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Todays Daily Express includes a  review of the book    Steve McQueen : A Life in Pictures.

The review includes the quote.

"He was also passionate about speed, collecting sports vehicles and taking part in contests from local motor races to the 24-hour Le Mans rally."

Rally?  ??? It's never looked much like a rally to me.

Perhaps the ACO will let us stand out on the Mulsanne with a camera and jump back into the trees half a second before an Audi R10 screams past, sorry I meant glides past, at 200mph.

It's what I would have expected from the Daily Express, Bob!

i have never figured out why they call all races apart from F1 "rallys"  ::)

Us rallying enthusiasts despair when someone comes and asks "What time is the next race?"  >:(

Fairly standard from the 'uneducated' press...
I remember the review of Heart Like A Wheel, the Shirley Muldowney biopic.
The Times said it was the story of the first woman Formula One driver.

Even the specialist press get it strangely wrong though.
Motorsport News Sub-headline a short while back..

Danica Patrick, the worlds fastest female (sic)

Surely they mean 'the worlds fastest female whose name isnt Muldowney, Troxel, Force, Berstatd, Oberg, Callin, Nystad, Jacobsen etc, etc etc...'?

.... Kitty O'Neil  is currently the worlds fastest female (on land).

Kitty O'Neil (USA) holds the record for the fastest land speed achieved by a women having reached 524.030 mph in the rocket powered three wheeled SM1 Motivator in the Alvard Desert, Oregon, USA, on Dec 6th 1976.

I once got asked how many laps they do  ::)

And? How many?

Well my smart arse answer was 2 as the stage was being run twice that day  ::)

You mean they allow stagecoaches to use the tracks too?

Wow! That has to be difficult for the racecar drivers though surely?

Still I suppose they get told the time of the next stage.


Wot's F1?

Wottsit say about the book?

Suppose I'd better have fish and chips tonight so I can get a chance to read the article

Don't go to Mere Green Chippy for christ sake Bill. Or that one at the parade of shops by Kingstanding playing fields. You don't want to eat nothing from them.

I usually go to Bakers Lane

or Lambeth Rd

aint deaded yet...

 ;)

Went to Mere Green many years ago when it was  the only place within getting food within my breaktime

wasnt superb but I have had worserer

then again at least I can find chippies round here

Has anyone ever driven off the M40 on the way home from Le Mans into High Wycombe looking for a chippy?

No bloody chance and I drove around the central bit a couple of times

plenty of pizza joints but not a sniff of God's Supper

(roof down in the Midge is usually good for chippie sensing)

 ???

Well there always used to be the chippy up by what used to be Bishop's supermarket up the Chester Road......they always did an excellent rat pie for that walk back from the Manor Road Youth Club on Friday evenings many a year ago....

MG Mark

.... Kitty O'Neil  is currently the worlds fastest female (on land).

Kitty O'Neil (USA) holds the record for the fastest land speed achieved by a women having reached 524.030 mph in the rocket powered three wheeled SM1 Motivator in the Alvard Desert, Oregon, USA, on Dec 6th 1976.


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 Trust Steve to have a Land Speed Record to quote;) I guess from her poster that she is Deaf. Probably could not hear all those telling her it could not be done ;D  With a speed  524 MPH probably stand for a long time too.
Canada Phil

Boody hell, Bishop's supermarket! I remember that! It must have gone by the mid seventies.

The rat pie was the reason I told Bill to avoid that particular chippy. I'm not going to say why, but it involved a chicken's beak with nostrils and a few short feathers still attached...   :o :P

Bishop's supermarkets !! Blimey that sent a shudder through me. I started my design career with that mob back in 1974 just after the end of the 3 day week at their head office in South Ruislip.

F**k me I'm getting old.

Not as old as me though Rusty

Mark was that where Somerfields is now, back of where your folks are?

No chippy there but a poor Chinki and a currihouse which I wont be likely to be using.  Their next door neighbours are the Coop funeral department, more than a tad off putting late at night...

Andy do you mean the row of shops near to the traveller's rest?

Or down the bottom of the hill?

So difficult to stay safe these days innit?

I was 2 then!...and blonde :o

PP

I was 1 and blonde!

LPP with hair - ha ha ha ha ha  ;D

And to continue the countdown theme.

I was 0

Kev was minus 10 or thereabouts!   ::)

Thought for a minute I'd logged into Kiddies Corner by mistake!! 

I'm with Russ (plus a few) - I was 29 then  :'( :'(

Del

1974 eh!

I was 23 and randy.

Now I'm just a dirty old man! Pervert!, no way, I'm a Provert, a professional pervert.

6, with hair

Those were the days...

As I sit here in High Wycombe, I could point you toward 3 chippys within a mile of me.

If you're after a chippy on the way home, get off the M40 at the junction 3 (Wycombe East) and head up the hill to Flackwell Heath. Great chippy in the parade in the middle of the village.

Again CA proves its worth!

Is that left or right off the M40 heading westbound then?

I came off the motorway at two junctions heading off to the right in my quest for edible nosh, then gave up and dropped off the planet to Oxford Services.

"Food Jim, but not as we know it!"  :o

bill

The rat pie was the reason I told Bill to avoid that particular chippy. I'm not going to say why, but it involved a chicken's beak with nostrils and a few short feathers still attached...   :o :P
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Sounds like the Chicken & Chips I had from opposite the Old Poo Bar in 2003.
I still have the wing clip that was embedded deep inside the breast meat on the Nissan keyring. It even had the chickens name on it, Richard, Obviously Free range and well cared for if they took the time to name them all.
Its the rusty bit below Mini PP!

Lady PP suggested Turtle Burger for dinner, but that didnt look too appealing either!

Bill,

directions to chippy.

Exit M40 westbound/northbound at Jcn 3 Wycombe East. At roundabout, 1st exit, 300 mts to mine r'bout and turn right (2nd exit), 400 mts minin r'bout turn left (1st exit), up very steep Treadaway Hill and continue to mini r'bout.
Frackle Fryer is on your right hand side, mid way down parade of shops. Address, Swains Market, Flackwell Heath.
When do you travel back, I'll check the opening times for you.
Failing that, stop in at Nobby Towers!
I have to go straight from my Monday afternoon Speedferries crossing, to my daughters Brownies "Fathers Day" Olympics. I'm going to good for nothing by then.

Bill, if you do try the chippy in Flackers take heed. If you happen to see anyone playing a banjo for God's sake put your foot down and head back to civilisation. You could end up squealing like a piggy :o

Quite right Bob!

Funny you should say that, there is a guitar shop next to the chippy!

Anyway, Flackwell Heath-Live The Dream.

What a dream


nightmare

thanks for the directions NobbyD

bill

Bill, if you do decide to try that chippy on your way home you won't be able to get back on the M40 westbound at the junction you left at. You will have to go to the next one at Handy Cross. It'a a couple of miles away but easy to find and won't add any time or distance to your journey.

ta

Ah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Deliverance.

One of the most poetic pieces of music known to man and the kid was brilliant.

Having seen Hayseed Dixie with Brethren at Shepherds Bush Empire a few weeks ago... its Banjo all the way.... anyone got one?

And here is the original............

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esl2NNOtHQE&feature=related (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esl2NNOtHQE&feature=related)

or, do you want to sell your soul to the devil?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0QKbnCDW94 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0QKbnCDW94)

I've sold my soul to the devil.

Ade

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBT9J8xg3c4

Is it worth staring a 'Music Association' thread? Afterall, we do have Picture's.

Or would this be too difficult in respect of composer/musician/singer/film track etc, etc.

Maybe we ought to have such a longterm thread

Music Association?

I'd join any association that could give me an hour and three quarters of music like those I had after drifting into segues with Clapton Page Richard Lennon and EltonJ and many many more out of that Youtube "devil" clip last night

Wonderful stuff on there but I never seem to have time to go looking

10 minutes of Stairway to Heaven was a damned good start hey?

listening to the notes whilst reading all the pretentious crap from the kiddies that know it all makes it even more amusing

Rock on

 8)

bill

how did i get dragged into this?  ??? :laugh: yes i was only born in 1984 so i would of been minus 10  ::) :P

Bill,

You're ok mate. I noticed tonight that the banjo/guitar shop has gone bust!

Shame, I might have picked one up

Not that my fingers are up to flatpickin any more (or much else these days)