⛽️🧸 Dave Edmonston @PetrolTed Twitter profile

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⛽️🧸 Dave Edmonston

@PetrolTed

7 months

25 years of @PistonHeads today (sort of). Seems apt to retweet this. Enjoy the real story, not the myths… 🤓

Collecting Cars

@collectingcars_

5 years

🔊 SOUND ON 🔊 Episode 14 of the @collectingcars_ podcast is now live! Tune in to hear @harrismonkey and @Edwardlovett in conversation with PistonHeads founder, David Edmonston ( @PetrolTed ) as they chat about the birth of one of the best known automotive brands on the internet.

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⛽️🧸 Dave Edmonston

@PetrolTed

7 months

25 years ago today I bought the domain which later became . From that initial online car magazine spawned classifieds, forums, events, headaches and opportunities that I never dreamed of. Small steps => long journeys. 🤓🏎️

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⛽️🧸 Dave Edmonston

@PetrolTed

4 years

You can keep your exotica...

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⛽️🧸 Dave Edmonston

@PetrolTed

7 months

Jumped the shark on this one? #singer #porsche

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@PetrolTed

3 years

When was the last time you saw one of these!? @collectingcars_ #coffeerun

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⛽️🧸 Dave Edmonston

@PetrolTed

4 years

Never understood why DRL legislation didn’t mandate for rear lights to come on too.

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⛽️🧸 Dave Edmonston

@PetrolTed

5 years

History of PH condensed into 90 mins. Sorry to miss out so many tales, but I’m very grateful to Chris and Ed for giving me the opportunity to tell the story.

Collecting Cars

@collectingcars_

5 years

🔊 SOUND ON 🔊 Episode 14 of the @collectingcars_ podcast is now live! Tune in to hear @harrismonkey and @Edwardlovett in conversation with PistonHeads founder, David Edmonston ( @PetrolTed ) as they chat about the birth of one of the best known automotive brands on the internet.

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⛽️🧸 Dave Edmonston

@PetrolTed

2 years

Will it fit..? :-)

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⛽️🧸 Dave Edmonston

@PetrolTed

3 years

Still tickles me to see the @PistonHeads logo when out and about

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⛽️🧸 Dave Edmonston

@PetrolTed

2 years

Proper towage

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⛽️🧸 Dave Edmonston

@PetrolTed

5 years

Reckon this might appear on Car SOS in a few years?

1971 FERRARI 365 GTB/4 DAYTONA BERLINETTA

Off the road since 1974, this is a unique opportunity to acquire a fascinating project Ferrari, with fully restored chassis and bodywork.

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⛽️🧸 Dave Edmonston

@PetrolTed

6 months

Whatever happened to MagSafe? That was such a good idea.

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⛽️🧸 Dave Edmonston

@PetrolTed

11 months

Mega morning at Bicester with the @collectingcars_ Coffee Run. Over 3,000 cars. Our biggest event yet. Beginning to think @Tankslider lives on site.

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⛽️🧸 Dave Edmonston

@PetrolTed

3 years

Great account. Whoever would have thought that the future would look like this?

World Bollard Association™

@WorldBollard

3 years

This is still the undefeated, greatest clip of bollard strength you will EVER see. The bollard doesn’t even flinch and the lights never stop twinkling. Enjoy. PS - it’s an Audi. #WorldBollardAssociation

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⛽️🧸 Dave Edmonston

@PetrolTed

5 years

Had an fun morning with @harrismonkey and @Edwardlovett yesterday. We headed back in time to recall some of the online adventures I had whilst creating PistonHeads. Coming to a @collectingcars_ podcast very soon.

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⛽️🧸 Dave Edmonston

@PetrolTed

3 years

So there you are watching Traffic Cops and spot that the car totally out of control has a PH sticker on the back. That wasn’t in the plan...

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⛽️🧸 Dave Edmonston

@PetrolTed

5 years

Oooh, my inner yoof just got a bit excited. #illogical

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⛽️🧸 Dave Edmonston

@PetrolTed

5 years

ULEZ. What a farce when it’s full of thousands of these.

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⛽️🧸 Dave Edmonston

@PetrolTed

3 years

This would’ve been a very imposing thing in pre SUV days

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⛽️🧸 Dave Edmonston

@PetrolTed

4 years

If there’s one thing this virus has taught us... we don’t need another lane on the M4, we need better broadband.

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⛽️🧸 Dave Edmonston

@PetrolTed

8 years

@achrisevans Facty McFactface speaks.

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⛽️🧸 Dave Edmonston

@PetrolTed

5 years

Was it mapped? #pistonheads

GMP Traffic

@gmptraffic

5 years

This BMW 335d lost control and hit two trees on Kingsway @GMPLevsBurnage this evening. Miraculous given the staggering level of damage that there were only minor injuries to the driver and two passengers, while a fourth occupant walked away uninjured. Road will reopen shortly.

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⛽️🧸 Dave Edmonston

@PetrolTed

3 years

That’ll do. What a thing. #singer

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⛽️🧸 Dave Edmonston

@PetrolTed

5 years

@DRIVETRIBE Vector W8

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⛽️🧸 Dave Edmonston

@PetrolTed

8 months

Always chuffed to see something interesting on my morning stroll.

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⛽️🧸 Dave Edmonston

@PetrolTed

6 months

The year is 2002 and I’m designing the new home page it seems. Top UX/UI skills in play here… #notadesigner

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⛽️🧸 Dave Edmonston

@PetrolTed

3 years

It’s a morning of contrasts.

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⛽️🧸 Dave Edmonston

@PetrolTed

10 months

What a thing. #bicester #scramble

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@PetrolTed

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⛽️🧸 Dave Edmonston

@PetrolTed

5 months

I've spent a couple of decades talking about cars, now I'm going to be talking about driving instead! Launching today:

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⛽️🧸 Dave Edmonston

@PetrolTed

3 years

They don’t make ‘em like this any more….

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⛽️🧸 Dave Edmonston

@PetrolTed

4 years

Just popped out for coffee...

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⛽️🧸 Dave Edmonston

@PetrolTed

4 years

I’m rather missing the anti social howl of a V8 at full chat.

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⛽️🧸 Dave Edmonston

@PetrolTed

4 years

The prettiest 911. No debate 😊

Collecting Cars

@collectingcars_

4 years

*LIVE AUCTION* This Porsche 911 Turbo S is a stunning example of the rarest road-legal 993, presented in outstanding condition, with genuine low mileage and impressive history. Details:

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⛽️🧸 Dave Edmonston

@PetrolTed

9 years

@AutoBant : #WednesdayWant ! Rorty four pot would be today's choice http://t.co/uFfxwAWLhs

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⛽️🧸 Dave Edmonston

@PetrolTed

5 years

I do worry how narrow our view of world events is sometimes in the UK.

Minh Ngo

@minhtngo

5 years

Why is no international media covering this? More than 1 million people in Bolivia have taken to the streets to demand democracy & call upon President Morales to declare the #AmazonFires a national disaster and let international aid in. #sosbolivia

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⛽️🧸 Dave Edmonston

@PetrolTed

6 years

Has the TR7 come of age? The design works for me now.

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⛽️🧸 Dave Edmonston

@PetrolTed

5 years

@drewm @pixelcellar I created a website that placed tweets on maps (before Twitter restricted geo data). Fun, but useless. Closed it down a couple of years later. Police department in the US contacted me. They had been using it to locate witnesses to crimes.

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⛽️🧸 Dave Edmonston

@PetrolTed

8 years

18 years ago today I bought the domain "" #followyourdreams

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⛽️🧸 Dave Edmonston

@PetrolTed

2 years

My stock of “gardening” T shirts remains rich 😊

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⛽️🧸 Dave Edmonston

@PetrolTed

2 years

Now that’s variety. #collectingcars @collectingcars_

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⛽️🧸 Dave Edmonston

@PetrolTed

1 year

What a place!

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⛽️🧸 Dave Edmonston

@PetrolTed

7 months

Nice plate #944

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⛽️🧸 Dave Edmonston

@PetrolTed

3 years

From a Golden era of British innovation… #noble #classicmotorshow

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⛽️🧸 Dave Edmonston

@PetrolTed

10 years

@AutoBant raw, none of this modern too-fast-for-the-road http://t.co/5Dl4Cy1Pfb

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⛽️🧸 Dave Edmonston

@PetrolTed

5 years

Blow me down, the things you stumble across. #Datsun Z with #corvette #v8

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⛽️🧸 Dave Edmonston

@PetrolTed

3 years

@jackrober Cadwell Park, 1999…

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⛽️🧸 Dave Edmonston

@PetrolTed

3 years

Quite a vehicle. #volvoamazon #bicesterheritage #bicesterscramble

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⛽️🧸 Dave Edmonston

@PetrolTed

4 years

First rule of startup... try new things. Come join our team.

Collecting Cars

@collectingcars_

4 years

BECOME OUR YOUTUBE HOST! 🎥 ⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ We want to hear why you should get the job! All you have to do is post a video to your Instagram page using #CollectingCarsHost to be considered. ⁣Full information on our Instagram page!

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⛽️🧸 Dave Edmonston

@PetrolTed

6 months

The horsepower wars are over surely? Bring on lightweight as the new battleground.

evo magazine

@evomagazine

6 months

The @astonmartin Vantage has received a thorough overhaul for 2024, with a significant power bump, the very latest chassis technology and a fresh new design -

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⛽️🧸 Dave Edmonston

@PetrolTed

9 years

Smart thinking by the @guardian developers. I was looking at their page design and found this... #geek http://t.co/UFoBQq22aQ

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⛽️🧸 Dave Edmonston

@PetrolTed

5 months

Anyone got a fishing rod?

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⛽️🧸 Dave Edmonston

@PetrolTed

4 years

I'm recruiting! If you love your prioritised queues as much as your four pot calipers then I'd like to hear from you. #php #collectingcars #javascript #reactjs #mysql #aws #petrolheads

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⛽️🧸 Dave Edmonston

@PetrolTed

7 months

Volvo update. Wheels. ❤️ Dashboard 🛠️ Bumpers - over riders or not? 🤷

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⛽️🧸 Dave Edmonston

@PetrolTed

4 years

Many people think that the Y2K issue was a false alarm. In fact the lack of disaster was down to many people’s hard work. Let’s hope the same can be achieved with #coronavirusuk

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⛽️🧸 Dave Edmonston

@PetrolTed

7 months

This time last week…. I was very cold!

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⛽️🧸 Dave Edmonston

@PetrolTed

5 years

@dhh Google killed the golden goose of advertising. #duckduckgo for me

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⛽️🧸 Dave Edmonston

@PetrolTed

8 years

Is that snakeskin?! #bmw #wrap #wtf

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⛽️🧸 Dave Edmonston

@PetrolTed

5 years

Headlamps, a few. Fog lights? None to be seen. Auto headlights a good idea? The more automation, the less we take responsibility... #realdriving

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⛽️🧸 Dave Edmonston

@PetrolTed

7 months

Nearly finished #volvo #v8

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⛽️🧸 Dave Edmonston

@PetrolTed

4 years

Potholes.

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⛽️🧸 Dave Edmonston

@PetrolTed

3 years

It moves! First time I’ve driven it in a year or so. Steering still an advisory input but running ok and despite me refurbishing the brakes, it stopped as well. #volvoamazon

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⛽️🧸 Dave Edmonston

@PetrolTed

5 months

There seems to be some correlation between my levels of joy and this blue stuff.

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⛽️🧸 Dave Edmonston

@PetrolTed

10 months

I love a fat tyre.

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⛽️🧸 Dave Edmonston

@PetrolTed

2 years

Ooh #m3 wagon #CollectingCars

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⛽️🧸 Dave Edmonston

@PetrolTed

1 year

Old school fabrication slowly bringing my Volvo back to life. #volvo #volvoamazon #restomod

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⛽️🧸 Dave Edmonston

@PetrolTed

5 years

Car service today. All good apart from the bill for 9 spark plugs. #ftypeV9S

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⛽️🧸 Dave Edmonston

@PetrolTed

2 years

To the surprise of no one, physical buttons outperform touchscreens in cars | by Chris Kernaghan | Aug, 2022 | UX Collective

To the surprise of no one, physical buttons outperform touchscreens in cars

Are designers to blame for the war on physical buttons?

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⛽️🧸 Dave Edmonston

@PetrolTed

4 years

We live in an age where the level of self service education available online is unprecedented. Maybe Netflix isn’t the only answer to prolonged periods at home... #skillup

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⛽️🧸 Dave Edmonston

@PetrolTed

3 years

It was always worth a snoop around the paddock to see what could be found. That’s when I got a bit of a scoop…

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⛽️🧸 Dave Edmonston

@PetrolTed

3 years

RIP Sir Clive Sinclair. Without him there would have been no… well so many things. He created entry level computing for a generation.

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⛽️🧸 Dave Edmonston

@PetrolTed

2 years

From simpler times #audi

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⛽️🧸 Dave Edmonston

@PetrolTed

4 years

No missing this!

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⛽️🧸 Dave Edmonston

@PetrolTed

4 years

@JethroBovingdon That chap needs punctuation.

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⛽️🧸 Dave Edmonston

@PetrolTed

1 year

Gorgeous! #opelmanta

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⛽️🧸 Dave Edmonston

@PetrolTed

4 years

Flustlation: the joy of finding a quicker way of doing something combined with the anger of realising just how much time you wasted doing it wrong.

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@PetrolTed

3 years

@jackrober

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@PetrolTed

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⛽️🧸 Dave Edmonston

@PetrolTed

10 years

#spotted Lister XJS http://t.co/krbPaP4yVU

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@PetrolTed

5 months

That’s my new pothole strategy then…

Massimo

@Rainmaker1973

5 months

How the effect of speed prevents you from falling into a hole in the road

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⛽️🧸 Dave Edmonston

@PetrolTed

1 year

Never underestimate the guy in the spare bedroom…

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⛽️🧸 Dave Edmonston

@PetrolTed

5 years

Practical transport for a Sunday morning. #arielnomad

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⛽️🧸 Dave Edmonston

@PetrolTed

3 years

@sniffpetrol Bob Holness played sax in the back of that car.

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⛽️🧸 Dave Edmonston

@PetrolTed

5 years

These simplistic lines looked pretty bland at the time. Now in an era of monstrous grilles and endless scoops and vents... it looks pretty sound. And what bargains.

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⛽️🧸 Dave Edmonston

@PetrolTed

11 months

Unpopular opinion. This hasn’t stood the test of time.

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⛽️🧸 Dave Edmonston

@PetrolTed

10 years

What a beauty http://t.co/oTy39BRVK9 http://t.co/q8D3G3AFY0”

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⛽️🧸 Dave Edmonston

@PetrolTed

9 months

@Carpervert @RupGeneva @B4tty Restomod plan got out of hand when I bought a crated V8 from Noble Automotive on eBay one night. Bits should get a bit more joined up in a few months time.

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⛽️🧸 Dave Edmonston

@PetrolTed

5 years

Love stuff like this.

Tim Pollard

@TimPollardCars

5 years

Fascinating blog post by @simon_deliver who's worked out you can fill a trolley with smartphones, walk down the street and Google Maps will think you're a traffic jam and re-route cars around your location. New-decade mapping challenges... 👀🗺️

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⛽️🧸 Dave Edmonston

@PetrolTed

4 years

#F1 yum

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⛽️🧸 Dave Edmonston

@PetrolTed

2 years

Much as I like modern exotica, there’s a proper thrill in seeing something unique.

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⛽️🧸 Dave Edmonston

@PetrolTed

7 months

#bicester

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⛽️🧸 Dave Edmonston

@PetrolTed

2 years

#rs200 everywhere

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⛽️🧸 Dave Edmonston

@PetrolTed

7 months

Sweet thing.

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⛽️🧸 Dave Edmonston

@PetrolTed

5 months

New venture @driving_masters - a cunning plan to make advanced driver coaching more accessible for all. Full launch next week, but if it's of interest please sign up at for introductory discounts. #advanceddriving

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@PetrolTed

6 months

#startup time again…

Driving Masters

@driving_masters

6 months

We're getting close, but not dangerously close... #advanceddriving #driving #startup

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⛽️🧸 Dave Edmonston

@PetrolTed

3 years

Eye catching…

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⛽️🧸 Dave Edmonston

@PetrolTed

3 years

C&M ticked.

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⛽️🧸 Dave Edmonston

@PetrolTed

3 years

Just trawling my archives… #britishgt launch in 2000. While all the other snappers were there with their SLRs, I was hanging out of the back of the car with a compact digital feeling a bit inadequate…