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The Greek Bailout Explained ! ​It is a slow day in a little Greek Village. The rain is beating down and the streets are deserted. Times are tough, everybody is in debt, and everybody lives on credit. On this particular day a rich German tourist is driving through the village, stops at the local hotel and lays a €100 note on the desk, telling the hotel owner he wants to inspect the rooms upstairs in order to pick one to spend the night. The owner gives him some keys and, as soon as the visitor has walked upstairs, the hotelier grabs the €100 note and runs next door to pay his debt to the butcher. The butcher takes the €100 note and runs down the street to repay his debt to the pig farmer. The pig farmer takes the €100 note and heads off to pay his bill at the supplier of feed and fuel. The guy at the Farmers' Co-op takes the €100 note and runs to pay his drinks bill at the taverna. The publican slips the money along to the local prostitute drinking at the bar, who has also been facing hard times and has had to offer him "services" on credit. The hooker then rushes to the hotel and pays off her room bill to the hotel owner with the €100 note. The hotel proprietor then places the €100 note back on the counter so the rich traveler will not suspect anything. At that moment the traveler comes down the stairs, picks up the €100 note, states that the rooms are not satisfactory, pockets the money, and leaves town. No one produced anything. No one earned anything. However, the whole village is now out of debt and looking to the future with a lot more optimism. And that is how the bailout package works!

Essex crew, its been emotional, but the lure of the fantastic Peak District roads and a decent sized garage have become too much...! Essex I'll be off ...but Peak District, I'll see you all in September!!

Heres mine, it's a full size plate trimmed down to just bigger than the numbers. It's fixed with small stainless steel glass showcase hinges, once on the move it swings back out of sight.

Practical everyday wheels: R&R wheels: Team colours

It was obviously a ICBA day at work for me and Grizlee as he spent nearly two hours on a conference call / screen share (supplied by work...) talking me through the cut away diagrams of a Weber DCOE carb and explaining how they work. All the venturis, float valves, NRV, jets (progression and main) etc. Firstly it goes a very long way to explaining why he is known as a monstrous geek / anorak Secondly I was worried I understood 50% of what he said and enjoyed the call, which says a lot about me But Thirdly and most importantly I learned how truly beautiful a Weber carb really is... And to think these were designed by engineers and not computers... Just amazing how many iterations they would have had to go though to get all the aspects just so... I would go as far as to say they are more impressive than mechanical watches when you think a carb also has to deal with fluid and gas flow dynamics as well as all the mechanical stuff. And still work at temperature, with vibration and lateral loads. The icing on the cake - I ran to the shed to discover I have Genuine Italian Webers on Mr Grumpy. Not the Spanish jobs. So... To all the folk with injection and throttle bodies - hang your heads in shame. You are all missing an opportunity to have a work of art under your bonnets..!

Just to close off this topic I've managed to source and fit a decent horn button to my Momo wheel. As suggested, Ebay came up trumps at £1.15 each.....!! So, with the diameter of the hole on the centre cap opened up by a whisker (probably less than a mm) the 16mm momentary button fits perfect. My wheel is now fitted to the QR boss and feels nice and solid when driving. TBH I would have preferred a black centre cap but if you can find one they're silly money (some guy in Nevada has one for sale at $79 plus shipping and there are a couple to be had in Italy for similar money). That's more than I paid for the actual steering wheel. Momo UK had the aluminium one lying around and kindly let me have it for a few quid. Now just need to decide whether to wire up the horn button with a coiled cable into a removable CB-Mic type fitment on the dash; but as I take the wheel off when parked up and to get in and out every time, that might prove tedious.....although I'm tempted to fit a sparco twin button holder that accommodates two latching buttons for the indicators too and run them all through the same multi-core coiled cable. The wife's thinking I've got too much time on my hands......................... Anyway, thanks to everyone who pointed me in the right direction.

Hi, What's the best (and legal) way to attach number plates? I'm having my car trailered back tomorrow so as soon as my v5 comes through, I'm ready to stick the plates on and go Cheers Glyn

Yer wearing me out!!!!

He might be rain dancing instead Gary, in a bid to temper our new found power

i think there's a flux capacitor in there somewhere as well

Here's mine: The 1993 was my DD for 20 years. It became the donor for my Westfield when the 2013 arrived.

Good luck and don't forget your brolly

That's one heck of a garden you got there Dave, you've even got a drift area!

A good evening was had by all at this event sponsored by Carole Nash Insurance and featuring Fuzz Townsend from the TV programme Car SOS. A very nice venue by a lake, lots of classic cars and lovely sunshine to boot! Mr Fuzz is holding court near the gazebo in the picture below…..I know you can't make him out in the background but cars in the foreground are more important With all that and no entrance fee what more could you want…….well what about a free pint and a bacon roll More of the cars...

I know and I'm perfectly happy to leave it on the threads but there is just something that doesn't sit well with me seeing it on the compression face of the olive... You da man Tricky... Polished up lovely, olive is clean as you like - Thanks..! Hopefully that will be the last rad plumbed up this weekend.