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14 bailiffs didn't like this vid. :)

I watched this hoping to see an Irish Wolfhound, but I'm delighted to see another favourite of mine, the Borzoi. Gorgeous dogs,.

@grovsnus1 They need help. :)

LOL I would love to have seen the reaction of the people sitting opposite! A cousin of mine had a Wolfhound that used to place its paws on his shoulders and look down at him - and my cousin was 6' 7"...

Classic. Imagine the heart failure this would induce in health and safety freaks nowadays!

I thought when I saw the link, 'what the...'

Then I saw the eight turbos bit in the first line of the description. :)

OK, you got me. :)

Car of the year 1964, and yes, it did have teething troubles with corrosion between head and block, but otherwise? It was well built - Leyland didn't get their hooks into Rover till 1968, and it was only on the later Mk2 models, especially from the last three years of production that earned Rover...

@Annihilator1111 Yeah, the family tree of the various English car companies is a bit tricky to make sense of at times, but most of the later Rovers were built at the old Austin plant in Longbridge. I just happened to be reading a book on the P6 a few weeks back, and found that Solihull was the ho...

@toutmucheIf you check out the habitas.org website under priority species in Northern Ireland, it should tell you more. :)

19 fucking cunts didn't see the funny side. :/

@M90EMC If I remember right, the terrified examiner failed him. But James Robertson Justice's character promised to step in and see he got his licence.

@TheLawandTheProphets You seem to be making the point that atheists are no more moral than a serial killing madman. You say that moral values can only come from god, I say otherwise. I don't believe that intelligence alone makes a person better, nor necessarily that holding a religious belief som...

Great tune. Shows how under-rated Jem Finer is as a writer too. :)

Love this video. Any vid of a Tatra is worth a watch, but great camerawork sets this apart. I normally don't like music in a car video, preferring to hear the engines at work, but this was so, so right.

A novel concept of a car, with a novel mode of display. Ledwinka would be proud. :)

Shame my PC has got such crap sound - it won't do this vid justice. Very, very nice jeep though - am sure with a better set of speakers it would sound as heavenly as I'm sure it does in the metal. Can I ask where the hardtop came from?

@TheFiachlaGearfer We got it here north of the Irish border too. Nelson McCausland, NI's Minister for Culture at one stage asked the Ulster Museum in Belfast to install ID displays to go alongside the evolution displays. But then, you could expect little else from a brain-donor who thinks norther...

@onlymusicism Your father was a lucky man indeed. :) The Type 77 and 87 were fantastic cars, the most complete concept cars ever to go into full production. Testament to the genius of the men who made it, and to the taste of the men who drove it.

@kyon813 Probably 'How the hell did they make that theme tune?' to start with! BBC Radiophonic Workshop - the home of geniuses. :)

Heaven is a dealership full of Lancia Aurelias - but only with a test track out back. :)

Achingly gorgeous cars.

@TheVeneth Arrogancy? Where was I being arrogant? Reread the initial comment. It looks as though the 5 is not going that fast, but a racing driver will tell you that that in itself can be a misleading impression. I was not rubbishing the car or driver in the vid.

And I didn't get a sense of arro...

Hard to believe John and Barney are the only two left of this line-up. :(

I always smiled at Luke singing this, him being a communist. :)

@fordescort51 Can I ask where your car was originally bought? Perhaps different nomeclature was used for Minxes in export markets. If so, it would explain any confusion. I know that the 3a was introduced in the UK in late '59, but perhaps that name was used earlier in different markets?

I remember a writer in a car magazine did a feature on the Singer Vogue. In the article it said the successor company to Rootes/Chrysler, Talbot, said that in 1981 money, a Vogue would have cost £15,000 to build! They were virtually handmade, and Rootes bought their interior walnut from the same ...

Haha, at least you were honest and didn't call this video 'Hillman Minx Burnout!'

A nice little car - I remember travelling in them as a boy. Good luck!

@NCW250 You are welcome. I had an uncle who worked at Ryton on Dunsmore in the 50s and 60s. He said they still had machines then that had been damaged in the Coventry blitz, held together with copper wire and angle iron. It's incredible to think Rootes lasted as long as it did, given these storie...