I Love LPG Stickers!

[speedpro]

A good fuel but unless you dedicated a car to run on it you never got the full benefit. LPG was around 100 octane so could handle a more agressive spark advance . Dedicated vehicles would make more HP that thier petrol counterparts. Duel fuel was always a compromise and the extra fuel consumption made savings small.

Dave

I did the dual fuel thing on my 173 Holden powered HiAce and it made 2 horsepower more than on 96 petrol. Great fuel, ran sweet from the moment you started it and clean as a whistle. Good job the government has wasted such an excellent portable fuel generating electricity.

[yessum]

*LPG stickers on New Holdens
*No tow bar on Commodores and Falcons
*Arials en masse on the car
*Lights on parcel tray

*steel wheels (have seen alloys, but never wheel trims)
*they are voluntarily driving at or just under the limit

[LB]

I never seem to see the lights on the parcel tray till it's too late. They're very small and sometimes the reflection on the glass means you can't see in anyway.

They also have small red/blue lights in behind the front grilles.

[LB]

BUT - beware the merciless flying squad! (Anyone here remember the Python skits involving Spanish Inquisition - why did that just come to mind???)

MDU

MDU: shall we start a separate Python thread? We could title it "Norwegian Blue"????

They were/are just brilliant. Absolutely brilliant.

Yes, I remember (vaguely!) the SI - was that with the nuns in line falling into the swimming pool?

Tell that to the youth of today and they won't believe you.......

[ManDownUnder]

MDU: shall we start a separate Python thread? We could title it "Norwegian Blue"????

They were/are just brilliant. Absolutely brilliant.

Yes, I remember (vaguely!) the SI - was that with the nuns in line falling into the swimming pool?

Tell that to the youth of today and they won't believe you.......

ALBATROSS!!!!!!!

(as kids all going out on a gaggle... off to get a pizza or go bowling or whatever young innocent people do... a good friend of mine and I used to scream that out - basically to find where the other one was, who would reply in kind whereupon we would complete the skit much to everyone else's confusion, and proceed on to sing sing the philosopher's song or similar...).

Emmanuel Kang was a reall pissant who was very rarely stable
Heidegger Heidegger was a boozy beggar who could think you under tha table...

aaaaaaaa the good ol' days :-)

[ManDownUnder]

*steel wheels (have seen alloys, but never wheel trims)
*they are voluntarily driving at or just under the limit

What do you think the reaction would be to drive nice and slow in FRONT of a cop?

Something like
1) follow the cop at a set distance getting a good reading of the speed they are doing (i.e. 95 kph)
2) SLOWLY pass the cop, do about 104 kph - just ease on past
3) slow to 95 kph and sit there in front of them...

I wonder if it would annoy the stuffing out of them for doing the same thing they were? And which rules would it break - which they were not breaking already.

Perhaps slow to 93kph?

[marty]

there are heaps of mufti cars out there. the silver mufti on the NW could easily have been a CIU/CIB/enquiry car. the HP cars though, are the ones that will be out on the highways. there are a couple of lpg ones that i know of, but they tend to be admin ones that are occasionally used for enforcment - the HP inspector (tooman) in hamilton has a black VY executive with acclaim alloys fitted. it is on lpg, is fitted with a stalker, and after it gets fixed (it was rammed by a stolen car) it will be back on the road. it tends to be used for enforcment on the weekends.

[Ghost Lemur]

Emmanuel Kang was a reall pissant who was very rarely stable
Heidegger Heidegger was a boozy beggar who could think you under tha table...

[joins sing-a-long]

David Hume could out consume
Schopenhauer and Hegel

And Wittgenstein was a beery swine
Who was just as schloshed as Schlegel



Could be worse I suppose you could have started singing "Sit on my face" then we really would have been in trouble. Or worse yet "Evert sperm is Sacred", then we would have had the fear of God (Zed) coming down on us.

[jrandom]

MDU: shall we start a separate Python thread? We could title it "Norwegian Blue"????

Beau'iful pluuuumage, the Norwegian Blue.

Also, it would work well when threads stopped moving on account of people being tired and shagged out following a prolonged squawk.

By the way - since I seem to be in the business of burning CDs (and not delivering them) these days, does anybody want a CD copy of Monty Python Live at Drury Lane?

[ManDownUnder]

there are heaps of mufti cars out there. the silver mufti on the NW could easily have been a CIU/CIB/enquiry car. the HP cars though, are the ones that will be out on the highways. there are a couple of lpg ones that i know of, but they tend to be admin ones that are occasionally used for enforcment - the HP inspector (tooman) in hamilton has a black VY executive with acclaim alloys fitted. it is on lpg, is fitted with a stalker, and after it gets fixed (it was rammed by a stolen car) it will be back on the road. it tends to be used for enforcment on the weekends.

OK - ignorant question time.

"Fitted with a stalker"... I take it you don't mean the cop themselves?

What is a "stalker"?
MDU

[jrandom]

slow to 95 kph and sit there in front of them...

I did that. He followed me all the way off the motorway and pulled me over for a 'license check'.

[ManDownUnder]

[joins sing-a-long]

David Hume could out consume
Schopenhauer and Hegel

And Wittgenstein was a beery swine
Who was just as schloshed as Schlegel



Could be worse I suppose you could have started singing "Sit on my face" then we really would have been in trouble. Or worse yet "Evert sperm is Sacred", then we would have had the fear of God (Zed) coming down on us.

Or the penis song....
Isn't it awfully good to have a penis
(forgotten many of the words, but very funny - from the meaning of life interlude)

[ManDownUnder]

I did that. He followed me all the way off the motorway and pulled me over for a 'license check'.

Sounds like a tactic worth adopting to me...

[dangerous]

What do you think the reaction would be to drive nice and slow in FRONT of a cop?

Something like
1) follow the cop at a set distance getting a good reading of the speed they are doing (i.e. 95 kph)
2) SLOWLY pass the cop, do about 104 kph - just ease on past
3) slow to 95 kph and sit there in front of them...

Perhaps slow to 93kph?

Mate I wouldent have the bloody patince for that kinda shit.
Last month a mate and myself were in this exact situation....... following the pigger at 95, down a bloody big straight I picked him up on radar detecter 2k earler so I knew he was out there. Anyway as we were doing 105 (detecter going off every 30sec as he was trying to nab us... huh I showed him we cought up so I thought after 1min of doing 95 Ohh fak this and indercated pulled out took it up to 110k indercated pulled back in carried on at 110k and my mate is one of these people that is too scared to pass a copper and stayed back...... but the copper moved over to let him through so he passed aswell.

Now either he was the one good copper or he was rather pissed off as we never went above 110k including when we were comming up behind him........... cheers Escort passport 8500

[Lou Girardin]

When you've passed the cop start flashing oncoming vehicles. They soon get pissed off at the slim pickings and pop a u turn.