Check back, I've got more that I suspect will be of interest.
I certainly flew Continental from Birmingham many times during the 90s and 2000s, so once again the vortex has made a connection!Hello stillp. Thank you for the kind words and you are most welcome. I've operated many flights out of Birmingham back in the '90's and early 2000's. If you flew Continental around that time, it's entirely possible I was part of the flight crew. Back then we overnighted in Stratford-upon-Avon...
...which I found exceptionally charming. Perhaps I liked it so much because I love history and because it had such a low key, small town feel, even with all the Shakespeare tourists out and about. Many of the crew frequented the Dirty Duck pub.
Breath of interests, now that's an accurate way to sum up what's going on in this thread. I've said it before mostly in jest, but reading all of this thread just might be the equivalent of a college education.
I'll see what I can do about more TR4 material, but right now...
...Gus is center stage getting some much needed attention.
Thomas
Thomas, Continental certainly used to be one of the most caring airlines, but as you said, since the merger the 'customer service' department seems to be staffed by people who don't understand either of those words. Having said that though they were quite helpful when I was taken ill in Florida, so perhaps I owe them an apology. On the other hand, they've just erased all my reward miles - not that I'd have used them, but I would have transferred them to someone else or made a charitable donation. No warning of the expiry was given.I hope when you flew Continental your crews took good care of you. We operated a pretty nice carrier back then. Since the merger much of what we did so well has sadly been lost.
Pete, I think pictures of your TR4A are in order if you can post some. I admire your tenacity restoring the car in that small a space. That takes real dedication I'd say.
Thomas
), it's the various assorted and myriad electrical failures that have endeared British vehicles to us and I lay that directly at the feet of Lucas Electrics, the Prince of Darkenss!
That's the power of the vortex again!Yes I have Pete and it was fantastic. Not very crowded most of the time I was there which made it nice for wandering around. I actually went there a few occasions in the 90's while doing London trips. I happened to have struck up a conversation with one of the museum security folks on a visit. It turns out in the late 1970's he had attended a specialty school at Chanute Air Force Base in Rantoul, Illinois which is but 20 miles distant from Philo. He in turn, while going to that school by day, at night had made great friends with the owner of a pub in a nearby town and still comes to visit him on occasion. Turns out the pub owner had gone to high school with Chris and myself years before. What are the odds, eh? No 6 degrees of separation there.
Thomas
Chris,
I'm shocked and disappointed in you Thomas.
No powder coating? What's happened to the king of powder coating? Has Chris called a doctor in to make sure you're ok?
All time has stopped and the world has ended.