Back in the late 90' & early 00's the BTCC did some night races with reflective liveries. It's quite hard to find good images, this was the best one I could find of Jason Plato at Snetterton 2001.

Re: No7. A lot of modern endurance racers have refitted the button. For obvious reasons.

Sorry, jokes normally have a set up then a punch line.

I see what you did.

I don't normally reply to post to people who hide behind pseudonyms, but on this occasion I couldn't resist. The reason this is news is that, and bigger news than you give it credit for is because of Tom's laid back matter of fact statement.

Great story. It is interesting to see the commenters whose education extends beyond your shores. I always wanted to do a full Hollywood treatment of the true story, but I fear it might not play well on your side of the pond.

One of the Ladies at work arrived in a flap one morning. She didn't want to remove it in case she hurt it.

In the UK bars and pubs that are tied to a brewery are forced to buy all food and drink through the Brewery, who put on a huge markup. On PubCo I worked for charged us the equivelant of £2.75 per pint, selling price £3.80, leaving us 95p to pay staff, electricity, water, rates, gas, etc. Worked at about 7p per pint…

Same here then. :)

A classic Aussie ute.

So first one to the stop line goes through then the next etc? What's to stop you from getting to the line and just barging across?

Another good use for roundabouts.

How does a 4-way stop function?

Sd.Kfz. 251/22, also at 1:45

True, but a giggle non the less. :)

Renault 5 Turbo.

It is a Stormtrooper helmet from Art Wars at Saatchi in London.

Not really into replicas, but...

And under Lend Lease we subsidised you economic miracle of the '50's. :)

The US Govt refuses to pay the Congestion Charge or Parking Charges as they are "a tax" to which diplomats are immune from.