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Always Worth Saying’s Car Review, Part Four

23rd March 2024 Always Worth Saying 1900 Comments

Throwing an irritating but irresistible Mercedes CLA around the lanes en route to a Cheshire set party at one of the better Northwich-Knutsford-Sandbach triangle golf clubs, allows a gentleman to reminisce upon his car history. [more…]

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Crisis Journey, 1947 – Part Three

19th March 2024 Going Postal 2335 Comments

“The record of what one man saw and heard and felt on a journey through Britain in October 1947, by John Alldridge” Uncle John’s record of his trip round Britain, to assess the extent to [more…]

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Always Worth Saying’s Car Review, Part Three

16th March 2024 Always Worth Saying 1555 Comments

After boring Puffins and Mr Thrifty’s car hire with my vehicle history and a sorry tale of having to rent a car for a Cheshire Set party (while mine was being repaired following an Act [more…]

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Always Worth Saying’s Car Review, Part Two

9th March 2024 Always Worth Saying 1512 Comments

The businessman’s businessman, over the phone Mr Thrifty confided since the pandemic I was only his 6th customer. They now rent to trade and for insurance purposes rather than to passing trade or to those [more…]

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Larry’s Diary – Week Two Hundred And Twenty-Four

3rd March 2024 Going Postal 2350 Comments

Monday Hi folks, another dull and wet morning to welcome me back to work. My duty feeder this morning was the one who likes to put the kitchen TV on. I was watching and listening [more…]

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Always Worth Saying’s Car Review

2nd March 2024 Always Worth Saying 2432 Comments

Prelude? Yes, prelude. The Honda Prelude? No. The type of prelude that the dictionary reveals as an action or event serving as an introduction to something more important. Let me begin. The marketing gurus ask [more…]

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Modern day windscreens

21st February 2024 rattuscatchus 2393 Comments

If you have a relatively modern car – definitely 20 years old or less, then you will undoubtedly have a bonded windscreen. This is where the windscreen is ‘glued’ to the car’s body and a [more…]

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A mini problem

19th February 2024 Going Postal 2107 Comments

In 1984 I bought my first car and like many teenagers at that time a mini was an ideal way to gain independence and freedom of the road. My father and brother both worked as [more…]

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The Great British Sports Car 1945 – 1985

14th February 2024 Grimy Miner 2246 Comments

So, before we get to the “meat and potatoes” of this article let us set a few ground rules. What IS a sports car? – In my opinion a sports car should be low slung, [more…]

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