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You may have noticed a new ‘Donate’ button at the right hand side of the screen. This is not intended to take your hard-earned money from you – it is a counter-measure to the hoards of spammers who inhabit the nether regions of the internet.
I know I’m not alone in this, but I have been invaded by hoards of visitors from non-English-speaking countries who use the dubious qualities of Google Translator to post on my blogs. There are a variety of posts and they would seem genuine were it not for the same posts appearing regularly and repeatedly across each of my four platforms – the Lazy Man series. A recurring theme, however, is that these people are floating in money and constantly beg me to include a ‘Donate’ button so they can pour money into my coffers.
The following are typical –

It’s a shame you don’t have a donate press button! I’d most certainly donate to this outstanding site! I think right now i’ll are satisfied with bookmarking and attaching your Rss feed to my Google account. I look ahead to fresh updates and will promote this blog with my Facebook group: )

It’s some sort of shame you don’t employ a give money button! I’d definitely give money for this brilliant webpage! When i suppose in the meantime i’ll be satisfied bookmarking in addition to putting ones Feed to help the The search engines bank account. When i glimpse forward to help new messages and may share that webpage having the Facebook or myspace team: )

It’s some shame you don’t have a relatively contribute button! I’d undoubtedly contribute to that excellent weblog! I just suppose at the moment i’ll take bookmarking not to mention using a Rss towards your Search engine profile. I just take a look forward towards unique upgrades and often will share this unique weblog with the help of your Squidoo crew: )

So, to satisfy these people with their millions to spend, I am now including a ‘Donate’ button on all my blogs and they can now donate as much and as often as they like.
I suggest the rest of us ignore these buttons as I’m not trying to take your money – I just want to see these spammers put their money where their mouths are.

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Car Heaven is not intended to be seen as being definitive or exhaustive – so all you anoraks out there had better take note. Car Heaven is a celebration of style and design – it’s all about the LOOK. I don’t care if the ’53 model had a Super Wangler fitted in Augtober of that year, or the mudflaps were changed to da Vinci Derivatives. I couldn’t give a monkey’s if it proved that fitting a Nicely Scrunchie gave you that extra 3 quattels per ounce of pure naked whatever-it-was. I will never loose sleep because the knitted string map pockets were changed to super-leather-look-vinyl in Octember of ’58. Who actually cares that Februevery of ’54 saw the glass indicators being changed to plastic. And does it really matter if the walnut veneer was 15 or 20 microns thick???? What I care about is the LOOK – the STYLE.

The phrase – ‘they don’t build ‘em like they used to’ – is very true, but would you want to go back to driving a car that didn’t have synchro-mesh on the gearbox, didn’t have a heater, didn’t have an electric starter, or countless other refinements they didn’t build into the older cars. Those days were primitive – but they did have STYLE. And today, some of the most beautiful machines ever made are hitting the streets despite the ever-growing jelly-mould mentality of the computer designers.

It’s all about looks, design and style …

It’s The Lazy Man’s Car Heaven.