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Tommy Goss puts Annan ahead with a penalty

First yellow card for Wallace Duffy (37) Calum Macleod replaced Adam Brooks at half time

Along Eastgate some family cars and an American breakdown truck that does 1.5 mpg

Here it is and a very young IBM

I like the MG TA from the 30's and note the front wing of a Hillman Minx from the 50's

And now back to some classic cars down Ingles Street one similar to my Cortina 2000GT that was my pride and joy when I was 21, I must have a look for a photo. Also another Riley Elf, Bond Bug and pickup based on the Bug owned by an retired BT/Openreach engineer and when he passes my house in the Riley you can smell the oil for about 5 minutes.

Yes I think we were all the same I learnt from my father who was a driver in the REME for three years and helped set up mobile workshops in Italy and Palestine and helping out he learned enough to become a mechanic and a plant fitter working on all types of plant and cranes who in turn taught me doing everything till the nearly 90's when I needed special keys for a drive shaft boot on my first Audi and went to an old school friend who had his own garage and charged £10 per hour so I gave up lying under cars in all weathers. Did everything from servicing to an engine rebuild in Mk3 Cortina replaced front wings patched up the sills on the same car but got someone else to paint them, it was the worst car I had and was only 5 years old when I traded it in. Back then it was working by torch light in the winter pouring the old oil down the nearest drain and putting the old filters brake shoes and anything else in the bin

It does look good so I will have to pay a visit and it's cheap for a pensioner

When I seen this thread bumped up earlier I thought he might have gone but no such luck

My father was a Riley man his first was a 1940's Kestrel before I was born second was 1950's RFM 2.5 which I remember as a very young boy third was a 2.6 reg MHL555 which was a big beast with a bench seat in the front and the gear lever was on the right side of the seat. His last one was a 4/72 reg 479FS that he bought accident damaged while working away in Skye, it was also left hand drive! He worked on it at night replacing the front, offside wing and bonnet and other work required to repair the damage, he also converted it from left to right hand drive using the dashboard from a similar MG so it was Riley outside and MG inside In the late 70's when he worked for Tawse down the Carse he had a Wolseley 16/60 which was rotten with rust, front wings, sills and the floor was like a Fred Flintstone car We stripped out the seats and carpets before welding the floor but there was a coating of bitumen on the inside so when he was welding underneath I was inside beating out the flames with soaking wet rags just glad it didn't catch fire He got front wings from a Vanden Plas that had been rolled they were sound although a bit bashed so the old ones cut off and replacements welded on. The Aird brothers one a panel beater the other a coach painter finished it of and it was like new or so I thought Looking back he was always repairing cars just to keep them on the road and you know what Gramps was right

Not a car I liked but it was a clever bit of engineering for it's time. Along the High Street now......................

I would rather the Jensen

Here are a few from Inverness from May this year. This is another thread that was started by IHE as when he was posting old photos of the streets in Inverness with cars I was identifying the cars and it's still going although just a few oldies posting now but I suppose it's only us that is interested in old cars.

He might have done we will never know like all the personal contracts they can tell you anything he is getting paid far to much full stop and that's why he is going nowhere.

Aye and it's because we gave him a three year deal on such a big wage that we can't afford to sack him and I was told that he refused to take a cut in wages when we were relegated which should have been in his contract.

And here is the latest Capri that I will never own an electric SUV. Not enough in my pension even if I wanted one!

Not sure what the situation is but heard that they are unlikely to be wearing the new strip tomorrow.

No the epoxy didn't smell but the bailer that was used for pi55 certainly did when filled water and boiled and there were no gloves for opening up the packs either

I wonder if Ketan Makwana is providing money to purchase new strips for the team tomorrow rather than using last seasons kit

Is that Physical or Phygital?

I don't fancy that one at all but reading about the epoxy resin brought back memories. Back as a jointer with BT in the 70's we used epoxy putty for closing some joints which consisted of a resin and hardener that you mixed by hand but in the cold weather it was so hard you would boil water in a bucket on the gas stove in the back of your van to soften it before mixing and some of the rough jointers would use the bailer that was used for peeing in when you were caught short working in town and the stench in the back of the van was terrible It was not very good for closing the joints but it was good for filling in holes in rusty sills of cars though

You would not have any time to go on CTO or go to the football if you had to keep that car it's a cracker

You are right snorbens the folk in Inverness are a funny lot

You will just have to wait till Friday

From me who is a positive thinking person I have been unable to find anything positive at all about the club in the latest crisis.