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Jim Shea

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True story..
« on: December 16, 2005, 05:23:06 AM »
Not like Terry's true stories, this one actually is true:
It happened when I had my XJR 1300, and I was only reminded of this when I saw a Reliant Robin(Mr Bean) car yesterday.
I was travelling on the A30 in Surrey near Wentworth, the famous golf course. I was doing about 60 mph when a Reliant Robin came tearing by me crossing the white line and just getting back on to my side of the road before a crossing island in the middle of the road. The Robin actually went up on 2 wheels, slid a bit, but then he gunned it and he was gone. I was so shocked that I did not have time to give him a friendly single digit wave!!
He was driving the car as if he had stolen it. but why would you steal one of these??
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Re: True story..
« Reply #1 on: December 16, 2005, 05:29:55 AM »
Some people never get past the tricycle stage in life.  ::)
« Last Edit: December 17, 2005, 06:44:57 AM by Einyodeler »
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Re: True story..
« Reply #2 on: December 16, 2005, 08:31:32 AM »
One of those heaps can actually DO 60?!
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Jim Shea

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Re: True story..
« Reply #3 on: December 16, 2005, 08:46:16 AM »
Do you mean the XJR or the Reliant?  :D
I think he was doing nearer to 70 mph when he passed me.
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Re: True story..
« Reply #4 on: December 16, 2005, 12:37:59 PM »
Jim - that "XJS Race Car" in your avatar has been throgh the mangle a bit?
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« Reply #5 on: December 16, 2005, 03:20:38 PM »
Jimbo,

Have you been on the booze, it was Del boy that had the Reliant, Mr Bean had a Mini or did I miss a bit ;D ;D ;D
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Re: True story..
« Reply #6 on: December 16, 2005, 08:39:18 PM »
Yep...Mr Bean had a Mini
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« Reply #7 on: December 16, 2005, 10:20:23 PM »
thanks Steph ;D
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Jim Shea

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Re: True story..
« Reply #8 on: December 17, 2005, 02:51:47 AM »
Steve,
What do you mean through the mangle!! are you taking the p*ss?  ;)

Bit of an obscure reference to Mr Bean, but if you recall, his arch rival was always in a Reliant Robin? I thought the R.O.W. might have seen Mr Bean and not Fools and Horses?
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Re: True story..
« Reply #9 on: October 27, 2006, 11:40:34 PM »
Quote from: Einyodeler on December 16, 2005, 05:29:55 AM
Some people never get past the tricycle stage in life.  ::)

Thats a cool looking little bitty thing


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Re: True story..
« Reply #10 on: October 28, 2006, 01:26:22 PM »
i have a related story, this happended a few weeks ago. Someone from my city started a taxi-company using Thai tricycles called Tuktuks. Here's a pic:

These things look rather funny, so you can imagine my surprise when I got passed by one on the highway at 4 in the night.  ::)  I caught up with him a little later at the trafficlight, and asked him how fast it ran. 130 km/h he replied. I kinda shook my head in disbelieve, and when the light turned green, he pulled away doig a wheelie. And he had a passenger in the back of that thing too!
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Re: True story..
« Reply #11 on: October 28, 2006, 01:35:46 PM »
Mate,
At 4 in the morning were you slightly 'merry'? ;) I think he might have been pulling your whatsit!? 130k?
Jim.
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