Posted on 07/20/2015 4:30:11 PM PDT by NRx
The Queen, apparently impatient to get to church, veered onto a grass verge to avoid a family strolling through Windsor Great Park.
The monarch took to the wheel of a Jaguar X-type estate as she drove herself down the Long Walk on the Windsor estate on Sunday.
But when she found her path blocked by the young family, she clearly felt she did not have time to wait for them to get out of the way.
Despite diverting around them, the Queen, who is said to be furious over the leaking of a home movie of herself as a child giving an apparent Nazi salute, smiled and waved at the couple walking with their two children.
Scarlett Vincent. 23, and Toby Core, 30, a company director, said they were left in fits of laughter when they realised who it was.
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Do you know why the Brits drink warm beer?
Lucas refrigerators.
I'd say it was 67...the Chevy II.
After that, everything had to get huge for some reason, Camaros, Mustangs, muscle cars. They became sedan-sized platforms with "sporty looking" body styles.
OKay, you need to stop that, I laughed ould enough that the others in the cube farm are staring at me...
Yes but but 67 brought all the big motors to the Nova and cheaper than the Boo or Chevelle
But you’re right a 65/66 Nova was small and lighter and with that 327/350 motor was a Goat grabber in sheeps clothing
Alas my folks wouldn’t allow me to buy a power car when I came of age in 72
Hence an MGBGT
Now I get tempted on occasion
Last week I looked at a 70 Dodge Dart 340 Swinger
Non numbers fairly cheap
My wife rolls her eyes I’m being silly
Maybe if they stayed off the weed they would want to try it with the (oh the horror) opposite sex?
That was a great interpretation...thanks for the laugh!
So back to Limey cars...
A lot of guys are doing a nice powertrain upgrade to the MGB by doing a drivetrain transplant from a Camaro, or the FWD 3400 60 degree V6, with the T-5 5 speed.
A pretty good performance bump, up from around 100HP and a 4-speed, up to around 190HP and a 5-speed.
It's a nice fit...view it online.
I thought British leyland/lucas was a tar pit
Till I owned three ranger rovers
110 series....great but rough rough
Classic....two of them
Beautiful but junk and pricey to fix
Disco... better but still crap
My dad had several xj12. Models
Gorgeous crap
I owned three older 911s one...a 99 I still have
Not junk
Fast
Handles and reliable
Brits are lucky we entered both great wars
That 99 is my wife’s and it will do 179 as claimed
In regular life I drive pickups from my business and SUVs I rent
I’m in a hertz traverse ltz loaded right now in point clear alabama with fam
A sturdy medium suv
Wish it had four wheel with LD
IN a perfect world I’d have a nice 68/69 road runner or similar
The royal family had German relatives who were Nazi party members, and plenty of army officers. Its as they say, “messy.”
Yes, I agree, always thought that an AC-Delco upgrade was a major improvement to any UK vehicle. Thought you might like the MG V6 swap.
I also am a VW/Porsche fan, used to work on them and babysat a couple...easy to get into trouble just sitting in a Porsche.
In a car that can break the speed limit in second gear...well.
It’s the Little Old Lady from Buckingham Palace.
Don’t try to choose her.
There’s some gorilla looking dude in the left front seat. It’s a good bet he knows how to use his sub-machinegun.
Bookmarking
I remember she really liked driving her Land Rover.
The whole family are ethnic Germans—Betty’s ancestor was named Sophia of Hanover (mother of George I).
Windsor is an Anglicization of the German name “Wettin”.
The surname Mountbatten (Prince Philip) is an Anglicization of “von Battenburg”.
5 packs? Good lord.
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