The 'look at what I did today' thread

YouTube · Post by **Sailor** » Tue Mar 21, 2017 7:53 pm

simonc wrote:Not to diminish the importance of the Accord 'R', the highlight was that stunning dark green NSX 'R', belonging to the head of sales at McLaren.

Yes, that was a great car, £8K carbon Recaros an' all.

It rained a few spots on the way to the shoot and I was quite pleased to see the most precious motor in the group was as dirty as mine. I think the photographer might have spent more photoshop time on the NSXR than the ATR. Well, it was the star.
The owner's a nice chap, too. Came with his wife and son. The son brought the DC5 and the wife an Espace with some decent picnic facility. Cup of freshly ground coffee, anyone? I liked her as well. If my memory hasn't failed me, she seemed to think our Japanese modernity was alright, but not a patch on the Bugatti she raced on a regular basis.

It was a grey day, so the PB didn't show up too well in the photos, but all good fun despite the ragging I got for taking a car without a spoiler. It was a hard decision to get rid of it recently; the bragging rights have dissipated!

Post by **Donald** » Tue Mar 21, 2017 9:10 pm

Seems like a good game, Sailor. I have my own version. I text in to teleshopping channels (Gems TV is a fave) and see wot stupids I can get them to read out. I've probably mentioned it before, but I was quite proud of once getting a salesman to say a watch was timeless.

Post by **simonc** » Wed Mar 22, 2017 12:39 am

Morning @Sailor, I knew I had it somewhere back at the house. The title, 'Honda, let me hear you scream', was pretty sexy too, wasn't it?

Shame you had to sell her. Trust she's gone to a good home.

YouTube · Post by **Sailor** » Wed Mar 22, 2017 1:02 am

Donald wrote:Seems like a good game, Sailor. I have my own version. I text in to teleshopping channels (Gems TV is a fave) and see wot stupids I can get them to read out. I've probably mentioned it before, but I was quite proud of once getting a salesman to say a watch was timeless.

Excellent!
Your next challenge is to get them to proclaim that deodorant is for people with dress scents.

YouTube · Post by **Sailor** » Wed Mar 22, 2017 1:03 am

simonc wrote:Shame you had to sell her. Trust she's gone to a good home.

From what I hear, she's in Poland these days.

Post by **simonc** » Wed Mar 22, 2017 4:32 am

Hey @Donald, text in and ask them to confirm that any electrical products they're selling, are equally easy to use by both right handed, and left handed people. Ask them to prove it by doing the demo with their left hand only.

Post by **simonc** » Wed Mar 22, 2017 4:39 am

@Sailor, I'm curious to know how they tracked you down for that feature? Do you know any of the writers on CAR or did they find you through sheer dogged determination? If it's confidential, then I fully understand if you're unable to share.

YouTube · Post by **Sailor** » Wed Mar 22, 2017 11:50 pm

simonc wrote:@Sailor, I'm curious to know how they tracked you down for that feature? Do you know any of the writers on CAR or did they find you through sheer dogged determination? If it's confidential, then I fully understand if you're unable to share.

The journalist, Chris Chilton, put a post up on accordr.org. I happened to log on just after, saw the post and sent him an email. He had other offers of course, some of them with better cars, but picked the first ... mine.

YouTube · Post by **Sailor** » Sun Apr 02, 2017 10:18 pm

Not today, but Friday:
New rear brakes + new fuel line = another year's MoT for the Prelude.

Post by **Donald** » Sun Apr 02, 2017 11:15 pm

Dissertation finished... now 300 or so of these to edit for the appendix.