What have you done today with your Austin Seven

[Steve Jones]

Something that's made me smile for many years, Duncan. I often wondered how popular the book/story/film/show etc. would have been if the real meaning of the title was more widely known. Maybe if that was to happen now, the 'woke' brigade would look to have all reference to it disappear for ever.

John Warburton put a lot into his Aston, a car he'd known for many years before finally acquiring it. He once told me that just after his restoration was finished he took it to an AMOC meeting thinking it would be well received. Regretfully, nobody there was interested in such a funny old car preferring instead the shiny, modern Astons they all owned.

Steve

[Alan]

The Aston comes to our local VSCC meeting. It’s a gorgeous car. I know the current owner quite well but he is yet to offer me a drive.

[Reckless Rat]

Despite keeping the car on an Accumate when not in use, after a recent flat battery I could not get it back to a full charge. When tested with a voltmeter it was only managing just under 4 volts so there was at least one cell dead and probably the others weren't far behind. The battery was an Exide 80Ah, which I bought (I think) in 2014.

I have replaced it with a French sourced NUMAX 6v which looks exactly the same as the Exide it has replaced, and it cost me 109€ (£93.95 in real money). On the case it is claimed to be 82Ah. It does the job well enough.

The battery was supplied dry and the shop filled it with acid and charged it overnight FOC. Doing the change enabled me to give the battery box and the floor under the seat a fresh coat of home made waxoyl.

In true Wortley style I am now thinking of what I can do with the old one...

[Hedd_Jones]

The Aston comes to our local VSCC meeting. It’s a gorgeous car. I know the current owner quite well but he is yet to offer me a drive.

yes, very nice chap. I met him at another local event with his Star a few years ago. A car I'd had a tour of North Wales in many years ago as a teenager with its previous owner (also John W).

He did invite to the your meet, but unfortunatley thursday evenings are not good for me at present. I have been before however.

[Chris Garner]

I only recently discovered that "Chitty chitty bang bang " was Tommy slang in 1914-18 for a permit to visit the knocking shop, a chitty for a bang...
No wonder Ian Fleming had a reputation as a bit of a DOM!

Duncan. It's not certain that is the origin of the name. Lou initially wanted the car to be named " Cascara Sagrada " after a laxative but was dropped after it was thought it might offend the ladies ! Another explanation of the name was that it resembled the sound of the slow tick over of an engine of 23 litres.
I think we will never know!

[Duncan Grimmond]

Eeh, you learn something new every day! I heard the story of the “origin” only last week on Radio 4…

[Tony Press]

I only recently discovered that "Chitty chitty bang bang " was Tommy slang in 1914-18 for a permit to visit the knocking shop, a chitty for a bang...
No wonder Ian Fleming had a reputation as a bit of a DOM!

DOM? 

What the Document Object Model is. An example of DOM manipulation using ECMAScript would be: // access the tbody element from the table element var myTbodyElement = myTableElement. firstChild; // access its second tr element // The list of children starts at 0 (and not 1).

[jansens]

I only recently discovered that "Chitty chitty bang bang " was Tommy slang in 1914-18 for a permit to visit the knocking shop, a chitty for a bang...
No wonder Ian Fleming had a reputation as a bit of a DOM!

DOM? 

What the Document Object Model is. An example of DOM manipulation using ECMAScript would be: // access the tbody element from the table element var myTbodyElement = myTableElement. firstChild; // access its second tr element // The list of children starts at 0 (and not 1).

Tony, I am currently writing web automation software. When I saw DOM that was exactly what I thought too! Figuring out selectors always makes me want to go smack bad web developers around the head for making my job so much harder!

Simon

[Mick Hanna]

Daughter's wedding yesterday; second attempt due to lockdowns. The Ruby delivered bride successfully - an anxious moment for the Ruby on its first significant journey for many many months and now running quite well.

   

[Ruairidh Dunford]

Congratulations!