Hasbeen>>This one is TR7. Not the most admired of Triumphs
Since they left home I did a TR8<<

Hb, I know it well, two litre about 110 hp and the nose is the wedge of the era. The TR 8 is the 7 on steroids, they put that fold running from the rear panel through to the door to change the look given they were too lazy to design a new shape. I had a Lancia Montecarlo for a while, two litre 120hp mid mounted and the wedge look.

Hasbeen,

I try to avoid shopping centres in busy times. I have a few parks with pillars either side. But even then some mongrel leaves a trolley next to me. Or against the car more likely.

What about the mentality of this jealous sod? Caught too, Yay! See link,

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/9903683/Lecturer-fined-28000-after-scratching-graffiti-into-cars.html

People park next to 'our' strategically separate parks for the same reason they gaggle together on highways, intent of sniffing one another's bum, or so it seems. They are stupid, easily led and can do no better.

Sorry about your pride and joy. We all think of poetic justice for offenders in carparks. Too much self-respect and pride to join them in the gutter by doing the same back though.

Anything mildly prestige I buy in white. No prizes for guessing why.

I'm not sure how it is these days, but when I lived in Paris in the 70s, there was hardly a car that was not dented. That is just how they drive, nobody worries about the odd dent. If you can't quite fit into the parking spot, you push the back car backwards and the front car a bit forwards and voila, you have space! If you don't want dents on your doors, fit some rubber strips. That certainly was the Parisian way at the time.

Antiseptic, one doesn't have to be very bright at all to pick out the likely scenario and consequences of you being 'polite' to policepersons of either gender.

Your' aggressive style positively leaps off the posts you write.
Nothing is achieved by complaining ( or asking for 'assistance') in an aggressive manner...

I am surprised! I was expecting perhaps a barrage of counter-views to my strongly expressed complete rejection of the police. Instead there were two agreements and no detractors.

What a terrible state of affairs. We’ve lost confidence in our police, at least when it comes to dealing with relatively minor matters.

<< When they started threatening me I left, which was what they obviously wanted >>

Antiseptic, yes I have got the same impression a number of times from the cops that their primary motive is to get you to give up, so that they won’t have to deal with your issue.

Welcome back Yabby!

>>I'm not sure how it is these days, but when I lived in Paris in the 70s, there was hardly a car that was not dented. That is just how they drive, nobody worries about the odd dent.<<

I was in Paris not too long ago: the French still drive like maniacs. I pity the poor French pedestrians: over there zebra crossings are suggestion rather than a rule - the Australian habit of leaping boldly out onto the crossing would result in fatalities. Meanwhile my French-acquired habit of waiting patiently at the edge of zebra crossings earns me dirty looks from motorists who think I'm just a slow crosser.

Cheers,

Tony