On Thu, 5 Aug 2004 19:26:57 +0100, "Keith G"
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"Stewart Pinkerton" wrote in message
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On Thu, 5 Aug 2004 14:39:19 +0100, "Stimpy"
wrote:

Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article ,
Stewart Pinkerton wrote:
Perhaps you don't understand the meaning of 'stock' as applied to
cars?

A stock car is something entirely different!

As regards racing, perhaps. In normal car speak in the UK it is used
to indicate a 'base' or 'poverty' model, although it's not much used
these days. And that's obviously what I took the OP to mean by it.

********, I've been buying cars for forty years

ditto (had about or just over a 100 different ones myself now...)

Jeez - you must have bought a load of **** cars - I'm only on
thirty-two between me and SWMBO.

I ground Barry Ansell's valves in for him when I was a schoolkid (so that's
pre 1964, when I left/escaped)

What, you can regrind 300Bs? Koool................. :-)
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