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Chuffer
CCCUK Member
I blame the Roman`s , they started it , the Normans took it too a new level , and every ruling power has done it to us ever since . Maybe we should start smuggling like back in the old days . I bet Mad4 Slalom knows a few quiet coves down there in Cornwall !
Roscobbc
Moderator
Motoring taxation will be at a 'high' once electric vehicles are far more numerous.......anyone who thought that reduced annual RFL on newer vehicles (whether they be ICE or electric) won't have a future 'sting in the tail' (like being the first vehicles where road pricing will ultimately be applied) is dreaming.
Likewise with our own 40 year old zero rated RFL.........just can't see that there won't be our own 'sting in the tail' at some point in the future.....
Likewise with our own 40 year old zero rated RFL.........just can't see that there won't be our own 'sting in the tail' at some point in the future.....
Forrest Gump
CCCUK regional rep
Yep, I saw diesel for £1-95 on Saturday at a BP station on the A1. Dangerously close to £2/litre, so depressing if that happens.
Yet “dirty” diesel is cheaper to produce than petrol.
teamzr1
Supporting vendor
Interesting all those illegal aliens from south of the border (20 million in Ca alone)
who claims they could not earn $2 a day down there can afford almost $6 a gallon for lowest grade (87 octane) gas in LA Ca
Or the obama gang paying $4.70 a gallon compared to the USA average for over the last 1 month
who claims they could not earn $2 a day down there can afford almost $6 a gallon for lowest grade (87 octane) gas in LA Ca
Or the obama gang paying $4.70 a gallon compared to the USA average for over the last 1 month
Chuffer
CCCUK Member
What lump is powering your Jeep ? That Harley is a gas guzzler at only 20mpg !!! I can get more than that out of my Hemi V8 Grand Cherokee if I am just cruising .View attachment 15980
Bike 20mpg, Jeep 15mpg, Corvette 12mpg, I'm am thinking of setting up a go fund me page
Worked two jobs for nearly 40 years and now the Government are going to take all pleasure out of life.
richie500
CCCUK Member
Its a 4.0 petrol auto UK original and yes considering a Hemi V8 does better mpg makes me even more depressed , the Harley is an ex race bike (came 3rd in the championship) so handles and goes like stink however the sacrifice is the mpg as i found out the hard way running out of fuel on the Tamar bridge and then getting shouted out by a van driver "thats why you should never buy a Harley" he didn't realise it was fuel not mechanical issues. However when the jeep is gone and my finances get sorted maybe this year hopefully there will be a space in my garage for another Vette.
James Vette
CCCUK Member
I don't plan to get married so that money can go to a car. 
Chuffer
CCCUK Member
I thought you already had one ! A car that is , not a wife .I don't plan to get married so that money can go to a car.
What`s the score with the Vette ? Been very quiet on that front recently .
James Vette
CCCUK Member
Chuffer
CCCUK Member
There was me thinking you had shoe horned a big block into the Jeep ! But I guess an old school 4 Litre petrol auto ain`t gonna be too frugal . The Hemi has the advantage of variable displacement to cut out 4 cylinders under light load otherwise consumption would be eye watering . It `s also got an upgraded induction system for better air flow giving around 345 bhp and 390 ft/ lbs torque so 0 - 60 should be around 6.8 secs ish .
The guy who preps the race cars where I keep my C3 has been working on a Harley like yours recently for a mate of his who owns several bikes .
Nassau65
CCCUK Member
A friend just mailed me, gas has gone down in Clearwater FL by 1 cent.Crude oil prices on the global market are beginning to drop so hopefully we should see that reflected at the pumps soon .
Laughable? Perhaps, but it has gone down.
teamzr1
Supporting vendor
Guess the dummies dictating gas prices forgot to stick it to us on NON Ethanol gas
Filled my 99 C5 up today with 92 octane non Ethanol and cost was only about 0.40 cents more a gallon
then they charge for low grade 87 octane E10/E15 gas
Normally have been paying almost $1 more per gallon, so maybe state of Texas has a sale on straight gas
So to celebrate that being a 75 F deg sunny weather day,
I drove out to a road with little traffic and exercised the rev limiter several times !
Filled my 99 C5 up today with 92 octane non Ethanol and cost was only about 0.40 cents more a gallon
then they charge for low grade 87 octane E10/E15 gas
Normally have been paying almost $1 more per gallon, so maybe state of Texas has a sale on straight gas
So to celebrate that being a 75 F deg sunny weather day,
I drove out to a road with little traffic and exercised the rev limiter several times !
GCorvette
CCCUK Member
Music to my ears (but perhaps not my neighbours!....)Extremely noisy exhausts often significantly impove fuel consumption........
teamzr1
Supporting vendor
Music to my ears (but perhaps not my neighbours!....)
So GCorvette you like loud noise !
Here so from my 1999 C5 when doing some tests as I designed a custom exhaust for it
Using different drive style, windows open/closed, radio on, etc
and has a Dba souns meter recording, so I could tune the sound at exhaust tips lower than 95 Dba
and around 80 Dba in cabin area.
Turn UP the volume !
This is the setup when I wanted to piss the whole town up : )
richie500
CCCUK Member
Mildly tuned 454, the previous owner had it for 40 years and did a body off restoration himself using all the right bits - upgraded the radiator, headers, cam, complete new wiring loom the list goes on and on. New his stuff as he had about 4 engines he was rebuilding for friends, his workshop was ever boys dream it was a large barn with a roller shutter door each end with a 4 poster lift various mills lathes etc. He is in his 70's and had corvette's since he was a teenager, only C3 and older no new stuff.