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Hi Cill It's hardly in a hedge it's on tarmac so you won't get a selection of squirrel poo on it. Looks very good I hope you enjoy sorting out any bits and driving it.

Exactly. Thankfully I live in a backwater we still have steam trains here!! I don't think any of the fancy automation will be along as quickly as they expect. How long has the local smart motorway taken to be completed? The ones near me have been going on for years and thats just sticking overhead gantries and cameras on. Don't worry we will finally have the Brexit deal and nuclear fusion plants in operation by then. Who knows we may all be wrong leccie cars and auto driving is the way forward as long as they don't ruin my favourite Scottish Highland A roads and I can still zip along there. Post lockdown of course.

That's what I think, time to get that big engined mad thing you can't afford now for peanuts money near that date.

You maybe right however the idea computers will solve everything for us even after the micro pc revolution from the 80s until now is still not here. I know I work in that game and in 1983 when dad got me a Commodore Vic 20 that set me on the path I ended up taking in the computer industry. There was this great excitement of the future explosion of what computing could do yet in 2020 I am still waiting for it? Showing my age but I remember when they first showcased voice control, recognition, mobile phones and of course mid 90s when the web arrived and all the stuff until today. AI and those small self learning robots well are they mass produced and used daily in 2020 no! Nobody knew social media would arrive and take such a massive part in the world (good or bad). Nobody knew everything would be manufactured to cost in countries like China, so all the autonomous cars using those cheap sensors and cables and CPUs with code written and tested by poorly paid programmers in countries like, China, Hungary, Phillipines wherever the labour costs are cheap and you trust your life to that. Don't even consider hackers they never existed until the 90s. It's like British Leyland for the modern age. Conflict of interest, cost cutting and something always gives. Nobody predicted a pandemic in 1980 or in fact people serious considering leaving cities and living in the countryside because of BroadBand (something unheard of until recent times). So you can keep your 600 mph hyperloop, sorry I just don't trust them to make that safe and reliable..look at Boeing for instance. Anyway ignore me I have a skewed version of IT compared to everyone else who enjoys it as a consumer. Sticking with the ICE (remember when that meant In Car Entertainment)

Excellent stuff! I was going to start my own to cover old classic car fixes but everyone is doing it and nobody will be interested so I didn't bother.

Not often I agree with the Daily Mail but this guy says exactly what I think. https://mol.im/a/8955439 God help us all.

Excellent congratulations when are you starting up your YouTube chanel?

Dont give the Government any ideas!!! I like your old people tea and EastEnders reference, that would be a high end technical and scientific evaluation in The Sun or Daily Mail.

Exactly the same way people changed over to diesel because the Government told them it was eco friendly so technically can we sue the government for bad advice and poor taste in cars?

Haha I have no intention to sell the Stang just the Rover needs to go. Too many cars. But will they let me in to Yorkshire with my Lancashire passport? My other half is from Leeds way, so I might be able to apply for dual citizenship worse case? A 5 litre V8 in Yorkshire is normal isn't it?

They are only giving hybrids a 5 year extension before they get the chop too? They expect people to have deep pockets to be able to chop and change based on the flavour of the month policies but most of us can't. Realistically I should sell the Stang now, get my old Beetle on the road and pop pop pop along in that at least I won't have the massive loss on the Stang in 10 years time when nobody will want a 5 litre V8?

That will be subject to Trump, Putin and Kim Jong Un

They keep saying streetlamps might be used as charging points maybe that's what they mean? Of course your countil bill will shoot up! I have nothing against leccie cars they are not evil they are a quick fix solution to manufacturer reactions about climate change etc but for me at the moment not what I want. There was no reason for the oil industry to change until they got the kick up the backside but this isn't the issue with my post, it's the fact that the government always target motorists for some form of tax. If we get hover boards they will find some way to charge for that too. Life is pay as you go and they sodding know it.

You and me both mate, keep that dinosaur juice going otherwise if we don't use it up, it will make a mess all over the shop.

They don't actually want you to buy cars anymore just lease them like everything else bleeding mobiles started all this stuff! It must be a finance bods wet dream, keep paying for something you will never own and if you scratch it or break anything they charge you for that also. It's genius until there is a pandemic, recession or cars restricted from entering cities.

Knowing how well Alex looks after and sorts his stuff out I expect so. If you have a cheeky Toyota S2000GT under a tarp better get that to audition.

https://mol.im/a/8951969 I really hope there are enough ordinary people left in government who don't live in London and can't use public transport and can't afford to be driven around to see this as madness? What will they do when everyone turns super green and cycles everywhere. What will they find to charge us with then? How many wheel rotations or the size of your pedals? Otherwise it's time to get the biggest engined largest valved gas guzzlers and just pay for the distance you drive.

Damn you sir I love those too... Must look away oooh shiny classic car no must resist....

Wow you had it from new?!! Amazing. Haha you STILL have Reg?! Did you ever fix the turbo activator or whatever it was that makes it kick in? T4's go on forever. I still have the T2 I got that day although that guy was a shister. I don't recommend using a hose pipe as a vacuum brake pipe amongst other things! I fixed all that and did it right but now replacing arches with genuine VW ones and painting them underneath too... long story.

Wowsers trousers Alex fantastic as usual. Is it far off completion? Where does the jet engine fit? Nice to see you still playing with these toys. The one thing I always wanted a bleedin lift. Taken me 20 years to get a house with a decent sized garage but still no life.. unless I increase the size of the roof

Photos please Alex.

I was considering converting my Beetle to electric if they ditch petrol altogether, it's not difficult but at the moment mega expensive. A kit costs £8-10k!!! But then one of the endearing features is the engine noise and the oil leaks. If the batteries can be just 1 the size and weight of a boggo 12v lead acid battery and nothing else, but the power of say curent top end Tesla's, happy days. Classics will need suspension and brakes upgrading to take the weight, but if you get the best of both worlds why not. Keeps them alive.

Bringing the ban to 2030 probably gives us (petrol heads) 10 maybe 15 years before leccie cars overtake as the most common daily cars on the road, but as everyone has mentioned, only if the infrastructure is there to charge them all? They are only thinking about mini nuclear power stations now, it takes at least 10-15 years to build all this stuff, after all the paperwork and legal stuff done so what 20 years? We still won't have HS2 by then pointless that it is! Not to mention the Nuclear Fusion reactors everyone has been talking about for ever. Then of course the battery tech has to jump forward in mega strides within the next 5 years or all bets are off. Ignoring the poor kids working in mines for lithium and shipping cars half way around the world (sail powered obviously to be green - yeah right) and all the other hypocrisy around EVs. I am more environmentally friendly with my 55 year old Rover 3 litre, repairing and reusing something already made, yes it belches fumes into the atmosphere but I don't do 20000 miles per year in it. I think classic cars will probably rise in value and be weekend only use. The last petrol new cars will still be the norm I think but yes we really are going through a golden age of petrol tech because it's going and manufacturers are trying to use up their tooling and machines and factories whilst they tool up for electric. They have to keep petrol going or they die, you can't just switch off manufacturer like that. I am still hopeful synthetic petrol with no emissions is the future, saves a lot of messing and keeps our beloved cars alive for future generations but it's not there yet. Hydrogen the other option but for all this stuff we need cheap kits to convert your own classic or new car? When you watch Vintage Voltage on the telly it's £30000+ and you only get 100 mile range? Pointless. Cost is the problem electric cars are silly money and will be for some time. Our worst enemy is the government taxing or worse banning the actual petrol itself? Then we are forced to run on White Lightning cider or cheap supermarket vodka! Today's electric cars they are like the first digital camera. Great at the time but now prehistoric and it wasn't that long ago? Steps off soap box, I will be stay with my petrol dinosaurs because I can't afford to change if nothing else.

Welcome to the club, plenty of fellow addicts (me included)! I have given up telling my other half 'no really this is the last no more after this...' nobody believes me.

Exactly wonder if all the leccie cars will have to be fitted with powder extinguishers, it's not the volts that kills you....