What kind of car do you have?
I have a Toyota Rav4. Love it.
shareBMW M8 Custom build, cabriolet, sonic blue.
600BHP, 0-60 in 3 seconds.
🏎 Vroom!
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03 MERCURY GRAND MARQUIS...ITS COOL BUT FALLING APART...LOOKING TO UPGRADE TO A PICKUP THIS YEAR SOMETIME.
shareGold 98 V6 Camry, the guy who sold it to me called it the nugget.
shareHonda Civic S Type. I'm not into cars really, I just want something reliable.
shareA Chevrolet Trax.
shareMINI Countryman Cooper S John Cooper Works
Has the quirky MINI appeal in a comfortable and sensible family car package
I'm saving up for this:https://miro.medium.com/max/1200/1*L3GFdCTBbuKfJbMVQHm0uQ.jpeg
share> I have a Toyota Rav4.
Same here. I'm happy with it. But I've always wanted one of these -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygLg-7G0Xp0
My dream was that when I retired I'd move to England, buy one of those, and spend my days driving around London looking pissed off like that guy. I've got the money now, but COVID has wrecked all that. Damn!
That show looks awesome
I never saw it but some of the dialogue is used in a classic Iron Maiden song
Sorry about your ruined plans Bull, hang in there, we'll get by👍
I visited The Prisoner Village in Wales two years ago (I made a thread about it). Excellent day out and brilliant TV series!
share> I never saw [The Prisoner] but some of the dialogue is used in a classic Iron Maiden song
As with many such things, the entire series is on Youtube, at least the last time I looked. It only lasted for about fifteen episodes. It's a classic but quite weird at times.
> Sorry about your ruined plans Bull, hang in there, we'll get by
Oh, I'm still doing it, even now. But somehow, driving around rural Appalachia in a RAV4 looking pissed off just isn't quite the same.
The the Lotus and KAR 120 used in The Prisoner was a Lotus Super Seven Series II demonstrator that was powered by a Cosworth-tuned 1.5-litre engine (Petrolhead Andy).
shareYou know your cars man
You and MrMojo should start a blog😃
I have a weakness for fast cars!
shareMojo
is a truck guy and you can do the sport car blogging
Hell, I'd read that
I'm no mechanic or engineer, but I know how to drive. Pre-Covid I used to race cars for fun (strictly amateur mind you) at classic car meets. I'd be the go to guy if they needed someone to drive a left hand drive with a stick because of my time in America. I can't describe the adrenaline rush and I really miss it (not for too much longer hopefully).
shareI mentioned in another thread that I had tried to get customized plates for my car, but Kentucky won't let people select plates which are of the standard, three letters and three numbers combinations and so which might conflict with another person's randomly assigned tags. I could buy tags which read "IM BULL" but where's the fun in that? My first choice would have been "CAP 811" but the online system rejected that. A close second choice would have been "KAR 120" but when I tried it, it was rejected too.
That car would be fun to drive, but I don't think I could do it as well as Patrick McGoohan. That guy actually accelerates driving down the ramp into the garage. Probably moving at 60 MPH by the time he gets to his parking space. Wow!
Could you not have it registered abroad and have foreign plates? Sorry, it's been a while since I lived in America, so I've got no idea about these things.
You could always go for a Caterham 7 or a Dutton, lol. They go like no-ones business, as they're light as a feather; basically an engine on wheels!
> Could you not have it registered abroad and have foreign plates?
The law would require me to get Kentucky tags when I brought the car into the state and began using it regularly here. Now, those laws are almost never enforced. When I moved from here to DC I didn't bother to register my car there and left the KY tags on it for years with no problems. But I don't know if a person could get away with out-of-country tags.
You mentioned above that you spent some time in the USA. Let me ask you -- how difficult is it to drive on the other side of the road from what you're used to? I thought about renting a car when I was in London and driving to Kent, to visit old relatives. Very old, in graveyards. About twenty years ago I got interested in genealogy and started looking into my ancestry. It turned out that my mother's ancestors include a very well researched line. Nobody distinguished, but all well documented. My 24-greats grandfather was born in Kent in 1266. Of course his gravestone, if he ever had one, would be long gone, but if I could have found the plot of land where he was buried I could have at least got a picture of myself standing there. I should have found some UK genealogists on the Internet and asked them to find out what they could, promising to do something nice for them in the USA if they ever needed it. Unfortunately, genealogy is something I get fascinated with for a couple of months, then set aside and forget about for a few years, then pick it up again occasionally. By the time I realized the opportunity I had, I was already packing my bags for the trip and it was too late to do anything about it.
So I didn't rent a car while there. I spent my entire time in London, so driving would have been pointless. If I ever return I'll rent a car and make the trip. But I suppose I'll have to be very careful driving opposite of what I'm used to. How hard is it to do that?
Personally, driving on the other side of the road is no problem at all. I've driven all over the world and not had any mishaps whilst abroad, probably because I'm normally on holiday and so I'm not in any rush. I find the mechanics of driving very easy (right or left hand drive / manual or automatic) - it's the little quirks that each country has that makes it a challenge (for example, I always Google / Youtube the petrol stations for the country that I'm going to, in order to ensure I'm doing things 'their way').
Driving in London is never a good idea (think NYC or LA) and public transport is so much easier, but if you wanted to hire a car and drive to sleepy old Kent, then that wouldn't be too difficult. If you ever get round to doing it, let me know and I'll be happy to pass on some tips. Good luck with the genealogy road trip; I did one in The Republic of Ireland that got a bit emotional, so I get it.
I suppose I could do it, but I think I'd have to be careful to keep my mind on what I was doing. Not concentrating intensely, just not let my attention wander and think one step ahead. Before I wrote that I took a few moments, closed my eyes, and tried to imagine what it would be like, sitting on the right hand side and driving in the left lane. I did OK until I turned at an intersection; without thinking I turned into the right hand lane.
Driving in London? No way LOL. Besides, as you said, the Underground took me everywhere I wanted to go. I never had to walk more than a few blocks to a destination. Tokyo was the same way when I was there. The difficulty there was that although many of the signs have both kanji and English alphabet names, many do not. On top of that, their address system works quite differently from ours, which would make it even more confusing.
If I ever do make the trip I'll also have to go to Wales. My great-great-great-great-grandfather, on my father's side, was born there. Later he came here and fathered something like sixteen children, most of whom were similarly prolific. So he's got a lot of descendants and his genealogy had already been well documented before I got into the hobby. A good thing, too. Like many country families of that era, almost all of them were illiterate except for one son who was literate and did the reading and writing for the family. Had he spent less time producing more children and more teaching the ones he did have, it would have made modern researchers' jobs considerably easier!
“I did OK until I turned at an intersection”. Just follow everyone else, lol.
My wife and I spent a month in Japan and had the time of our lives. The underground was the way to go in Tokyo 👍
I wish you all the best of luck with your quest.
Going to either country is something of an eye opener for an American. We're subtly trained in school to regard anything before WW2 as old news, and anything before 1776 as ancient history. And yet both Japan and England go much further back than that. It makes one think, wandering through a place like Hampton Court which was built and lived in long before any of our great men were even born. Tokyo pretty well got flattened during the war and there are few ancient things left there, but Kyoto has a lot left and I hope you made it there. I had already read James Clavell's Shogun and seen the miniseries long before. The story of Blackthorne and Toranaga was loosely based on the real life men William Adams and Ieyasu Tokugawa, so I particularly liked visiting Nijo Castle, Tokugawa's home there.
The genealogy is only an occasional hobby, and not a particularly passionate one. I did discover that I'm related to some notable people. Robert Treat Paine and Thomas Jefferson, one of whom wrote the Declaration of Independence, and both of whom signed it. The actor Treat Williams is also related to Paine, so I guess I'm related to him too. And, Meriwether Lewis, of Lewis and Clark fame. None of which makes me, personally, a better human being, it's just fun finding things like that.