Cars and bikes I’ve come across in my travels

I had one of those Mercs for a short while, it belonged to the late Michelle Roux senior, a very well known chef and wordwide ambassador for the very famous Waterside Inn, which he started in the 60's/70's. I recovered it from deepest France with a duff auto box, and brought it back here to my home, Mercedes wanted a fortune to fix it, the local autobox man (an old school chum of mine) about a third of that, still too dear, so he gave me the car, it had a full tank of petrol, tax and long MOT, I bought a used box from a breaker, they are fairly generic on Mercs, paid said pal to fit it, got it sorted, and drove it until the petrol in the red, loved every mile of it, then registered it as mine (cancels the tax) and sold it, i thought I was going to be making thousands, but in the end a very hard car to sell (thirstsy and sky high insurance) and I only made a miserly few, not realy worth the effort, he did pay me for all expenses to recover the car though and a voucher for a free meal for two at the resto, so it wasnt bad, I took my hairdresser, young enough to be my daughter, for that meal out, and she now holds the records at that establishment for the shortest dress ever seen in the place, not realy aproprate atire for such an establishment, oit was not only very short Mary Quant style, but also very loud/bright in colour, I was suited and booted, three piece no less and a tie!) but she looked drop dead gorgous so who cares! certainly the resto didnt and that is a sign of the very highest quality.
CLEM

ps Waterside in has had three Michelin stars for the longest time of all restaurants, about 28 years or something, maybe longer.
There are only five three starred resto's in the UK.Two of them 800 yards apart.
 
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CLEMTOG said:
There are only five three starred resto's in the UK.Two of them 800 yards apart.
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Hi Clem, there are actually 8 of them in UK, which is pretty nice; at least one of which belongs to Mr. Gordon Ramsay!

(Germany has just one more, France has a total of 31; maybe it is just according to where the testers have traveled to, as there is a clear focus on London...)!

Sketch (The Lecture Room & Library) (London)​

Hélène Darroze at The Connaught (London)​

Alain Ducasse at The Dorchester (London)​

Restaurant Gordon Ramsay (London)​

CORE by Clare Smyth (London)​

Waterside Inn (Bray)​

Fat Duck (Bray)​

L'Enclume (Cartmel)​

 
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tyoical Lothar, he had to look it up, and prove me wrong, my excuse is this,
1) it was from memory and who gives a shit
2) it was probably right at the time I recovered/ was given/sold his car (and I am not telling you when that was)
3) is your info bang up to date? a few might easilly have been demoted.

Actually they got the third star in 1985, (just looked it up) so I was out on that count by a country mile it is actually 38 years very soon, a superb achievement! can only be apreciated by those who know how hard it is to let along GET three stars but to RETAIN them for that period!
 
CLEMTOG said:
I had one of those Mercs for a short while, it belonged to the late Michelle Roux senior, a very well known chef and wordwide ambassador for the very famous Waterside Inn, which he started in the 60's/70's. I recovered it from deepest France with a duff auto box, and brought it back here to my home, Mercedes wanted a fortune to fix it, the local autobox man (an old school chum of mine) about a third of that, still too dear, so he gave me the car, it had a full tank of petrol, tax and long MOT, I bought a used box from a breaker, they are fairly generic on Mercs, paid said pal to fit it, got it sorted, and drove it until the petrol in the red, loved every mile of it, then registered it as mine (cancels the tax) and sold it, i thought I was going to be making thousands, but in the end a very hard car to sell (thirstsy and sky high insurance) and I only made a miserly few, not realy worth the effort, he did pay me for all expenses to recover the car though and a voucher for a free meal for two at the resto, so it wasnt bad, I took my hairdresser, young enough to be my daughter, for that meal out, and she now holds the records at that establishment for the shortest dress ever seen in the place, not realy aproprate atire for such an establishment, oit was not only very short Mary Quant style, but also very loud/bright in colour, I was suited and booted, three piece no less and a tie!) but she looked drop dead gorgous so who cares! certainly the resto didnt and that is a sign of the very highest quality.
CLEM

ps Waterside in has had three Michelin stars for the longest time of all restaurants, about 28 years or something, maybe longer.
There are only five three starred resto's in the UK.Two of them 800 yards apart.
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Any photos of said hairdresser?

Paul
 
Gerald said:
+1!
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I don't know about that fellow from Exmoor ..... but I am hoping for something like this! After all ....... he did say "also very loud/bright in colour".

Jim

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Eastern burbs Melbourne, spotted tday!

The ultimate back up vehicle for all those orange Jotas……🤣🤣
 

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