I was just teasing about the plate! Better for you would be " CHR 1S "
Here is my favorite for family wheels:
https://tinyurl.com/ybrfhs2f
with the previous image for a couple who wanted a set of spare wheels.
Both taken in Sheffield several years ago.
The 55mpg was using large imperial gallons in the calculation. Canada sells
auto fuel by the liter.
jh
On 06/17/18 10:40 AM, Chris Barker <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> :-) Yes, it would be worth a fortune except that . . .
>
> . . . I removed the first two letters of the number plate, John, in the
> interests of restricting personal information on the Web.
>
> It died within about 3 seconds of the bow wave developing; I didn’t think
> that I was going that fast, but then I had gone through the same puddle
> around 30 minutes before. I had not realised that during the intervening
> period the downpour had continued over our village and that two streets had
> become rivers, each of which filled the pool at the confluence where the
> culverts were blocked.
>
> 55mpg on small gallons looks pretty good to me. I’ll not get better than
> around 40mpg on the bigger gallon with my X3.
>
> Chris
>
> > On 17 Jun 2018, at 14:11, john hudson <om4t@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > That license plate ............... 16 OSU ! Flog the plate for a fortune,
> > ditch the X3, buy an X7, invest the surplus in your pension plan and then
> > retire :-)
> >
> > Did the X1 die after hitting a puddle only ankle deep as seen in the
> > Father's Day card? Son one must have been wearing rubber boots in
> > anticipation of a photo op :-)
> >
> > Whoopi for the diesel. Just had our late model diesel VW fixed re its
> > cheating emissions software. Highway mileage is now a miserable 55mpg :-(
> >
>
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