Funkysi

No I haven't. :confused:

Looking forward to seeing it back!! :)

Why don't you just gloss red the car! :rofl:

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You've sure as hell got the wrong car if you can't even afford to insure the bloody thing! :rofl: Carbon fibre bonnets look crap, not to mention the fact that the stock aluminium bonnet is actually lighter! :rofl: Why would you want to gloss black the bonnet???

Bit garish for me. Why have you got electrical wire running round the tops of the door card sections...if you cut it correctly and push the excess between the sections, you'll not need electrical wire to cover it up.

Try Carole Nash.

Or better still, why don't you just 'save' for a respray. A quick blow over if you prep it yourself isn't going to cost the earth. Rather that than half of it painted the wrong colour with some nasty gold bits on the wheels.

Keep it nice? You're just on about not having to worry about keeping it looking nice...weird. Maybe you should have bought a VW to keep with the victim rat scene.

Rat look is absolutely awful..PERIOD. Trying to be different isn't always good!!! As for the idea of a pickup Z32....oh dear! I couldn't give a monkey's bung hole if it's so called 'different'....for Christ sakes! YUK! I've seen it done and it looks awful and makes a complete mockery of the car.

Liking the front end. :cool: Shame about the cheese graters on the sides though.

No, but I'm guessing this thought crosses your mind when you're driving yours. :wack:

No, you're a victim, just like all the others that think it's fashionable and cool to have a car that looks like it's fit for the scrap heap.

:bow: I say the same about Powerflow etc, yet people still think they are a good product! Utter shite. There's better quality in scaffold poles. If you want an off-the-shelf system, go for BillyBoat (B&B) exhausts. A lot of the big power guys in the US run these and they look the business too. They sound very good and are exceptionally well made.

:rofl: PMSL! ;)

You've done that already haven't you attempting to 'drift'! :rofl: :wack:

Not long got back. Just one photo. Weather was superb. Z performed absolutely faultlessly as per usual. It got the most ridiculous amount of attention I can ever recall. It always gets quite a lot in France, but this time was just stupid. People stopping in the their tracks to look as they stood in the middle of the road. I even had a french girl's hen do stop me in the road so they could all take photos as I drove through the rather busy town of Grandville which is at the base of the Cherbourg peninsular! Absolutely hilarious. Old women, kids, families... staring and everything. Seems the French have a real thing for the Z32. Also drove past a wedding and watched almost all of the guests there stare as I drove past them. I parked in a town called Argentan and when I got back saw people peering over it. Then this morning on my way back to Caen, the Gendarme had a checkpoint in the middle of nowhere, flagged me down to check documents and ended up having a good wander around. 'Belle voiture' was directed at me as I drove off. :) Yeah I know Setubal pretty well. I've been to Portugal about 5 times I think.

Oh dear.

Surprised you don't take the ferry to Santander or Bilbao. Ferry to St.Malo is 10hrs at night (slowed down for night crossings). Day time on the return to Portsmouth from St.Malo is about 8. 6hours from Caen....but both these crossings bring you the right side of France. The NE roads from the Calais area are not pleasant. Once you hit Normandy, they are great. I HATE the drive to Dover from where I am. A real miserable drive. TBH, even if I was going to NE France, I'd still take one of the western channel routes. As Kim has said and as well as you know too, the French roads are fantastic! I'd sooner spend a few more hours on the ferry than have to drive round the M25 and down the M20. A shite route. Where in Portugal is your home town? My father used to live in Portugal (as an ex-pat...and was there during the revolution). He's fluent in the language as he did a Masters in it at university and taught English as a foreign Language at Coimbra University.

Yup, I know the area and both routes pretty well and love them! This will be the 4th time the Z has been abroad. It's an ideal car for the French roads. More-so than the cramped twisty stop-start crap over here. Will try and take some photos this time too. :)

Weather looks good this weekend...in France anyway. Haven't taken the Z overseas this year. But fancied it this weekend. Might be the last weekend of decent weather for a while as it's pretty changeable right now. So, driving off to Portsmouth later with an impromptu stop at Madmax's, before taking the overnight ferry to St.Malo. Arrive tomorrow morning around 8.30am, then a nice drive through the Normandy countryside to LeMans to see a friend of mine, will hang out and have dinner with him and his girlfriend, few bars in the evening, then around midday Sunday, take the drive up to Caen and onward to Quistreham to catch the PM ferry back to Portsmouth. Should be good to stretch the Zs legs. A nice 500 mile trip for it on some empty and picturesque French roads. :)

....also, take off the targas and run a high pressure airline down the little drain holes. Make sure they are clear. Mine lives in the garage and only comes out in the summer when the weather's dry. So I did't really need to do mine. But it's better done than not.

I'd paint the floor pan (external) and waxoil the floorpan internal. Also all the inner box sections and flitches pump with waxoil. Thoroughly clean the arches also, including the lips and paint with black hammerite. Also, do this on the HOTTEST summer day you can. Doing this in the winter or a cold day is just pointless as the wax will not flow properly.

If it was full of naked girls and/or wet t-shirts...then maybe...

I actually run a litre of oil through my engine after all the old stuff has drained out just to flush out any last bit of old oil out of the pan before refitting the sump plug and filling up again.