What are you talking about Wally?..
I don't know how chocolates came in to this conversation?

ask Muck, he brought it up not me Merv

Ok Ok, Check these links out...
This is just one of a series...

http://www.visit4info.com/details.cfm?adid=24854

http://hometown.aol.co.uk/__121b_RkS...SgG0AW2siFYg==

;-)

Muck

make sure the last 2 == are included in the above link, don't know why that happened, bloody computers, they will never catch on...

Muck

I like Mars Bars the best.. what's your favourite chocolate?

I'm takin'this back on topic & off chocolate, sorry!..

..Q.When was everybody last in Paris?.. I was in Paris in 1973

1998

DH is a European car nut - racing, restoring, etc.. About fifteen years ago I bought him a very good copy of Rendezvous.

We have shown it at various Alfa Romeo car club events and it always gets a great response.

The woman that he runs to at Sacre Cour is/was his wife. Nice touch.

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Nina's DH here ... Robespierre's judgements of "torque control", and "managing adhesion" are a little off. The motor was rev'd extensivey, with a minimum of wheelspin and good acceleration, so torque was applied appropriately.

As for adhesion, try approaching racing speeds on surfaces that vary from cobblestone to tarmac and not spinning out. There were no paint transfers and no excessive wheelspin during the filming, so the limits of adhesion were not exceeded.

Ferraris tend to understeer at slower speeds/sharper corners - front engined V-12. The nose shuddering while the car was understeering is unavoidable when pushing the car's limits within the restriction of city streets.

Ever pressed a vintage Ferrari's clutch pedal while shifting its transmission? It's not easy. The best paid racing drivers in the world still miss shifts ;-)

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Nina again.... ...someday he will leave me for a carburetor. At least I never have to worry about another woman taking him away from me - he is too busy in the garage with his "Italian Mistresses".

Nina

NDH - the topic changed to the Porsche film at Date: 04/24/2006, 08:10 pm. I said as much on 04/26/2006, 09:48 am.

My comments were on the Stockholm bit, not the Paris one. He missed shifts. He didn't apply power smoothly, often adding it tentatively and incrementally when he should have had his foot in it. In turns, he continuously over- or under-compensated for the track he was getting from the set of his front wheels, making the steering jerky.

I stand by my critique.

That's better, we are back on the Paris track!

Was in Paris in 1987 for 4 days....Took some nice pics ...would like to go back and not stay in a hostel next time....

Wally.. did you go up the Eiffel Tower?

No Merv,there were long queues but I took plenty of photos of it from all around paris and at night....

Wally.. that's not good.. i thought I wasnt happy.. when I could only go halfway up The Eifel Tower due to painting up the top!

well merv it must have been an awesome
view anyway...an amazing structure...

is it just me .. or are others also having problems with this thread?

wot's going on.. some of my posts are not showin'????

merv...insert another 20 cents...

lot of pigeons in Paris - loved seeing them get out of the way!

it's amazing no pigeons were killed

Hey Merv & Wally

Did you ever get together? It sounds like it would be a great bogan event?

Hey You Mr Sarvowinner..

bugger off.. ya bein' very bloody boganist..!!!

I'm sorry - what do you have against mullets, FJ holdens and VB?

I'm confussed now Mr Swarvo.. I'm not sure if you are Pro-Bogan or Anti-Bogan????

I'm not sure myself - when you look at Warwick Capper, it is hard to make a choice. But then some (well a few) of my best friends are bogan plus the rellos in Castlemaine and Taylors Lake lean that way.
However - they are in-laws - not blood. What's your view on this sub-genus?

Now Mr Swarvo you've openned up a big can of bloody worms.. I haven't got the time right now as I have a meeting to go to at the Para Hotel >> http://www.shamozzle.com/mervparadise.html <<see if ya can notice me in the pics?.. but I will be back to comment extensively on this matter!..

I like your pics in the link, is that your home away from home?

Nah Wally.. it's not my home away from home.. it's "My pub away from pub!"..

..so when ya gunna drop in to The Para?

It's all a bit scary Merv. A bit like "The Castle" meets Rock'nRoll Westling.

Tell him he's dreamin' merv, they look like nice blokes.....

To each his (or her) own!

Hey Sarvo do you think Wally might just be trying to be funny?.. re: quoting "The Castle"??

Oops Wal - should have caught that - I WAS dreamin'.

Actually the Kerrigans would probably love RnR Wrestling.

The Kerrigans holiday house at Lake Eildon is still for sale.. wanna buy it Sarvo or Wally?

Nope - too close to the in-laws.

Their idea of heaven is sitting out in Lake Eildon in a tinny drinking tinnies trying to catch bony fish.

Not too mention the bloody big crappy tasting Carp!!.. up at Eildon!

When it comes to carp, have you tried Charlie's Carp as a fertiliser on your garden? It's made from pulverised carp from the Murray, one of those truly win! win! products.

Never tried it.. but heard it's a bloody ripper by me mate Farmer Frank in Cobram!

those things are a blight on our waterways .....