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Happy Birthday Mike. Start your engine & accelerate to celebrate. Do we meet in September 2023 ?
Euromeeting/Tour UK or "6HRS of SPA-FRANCORCHAMPS" (Event of 4 days this year).
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1 hour ago, TwinCamJohn said:
If you were there in the eighties you may remember the year when Aston Martin was the invited marque at the Coupe de l'Age d'Or? I was there,racing, in a green Aston Martin DB2/4 MKI
During the 80ies & 90ies we were there every year. Invited by TR Register France, they were waiting for us at the last Toll Station (Péage) before entering Paris. Then with all the French & Belgian TR's over the Ring Road of Paris (Périphérique) at a speed of approx. 180 KM/hr heading to Monthléry. Those were the days ! Always very nice weather.
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'Much of the land enclosing it is occupied by the French military' : don't be surprised the French Military Academy is in the neighbourhood. Let's hope that they installed now decent toilettes. You know what I mean !
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Another very famous French Circuit (besides Reims) is "l'Autodrome de Linas-Monthléry" (near Paris). The Belgian TR Register used to go overthere during the 80ies & 90ies for "The Coupe de l'Age d'Or" (now held in Dijon). The BOD announced to close this Circuit in 2003 & there was a special Celebration Ceremony with the TS2 from TR Reg UK. The racing track of this Circuit really needed restauration. However, it's now open again & different races are on their programme.
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1 hour ago, john.r.davies said:
Hercule, thank you! I learn much from my teacher, who is not a native, about colloquial French, so the locol variations are just as interesting.
We were doing 'greeting' recently, and she mentioned that in close families, one might use "Coucou!" This revealed to me a scene from the Bond film "Spectre", where James has infiltrated a board meeting of that organisation. Detected by the Chairman, Oberhauser, who greets him, with a "Coucou!". I had interpreted this as Bond being a cuckoo in the nest, but in fact it's a reference to his early life as an orphan, adopted by Oberhausen's father, so that they are step-brothers! The greeting become deeply ironic, and good writing if obscure!
John, je remercie tu pour ton PM! Hihan!
John
"Coucou" (to say "hello") is often used esp. by youngsters, between friends & also by members of a TR Club (not only in "close families). The "Circuit des Remparts" / Angoulème/France' : the place to be on the 3rd weekend of September. But you have to book in time your hotel ! Cordialement, JOHN
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23 minutes ago, john.r.davies said:
"cent moin deux"?
"Quatre-Vingt-dix-huit"?
Counting in French is weird!
Yes, it is weird. In France & Belgium e.g. "80" = "quatre-vingt", in Switzerland "octante" . But "90" is in French "quatre-vingt-dix" & in Belgium "nonante" = ninety.
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6 minutes ago, john.r.davies said:
Hawk,
Je suis desolé! Ma professeure de français va faire qu'on se tienne dans le coin!
A bientot!
JOhn
6 minutes ago, john.r.davies said:Hawk,
Je suis desolé! Ma professeure de français va faire qu'on se tienne dans le coin!
A bientot!
JOhn
Please try again : 97 and 98 in the French language. Worthwhile !
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The dark blue TR3 however was drawn by cartoonist JIDEHEM from Belgium (name hidden on cartoon). He was working for another BE cartoonist FRANQUIN.
TR Cartoons from the artist Jidehèm appeared on the yearly "membership card" of Triumph Club de Belgique.
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On 7/30/2022 at 5:42 PM, Motorsport Mickey said:
A flock of Starlings or even an individual large crow can spoil your day.
Mick Richards
BIRD STRIKE
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5 hours ago, Ian Vincent said:
Last month my cousin and I participated in the Pyrenees Rally starting from Toulouse. The rally was brilliant but our drive across France from Caen to Toulouse, sticking as far as possible to country roads was the icing on the cake. The weather was sunny and we stopped at a wonderful Chambre d'Hote on the way down and a really nice hotel on the way back - with great food. As my cousin remarked as we were cruising down one deserted road somewhere between Poitiers and Limoges, "You would go a long way in the UK to find a road like this".
Macron is a politician, (and a more astute one than Boris)
Rgds Ian
The excellent roads in the Alps & the Pyrenees & in other parts of France have nothing to do with Macron as President but with the organisation of the yearly famous bicycle race "THE TOUR DE FRANCE". The toll roads in France on the other hand belong to a private company APRR and have always been very well maintained (Of course because you are paying for).
LHD TR5 for sale
in TR5/250 Forum
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Sorry to correct. If the TR5 is a Belgian production & assembled in "MECHELEN" ("MALINES" for the French speaking !) then the chassis number is 1CP followed by 1 to 4 figures & ending with "LO" (left & overdrive) or "LP". Interesting to know that the first TR5's in Sweden were RHD (traffic exactly as in the UK) but later traffic rules in Sweden changed resulting into LHD cars.