General Barchetta's seen out and about.
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Whey Hey!!!
Finally get to see another B!!
Southbound A1M Near jct 15 @ 17:17 today, a yellow one!! With a nasty ding on the rear panel
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Finally get to see another B!!
Southbound A1M Near jct 15 @ 17:17 today, a yellow one!! With a nasty ding on the rear panel
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When we came through customs at Dover a couple of weeks ago, we laughed when the guy had a good look at the B. Apparently one had come through a month or so previously with an illegal in the boot.
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The B would be great 4 that. All you would have 2 do is put a small petrol tank in and take out the oem one. You then have a perfect place 2 hids someone.
No one would ever guess you have someone else in the car.
No one would ever guess you have someone else in the car.
We were stopped in Calais last Saturday on the way home from Perpignan (in the wife's Citroen bus thing)............the customs officers were more interested in the quality of the wine I had picked up than who was in the car!!! I am sure I could have shipped in a bunch if 'illegals' and the French authorities wouldn't have given a hoot as long as I had not bought a load of crap wine!!
An anecdote............
Years ago returning from an exhibition set-up in Europe somewhere (cant remember), I was stopped at the Eurotunnel by customs for a spot check in my van. All was going swimmingly with me stood at the rear of the van with a couple of French customs guys discussing the weather whilst a lady customs person had a sniff around my van with her spaniel. Suddenly they all became rather serious, speaking foreign so I couldnt understand The lady came to me at the rear of the van and said "my dog cannot smell". Well, me being me immediately said "not much use as a sniffer dog then" That went down like a lead balloon..........
They then proceeded to completely strip my van. When I say completely I mean the wooden sides, floor, the bloody lot So, after an hour and them not taking kindly to any more of my jibes, they found nothing.Turned out that the "problem" was that weeks earlier I had been carrying Hugo Boss after-shave concentrate in 10 gallon drums and one of them had leaked into my wooden floor thereby negating the need for me ever having to buy air fresheners for the van ever again but the customs thought I was trying to mask the smell of drugs
I learnt one thing that day.......the French dont have a sense of humour
Years ago returning from an exhibition set-up in Europe somewhere (cant remember), I was stopped at the Eurotunnel by customs for a spot check in my van. All was going swimmingly with me stood at the rear of the van with a couple of French customs guys discussing the weather whilst a lady customs person had a sniff around my van with her spaniel. Suddenly they all became rather serious, speaking foreign so I couldnt understand
The lady came to me at the rear of the van and said "my dog cannot smell". Well, me being me immediately said "not much use as a sniffer dog then" That went down like a lead balloon..........They then proceeded to completely strip my van. When I say completely I mean the wooden sides, floor, the bloody lot
So, after an hour and them not taking kindly to any more of my jibes, they found nothing.Turned out that the "problem" was that weeks earlier I had been carrying Hugo Boss after-shave concentrate in 10 gallon drums and one of them had leaked into my wooden floor thereby negating the need for me ever having to buy air fresheners for the van ever again but the customs thought I was trying to mask the smell of drugs I learnt one thing that day.......the French dont have a sense of humour
Before i got mine (in 12 days it will a year
) i never noticed many B in the road.Now there 3 others in my town , orange silver and red,and i meet a couple of them in trips around Greece.I must have seen over 25 or 30.The most strange B was a yellow with yellow bucket seats ,3 dials in the left A-pillar,a big rpm meter and a Nos switch next to the gear stick.
Every time i saw her i didnt have the camera with me.
Every time i saw her i didnt have the camera with me.
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On the way home from work today two B's went past me!!! A yellow one and a silver with red hood going South on the A1 at 5:30pm around Stevenage - Welwyn Garden City exits.
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Black T-reg old style with chrome hoops in B+Q car park, Newport IoW Tuesday 21st Aug around 12pm.
Well looked after Parked next bay but one to my silver one - driver must have spotted mine. Hung around for a while but no-one came back to it.
Well looked after
Parked next bay but one to my silver one - driver must have spotted mine. Hung around for a while but no-one came back to it.
Spotted - 4 really cool looking 'B's' in the Windsor area on Sunday 26th - Japanese tourists where heard to comment that Red was the best colour
Yes, but you know what they say about Jap's eyes
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Northumberland's the place to be.
Bank Holiday Sunday: Yellow 04 reg in Bamburgh
Bank Holiday Monday: Silver 54 reg outside the Jolly Fisherman in Craster
My own was tucked up at home in Cheshire.
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Bank Holiday Sunday: Yellow 04 reg in Bamburgh
Bank Holiday Monday: Silver 54 reg outside the Jolly Fisherman in Craster
My own was tucked up at home in Cheshire.
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Just been told I am getting a project in North Yorkshire - so there may be a Red one buzzing around up there for a few months from mid September (unless I can find a way to wriggle out of it and stay 'down South' where my house, wife and children are!!)...........
Shouldnt that read "where my house, wife, children AND DECORATING are"??
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