One of the few pieces of worthwhile advice my rotten father ever gave me is entirely appropriate in this situation.

$99 for the starter set? I might have known. That works out at approximately £65. but here in the UK the cheapest one I’ve seen in £88 and they go up from there to over £100.

When dealing with fighter pilots, one only need remember the only decent line in that awful film Flight of the Intruder (a film even Willem Dafoe couldn’t save)...

I think this is what people don’t understand - you don’t have to actually be a combat soldier to be affected by it. I think this is particularly true of Vietnam, because for most people, their only experience is watching films and in many films the support arms are usually stereotyped as the mildly unpleasant…

Obligatory.

Tales like this are why I love so-called “support” arms. I think people forget that for every fighting soldier, be they on foot, in a vehicle, on or under the water or in the air, there’s a whole bunch of people behind him (or her) and massive logistical effort to keep that fighter fed, clothed and supplied, and…

I have no idea how the driver was expected to operate the passenger side headlight mechanism.

That is the most amazing thing I’ve ever seen...

Is every recipe going to involve marmalade?

Does it come with a biscuit tin lid to catch the drips of oil?

I used to love the “Run What Ya Brung” nights at Santa Pod. People running vehicles that really have no business being on the strip, alongside stupidly-powerful-but-somehow-still-road-legal hoofers running on stealth NOS kits.

I think you’ll find those aren’t pinstripes. They are, in fact, “go faster” stripes, guaranteed* to make the car go at least 150mph faster and make the underwear of any ladies within 500 feet of the car fall off in a flurry of lust.

I prefer another title from the same developer, a single player affair called “Taking a Dump”.

I hate to say it, but that gearshift is really ugly.

I’m such a child. I apologise in advance. It’s wrong, but I can’t help myself.

WANGSNESS!

Natasha Gould, an 11-year-old who was invited to speak at the event after blogging about her experience being diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor

I’ve said this for years, to everyone and anyone who will listen, and I will continue to say it to my dying day. They might even be my final words (unless I go for “the money’s hidden in...”), but believe me when I say this:

I think I might have shared this before, but I’m old and don’t remember, so sue me...

Had a similar problem, again with the Mercedes. One of the front lower control arm balljoints was screwed and I had to buy a whole new control arm. Fortunately, the garage I took the car to sourced a pattern part and fitted it for free as part of the service and MOT because I was a regular customer.

This is why you test exhaust gases at the pipe.