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Classic Car World - Discussion forums and classified ads.

Easytrack - Offers information on track days. Contains venues, events, forum, and club details.

Sped Trap Bible - Provides information to British drivers on Speeding issues. Contains advice to accused offenders, facts and figures, FAQs, and details of track days.

Bad Driving - Includes video clips and pictures as well as the option to nominate bad drivers.

Amphicars.com - Contains amphibious vehicle information, FAQs, pictures, history, and technical tips.

Continental Car Tours - Offers European classic car, and rally tours. Contains dates, itinerary and booking information.

Cab Drivers Diary - Illustrating the costs involved of driving people for a living in London: Features licensing information, the author's hobbies, sports, and personal trials.

Driver Vehicle Licencing Authority - Executive Agency of the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions. English and Welsh language.

Driving - Contains articles on the UK driving test, advanced courses, career information, general motoring issues, and FAQs.

Motoring UK - Offers trade, financial, rallying, motorcycle, and business news. Also includes articles, editorials, and the option to submit news and events through membership.

BBC Motoring - News, car safety advice, buyers guide, travel information and features on cars and bikes.

Telegraph: Motoring - News and features, plus columnists, ask an expert, reviews, motorbikes, motor sport and consumer information.

Association of British Drivers - Campaigning on behalf of Britain's drivers, the ABD a lobby group fighting anti-car measures in the UK. Contains news, press releases, campaign issues, and joining details.

Traffic Answers - Questions and answers about British traffic law.

Speed Cameras UK - Directory of cameras with photographs, maps, and location details. Includes features and news articles.

Top Gear - Contains news, car and motorcycle reviews, games, and road tests.

British Police Vehicles - A collection of photographs of UK police vehicles. Includes an opportunity to order CDs of these photos online.

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. -- George Orwell Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer. -- Mark Twain I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book. -- Groucho Marx Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim. -- George Santayana Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced. -- James Baldwin Motoring If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't. -- Hyman Rickover When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree. -- William Blake Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully ignorant. --John Simon Motoring "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes. - Henry David Thoreau The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. -- William James Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can? -- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince Motoring "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inex A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy. -- Friedrich Nietzsche Motoring When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home. -- Betty Bender Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world. -- George Bernard Shaw Facts are the enemy of truth. - Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack of u Motoring Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it. -- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long Tear open packet, unfold and use. -- Directions on moist towelette package We do not remember days; we remember moments. -- Anonymous Motoring Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases. -- Anonymous If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers. -- Anonymous I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did. -- Henry James "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take. -- Adlai Stevenson Motoring Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon compounds that crawl. -- Mike Adams "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture. -- Aldous Huxley Motoring Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible. -- Mao Tse-tung Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful. -- Phyllis McGinley None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it. -- Herman Melville The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers. -- Thomas Jefferson You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to cough. -- Pearl Williams Motoring "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control futur Motoring "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) I think that I shall never see A billboard lovely as a tree. Indeed, unless the billboards fall, I'll never see a tree at all. -- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full of grac Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman. -- Herbert Spencer Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. -- Baskins Motoring "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and "cheap"? -- Phyllis Diller Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson. -- Vernon Law Motoring He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me. -- Thomas Jefferson The gods too are fond of a joke. -- Aristotle When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Sacha Guitry Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn. -- Harriet Beecher Stowe An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't. -- Sacha Guitry Motoring Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman. -- Herbert Spencer Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite. -- Paul Dirac Motoring Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years. -- Sam Kinison If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were loved by wife, then thee. -- Anne Bradstreet Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank. -- Alphonse Allais Maybe this world is another planet's hell. -- Aldous Huxley Motoring Nobody ever died of laughter. -- Max Beerbohm The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience. -- Harper Lee "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) Motoring To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture. -- Anatole France Here's to you and here's to me, and I hope we never disagree. But, if that should ever be, to HELL with you, here's to ME! -- Anonymous The church is the great lost and found department. -- Robert Short Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man. -- Thomas Carlyle "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) Motoring Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind. -- Plutarch The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. - Samuel Johnson Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. -- Mark Twain Motoring Not to anticipate is already to moan. -- Leonardo da Vinci There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great. -- Anonymous Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor. -- Joseph Addison "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) Motoring Work expands to fill the time available. -- PARKINSON'S LAW To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect. --Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously. -- Nicholas Murray Butler Motoring Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years. -- Sam Kinison Half of the American people never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half. -- Gore Vidal We haven't the money, so we've got to think. -- Lord Rutherford Motoring I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over them on long winter evenings. -- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you will Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder. -- George Washington Motoring
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