* this thread needs YOU ! *, Which car/motorbike/tractor/drone/plane/skateboard/surfboard/boat/train is the coolest ever

ha ha yea I remember that Skoda joke doing the rounds I also remember some owners who had several Skodas so they could swap bits in and out as needed. Skoda have moved a way up market now and are the choice for Taxi drivers which shows their reliability.

Your tractor prank story was a great read cheered me up from a stressful day at work

What's your favourite carrier aircraft?      I like the RA5C Vigilante - nuclear capable bomber.

(Hi. Myself, I am more of a fan of aircraft carriers because of the aircraft carried upon them. But I vote this up anyway. I used to like building Models too, but ran out of space in where I 'live'.)

This is PT109 - it had a camera on board for some good videos...

It's more reliable than anything the RN has...   

what a beauty -- its quite big. You could sail it just off the coast of Russia and from a distance they might think its real 

Ok - I just sold this one...

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put up some images of your boats ! they are cool 

thanks

u're fine at chat I have no idea why you think you disappoint. please relax in this thread say what u like how u like. have fun . your presence here is highly welcome.  just think like jeremy clarkson  :). no know knows everything so feel free to make an idiot of yourself.  I do all the time.

just for you i changed it :)

pretty cool stunt. 

Thank You for the reply. This is probably the part where usually I disappoint people just a little bit...

Further to what I said, the reasons why I never started a Car Thread M'self, was because I am not good at 'Chat', and I know not much about Vehicles in the "hands on" way - e.g. I can program GPS or radios, but I could probably never change a tyre but could learn how to direct someone stronger than Myself how to do so (!!!). But I know about Art and Electronics, so I have a strange appreciation...

Lozenge-shaped Jaguars were the best, then around 2012 they got fat. The Nissan Juke was a "Fugly" design wake-up call for Me. The Toyota Prius is a good looking Car, but they are as "uncommon as Tarmac". .....Saying stuff like this is the kind of silly superficial Car Thread that I would have started - so I didn't start one! 

Respect To You. End of Post.

Hiya - yes - I know it was a jokey title - but that was sooooo last week - and I think it would be great to have the girls join in.  

If you're into interesting metal - have a look at this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSiG7oNXC6w

It's a uk company building a bespoke Escort Mk1 for Gordon Murray (McLaren F1 designer) so no pressure to be amazing-  but they do a miraculous job.

Greetings, Mr. Happily-Flexible...(!)

Have a look at the very first answer from "K", up top. The Other Thread referred to said <> 'Women only, oestrogen and autism', and so this Thread said 'Men Only'...

But then I joined in (!). I have been wanting to say this since, so... This Thread was indeed a good way to counter or work off any frustrations about the "Women only" aspect. The thing is, there have been other Threads in the past which invite only Women, yet Men have joined in, and still can, if they have something pertaining to the subject. For the other Thread, Men, I *think*, of course can Post, discussing a Female relative or close friend or spouse --- but that Thread is VERY serious and respectful.

This Thread, however, was started as a jokey Thread. But then I joined in - A Woman, Yeeek - but Yourself (& Cloudy Mountains) especially, may recall that I wanted a Car Thread someplace, then I got hacked, and as I return (so far), this Thread started; Mr.Aldie was okay with that, and so I jumped in, pictures and all.

...Wow, this reply is long. I do not know what to suggest for a Title, but the "Men Only Testosterone Autism" was fine by Me. For I am a total Tomboy and know more "Man"-stuff than "Women"-stuff...

But My cash is limited & I can't do heavy lifting!   

I don't understand the repeated renaming of this thread but leaving the 'men only' bit in?  

Beaut! I like the way the ladder chassis is deliberately designed to bend inches out of true, and still recover after you have finished driving it over a boulder in the road. Anything that has PTO shafts has got to be very useful, just about everywhere. The railway company here has some that can also run on rails. Good for checking tracks during the rainy season floods.

I've damaged a few gate posts myself over the years. But what farmer hasn't!? On one of my first efforts at driving a tractor, I accidently stamped on an unlinked diff brake, and damaged a barn door with the front-end loader. I seem to remember that was a Fordson Major. Anyway, the farmer who was with me was a bit of a wild character, but the damage didn't really have a huge impact on the door. You could still shut it. So instead the guy sees the funny side of it. It never got fixed. It wasn't necessary. So years later, I'm watching a famous major TV series that has obviously been filmed on a farm, and I suddenly realise I'm looking at an identical barn door with exactly the same damage. Next time I went back to the farm, I checked with the farmer's son and he confirmed a lot of that series had been filmed on their farm. So we had another good laugh about me learning to drive a tractor on a machine with a front-end loader.

A cruel auto joke from the 80s:

What do you call a Skoda Convertible?

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A skip.

Skoda were actually great value back then, and were even then beginning to look quite up-to-date. (I've driven Skodas in the UK in more recent times, and thoroughly enjoyed them.)

Anyway, whilst considering a new motor, I popped into a rural Skoda dealership. I knew the owner from the local pub, and also knew that he had been born on a local hill-farm. As an opening shot, I asked "Do these still have the engine in the back?". "Sure", he says."It makes the handling a bit light on our bendy roads in the Winter, but I get over that on longer runs by slinging a 25 Kg. bag of 20:10:10 NPK farm fertiliser, cement or cattle cake in the front." My kind of humor!

This suits the 'Car Bike Plane' New title of this Thread. And explains why I like & watch/watched CHM-Top Gear...

...This is the real deal, folks  -- no CGI, here! 

Did You mean 4 wheels again, since most insects have four wings and can fly.

With regards to "4 Wheels and flies", I thought about this and have a few more answers. Funny coincidence to add "drones" to the title as well, as I was looking up all of these. :

1 - ..Apparently something called a "ToyJoy CF-908 Air-ground 4-Wheeled 2 in 1 Drone".

2 - An AgustaWestland AW139.

3 - ...Temporarily, A Toyota Prius if it is dropped out of an airborne Lockheed C5 Galaxy cargo Aircraft.

...Thanks for thinking of Me, but it is the monotony and the flat-back end of these things which annoys Me. (!) And I am somewhat certain that, on here, it is just Me...? 

(Yes I posted a previous reply, then deleted it. I was serious about the crashing thing, though. And the monotony of them.)