Car magazine article talking about a restored car’s new carpet, says the oem floor material would have been rubber (pads presumably), but b/c the car had “shooting brakes”, it had never had carpets . Just curious, never heard the term “shooting brakes” before, or what it would have to do w/the floo…

lol … makes things more interesting I guess … lol .

I like to watch Brit TV, I am in the US, but American TV plots have become so predictable. So, the wife and I enjoy watching British, Australian, and New Zealand TV shows. They may also use the same old tired TV Plots, but they are new to us… I am First Generation and my mother is a Scot, so some…

2 door station wagon, a british term really only used recently by Aston Martin for a limited Zagato shooting break. Sort of like using a nomad as a surf wagon but instead to carry game and the guns back to the estate. [zagato]

Well, Bobs your uncle! Good list. I like Brit TV, too.

I assume you’ve read this: Shooting brake A shooting brake, occasionally spelled shooting break, is a car body style that is a station wagon (estate) version of a coupé car, instead of being sedan-based. Its historic origin in the 1890s was as a horse-drawn wagon used to transport sho…

[image] Mustangman: I like Brit TV, too. My mother like to say this when I was a child “It’s a braw bricht moonlicht nicht the nicht.” I really only thought it was a type of tongue twisting like “Knick Knack Paddy Whack…” as in give a dog a bone. I use to say it without even knowing what i…

Many years ago I was in a hostel in downtown London. Everyone was in the common area talking, including a woman in her 20s who was leading a group of cyclists. As the evening ended and all were about to retire for the night, the guy managing the hostel said to the woman: “What time shall I knock y…

To bring it back to cars… It isn’t called a rental car in the UK, it is a hire car.

What are "shooting brakes"?

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What are "shooting brakes"?

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