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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Farnboro John" data-source="post: 1247575" data-attributes="member: 36432">I drove to Scrabster and back in a Rover 218 diesel turbo which dumped all its water into the oil every few miles, so the interior of the car was lit up red by lights on the dash almost the whole trip.  I was convinced we were going to blow up but we didn't.  We got the Rufous Turtle Dove on Orkney and the car continued for several months thereafter - those old Rover 200s were bullet-proof!On the same trip I remember coming back across the moors from Scrabster to the A9 in fog, hanging grimly onto the tail of a bloke who clearly knew the road, because had I lost him I would have had to shed about 30 mph.John</blockquote>