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GDH · 2026-10-23T19:03:54Z

In the midst of the nightmare with the nasty seller, I took a shot at a model I have wanted for ages. I have seen several come up for auction and usually they ended up going for more than my budget could bear, and I wasn't interested in the FM model, as the door gaps were a bit over the top, for me. But, today, I got a surprise...well, actually I received two surprises. One was the notification that I had won this 1960 Bentley S2 Saloon, by Minichamps, and the second surprise was when I went online to pay for it and...wait for it...y'all better sit down for this...my eBay account was no longer available. Yup. Notified of a win and cancelled in the same afternoon. I haven't been well for a couple of weeks and after the other issue of late, I had hoped for peace and tranquility. I found a number in the USA to call and while I waited on hold (after a very weird conversation with AI) I tried signing in and no luck. I must have been on hold for fifteen minutes, or so, when I said to myself 'what the hell,' and tried to sign in again. Lo and behold, I was allowed into the sacred halls of eBay.de!! I cancelled the phone call, paid for the model, and breathed a sigh of relief. My partner then informed me that there have been multiple PHP connection issues: 'Websites around the globe have gone dark after a serious vulnerability was found in a computer language used to build much of the world wide web. Belgian, Dutch, Finnish, French and German sites were among those that governments took down temporarily as they scrambled to patch the critical weakness in PHP, a language used by almost 70% of websites. The vulnerability in the programming language, which became public on Tuesday, sparked warnings from national security agencies in Washington and London. It means millions of websites will need to be fixed. One internet infrastructure expert said Russian state actors or organised criminals could exploit the flaw to carry out cyber-attacks.' So, it wasn't an eBay issue, after all. Now for the model, and I am hoping for a positive experience, with this gem:

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27/10/2026 5:41 am

Looks fantastic!! The top looks more maroon than the previous pics - MUCH better! More Rolls-refined.

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Topic starter 27/10/2026 3:32 pm

@chris @peronne1 Thank you, gentlemen. I am absolutely chuffed to have her! We picked up the new shelves, today, so tomorrow will be spent building her new home and I am adding a twist to my shelving. More on that later.

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