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Trade Plating Around England, Part Two

8th April 2023 Going Postal 2160 Comments

Out on my own Brief recap, I spent two and a half years trade plating round England with the occasional foray into Scotland and Wales. Part one is here. I received a text on Friday [more…]

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Trade Plating Around England, Part One

1st April 2023 Going Postal 2488 Comments

This is part 1 of a few about my trials and tribulations of two and a half years spent as a trade plate driver. You are bound to have seen “platers” with their red and [more…]

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Somewhere West of Laramie

25th May 2021 Going Postal 3799 Comments

It was an evening in June 1923, and a Union Pacific train – “The Overland Limited” – was working its way west across the wilds of Wyoming. Onboard was Ned Jordon, president of the Jordan [more…]

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Postcard From November, Part 5

12th May 2021 Going Postal 3623 Comments

Happy Birthday to Me My birthday is November 4th and as a child my main memory of it was always of my parents laying on a party for my friends who all turned up bearing [more…]

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Cars I Have Loved (And Hated)

22nd December 2020 Going Postal 2784 Comments

Over the years, like I suspect most of you, I have owned quite a number of cars. Some I have loved, some I have hated, some I have been indifferent about. Ford Escort Mk 1 [more…]

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My Meeting with a Midget

14th November 2020 Tom Pudding 2627 Comments

1950s Motoring Memories When I was growing up in the 1950s I only knew two other children at my junior school whose parents owned a car. One was the son of a butcher whose dad [more…]

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Car Review: Porsche 997 Gen 1 911 Turbo

20th October 2020 Martin Mezger 3023 Comments

I purchased this car in 2013, following the demise of my Carrera 4 996 911.  The 996 series of 911 suffered from cylinder liner failure, amongst many other problems, which is what nabbed mine.   The [more…]

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My Driving Report: Year One

19th September 2020 Going Postal 2095 Comments

When I passed my driving test last year and we bought our first car on the 4th of September, I vowed to jot down – a year on – what I had learned from driving [more…]

20th Century

My Cars

4th September 2020 Going Postal 3649 Comments

I’ve owned cars for almost fifty years now. For most of that time I’ve been down at the “bangernomics” end of the scale of car ownership – buy ’em cheap, run ’em, scrap ’em and [more…]

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