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Old 15th August 2012, 10:07 AM
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Just like to thank you all for making me feel like I am suffering from OCD

I spend a couple of days last week sorting out both garages as I was fed up stepping over the junk that was lying around.
















I'm off to book an appointment with the shrink now
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Old 15th August 2012, 10:54 AM
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Will you STOP showing all the Snap-On toolboxes you own!!
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Old 15th August 2012, 11:42 AM
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There are only 2 Snap On boxes David, and 2 Mac Tools boxes plus a Costco box and this Mac Tools trolley which cost me the princely sum of £35 plus fuel to collect it from Troon






I actually prefer the Mac range, I think they have better paint than the Snap On products
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Old 15th August 2012, 12:23 PM
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Looks like you're in the run for a gold medal HP
There is no contesting that! The Usain Bolt of garage untidiness! HP you can now come up with suitable Gold medal winner's statement such as " Its been a long journey and I 'd never thought that I would get to where I am today without the support (and bikes) of my family, especially my children and my mother....who is in there somewhere..."
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Hah, my mother's bike is elsewhere, but 3 of those are inherited from my father.
And excellent handbuilt models they are too, very expensive at the time.
One is a Sid Mottram special - he (Sid) even had his own private racing team in the sixties before the commercial outfits took over!
http://www.classiclightweights.co.uk...ramcycles.html
He also used to have a couple of Claud Butler's, but they're long gone.
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2016 Volvo V40 T5 Cross Country (4WD) with ALL the toys including adaptive cruise etc. etc. Osmium Grey with Blonde/Charcoal leather interior. Polestar performance "optimisation". (A much rarer model than a D2 S8 by the way!) Oh, and a brand new engine at just under 30,000 miles on the factory one!
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1998 (very early) Ford Focus 1.8 Zetec; ABS/TCS, Heated screen/mirrors, Aircon, Auto-dim mirror, Leather, Trip computer, Cruise control, OEM Ford SatNav with CD changer.
And before that a lot of Rover 800s, a few oddities, a lovely Triumph Dolomite 1850HL with Overdrive and way back in my schooldays an Austin Seven aka Mini 850!
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Old 15th August 2012, 01:44 PM
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Looks like you're in the run for a gold medal HP
Wait till you see the photos of mine!
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Old 15th August 2012, 02:12 PM
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Looking forward to seeing how a Laird's garage looks
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Old 15th August 2012, 05:30 PM
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OK, here we go. Now this is a junk-filled garage!

And in addition to the double garage, I have a very large 'gardener's cottage' (more like a big, damp workshop), a wood shed, a large coal shed and an outside loo. And we've just bought another small shed for the bottom of the garden!

A man needs a shed/garage/workshop IMHO. But I know I have some serious sorting to do to make room for the Spitfire!
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Current mods: solar sun roof, 20mm rear spacers, 15 mm on front, red brembo callipers, 6k headlights, rear view camera, engine remap, alloy dash dial rings, alloy navi rings, tt/phaeton pedal upgrade, (and custom matching foot rest) dension ipod interface & parrot hands free kit (both fully hidden), av input, tv in motion switched thro' PF switch in blanking plug right of steering column, Audi 'quattro' sill covers, repositioned centre console switches, radio clock, .
Planned mods: auto-dimming rear view mirror, dash cam (as steamship's), fit the ski hatch, refit philips drl's (or maybe not - nope, definitely not - horrible botch!).
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Old 15th August 2012, 07:12 PM
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lol thrown the gardener out have you your Lairdship?
maybe something like "Lady Chatterley's Lover" has been going on with the workers!!
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Now this is a junk-filled garage!
I think I'm well ahead on spiders and cobwebs though.
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2016 Volvo V40 T5 Cross Country (4WD) with ALL the toys including adaptive cruise etc. etc. Osmium Grey with Blonde/Charcoal leather interior. Polestar performance "optimisation". (A much rarer model than a D2 S8 by the way!) Oh, and a brand new engine at just under 30,000 miles on the factory one!
Finally: gone, but not forgotten.....
1998 D2 PF S8. AgateGrey/Platinum. Every option (I think) except electric rear seats, tiptronic steering wheel, ski hatch, towbar & dimming door mirrors.
e.g. Cruise control, NavPlus/TV, Bose, GSM, Xenons, Solar roof, Parking sensors, Alcantara/leather everywhere of course. (internal dimming mirror added later)
1998 (very early) Ford Focus 1.8 Zetec; ABS/TCS, Heated screen/mirrors, Aircon, Auto-dim mirror, Leather, Trip computer, Cruise control, OEM Ford SatNav with CD changer.
And before that a lot of Rover 800s, a few oddities, a lovely Triumph Dolomite 1850HL with Overdrive and way back in my schooldays an Austin Seven aka Mini 850!
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