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Have you heard how fucking lame the US fans' chants are? Primary school sports day stuff compared to the Brits.

GG. wrote: Fri Jun 26, 2026 3:50 pm Yes I expect 50k house is 500k now.

I don't think ANY house in Rotherham is worth £500K

I'm only slightly joking - this is what £450K gets you in the place I grew up in.

I haven't watched it all yet. Absolutely awesome to have the space to house that in your garden at home, but £50k in 1996 is the equivalent of £104k today. He's ended up with what I suspect is a fairly niche property from a resale perspective...... :? Is that folly, or a lesson in cunning ...

928 insurance is due in a couple of months and unless it's a ludicrous premium I'm going to go with Locktons. Purely because I'll get European Breakdown and Recovery plus a hire car to continue the trip if the car isn't fixable in 48 hours. Getting European cover on a 39 year old car is virtually ...

If this goes tits up and there another leadership challenge in the next 12 months we might as well just admit defeat and give Farage his turn.


Farage will never be Prime Minister. It involves hard work, something he famously avoids. He's in it purely to enrich himself by rousing the gullible ...

Aaaand he's gone https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/ckger03mrl0t

JonMad wrote: Tue Jun 16, 2026 5:36 pm One service in the last 7 years? (otherwise, V12, and an Aston, what's not to like)

But it was carried out by the internationally renowned Aston Martin specialist Great Horkesly Garage!

The 928 has passive rear wheel steer via the Weissach rear axle set-up.

Set aside a few hours to go through changing settings then :lol:

I turned off the wanky noise and graphics when you get in/start up as well.


For some reason the first thing that came to mind was the Aston thing of Power, control, beauty or whatever that was.

Then I imagined a screen that ...

If it's Boeing, I ain't going!

I like the all-white wheel. I think the leather-covered horn push looks nicer on Harry's car than the plastic one that was fitted and wasn't original anyway, but I've always dislike that steering wheel design so I'd still suggest he fits one of these instead: https://www.design911.co.uk/p/sports ...

I was randomly browsing cars a few weeks ago and a nice 928 came up, relatively low miles and it was only in the mid 20's. I thought they cost far more than that but then again it was an auto and I just assume old automatics are hateful in anything vaguely performance orientated.


The manual box ...

The roof on the Boxster RS is a massive PITA. One of the guys I know in TIPEC had one and he hated it. 981 generation is where you need to be for that kind of money. It's just all round better.

£25K will get you into a nice 981 generation Boxster. Stick with the 2.7 and you have zero bore score worries or issues. Whilst an Elise is ultimately a more focused driving machine a Boxster gives a much better balance of driving and comfort/practicality. Hell, you can easily do a European driving ...

928 performed admirably over almost 1100 miles of driving in Ireland. However, not long into the trip, I had a coolant light come on one morning when I started the car. It was pissing down with rain so couldn't tell if anything was leaking. Topped it off and carried on. This became a regular feature ...

Came across a set of improved injectors for the bargain price of £164. Ordered and they'll be here Friday. I'll try and carve out some time when I get back to get them fitted. Should hopefully take a couple of hours.

I'm off to Ireland on Saturday with TIPEC for 6 days. Ferry from Holyhead to Dublin, then across to Galway, Galway to Dingle, Dingle to Kinsale, Kinsale to Leixlip, then back to Dublin.

TIPEC road trips are always awesome. We've done Germany 2023, Germany/Switzerland 2024 and Scottish Highlands ...

928 is running a little warmer now the fans aren't running continuously. It seems to have coincided with return of the mysterious hot start issue I had. It will almost catch but never start unless I plant the throttle to the floor. My money's on either a leaky injector or a duff fuel pressure ...

It's like the situation has now been reversed thanks to the leaps Ukraine has made in drone tech. The longer the war goes on, the more it favours Ukraine. Ukraine's killing Russian men and materiel faster than it can be replaced. The more it hits targets inside Russia, the more the Russian general ...

I remember going to one and ended up crashing in Trany's (whatever happened to him?) hotel room. Beany's "big crisps", the awesome chicken chat starter, fun times.