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04-28-2022, 03:14 AM - 3 Likes   #96586
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Would that be the Rover P6 series Tim? The Gordon Keeble was built in the 60s so now you know where Leyland took their styling cues from!
Funny you should post that. I was just thinking the same thing regarding the rear end.

Fun fact: Unlike most other cars, the Rover P6 roof is not welded into place but screwed in place to a perimeter frame with neat flathead countersunk screws, closely spaced, all around the edge, and hidden under the stainless steel trim.

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Another fun fact: A small number of Rover P6 cars were supplied ex factory with a complete three layer safety glass roof.
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QuoteOriginally posted by StiffLegged Quote
Would that be the Rover P6 series Tim? The Gordon Keeble was built in the 60s so now you know where Leyland took their styling cues from!

Beautiful car. I see this one has the V8, which was a Buick derived engine. Rover did a lot of good things with this engine.

I never had either the Rover or Buick V8, but for almost 14 years we had the Buick 90 degree V6, which itself, was derived from this original small Buick V8 .

The Buick 3.8 liter V6 was a fabulous engine, very long lived (from early '60's to 2009) in production, regarded by Wards as one of top engines of the 20th century. Used in carbureted, fuel injected, turbo and supercharged form, raced, used in Jeeps for a period...as their 'big' engine.

Our Buick V6 had great low rpm and mid range rpm punch..a very torquey engine. In a weak moment I traded our '07 Buick LaCrosse in...something I have regretted since I did. It was reliable, durable, powerful, quiet....and our 6 passenger Buick sedan was quiet, extremely comfortable..a wonderful car, that I still wish I had.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rover_V8_engine
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QuoteOriginally posted by StiffLegged Quote
Would that be the Rover P6 series Tim? The Gordon Keeble was built in the 60s so now you know where Leyland took their styling cues from!
Similar. I remember one a bit different.

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Today I put fuel in the tank of my car. As the price was rotting up on the pump I thought they were charging me for the car.
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Today I put fuel in the tank of my car. As the price was rotting up on the pump I thought they were charging me for the car.
When I filled up recently the only petrol available was Premium Unleaded (due to the protesters gluing themselves to petrol tankers). I had gone to a petrol station in Watford to take advantage of lower prices but it didn't work out that way.

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I had to go somewhere yesterday and could get it a bit cheaper at a station in a town that the lady in my satnav calls swine-don. Not sure where that accent comes from.

It was marginally cheaper than in Oxford.

Today I will be able to walk to work. Will not consume any fuel for that.

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Today I will be able to walk to work. Will not consume any fuel for that.
The calories in the food you consume are fuel, for your body.

Walk vigorously, and consume a lot.
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Will not consume any fuel for that
Tim, bacon is fuel.


EDIT
Racer beat me. But not by much - see time stamp.

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And so is cheese, with or without mould.
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I had to go somewhere yesterday and could get it a bit cheaper at a station in a town that the lady in my satnav calls swine-don. Not sure where that accent comes from.
Last week we went to another star of satnav mangling to see the Galloway Hoard exhibition, a collection of silver and some gold dug up from a field 8 years ago. The BBC also has problems pronouncing Kirkcudbright.
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Tim, bacon is fuel.


EDIT
Racer beat me. But not by much - see time stamp.
It's been far too long since I have seen BACON mentioned in this thread; well done, it needed bringing back
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So around January my doctor started me on a blood pressure medicine, Lisinopril. One of the side effects is coughing, and sure enough I started coughing shortly after starting it. The coughing got worse, so much so that it was dominating my daily life. A couple weeks ago I reached out to the doctor and he changed to a different medication that doesn’t have the coughing side effect.

Of course the coughing didn’t stop.

Everything I read about it said the coughing could persist a month or so after stopping it, but it was so bad I went to the walk in clinic yesterday.

They said I have a cold, took chest X-rays, gave me a bunch of prescriptions, and sent me on my merry way.

Oh, and they also did a Covid test.

This morning my doctor called.

The test results show I have Covid.

So, 5 days of quarantine.

Groovy.
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QuoteOriginally posted by StiffLegged Quote
Last week we went to another star of satnav mangling to see the Galloway Hoard exhibition, a collection of silver and some gold dug up from a field 8 years ago. The BBC also has problems pronouncing Kirkcudbright.
But Swindon is a well known place that even has a high ranking soccer business. Much less excuse for getting it wrong.
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