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That's Rich's car - user name Touslecoq. Send him a PM and he'll no doubt email you a load of pics if you're interested. His is the Daytona Blue Viper fronted Zed that was at the PPS shoot on Sunday.

I'll be there. In a black corvette though so if you find one parked next to the Zeds you'll understand why! Should be a really good event - i've heard of some crazy power cars heading down there....

Runners Up 6) Exterior Runner Up Chris C 7) Interior Runner Up Toulsgog 8) Engine Bay Runner Up SMW1 9) Boot Build Runner Up Toulsgog 10) Best 300zx Runner Up Toulsgog hehehe... Toulsgog! Quality! he's actually on here as Touslecoq. ;) (his surname in French) Aka Rich. Congrats to all who won prizes - great Zeds!

Nah.. don't like it! :tongue: By the way fella, think I might have scraped your offside front corner whilst pulling my car out this morning... not a problem though, your nasty blue paint polished off my motor no bother! ;) Seriously though, photo's don't do it justice. Can't wait for everyone to see it in the flesh at Billing, .... assuming the way into Billing is VERY flat with NO speedbumps of course....

Not quite as quick as you Pete but onwards and upwards for engine sizes for me too (over 8yrs) On Road Cars 1. 1985 Mini City - 998cc of power 2. 1990 Mk II Golf GTI 8v - 1.8 :bow: 3. 1995 Westfield Sei - 2 Litre 4. 1995 Honda Prelude - 2.2 Vtec 5. 1998 TVR Cerbera - 4.2 V8 6. 1995 300ZX - 3.0 Twin Turbo :) 7. 1998 Chevrolet Corvetee - 5.7 litre V8 :D Going to have to get a flaming Viper or something next if I want to increase engnie size again!! Unless I go back to something with turbo's.... :cool: Plus some bikes and off roads cars but nothing too special.

hahaha! just had a look at that site - you're right, the one with the wing is HORRIBLE. That's one car that shouldn't have something like that stuck on it. I have seen others though and they are REALLY nice. :)

aha... saw the title thread "Cerbera" and thought i'd find you Rich (touslecoq)! If there's one car that provokes a lot of discussion it's the Cerb... I too had one (98, Moonraker Black, Cream Interior) although you can probably guess that from my user name :o (had the cerb when I joined this forum). I only had it a year (the beast got me a little speeding ban :( ) and loved the car to death when it was working well and on an open road. The rest of the time it worried the s***e out of me as it over-heated, rattled and clonked and generally sounded like it was going to do something very expensive to itself. It only ever broke down properly on me once (a 50p fuse went that needed the top of the engine to be taken off to get to = £500 quid thank you very much). But I think one of the reasons I sold it was the fear of it breaking down more. I know if it had done/cost the same to me as Touslecoq's did to his i'd have felt very bitter! The bit that really got to me was sitting in traffic (something that's an increasingly regular occurance). I could never just relax and sit there as the temp gauge would start to creep up, then go mad (it's a bi-metallic strip that at a point just flicks and points the needle straight up!). I used to find myself getting stressed at the merest sign of a traffic jam in summer! In fairness, mine never went bang (lots of steam and stuff on a regular basis though) and Rich's sat in very hot weather in the middle of Nice (or was it Cannes) last year with no problems - I just never felt like it was going to be ok and that's an uncomfortable feeling when a new engine is 8k. So i guess i'm just agreeing with a few people on here. They are great cars when running right (you should hear one with a proper sports exhaust like touslecoq's had last summer - awesome!) but you need to walk into it with your eyes open. And if you do get one, make sure you get the 18inch Spider alloys fitted - looks the dog's. Chris

Get a suzuki SV650. The BEST beginner bike out there by far. Not only does it look great in fully faired form, you can pick the old (2yrs) model up for peanuts. It has a lovely torque v-twin and with race cans sounds like a Ducati. It handles like a dream and is raced in many series in the States. Parts are cheap to replace and it won't blow up like a 400cc 4. Insurance is v. reasonable too. I don't own one but have ridden them and can't praise them enough for their value for money. And if you think you'll look cool on an old 400 race rep, try ruimbling into uni with a fully kitted SV with twin pipes - plus you've got somewhere comfortablish to sit the birds you're going to pull! If you fancy an unfaired bike - get the unfaired SV650 - it's got slightly lower gear ratios making it easier to pull wheelies! Try that on a 400 without revving the *****x off it and clutching it up. Trying to attach some photo's.....

I was at York Dragway yesterday too! Albeit only briefly.... turned up to have some fun down the strip but was put off by a) the way my clutch started to give up the ghost over Easter in an alarmingly rapid fashion (racing M3's I think), and b) the length of the queue for RWYB. LOTS of saxos etc trying to blow themselves up. Saw you and your 3000 actually but only just read this post. Thought those bottles in the boot might have been just for show but glad to hear they're not! There were a few quick cars there from what I saw (headed off for a look round York to appease the gf fairly early on after i decided not to race) - especially one scooby that looked like he was going to do v. well before he either missed a gear v. badly or blew something up. York seemed ok but i've not seen many other dragways tbh. Shame the track to the strip is so bumpy though - you have to be v. careful if you've got a low car! Definitely interested in going again (without the easily bored g/f) when i've got a new clutch back in. Oh yeah - wasn't in a 300 by the way (sold recently and now undergoing a major transformation) - was in a Black Corvette C5.

Haha! I think you could well kill 2 birds with one stone if you built one of those things... :D

Could be genuine - they have some SUPER fast Hayabusa's over in the States and there's a reason they have had to extend that swing arm...it's got a lot of power! also the acceleration / per 1000 rpm looks fairly linear through the higher gears (bit hard to judge cos it's going so quick!). You've also got to take into account that the Speedo will be reading a fair bit over. Up at the higher ranges of the counter they are always out. Whatever, it's still the fastest thing this side of a 300zx TT and I would love to have a go on one!! :bow: As for the question about hanging on at those speeds - the last thing you do is stick your head out from behind the shelter of the screen! It's amazing how much of yourself you can get tucked in behnd a little bit of plastic when you really want to! :D

Whoa... that is Urrrrggllly!! However ;) with a bit of sorting you could pull it off. As people have recommended I say take the original spoiler off, move the wing back, space out the legs, knock of some of the angle - and you could have it looking smart. Going with a Tailgate tub would make it look WAY better too! I kind of see the look you were going for but unless the rest of the car is complementary it looks like the Beige Vectra 1.6 I saw with one on. All i could wonder was whether his mum had noticed her son had stuck the thing on the boot!!!

Got to be said (having also seen both in the flesh) that I prefer the Daytona on the Zed. haven't seen it polished up in bright daylight on the Zed but seen it on plenty of 350's - it's not purple (or at least shouldn't be - hehe..) Best bit is the way the light picks up on the metallic flecks... On the skyline- Bayside is the only way to go. :-) Can't wait to see that car all put together - bring on the re-trim!

I say walk away. Definitely a scam. Not sure how it would work but you can guarantee you won't end up with the cash. Even entertaining the idea of these kind of things is foolish - i've seen loads of these things being talked about before and have NEVER heard of one being genuine. I mean - do you really want to get involved with a deal where you're forwarding on some bloke from South Africa or somewhere's money... ? If it was money laundering you'd be the person it came back to as transferring it from the UK via western union money transfer - dodgiest thing i've ever heard. Plus you'd be giving his "shipper" your account details to take the money out your account - smart move - I DON'T THINK SO! Follow this up if you want to win a Darwin award!

100k on that? :eek: No way - more like 10k! Where did the 100k go - on a 2nd hand Fiat engine, some shocks and new seats? Would be a good laugh and looks nicely trimmed but you could get a Zed for the cash and I believe you will find yourself approaching sixty miles per hour considerably before the clock has got to 7 seconds.... :cool: