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General Category => Unusual Microcar Discussion => Topic started by: Bob Purton on February 11, 2009, 04:30:59 PM
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I got this email today although I suspect its from someone other than the Queen, I know from previous emails that a certain Frenchman is obsessed with all things Elizabeth the 2nd. Maybe we should tell him that the average Englishman is oblivious to all and anything she does!
Her Royal Highness, Elizabeth 2
Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Head of the Commonwealth and Defender of the Faith
Lord High Admiral of the British Admiralty
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Royal Order
As part of the good relationship we have with the Spanish Crown, and more particularly to be pleasing to the Queen Sophia of Greece, the wife of Juan Carlos 1st, King of Spain, we have decided to participate in the Trobada INTERNACIONAL DE MICROCOCHES
to be held in MANRESA, 6 and 7 June next.
We have therefore appointed to represent us, our good following topics:
- Nick DEVONPORT Dover
- Mike and Renate HELE of CATHERINGTON
- Bob and his wife PURTON of Hornchurch
- Nick and Antje POLL of LARROQUE
We ask them to make suitable arrangements to get to this event to bring up the colors of England.
We attach the greatest importance that the cars taken by our subjects are pure products English (BOND, BERKELEY, frisky, AC LITTLE, PEEL, SCOOTECAR etc ...)
Our son Charles unfortunately can not represent us at this meeting because his cars (ROLLS ROYCE, ASTON MARTIN and JAGUAR, all of which would weigh several tons, can not meet the criteria for participation established by the Spanish Club.
Done to promote and serve what right, in our royal palace in BUCKINGHAM PALACE
London, February 11 of the Year of Grace 2009.
ELISABETH 2
I love how the google translation tool has renamed the AC Petite the AC Little!
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I like it, especially Bob and his wife PURTON, now there is one very odd name for a woman, does that make her Mrs Purton Purton ?! Mention of the Royal cars reminds me that a couple of years ago I was driving DUF along Old Kent Road with my niece, and going the other way were Liz and Phil in their Bentley. That is a VERY nice looking car close up, and just a little bit bigger than DUF. I wonder if they saw me, if so what the h*** went through their minds?!
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Dear Retro Rob
Is this the event where they park up in the main square under the trees. Sounds like an interesting event.
It is only about 40 miles north of Barcelona so it would not be expensive to fly out hire a car and visit the event. But the excess baggage for the inter would be quite high.
Worth thinking about
Chris Thomas
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But the excess baggage for the inter would be quite high.
Put your clothes etc in the Inter, call it a designer suitcase! Up North they might say: "in 't Inter" . In fact, if you did it during an interval it would be "put your clothes in 't Inter in 't interval". Boom boom.
Alright, I'll get me coat! Bye!
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Has H.R.H. given up her job at McDonald's then? ;D The picture seems to have disappeared!
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Rob, I think Liz has been a victim of the current financial crisis and has been made redundant from McDonalds. A case of last in, first out!
Chris, I've always wanted to go to the Spanish rally but something has always got in the way. The way to do it in my view is to trailer a microcar down to Nick Polls place and join the convoy in a microcar over the Pyrenees and down into Spain. Its a drivers rally from what I gather, don't think I would enjoy it as a spectator. I would feel like a tea total-er at a wine tasting!
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I got this email today although I suspect its from someone other than the Queen
Was it the spelling mistakes or the Americanised non-ordianl dates or the incorrect signature or the interest in microcars that gave it away?
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We attach the greatest importance that the cars taken by our subjects are pure products English (BOND, BERKELEY, frisky, AC LITTLE, PEEL, SCOOTECAR etc ...)
...doesn't say anything about English men taking French cars. ???
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Dear Bob
Putting three cars on a bigger trailer would make more sense if you were to be an owner driver rather than a spectator at the rally. But if there were no Spectators and it was all drivers it would be a bit incestuous.
Not knowing where Nick Poll lives it would be difficult to judge if it was within Inter driving distance or not.
Having driven down to the south of France all I can say is it is a long way regardless of if you are towing or not, but do able.
I would certainly consider being part of the team if needs be.
Chris Thomas
PS I am quite often the tea tota-ler at the wine tasting. The secret is to spit not swallow. I always say putting on weight is not about what you eat but what you swallow, so why not with cars?
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Hi Chris, I think putting more than one car on a trailer is what the British contingency already do to keep costs down. Nick Lives in the south of France and holds a "Starter rally" at his farmhouse for a couple of days before they set off in a microcar convoy to the Spanish rally, its quite grueling apparently, some of the mountain roads require first gear for extended lengths of time. I always planned to do it in the messerschmitt, the Inter is not a car I want to thrash too much, its rather delicate compared to a Schmitt. Now the project I'm building at the moment IS a car I plan to thrash!
How will you ever be "intoxicated by the exuberance of your own velocity" if you spit it out?
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Chris, Just out of interest there is an article in a 1950's bike mag that follows the route an Inter took in a mamoth drive from Paris to Milan and back, and he took the long route! Here is a link, its a three page article. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/inter175a/photos/album/360823434/pic/1599647251/view?picmode=original&mode=tn&order=ordinal&start=1&dir=asc
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Dear Retro Rob
Thank you for the link but not being a member of inter 175a I was only able to read the home page and the messages, and I could not see anything that relates to the Paris Milan Paris trip.
Any chance of PDF-ing it to me?
The run over the Pyrenees sounds like it should be done with a recovery truck and driver, just in case!!!
What is your latest project. A life size model of a Bank Manager?
Chris Thomas
PS The spitting process means you get the taste without the hangover.
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Re. PDF...I'm not very good at that kind of thing but I will give it a go Chris..
Re.. P.S. you still dont get the intoxication or the exuberance if you spit it out!
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you can't access the Inter group until you sign up for it.
here is the above-mentioned article as a 3-page PDF:
http://microcar.org/files/inter-trip.pdf
note: the original images are NOT very large or good quality, they are pretty small. Good luck trying to read it.
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Dear Jim
Halo Halo
Listen very carefully, I will say this only once!!!
Thunk you for broking into the Inter Group chit room, Snitching a copy of the document, escaping and convarting it to pdf firmat, without being detucted.
How good is your Fronch?
Chris Thomas
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I bet you can sing like Edith too! ;D
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Dear Bob
Edith Piaf you mean.
I was her body double in the spec savers advert.
Chris Thomas
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Will Jim understand the alo alo gag being a petrol tank?
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Dear Chris,
No I meant Edith Melba Artois - René's wife, and the café's resident cabaret performer. However, her singing was so bad and tuneless (as René was heard once to comment "my wife, who cannot carry a tune in a bucket..."), the locals stuck cheese in their ears to block out the terrible sound.
Rob.
PS Did you ever see the paintings "The Big Maddona with the Fallen Boobies"?
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Dear Bob
I have no idea who or whit you are spoking of . I have heard of Edith Melba Toast with cheese. But as for the punting of the fallen Maddona; I have only soon photo's of her before she was divarced.
I have no Idea if Jam has any idea of whit we are talking aboot, or whit TV era we are in. Only Jam knows that answer.
Keep up the Fronch accent
Chris Thomas
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Such Fartitude! ::)
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What the Hello Hello has any of the to do with Microcars ? You lot are crazy but it makes hilarious reading, I trust that our meeting in March will be a little more sane. Poor Jim, he must be totally bewildered!
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Dear Chris,
I thunk you hove git your tasts middled op. Shid thot be Nelly Melba tast, und nat Edith Melba Tast?
Didn't Jam go whore nu min hos gane befure with Spick und the crow? Bom mu ap Scitty!!
Yours idiotically,
Rob, you say Bob. :P Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien ;D
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Dear Jean
As Chaiman of the meeting I will rule with a rod of Iron, anybody who tries to confuse Jim by speaking in a very bad Anglo French accent will be laughed at.
I am off to Paris in the morning and will put all my recent French speaking into practice.
Chris Thomas
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désolé, je ne comprends pas de quoi vous parlez, mais permettez-moi de ne pas vous arrêter.
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Ah, Jim, such perfect French but SO unlike the comedy French in "'Allo, 'Allo" . Or for that matter Monty Python: "You Eengleesh theenk you are so clevairrr.. your Mothairrr was a Hamstairrrr and yourrr Fazerrr smells of elderberries"
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oh Monty Python French is well-understood here and also studied in our institutions of higher learning.