YES, success, found a pack of Victory V in a old fashioned sweet shop in Ipswich, cost 75p and he has a whole box full of them. 
We’re Old Gits and loved them so tried them out with a 50 year old colleague who said they were almost as she remembers them. Result 
Ipswich has to be the best part of 300 miles away, alas will I ever be able to enjoy a victory “V” ever again 
, Polo mints are the norm at the moment but Wendy has bought me a six pack of love hearts but I yearn for the noble victory “V”.
talking about sweets, in the late 1940s, one day a boy in my class came to school and said, there a sweet mine at the council tip
that afternoon straight from school, most of us boys went to the tip to find a whole lorry load of small kaki tins had been dumped by a local pharmasutical company, inside each tin was twenty four hard boiled sweets, most of us took dozens and dozens of these tins home and stashed them away like sqirels, before the council bulldozed the area over.
it seemed that what we had found was a whole lorry load of out of date army issue cough lozengers, it didnt matter to us though,. sweets were sweets in those sweet rationing days.
thinking about it now, i dont remermber one child in our school coughing for months after that tresure trove find.
Just wasted the last sunny morning in the garage taking the sreering column to bits looking for an on with ignition feed, I did’nt see anything I dared cut so took the console and radio out, found one off the cigar lighter. Went to get the running lights I bought a while ago that I intended to fit, can’t find them. Put the lot back together, retuned the radio.
Came in to type this to let off steam, on the last line I accidentally deleted the lot, retyped and submitted 
you put them running lights away for SAFE keeping didnt you marpar, 
only trouble was, to BL–DY safe mate, us old gits, we have all been there, and most certainly will do so again. 
last MAY time, my wife gave me a be-lated christmas present, ( a very nice leather belt with a solid silver buckle,), it seemed that she had just found it, it had been hiding in the back of our freezer for five months of course i got the blame, with her saying, YOU MUST HAVE WALKED INTO THE KITCHEN whilst i was wrapping it, and i had to hide it in a hurry. 
anyone else got any safe keeping moments to share ?
I have found (on many occasions I’m afaraid) that under these circumstances it’s best to leave things for a few days and then go and look for an entirely different item in an entirely different place. You will then find your lights quite by accident and in some really daft place. Been there, done that, excuse me I’ve just dribbled on my keyboard!!!
Very true
EUREKA!!!
I googled “Victory V Sweets” they are still available, also online 3pkts for £3:17p, then the good lady announces that they are available in town. I’ll try to get some in for the next meet or the Nov run out.
This is aimed at Shoestring ,see him for shares or swaps 
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P.S. Found the missing lights, now have’nt the time to fit them .
Victory V ??? I bet you still wear Wincette Pyjamas with a draw string round the middle!!! Me - I am one of the modern old gits - I wear a silk kimono (J Bond esq style) and only eat Basset’s Jelly babies. For the (very) occasional lead- in- pencil event I will partake of a Rhino Horn Gobstoker but find that by the time I have absorbrd it the “other person” has finished her book and gone to sleep! Still think the Series 2 is best - no chat, no foreplay, just a quick turn of the key and WOW - we are away and she will do whatever I ask!!!
What do other Old Gits do to enhance the long Autumn evenings? ( Females please look away now)
I do wear the afore mentioned with an itchy dressing gown and slippers with pom-poms.
I can remember all sorts of things you could do with VV 's whilst the subject hs degenerated into bedroom shananigans 
I wish I could remember the last time I had a Shinanigan.
I remember an O’Reilly and a Murphy.
I think I will stick to the Victory V’s, you get more to the pound. If my Rhinohorn Gobstokers are the same as “Friar’s” they are blue and begin with a V, and at 9quid a pop I’m beginning to find them a waste of time and money. As usually Er indoors either goes to sleep or keeps nudging me and puts me off by saying “Has anything happened yet”. I think thats what she must have said every time she walked past my vegetable patch this year because very little happened there as well.
I found a source on a well known auction site where they are priced at 6 for £5. They must be good 'cos they come in a brown paper box simply printed " Mlade with glate kare in the PRC. S’pose you could feed them to your vegetables if you find them ineffective!!!
never mind veg patch I’ve spent the last two weekends in the fish pond…(makes a change from the dog house mind 
) looking after the fish and knee deep in pond water, still, leak sorted and new wall nearly finished…just to stay on the mx5 theme mines sat sitting there for two weekends now, usually get a little trip out if nothing else. My back is almost finished building pond wall and humping concrete blocks so probably wouldn’t be able to get out once in it anyway…what was the subject again? 
No good asking me, I don’t know.
I think it might have been something to do with leeks in veg patches, or was it about you finishing your back. No no no I remember now it was about you humping concrete blocks, definitely would need your Victory V’s in that case.
I’ve forgot too
Forgot what? either way I didn’t know either 
Mrs Shoestring has found a local shop that still sells victory "V"s, it’s a small specialist tobaconist, 79p for a small packet. I had a few last night and do thing they’ve lost something, no longer did they remove feeling from the inside of your mouth, in past times it would have been pointless to have a cup of coffee after sucking on a “V” as you’d not have been able to taste it but alas now you can, I fear that the health and safety or such other faceless organisation have forced a change in the recipe, propbably those euro beaurocrats have said it’s not right to have such a strong sweet (just because they can’t hack it) This mighty confectionary of ether, liquorice and chloroform has been bastardised and now contains liquorice and something to give the taste of the other two, no longer can they be considered a cure for sore throats, colds and even tooth ache. Sad days my friends, sad days 
Shoestring,
The reason"Vs" had to be changed was that a European directive - EU78b478VCd2190Mhz (supplement 28) 2011/78/9etyc - decreed that they entered the category of hazardous materials not to be carried across the borders of any member state. This placed “Vs” in the same category as unrefined uranium, unstable armed missiles and any literature that might in any way be considered remotely critical of the French nation. Last heard that there is an undergorund organisation planning to smuggle old recipe “Vs” in from Australia where men are still men and don’t give a XXXX for chinless wonders in Brussels!!!