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[Uncle Joe]

Prompted by Scotty's comments on the ''the other night'' topic, regarding todays youngsters, is it better to have a Play Station or similar in the car, or something like this under the bonnet?



UJ

[gillberry]

Playstation's are fun but you can't beat the real thing .

[buzzy bee]

Hi

I don't think I have to answer that one!

I bought a playstation but only ever use it as a DVD player.

Cheers

Dave

[Uncle Joe]

I'm a bit surprised with the answers here.

Do you all mean to say that a Play Station or Bean Can exhaust is better to have in the car than an engine that looks like the one in the photo?

Those exhaust manifolds are standard, you know!

UJ

[buzzy bee]

Hi

I meant exactly the oposite to what you think I meant, sorry my post reads a little confusing. I was trying to say the engine anyday, as although I have a gamestation I never use it!

Cheers

Dave

[Uncle Joe]

I found out a funny thing today. In one of the local car accessory shops, I was looking at some of the exhaust tips that are common today, (the big ones, that I call bean cans) None of them were big enough to fit over my 300's exhaust. i wonder what this says about todays teenagers?

UJ

[Stuchamp]

[giggles]

Having had one of my Beaver Scouts want to give up on a day at Cub camp after 30minutes because he missed he computer I would say oily things any day.

[pigtin]

Forgive my ignorance but what is a Beaver Scout? I am sure that our U.S. contributors would love to know as well.
I was kicked out of the wolf cubs at an early age and havn't kept up with the modern trends in scouting.
Being so old and out-of-touch I am alse a little hazy as to what a 'Play-station' is all about, although my grandson seems to spend a lot of time on one.
If I may go into "when I was a lad" mode. I had my first 'oily engine' at 11 years old. It was called an ED competition special and was 2cc of raw diesel power. I then tried (with varying degrees of success) to build a model aircraft for it. This was the start of a love affair with machines and barked knuckles.
When I think about that 2cc engine, and then look under the bonnet of my special at the 850cc Reliant Robin engine, and then seeing the monster at the start of this thread, I feel sometimes that I haven't moved on as much as I might have in the last 58 years.

[Uncle Joe]

Dont worry about not having moved on as much as you could have done, neither have I, but I feel much better for it!

The engine at the start of this topic, for those of you that dont realise, is built from factory prodution parts.

UJ

[giggles]

[buzzy bee]

Hi

If girls can join the scouts, can boys join the Guides?

Cheers

Dave

[giggles]

Sadly not, it's girls only. But scouts is still mainly for boys, in our Beaver group we've got 8 boys & 1 girl. The girls that join scouts tend to be the Tom-boy types. I guess it's a bit like the ladies that are into classic cars, although I may be wrong on both counts.

[Uncle Joe]

giggles, Isnt that discrimination?

UJ

[buzzy bee]

Hi

That sounds a bit unfair to the feminine boys!!

Hmmm, I never was a scout or anything like that, I just prefered taking my push bike apart, lawnmowers apart and playing in the fields!

Cheers

Dave