If it went down in the water, thousands of miles away and floated there on prevailing currents, then y’know, it’s entirely possible that the island’s inhabitants didn’t see or hear anything.

A selection of live ammunition. Which is probably nothing to you Yanks, but to us over here in the UK, without a firearms licence, it’s a criminal offence with a mandatory prison sentence.

We did what all self respecting idiots did, and found a piece of hefty steel pipe and hit them to set them off. Still have the…

Screw that, it means you’d have to get a bike newer than 1980. Everyone knows motorcycles achieved perfection sometime in the mid-70’s.

Definitely Land Rovers. We meet each other at the side of the road all the time, to fix our inevitable breakdowns.

I dunno, that’s only 24 spare piston sets, wouldn’t keep you going long... ;)

You’ll need 26 Italian vintage motorcycles, so you can just about have one running every other weekend.

That’s the main thing that happens with the Bantam. Petrol was rationed after the war until the 50’s, and even when it was de-rationed, it was still expensive, hence the huge numbers of small bikes produced and used. Nearly every older guy that comes over to look at it used to have one, as they were just a generic…

Thanks! Whilst it may well help with safety, it probably mainly does it by putting people off buying bikes at all, which is a shame. Our UK test was already fairly comprehensive, even before they bought in all the extra hoops to jump through. I’m hoping to pass my test next month, then it’s a case of tidying up the…

What I ride: a 1959 125cc BSA Bantam plunger:

Drive a Porsche.

Nice bike, made using the same plans we ‘liberated’ from the Germans as war reparations. I just love how simple they are, and just how old-fashioned they were, even when they were new.

Just for the record, those black and white circuit diagrams are great. Speaking as someone who’s completely colour blind, it means I can ask my friend/helper/bemused cat to point out which one’s the red and yellow wire, without having to get them to actually interpret the bloody confusing diagram as well.

Couple of suggestions: One thing I love about Jalopnik is the focus on odd, and downright weird shit. The recent spate of South American car articles is a case in point. Don’t just focus on modern bikes, some of us just don’t pay attention to that sort of stuff, and yes, whilst there are plenty of site devoted to old…

It’ll buff out.

I generally go to the tender auctions. It’s a great way to pick up cheap pallets of Land Rover Spares.

And the occasional AFV.

Man, don’t tell people about Witham, they’ll up the damn prices. ;)

This is my daily driver:

And yet with a far more up-to-date engine design.

I’ve enjoyed reading Sniffpetrol for years, and your recent anecdotes on here have been a fascinating look at the mechanics of how TG worked. I genuinely hope you get a job on the new Clarkson/Hammond/May vehicle.

Assuming you want one, that is! If not, good luck on whatever it is you do, but be sure and tell us, so I…

The only real roads we have with more than two lanes are Motorways (freeways), which don’t open on to populated areas, only have junctiones every few miles, and they have long run up lanes so traffic is at the correct speed to merge in. These aren’t inner city roads.