BuRR

Have they got SUL on there yet?

Seriously - does the Shell garage in Oban sell Optimax?

Keep an eye out for me - I'll be in the green machine with a roofbox.



(although the square plate has now gone and has been replaced by a normal one.

SiPie

Burr

Your best bet is the ESSO garage in Lochgilphead (near Oban) which sells SUL

sg72

Burr Best carry some booster mate. I couldn't find any garages from Oban to skye that sold Optimax. Seemed to cut off around Callander. Mind that was last October!

Scooby Dooby Blue

I believe they have a couple of Gatsos now so watch your speed mate...y'know what you coppers are like

BuRR

Gatsos on the Island?

where?

harvey

iTrader: (48)

Cannot answer your question as my info is a year out of date but from Glasgow North I always keep my tank as full as possible and fill up with Optimax at every opportunity and accept I will also use SUL if necessary. More N.F. and a bit lighter throttle to keep boost down.
Can recommend the Glen Forsa hotel to you. It also has an aviation related mystery which I found very interesting.
Burr: Can you advise if the smaller motorbike front plates are legal on Jap imports subject to SVA regs?

BuRR

In a nutshell, you can have the smaller size plates if

The car is of Japanese origin (ie import)

AND (not the AND)

The apature (sp?) where it fits is too small to house a UK plate.

..../goes to look for the wording.

BuRR

I can't find the wording in the 2 mins I have whilst I'm sat here.

This is the only reference I have at the moment:

Certain imported vehicles may be permitted to display number plates with smaller characters if:

The vehicle does not have European Community Whole Vehicle Type Approval

AND


The vehicle's construction/design cannot accomodate stadnard size number plate

BuRR

oh - re Glenforsa.

I stayed in the white cottage overlooking the airfield year before last. Wonderful views of the sound of Mull.

What's this mystery thing?

D Brown

If I remember rightly, there was a book about it, but it was a long time ago. I won't spoil it by putting down my meagre childhood memories of someone telling me about it.

I'm not sure if this is the same incident but there is the wreck of a Dakota not far from Glenforsa which you can walk up to see. My mother's publishing business has an author currently writing about this, but it's not finsihed yet.

[plug mode on] Other books about Mull are though, here[/plug mode off].

harvey

iTrader: (48)

Thanks for the info Burr. I will wear the bigger original plate as I cannot reasonably argue that there is not enough space in front of my FMIC to mount a standard sized plate although I suppose air flow to the FMIC is reduced a bit.


"The Great Mull Air Mystery", readily available from the hotel,or David who runs the Post Office and General Store at Craignure, where you come off the ferry. David was also responsible for the landing strip.May still be.
Basically a guy called Peter Gibbs took off in a Cessna late on Christmas Eve while he was staying at the hotel. His body was found some months later, quite close by and he had died from exposure.
The book is only about 35 pages but I could not put it down when I read it.
If you have problems getting a copy let me know.Worh reading.

Numptie

From the May 1976 edition of Pilot magazine.

A Cessna 150 took off from the unlit grass airfield of Glenforsa to fly a single night circuit, but vanished totally after completing the downwind leg.

The mystery deepened later in 1976, when the body of the pilot , with no evidence of any physical injury, was discovered about half a mile away from the runway threshold.

BuRR

Read that book..... well strange....

btw... was it you??