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It's a nice car... possibly apart from the wheels, although I can't tell. It blatantly does need dark tinted windows of some description though.

Cheers guys. Tried again this morning at a different post office, and got it sorted. This time they just cross-checked the VIN number with the V5 and gave me the disk. Hurrah! Would complain at the main post-office but it'll be a 20 minutes queue so probably not worth the effort. :-S Thanks for the advice, and for putting up with me venting. Bart

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4708899.stm Now there's something you don't see every day.

Unless it's been nicked of course...

(I mean on the map, there is a black car that very definitely *is* my zed parked outside our house at the moment.)

Laughably, there's a black car that *might* be my zed outside our house.

Yeah, there are a whole bunch of problems, not the least of which is the firewall issue... and that's closely followed by the, "So would their computers actually run our code anyway?" issue. Oh yeah, and I forgot the, "What are the chances that their computer will use a comms protocol that a mid-90s Apple Powerbook can actually understand?" Sorry, I like the film too but it does pay not to think about these things too much (ditto Swordfish).

Yep, been thinking along the same lines for years. Always felt the excessive media coverage slightly ruins the element of surprise with things like this.

Mate, that's extremely gutting. I'm there the week after (I'm originally from down that way). Would have loved to meet up. C'est la vie.

Greetings, and welcome to the forum. They're a great bunch on here, though to my regret I've yet to meet any of them in person. It *will* happen though.

Yup, can't see it.

Definitely, that's extremeley light use.

Indeed, happy birthday!!

You're probably right... but maybe I'd have pulled it off if I'd taken along the pit bull as well. Nah, that's OK. Might just try a different post office tomorrow morning - there's a hardware store just up the road with one so I'll give that a go... and if it doesn't work I'll just send everything to DVLA. I think the woman there today was just particularly belligerent and unhelpful, so it might work if I go elsewhere. Cheers, Bart

OK, before reading this there are a couple of things I need to point out. (1) This is a rant. (2) Probably in about half an hour I'll have calmed down enough to see the funny side of this, but this doesn't change the fact that right here and now I'm incandescent with rage. (3) Probably in about half an hour I'll have realised there are much bigger problems in the world and that there are plenty of people in worse positions, and I'll count my blessings... but this doesn't change the fact etc.... Right so I've just tried to renew the road tax, oops sorry, I mean vehicle license, on my zed. I tried last week to do it online but it couldn't find the MOT record so I couldn't get any further. No biggy I thought, I'll do it next Friday when I've got time to go to the post office. So today I duly went into the post office in the city centre (and queued for around twenty minutes) with all my documentation, only to find that I can't. Apparently this is because the MOT certificate doesn't have the vehicle registration number on it. In the box where it should appear it simply says, "Not displayed". Nice. Now there's a bunch of questions that one has to ask after this. Firstly, why does the smegging registration number matter when the chuffing VIN number is on both the MOT certificate and the V5, and the V5 also has the registration number on it?!? But far more importantly than this, if it's really necessary for the registration number (which let's fact it could be applied to anything and need not remain constant throughout the lifetime of any given vehicle... unlike the VIN number) to appear on the MOT certificate, how on earth did this car get taxed in the first place? Now at this point, the lady in the post office implied that perhaps I might have nicked the tax disk from my previous car and stuck in on the new one. I managed not to blow my fuse, which is quite amazing, when really the only sensible response to this kind of provocation is probably something along the lines of, "Don't be so bloody stupid and impertinent!!!", because under the new rules, (i) I would definitely have been fined by the DVLA for not declaring the vehicle SORN, (ii) I would definitely have been pulled and busted by one of the numerous cops that this car seems to attract, (iii) the DVLA wouldn't have written to me to tell me that my license was due to expire at the end of July and needed renewing. So now I have to send off everything (V5, registration certificate, insurance certificate, MOT certificate) to the DVLA office that registered the car, and get them to send me a tax disk, which could take up to 5 working days (or possibly more given the complications that have arisen). They will add the registration number to the MOT certificate. Meanwhile, I can't use my car because the tax expires on Sunday. I'm left pondering the question of who's the bigger idiot: the dealer I bought the car from for not getting the registration number added to the MOT certificate, which I think he should have done in the first place (still don't know how he got it taxed though), or me for not checking that it had been done months ago when I got the car. Grr. Anyway, I've slightly calmed down now. If you've managed to read this far without dying of either boredom, or laughter at my expense, I'm impressed. Cheers, Bart

Ouch!

Yep, I'd keep the zed, and I'd do all the stuff to it that I'd really like to but can't afford to at the moment... but I'd also buy a Skyline because it would be rude not to... and come to that a DB9 as well, cos' they're sweet. Oh yeah, and maybe one of those AMG Mercedes SL jobs with the folding steel roof. ;)

Gotta say, that's a really nice job.

Nice one.

Great photos mate! Some amazing cars (and stunning paint jobs) there.

True. :)

... 0-900mph in around 60 seconds?!?? Space Shuttle Discovery: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4716463.stm

Yeah, I'm getting ye old 404 error too. :-(

Yeah, my money says the PS3 is going to kick the 360's butt in terms of tech. Just remains to be seen which has the better range of games, but here again I think I'd plump for the PS3. Those screenshots are fantastic though.

Aye, happy birthday.