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I went to Flint, Michigan and built a car from scratch. A Factory Five
Roadster Mk 5, in fact (which is an AC Cobra replica). https://www.factoryfive.com/build-school/

It was not too terribly hard, and was a reasonable amount of fun. And at the end, we had a working automobile! It did donuts round the car park, to prove it.

Even more amazing, I went with the wife and two teenage boys. Consequently,
now we are tentatively discussing building one of our own next summer. Anyone who want to spend some of next summer in fabulous Upstate NY is more than welcome to lend a hand.
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On Mon, 25 Aug 2025 23:58:40 -0000 (UTC), Ben Blaney
<benblaney@gmail.invalid> wrote:

I went to Flint, Michigan and built a car from scratch. A Factory Five >Roadster Mk 5, in fact (which is an AC Cobra replica). >https://www.factoryfive.com/build-school/

It was not too terribly hard, and was a reasonable amount of fun. And at the >end, we had a working automobile! It did donuts round the car park, to prove >it.

Even more amazing, I went with the wife and two teenage boys. Consequently, >now we are tentatively discussing building one of our own next summer. Anyone >who want to spend some of next summer in fabulous Upstate NY is more than >welcome to lend a hand.

I definitely think you should, although I'm a bit dubious about a firm
that requires its workforce to pay them! I had a Cobra replica rolling
chassis finished (Jaguar suspension, Rover aluminium V8 engine) before impending divorce meant I had to sell up. Were I to win the lottery,
however, ...
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R1250RS
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On 26/08/2025 00:58, Ben Blaney wrote:

I went to Flint, Michigan and built a car from scratch. A Factory Five Roadster Mk 5, in fact (which is an AC Cobra replica). https://www.factoryfive.com/build-school/

It was not too terribly hard, and was a reasonable amount of fun. And at the end, we had a working automobile! It did donuts round the car park, to prove it.

Interesting concept, you pay them for you to build their car, which they
then presumably sell. Less than free labour.

It's taken me 7 days so far to rebuild this tractor engine, and I'm not finished yet.

Even more amazing, I went with the wife and two teenage boys. Consequently, now we are tentatively discussing building one of our own next summer. Anyone who want to spend some of next summer in fabulous Upstate NY is more than welcome to lend a hand.

Not for me in the next three years, maybe more.
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On 26/08/2025 00:58, Ben Blaney wrote:

I went to Flint, Michigan and built a car from scratch. A Factory Five Roadster Mk 5, in fact (which is an AC Cobra replica). https://www.factoryfive.com/build-school/

CIHAGM?
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On Aug 26, 2025 at 3:21:00 PM EDT, "Simon Wilson" <siwilson@nodamnspamn.hotmail.com> wrote:

On 26/08/2025 00:58, Ben Blaney wrote:

I went to Flint, Michigan and built a car from scratch. A Factory Five
Roadster Mk 5, in fact (which is an AC Cobra replica).
https://www.factoryfive.com/build-school/

It was not too terribly hard, and was a reasonable amount of fun. And at the >> end, we had a working automobile! It did donuts round the car park, to prove >> it.

Interesting concept, you pay them for you to build their car, which they
then presumably sell. Less than free labour.

No, they take it apart and the next class build it again.
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On Aug 27, 2025 at 4:25:02 PM EDT, "YTC#1" <ytc1@ytc1.co.uk> wrote:

On 26/08/2025 00:58, Ben Blaney wrote:

I went to Flint, Michigan and built a car from scratch. A Factory Five
Roadster Mk 5, in fact (which is an AC Cobra replica).
https://www.factoryfive.com/build-school/

CIHAGM?

When our one is done, certainly.
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On 29/08/2025 01:34, Ben Blaney wrote:

On Aug 27, 2025 at 4:25:02 PM EDT, "YTC#1" <ytc1@ytc1.co.uk> wrote:

On 26/08/2025 00:58, Ben Blaney wrote:

I went to Flint, Michigan and built a car from scratch. A Factory Five
Roadster Mk 5, in fact (which is an AC Cobra replica).
https://www.factoryfive.com/build-school/

CIHAGM?

When our one is done, certainly.

I'll be over after the US regains its sanity :-)
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On Fri, 29 Aug 2025 09:04:11 +0100, YTC#1 <ytc1@ytc1.co.uk> wrote:

I'll be over after the US regains its sanity :-)

So another three and a bit years to go then. At least.
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On Fri, 29 Aug 2025 09:04:11 +0100, YTC#1 <ytc1@ytc1.co.uk> wrote:

I'll be over after the US regains its sanity.

Do you think there's any chance of it?

Today, we are afflicted by Christian Scientists at the highest levels
of HHS, FDA, and CDC. And we have this ongoing (since 1832) love/hate relationship with our central bank, too. Both of these issues are
symptomatic of our leadership's catering to the lowest common
denominator in the populace, which rCo so far rCo seems to be the winning strategy.
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Moreover I'm convinced that Reddit must be destroyed.

Worst Case

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On 29/08/2025 21:22, Worst Case wrote:

On Fri, 29 Aug 2025 09:04:11 +0100, YTC#1 <ytc1@ytc1.co.uk> wrote:

I'll be over after the US regains its sanity.

Do you think there's any chance of it?

Today, we are afflicted by Christian Scientists at the highest levels

Ok, I'll rephrase that.

I'll be over when the US drops back to It's previous level of I[1]nsanity.


[1] Meanwhile the capitalisation of I by TB Is driving me Insane
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YTC#1 <ytc1@ytc1.co.uk> wrote in news:108ut4b$2kd9t$1@dont-email.me:

On 29/08/2025 21:22, Worst Case wrote:

On Fri, 29 Aug 2025 09:04:11 +0100, YTC#1 <ytc1@ytc1.co.uk> wrote:

I'll be over after the US regains its sanity.

Do you think there's any chance of it?

Today, we are afflicted by Christian Scientists at the highest levels

Ok, I'll rephrase that.

I'll be over when the US drops back to It's previous level of
I[1]nsanity.

ginge

[1] Meanwhile the capitalisation of I by TB Is driving me Insane

it's karma

your posts have been driving us insane for years
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On 30/08/2025 14:08, YTC#1 wrote:

[1] Meanwhile the capitalisation of I by TB Is driving me Insane

Do you have a wonky autocorrect or auto-uppercase add-on?
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On Sat, 30 Aug 2025 14:08:27 +0100, YTC#1 <ytc1@ytc1.co.uk> wrote:

On 29/08/2025 21:22, Worst Case wrote:

On Fri, 29 Aug 2025 09:04:11 +0100, YTC#1 <ytc1@ytc1.co.uk> wrote:

I'll be over after the US regains its sanity.

Do you think there's any chance of it?

Today, we are afflicted by Christian Scientists at the highest levels

Ok, I'll rephrase that.

I'll be over when the US drops back to It's previous level of I[1]nsanity.

[1] Meanwhile the capitalisation of I by TB Is driving me Insane

That should read the capitalisation of me.
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R1250RS
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On 30/08/2025 17:38, Mike Fleming wrote:

On 30/08/2025 14:08, YTC#1 wrote:

[1] Meanwhile the capitalisation of I by TB Is driving me Insane

Do you have a wonky autocorrect or auto-uppercase add-on?

All spell checking off, no strange add-ons.

It's like a switch was flipped (when I recently selected corect as
type), but hasn't flipped back when I deselected it (If I press esc when
It tries it doesn't do it ....)

Not got a search to come up with ananswer yet, and I'd rather not
re-Install as I have many accounts that I'd then need to add apply again
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On 30/08/2025 17:51, Colin Irvine wrote:

On Sat, 30 Aug 2025 14:08:27 +0100, YTC#1 <ytc1@ytc1.co.uk> wrote:

On 29/08/2025 21:22, Worst Case wrote:

On Fri, 29 Aug 2025 09:04:11 +0100, YTC#1 <ytc1@ytc1.co.uk> wrote:

I'll be over after the US regains its sanity.

Do you think there's any chance of it?

Today, we are afflicted by Christian Scientists at the highest levels

Ok, I'll rephrase that.

I'll be over when the US drops back to It's previous level of I[1]nsanity. >>

[1] Meanwhile the capitalisation of I by TB Is driving me Insane

That should read the capitalisation of me.

Nice :-)
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"The internet is a huge and diverse community but mainly friendly" http://ytc1.blogspot.co.uk/
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