Yeah, "box standard" is the correct saying and another popular corruption of a "saying" is "damp squid" instead of "damp squib". I thought "Dogs Bo**ocks" was a crude version of "Cats Whiskers", but I like your explanation better
BuuzzzzzzzYeah, "box standard" is the correct saying and another popular corruption of a "saying" is "damp squid" instead of "damp squib". I thought "Dogs Bo**ocks" was a crude version of "Cats Whiskers", but I like your explanation better
PS ….. I was bought up in the Black Country and can still fluently communicate in Black Country dialect so my grasp of the English Language can be best described as a bit dodgy
Best of luck with it....................Frankie
The C-in-C's family are Yam Yam's mate, sort of. Sedgley, Dudley, Bloxwitch etc.
So chances are that they're Wolves supporters then? My wife's from Wolverhampton so she's a proper Yam Yam, I'm from opposite direction, place called Pensnett, just outside Dudley, Baggies territoryThe C-in-C's family are Yam Yam's mate, sort of. Sedgley, Dudley, Bloxwitch etc.
Mostly Wolves
I want to make it mine but because of the mileage I also want to keep it standard; I might get this up to scratch then sell it on, hopefully at a good profitI brought mine stock and i wasn't sure if i should do anything as it was a striaght car but i like a car to be mine and reflect me so once the slippery slope starts it just never ends !!
As mentioned just keep all the parts and if they should be a future owner that wants stock its possible.
Mine was never the low mileage example that you have in my ownership but i think it depends on what you want, do what makes you happy at a bargain price would you ever lose ??
and then get something I don't mind making my own 
Just get stuck in pal, it will more then likely be beyond most of our life spans before these Zs are worth a fortuneI want to make it mine but because of the mileage I also want to keep it standard; I might get this up to scratch then sell it on, hopefully at a good profit
Of course! Members on this forum are great at spending other members money. It is the only way we can get good info on the bits we would like to buy ourselves before committing ourselves.
So where does the “Bee’s knees” saying come from.Yeah, "box standard" is the correct saying and another popular corruption of a "saying" is "damp squid" instead of "damp squib". I thought "Dogs Bo**ocks" was a crude version of "Cats Whiskers", but I like your explanation better
PS ….. I was bought up in the Black Country and can still fluently communicate in Black Country dialect so my grasp of the English Language can be best described as a bit dodgy
It's difficult to know if we need an etymologist or an entomologist for this one.
The phrase was first recorded in the late 18th century, when it was used to mean 'something very small and insignificant'. Its current meaning dates from the 1920s, at which time a whole collection of American slang expressions were coined with the meaning 'an outstandingperson or thing'. Examples included the flea's eyebrows, the canary's tusks, and one that still survives - the cat's whiskers. The switch in meaning for the bee's knees probably emergedbecause it was so similar in structure and pattern to these other phrases