigrants and chavs who promptly remove the DPFs turning them into even more unreliable polluting bags of stinking crap. Most cars built between 1996 and 2006 were some of the best ever, that has long since passed.

You weren't allowed on some sites (especially quarries) if you weren't wearing it @busabeast is probably trying his on for size right now

The spelling! I’m not drunk yet, you’ll know if I do. I’ll call you…

Good hod! When was that and how old are you? That truck looks like it belongs in those orfan plays from the UK, with the beggar kids, Oliver!

I did an image search of Gnats and Hawks and the only easily visible difference to my old eyes is the rear tail plane is lower than the main wings on a Gnat, and higher then the main wings on a Hawk. Gnat Hawk

This is like the one I drove

My last couple of days kind of hurt my feelings with everything regarding work. Bloody greedy companies annoy me but now I know someone has plans to delete my earnings over the mid term. This has meant a pretty difficult day and I’m now exhausted even if I didn’t leave the house today. wine will be consumed shortly

Yeah it's permanent, glad to get away from the bloody agencies

A Hawk..... A gnat Pretty simple really

watch out for the deep ones.

Going bust!......the last 5 places my wife worked at as a temp went bust not long after she had been there....... Best of luck @busabeast

Good luck @busabeast My advice would be to try not step on anyone's toes until you get into it , tipper work can be very clicky. At least your truck will probably have power steering, I used to drive an 8-wheeler Scammel with NO power steering

I am starting work on class 2 tippers tomorrow so let's see if this one goes bust eh.....

Maybe but it’s not a barge

I was going to ride up to Cirencester on the Fosseway but far too cold so I took the car.

Bob can get you a discount.

Morning mingers Kind of got the day off and the requests for dishes are in. Murgh Makhani, Begum Bahar, King prawn Korma, Samosa’s, Padron peppers, mushroom rice, poppadoms n chutneys, garlic naan followed by icecream n a nice cocktail for pud. Not making the naans or the poppadoms because it’s not worth it for the few bites they get. Pudding I’m going to do the ‘Screaming O’ a lovely cocktail of vodka, baileys, kahlua, amaretto n cream. Well worth the effort. It’s still fecking freezing but the blanket of ice over the field has made everything feel very Christmassy

I doubt it will ever happen but if I wanted a car to keep and pamper it would be German , the last of the properly made Mercedes..............

Depends which Aero, now a 9000 Aero had a lot of potential. Or a 93 Viggen both with the 2.3 Turbo motor. Mind you the Viggen would try and kill you quite regularly. I know a Scottish chap who had a much modified 9000 Aero running 600 BHP, munching gearboxes was his hobby. You genuinely meet the best people through the Saab community. I was a Mod on UKSaabs for years and still think of the owner of that site as a friend.

My long term friend who recently died had a long spell with Saabs. We'd jump in and thrash it to where ever we were going to have a walk. Derbyshire, Dorset, they just soaked it all up. He had a silver aero which was "a motorbike on four wheels", his words.

Classic Saab 900 was a surprisingly good handling car, the 99 was better IMHO but you are right the E46 a much better more modern developed package in many ways. Thing is with those old Saabs you have to compare them to their contemporaries to appreciate how good they were. Back in the days when 100 BHP was a lot for a car the Saab 900 was head and shoulders above most mainstream offerings. Not just in power, the double wishbone front suspension was awesome. My C900 in that picture had 200,000 miles on it and was running 200 BHP without hiccup. The motor could have produced much more but the gearbox was the Achilles heel in that model. Again though a lot of modern cars blow both the E46 and c900 into the weeds in every measurable way but it's all about they way they feel. Whoops nearly let the geek out, its alright I have put him away again.

Super fun day today. Drove into our first mountain resort where Heli Skiing is the big thing. A beautiful place and the roads were great. I was excited to see the Canadian Pacific Holiday Train. It had stopped for refuelling. It was all covered with lights and I'm sure would look really cool in the dark. Sure feel the holiday spirit here in the mountains.

Last of the real Saabs.

I haven't been out for 3 weeks because of the shit weather and shitload of work! This weekend could well be different in terms of weather though...... I've still got the shitload of work but I'm hoping to get a couple of hours out at some point. Got the grandkids in the afternoons so it's going to be a morning run......which could get a bit nippy unfortunately. But I've got to grab what I can.....when I can! Such is life for an overworked Pensioner! Anyway.....what are you useless twats doing?

Health & Safety gone mad......surprised that he is not wearing a hard hat too.

Well there's a bit of truth there , I never drove a Foden 2-stroke but I did drive a Bedford TM with a detroit 2-stroke diesel engine. It went like shit off a shovel

@boboneleg...the early years.

I did some work for Amey roadstone but they had some of the Hoveringham vehicles onsite.

Chinese Harleys? What you say @Buckster @Marcel

don't forget the chips

Well it's pissed down all day so it may well not dry up by tomorrow morning!

It's Christmas of the Hospitals, Pete loves it.

This weekend .....if the forecast is right I think i will be doing fuck all on Saturday.....and maybe snow clearing on Sunday But 13 or 14c on Monday......but rain and windy that day......

You've always got the day off!

Cool, I love my E46 318Ti also, right engine, right gearing, right balance, right car. Of course I may be bit biased. I bought it 3 years ago with just 60,000 miles, new cam chain as well for good measure. Can't find any decent photos of it right now but do have them some where. When I was Saab mad I used to do track days mostly at Castle Coombe and Thruxton. Kids came along and took the budget for those high jinx. The E83 is my wife's money pit.

we have -5c stuff that freezes at 0c LOL

Yup it was a bit nippy today @Saul, I was north of you in Tenby, It was -8.5c when i arrived this morning and i was working outside in it, never went above 2c all day. I have been working in temperatures below freezing all week, but never mind about my easy job lets hear some more about how hard Pete's getting it in his warm office pressing those spring loaded keys on his keyboard for a living, must be absolute hell

Lovely car! The E46 would have been a lot more balanced for track driving, no?

No.....it was about Jake La Motta!

Sorry i just had a picture of me pouring vodka from the local off licence into the screen wash bottle and the lad i work with sticking his head out the window with his mouth open trying to catch a drop every time i wash the windscreen LOL