Agree.
“Brassed Off” was a super performance by him.

It’s an odity, but after a snow melt, there always seems to be more dog shipt all over the place…not just your towpath.
It’s a mystery, like the disapearance of White Dog poo.

My car is just run-in at 104k. Not bad for a teenager.
I’m about to change the Gearbox oil, supposedly “Sealed for life” but life in BMW manuals means 100k. I’m beginning to feel Gear changes, which should not happen in a 7 unless I use kick down or REALLY FAST kick down. Problem is, it needs changing twice within 100 miles, to ensure that most of the residues have come out of the torque converter. You can never get all the old Gearbox oil out, unless I put it on the Fuselage turnover fixture at Warton LoL. The GB takes 10 litres at £15 per litre, so it’s a £300 job!
I change lump oil and oil filter every 10k (Should be more freq. but money is tight). I run a magnet through my old oil, see what’s in it. Touchwood, nothing “Feelable” yet. As my Sparky plugs are only £2.30 each (OK, probably now £4.00 each after the 3% rise in VAT in Rip Off Britain) I change all 8 twice a year. It takes a few hours as the rear ones are back-breakingly hard to reach. I’m expecting to get minimum 250k miles from her, the lump will do it, it’s the electrics that need nursing. It’s built after the end of real solder (With lead in it) so the old “Dry joints” problem is possible. I still have a few meters of real solder (1mm diam) left and a meter of real plumbers solder rods. Remember when lead pipes were mended by that massive swolen bit LoL.
By the way, dry joints can often be overcome by a quick waft of the circuit board with a heat gun. Obviously not too close! I believe some Wii’s are already being repaired in this way, anybody confirm?

i would have only been ten then !!

although around that time i have memmories of being taken there although the only aircraft i remember was the yak i think the story went ” it was captured and the russians denied it existed

another memmory of around those years ( early seventies ) was either a millitary tattoo or a small air display over a local large park ( heaton park ) where the main attraction was an english electric lightning !!

You are spot on. It was Heaton Park, it would have been 71 or 72. There were the usual static displays of cockpits and such, a few helicopters. In the Sky (Gawd this is digging way past the formatted part of my head!!) was poss. the Lightning, but I do remember some old helicopters, possibly a Bristol Sycamore? I think the BoB mem. flew past, and a Shack or Lanc.
In the sky also, was a WW2 Blimp, tethered.
I can’t remember the reason for the gathering, Burtonwood had a small show about the same time. If it was 1970, it could have been 25th anni. of the end of WW2?

Metals have improved, fuels have improved, Oils have improved.
But I reckon the biggest Engine prolonger is the improvement in cooling systems. In the 60’s, a day trip to the seaside inevitably meant a steam cloud! (Not for us, we had the working mans Rolls Royce…a REAL Rover. (90). 🙂
I would suggest late 70’s Early 80’s was the start of the improvements in these areas.

As for new cars changing engines……it’s probably easier to swap a lump than mend it…especially since the demise of proper apprenticeships and decent training schemes generally.

I totally agree with the post above.

Apols to Moggy, it wasn’t a dig…..well no more than a spoonful 🙂

As for popular TV, I must confess I watch the semi’s and the Final of X factor. I actually believe the winners have actually got a modicum of talent. Oh, I also drool at Cheryl…until she speaks LoL.
And for no apparent reason whatsoever, I was sort of hooked on that Essex “Real” soap. I could not believe the people on it were not a joke. I thought it was the next spoof, following Pineapple Dance Studios!

Hmm, I’ve noticed that Mr Moggy C always puts on the superiority complex when it comes to discussion about popular TV. As for the recycling the same old stuff………..just about all success stories do this. Even Morecambe and Wise!