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Penman · Joined: 23 Nov 2007 Posts: 4880 Location: Swindon, Wilts.

Hi
Has anyone noticed their Click and collect ad?

Is there really anybody, even a youfff, who would genuinely open the engine bay cover, in error, to load luggage?
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peter scott · Joined: 18 Dec 2007 Posts: 7219 Location: Edinburgh

Yes, my thoughts too. A very old joke that hails from a time when foreign cars were a rarity and almost no British car within memory had had a rear engine.

Perhaps we have returned to a time where rear engines are almost unknown but equally the target audience are probably ignorant of VW beetles with rear engines so the joke is totally lost on its audience.

Peter
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roverdriver · Posted: Sat May 17, 2014 10:30 am Post subject:

I haven't seen the ad, and probably never will, but Peter's comments bring to mind the story of a new VW (beetle) driver who went to put luggage in the 'boot' to find it already occupied. A bit later the same driver came across a broken down car and stopped to help. The owner of the breakdown complained that he thought that he needed a new engine.
"That's fine then," said the VW owner, "there's a spare one in the boot of my car!"
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peter scott · Joined: 18 Dec 2007 Posts: 7219 Location: Edinburgh

Dane,

I can remember my father telling me that joke, and he died 40 years ago!

Peter Laughing

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PAUL BEAUMONT · Joined: 27 Nov 2007 Posts: 1281 Location: Barnsley S. Yorks

Me too peter, but in my case it referred to a Renault Dauphine and most of these rusted away at least 50 years ago!

Paul Wink