During the occupation of Italy after WW2 Bob was recruited by the resistance to guard the Treviso pizza mines against the depredations of hordes of hungry ethnic Italian GI's who would do anything to get a pizza and Coke fix. Bob managed to shoot two from Brooklyn using his Lee-Enfield No4 Mk111, and capture one alive who is still on exhibit in the Zoo in Venice!

When Bob was an absentee landlord, working in Saudi Arabia back in the good old days, this was his method of transportation in Merry England - to whit - the Bridie-nosed MC (Market cart).

In the picture, the head groom, (Bobs ex) is waiting to accompany Bob on his tour around the village of Normanton-on-Trent Notts. So that all the villagers could pay their respects, and Bob and Pat could look over various hedges and walls into peoples front rooms and see what was going on.

Whilst living in the colony of Lon Gisland, N'Yawk in the '80's Bob discovered that Leyland, bowing to the protectionist policies of the American labour Unions (No doubt with the assistance of a backhander) and using Federal Regulations as an excuse, ruined the US Spec MGB so that people would buy so called sports cars like Chevvy Corvettes etc. instead. They did this by reducing the compression ratio, fitting Cats, exhaust gas recirculation Stromberg carbs and Federal bumpers. Bob having sussed after a few months that the car wouldnt pull the skin of the proverbial rice pudding, is shown in the process of fitting pedals under the bonnet (hood) in place of the so-called engine. Later an outboard motor was added to navigate the deep water filled potholes on the L.G.E (Lon Gisland Expressway)