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Postby leamyj » Thu, 04 Aug 2011 7:16 +0000

That in 1990, there was a 24 hr race in mondello park, specifically for citroen 2cv's...and top gear ,with a very young looking reporter called Jeremy Clarkson, actually covered the event????

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Postby sidewaysreilly » Thu, 04 Aug 2011 7:36 +0000

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Postby franksm » Thu, 04 Aug 2011 8:37 +0000

Aaargh, that brings out arachnaphobia in me.

Steve Rigley bought a 2CV from Greystones a couple of years ago - the car had obviously been laid up for a couple of years, but we managed to get it started and wobbled/swayed our way onto the M50 back to Dublin. Queue the "it's getting hot in here, is this the vent ?" question whereupon a million spiders dead and alive blew out of the dashboard into the interior of the car. What followed was a hasty and shocking retreat to the hard-shoulder.

That same spider family still turns up in various cars in Galway and Dublin...
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Postby franksm » Thu, 04 Aug 2011 8:37 +0000

Oh BTW there is or was a MX5ireland member who partook in those 2CV races. Can't remember his name... Eamonn something.
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Postby Steve » Thu, 04 Aug 2011 10:54 +0000

franksm wrote:Aaargh, that brings out arachnaphobia in me.

Steve Rigley bought a 2CV from Greystones a couple of years ago - the car had obviously been laid up for a couple of years, but we managed to get it started and wobbled/swayed our way onto the M50 back to Dublin. Queue the "it's getting hot in here, is this the vent ?" question whereupon a million spiders dead and alive blew out of the dashboard into the interior of the car. What followed was a hasty and shocking retreat to the hard-shoulder.

That same spider family still turns up in various cars in Galway and Dublin...


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Postby Mel Walters » Thu, 04 Aug 2011 11:24 +0000

Rhys's friend builds them for a hobby he has some hideous number of them !!!

( I'm not a fan Sorry !! )

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Postby leamyj » Fri, 05 Aug 2011 7:51 +0000

:lol: :lol: :lol:

that spider story is brilliant....sorry for awakening your nightmares :mrgreen:

John

PS I got a bit pissed off when Clarkson referred to Modello's location as "outside Dublin"..It's in Co. Kildare, you pillock!!!!
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Postby landmarkjohn » Fri, 05 Aug 2011 8:44 +0000

I used to keep a joke spider above my passenger sunvisor... always good for a chuckle when it would drop into passengers lap when they pull down the visor until I was giving a senior Director a lift one day..... all I could say was "tut tut, the kids"
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Postby MX5Steve » Sat, 06 Aug 2011 12:23 +0000

I remember this, wasn't it broadcast on eurosport?
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