Stephen

No your not these are two very important questions, how many are left in the Uk and how many of those are road or track worthy. How many of the actual amount are members of the owners club, far less than you think and far less than id like is the current answer. Why arn't these owners joining us? its in their and our interest for them to do so. There would be far more of them with tax and test if they had access to the help available on here. Something about how we are doing things isn't attracting these rouge individuals, or we are simply not known of for these people to find us. I know a quick google, but that isn't working a more public image is required.

Yeah, getting business's within the uk to start making parts is going to be hard, and something that will happen later once the profile has been raised, that's a long term goal. It however may be a folly, the part availability from the us is fantastic, and the pricing better, maybe our relations with this are what need to be addressed so that we have better access to parts there. This is why I was keen to speak to companies like AMS they have the parts we need, we don't have them, easy answer lets get them, they will sell directly to the forum members. Their business model with the Aus forum is great and they do some awesome deals, the market is about the same size as ours but is far better catered for.

Thankyou for your input, merely being an active member is a great way to help, and don't worry we will find a solution to part sourcing.

now available through concetpua tuning, a uk based company that are gaining a really good reputation. They are on my hit list.

Well I'm here to get that river moving a bit faster, lets call it flood season. If the committee want or needs anything of me id love to know, id really like to hear more members opinions and options.

Something along those lines lol, I need to attack the glossy's this week and get that ball moving anyways.

Thankyou, what im worried about though is that it will fall on deaf ears.

you know I was disappointed to, however it was a good day out, bloody good excuse to stretch the zeds legs, and good to see everyone.

Oh and AMS have responded today very positively. :) I will keep you all posted.

Now for the bit some of you are going to get touchy about and im sorry but is needs addressing now because its got beyond a joke. I mentioned it earlier and it was breezed over. REO's, now remember im not picking on anyone. I will now list the REO's as listed on the site and the last event they organised. south east yassa: 4/9/2011 in fairness to the guy, suggested meets weren't even replied to on a few occasions. Having said that he hasn't even logged on since October. south central BigH: 14/1/2012 how many turned up? several events and meets have happened since this in south central devon and cornwall: VACANT Avon Somerset and Glos:Murt Actaully stood down on the 12th of may 2012, it just hasn't been updated. Thames valley:ZX-TT red lyon meets have been occurring upto, Christmas last year, however zx-tt hasn't organised one since 31/10/2011 East Anglia:osty1 only took over on the 10th of march midlands:jeff and Jamie 22/5/11 looks like other meets have occurred, but reo appointed one that's the last day I could see publicly advertised in the section. north east and yorks: VACANT North west:turb0z & Quavey 21/08/2012 I will carry on and do the others but that's England, and theres a definite trend, were not talking the winter was rubbish were talking long term lack of meets. I do not blame the reo's if no one turns up your going to get disheartened. However this is a typical example of something we as a club are doing wrong, no sorting out meets and not turning up to the ones that are. As I've said this isn't personal I'm merely highlighting how bad this has become nationwide.

Couldn't agree more, there are no real BOY racers on this site the average age is simply too high for that to be true, most of the ugliest cars are created by older people it seems these days. hella flush is what the kids are loving at present, not fast and the furious neon displays. Moving on to resale, and value there is no reason why the z32 should be worth less than the outlined above, other than popularity , many are scared of the z32 "often described as a ticking time bomb"(source banzai mag!) better awareness and shedding of this misconception is key and the club are the only people that can change this, you the membership. Recent involment in timeattack is really going to be pointing out that the zed is a potential monster, is actually a very capable handling car(for some reason people think they don't go round corners) which is why its key we grab hold of these things. I would love to see more z32 being used as drift cars, many say theyre not very good for this purpose but they have had tremendous success aboard for this use for along time. As for keeping cars stock, I cannot honestly say I have seen a single concourse z32 in real life, most full stock examples are that way because no ones done anything to them for 20 years, clean stock examples are abnormally rare! and the standards of stock vehicles is dire in comparison to the ford world. Seriously if you think your z is clean have a good long look at the concourse fords, you could literally eat your dinner off the engine bay! Lets try and move away from personal taste though, this is about strengthening our fan base and strengthening our supply base as well as getting more appropriate pricing, to protect the breed for the future.

vocal modding fraternity? in honesty id say cars with body mods are now well in the minority, that fashion has been and gone, lairy body kits are a thing of the past and rightly so.

are you sure? or is it just in need oh some serious love? a vg that's not running right is an awful beast, but simple things can look and create dreadfull reactions.

Any chance od discussing the rep system being simplified etc?

Whats this? I think its an opertunity to get a photographer out from a glossy and make an article out of it....:)

Thankyou for your input richard, im really hoping some positive things come out of this. I also hope the comittee realises im not just spitting my dummy having a moan and expecting it all to be done by someone else, my email is currently being overworked speaking to different people about different idea.

You beat me too it last 3 years, theres been I count 5 proper media entries in the car mags, thats it, look at how many fd, skyline and supra hell honda guff there is, every mag every month What was done with top gear was great, however, it was some time ago now and the subsequent feature should the car as reliable but.... A pornstars car, a poormans porsche, slower round a track than a renault twingo.... As for the club naming, if thats the case why has everything got .co.uk on it? Maybe its this has been lost over time?i really getting nissan to officalise the club would be a great step forward. as for the other points il take them on board and have a think, remember these were simply suggestion I quickly drummed up. In seriousness though, I believe the key here is improve the club profile, increase members and club affiliation, this will bring in more owners, once we have the numbers we will have the power, parts will come in suit as a result. As for the comments about modded zeds this club welcome all z owners regaurdless if its yuk looking or not.

This is good news and positive progression.

Welcome :)

Cheers for the support guys, a xerious question though, and not a personal attack but reos doing thier job, seems no meets have been organised in an age. I know the weather doesnt help but some areas havent had a meet for over a year is that correct? What can we as members do to help you?

I spy tasty goodies.

Sorry I forgot some need time to find there specs. - - - Updated - - - :p

I can see cos its my post and let me tell you there's a hell of a lot of people of that list that have said squat.

and it goes dead....

Its certainly worth discussion.