Another Day At The Office...

I bumped into this fella at work the other day..

Neil Trundle F1 tweaker extrodinaire

He's the guy responsible for the tweaking of the historic collection we've got on display. 

Working on a 25 year old F1 car at the moment, said he changed the injectors and it fired up first time.

Gonna run it in the parade at Bahrain or summat next season. 

Pic and that from here F1: McLaren's impressive Historic car collection

MD's And Rokkors

Bought myself a 50mm lens off of ebay for the Minolta X-700 with some of the money my parents gave me for my birthday.

When I popped round a few weeks later my dad said he had a lens for me that he'd got from a car boot sale.

A 50mm lens for my Minolta X-700. Doh!

Turns out they are different though.

The one I got off of ebay

The one my dad got from the carboot

Comparison

The MD (above left) has a min aperture of f22 whilst the MD Rokkor (arove right) has a min aperture of f16.

Guess I'll have to do a comparison roll of film.

Good News!

Spotted a Dacia Sandero Stepway in a hypermarket carpark.

Actually like the look of this.

Last Few Days Of Nothing To Do

Took advantage of this fact by going down to Brighton with the wife.

We went to the Duke Of Yorks Cinema see the new Mike Leigh film 'Another Year', enjoyable in a Mike Leigh type of film way.

I like the Duke Of Yorks, they've got a nice bar and they let you take your beer in (albeit in a plastic glass), we sit up on the balcony on the comfy sofas, very dignified type of cinema.

I had a bottle of Darkstar Brewing Co. Espresso, nice full bodied black beer that has freshly ground espresso coffee beans added to the mixture. 4.2%, nice black coffee aftertaste.

I also adopted another orphan camera from a charity shop, a Canon Sureshot Supreme of about 86 vintage.
The first Mrs Mullet had one of these, great camera, lovely f2.8 lens.
The battery is flat though so I am waiting for one to arrive, Boots wanted £11.49 for a 2CR5 battery, I paid £2.50 with free shipping on ebay.
Only paid £1.99 for the camera.
It's got a film in it so will be interesting to see what's on it.

Reinventing The Wheel

On a forum recently somebody asked me about the Santa Cruz 'coffin cut' wheels that Stevie T was rockin' at the Shoreham 'Old Skool Dayz' Jam. They thought they were a good idea, width for grip but with a reduce running surface due to the cutaway slot.

I remarked that it wouldn't surprise me if they were 'invented' again soon.

So imagine my surprise when I opend up the latest issue of Concrete Wave and saw this offering from Bustin Boards...

It's Time To Dig Up Gillingham Skatepark

Some great T-shirts on sale on ebay, designed by 'Stainless' Steve Betts (ripper and inkslinger)

Facebook group

Ebay link to shirts

Dad, I Got It Wrong Again

Caught sight of myself in a mirror when I was out today, I was wearing a denim jacket.

For some reason I had an image of Roy Kinnear playing dad to Dick Emery's skinhead Gaylord.

Street Spotting

Spotted these banks today whilst I was out and about.

Probably a bust but worth a quickie I reckon.

Confuzine

Got some pics up on Confuzine in a write up on Shoreham Old Skool Dayz

Words by SteveS (70's Steve)

Well chuffed

Ave it old wig wearing blokes.

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