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SteveD CB500K0:
Cornwall is a long way from Goodwood.

I was down there last weekend during the Revival. I was on a bike trip to Hayling Island for fish and chips (they were lovely, although the Inn on the Beach wasn’t serving food as they had no staff…). Picked up my son-in-law’s father (also a biker). His next door neighbour had rented his drive for the day. Two Mustangs and a GT40


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McCabe-Thiele (Ted):

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--- Quote from: Seabeowner on September 24, 2021, 07:07:52 PM ---It's a shame so many petrol stations have closed, 40000 in the 60s, 18000 in the 90s and less than 9000 now and with far more vehicles on the road.

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That's a good point. Our local 'independent' garage has just 2 pumps, petrol and diesel and a man comes out and fills the car for you. In Wainfleet, also not far from us, there is a petrol station that is that old, the pumps are still on the pavement and you just pull up by the curb and they come out and serve you. But, with both places, their fuel is usually at least 1p per litre cheaper than the big sellers.

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There is a small filling station on a housing estate in Duffield that still (I used it circa 2015 ish) had mechanical dispays in Gallons only - no money on the dials!

Not as bad as when I was in Cyprus a few years ago - the out of town Taverna had a hand wound mechanical pump.

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New Zealand Lane Ted?

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Yes it is bet the pumps are still the same!

Athame57:
Tip for the day: If you put a bottle of whisky in your tank it will increase your range! ;D

McCabe-Thiele (Ted):
Will supermarket whisky be okay or is it unsuitable due to E10 - best use 10 Yr old stuff them.

MrDavo:
Steve you must’ve gone past us, we were at the Premier Inn in Havant. We nearly went to the Inn on the Beach for food, glad we didn’t bother with the walk now, but went to the Little House at Home and a curry house the next night instead.

We’re now safely in our digs for the night in Shrewsbury, but getting out of Cornwall was a bit of a nightmare. Every petrol station we passed was completely shut, but my satnav insisted we could get fuel on the A30 near Oakhampton, quite a long way from near Padstow where we had set off from. We arrived at the Shell station with the fuel light on, to my relief they had Shell Super, but had just run out of diesel. A bunch of big camper vans were apparently camping out by the lorry diesel pumps, to wait for the next delivery. If the garage had run out of petrol I don’t know what I would have done.

On the way up we saw some places with horrendous queues in towns like Hereford, other little garages were just like normal but often with some pumps locked. I’m glad to hear the sound of screeching u turns from HMG, as keeping things running and food on the shelves is one of their core missions really.

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