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Paul, that's not a 99-spec rear spoiler. I liked the spoiler. Smooth rear looks good. But not sure on the lettering, especially the 'twin turbo' decals on the tailgate.

I thought it was 40mph min.

:rofl: Dreadful hangover grammar! Soles...lol the whole thing is really badly written anyway.

I cut my hands as well and also have blisters on the souls of my feet.

A very much of an 'unplanned night' last night. Ended up going out to the pub in the little town that I live in. Got to the stage as in 'what do we do next'? Now there's no club here, (I generally prefer late night funky bars rather than clubs), anyway, we end up going to 'Vibe' in Clevedon which is crap and in the middle of nowhere.....literally! But we were all hammered and thought it might be a good crack. :duffer: We'd all drunk ourselves into a bit of a stupor and had planned on getting a taxi back at 2am. I went outside wanting a breath of fresh air at midnight, leaving my friends drinking inside and for some reason put it upon myself to walk into Clevedon which is about 3 miles away and try to get a taxi home as there was none going from this 'middle of nowhere club'. :smw: So off I toddle, pitch black down a little country lane. Now I could barely see anything and must have walked straight past the little turning that takes you onto the main road. which leads back to clevedon. Without realising after about an hour of walking that I'd missed the turning and gone the wrong way...I considered turning back after not seeing another car or human...so, I plod on, and on and on and on. It didn't seem like it would ever end. EVENTUALLY after 3 hours of walking I could see street lamps and a few houses. 'At last' I thought to myself. Got to what I thought was Clevedon, but after seeing a human being for the first time in ages, I asked it the way to Clevedon town centre. It laughed and told me I was in Nailsea which was completely the other direction by about 8 miles!! LOL...I carried on walking and heard lots of commotion and music, it was about 3am at this point and found a house party going on and managed to strike up a conversation with someone over the fence, it didn't do me much joy as they were all in a worse state than I was. So, I turn round and carry on to where I thought the centre of Nailsea might be. I walked for what seemed like ages and met someone else who said I was walking in the wrong direction and was pointed in the right direction. Well, I end up in the centre of Nailsea which, is totally dead (Nailsea isn't a great place anyway, but it was made more miserable by having absolutely zero life there). I found a phone box and with the only small change I had in my pocket dialed 118118 for the local taxi company. Of course, as soon as the number was given, my money ran out. 'Great!' I thought. So waited in Nailsea high street for ages and ages and nothing drove past. It was about 4am by this point. I even flagged down a dude in an FTO and asked if he'd take me back to Portishead, I even offered to brim his tank with fuel, but he declined. This wasn't getting me anywhere, so I had a wander around. Saw a sign for the train station. So, I thought, maybe there's a way of getting a taxi from there, or at least some people. So, off I toddled again. OF COURSE, Nailsea train station isn't even in Nailsea! It's at a place called 'Blackwell' which is about 3 miles outside Nailsea!! Eventually I arrive and yes, it was completely dead. I did however meet a couple who were just randomly sat at the bus stop there. They were very helpful to my cause and offered me 20p and gave me a couple of phone numbers. Run round the corner to the phone box and try to make a call. First number just rang and rang and rang. Tried the other number and that was just engaged constantly. So run back to see if they had any other numbers....but they'd gone. :headvswal 'What the feckin' hell am I supposed to do now I thought'? Just my luck as well, the only time I leave my phone at home (because I never use it when I am out and always get worried about loosing it...afterall, I had only planned on a few swift ones at the pub and then a short 5 min walk home)....so, I had zero means of communication, no humanity as far as the eye could see, no cars, no toilet, no nothing. 5.30 by now and I am absolutely freezing, needed a number two as well and was not feeling all too great either. A car then did drive past, I tried flagging it down and it just carried on. Then a taxi comes flying round the corner, so I run out into the middle of the road and it shot past me, but then, half way down the road, it just stopped, so I ran over to it and luckily the guy agreed to take me back. He was the last taxi in the area and was on his way back home into Bristol, so heaven knows how long I'd be waiting if I hadn't managed that one! He laughed when I told him where I'd been and said he thought I'd probably walked about 12 or 13 miles! Got in at 6am after leaving the club at midnight. That's the same time it takes to do Portsmouth - Caen with Brittany Ferries! :wack: I am absolutely hanging today!! :rofl:

Flog em. Just think, with the money you spunked on them, you'd be under £100 short of 99-spec tail lights! :rofl:

Sounds like East European techno they are playing...nasty. lol

That's more like it!

Mate, hate to say this, but there's a big difference between an MX5 and a mazda 6. Maybe you were thinking of the MX-6...which is a Probe in drag. The Mazda 6 is this, the most unassuming car on sale in the sector at the moment. Talking of new cars in this area. Has anyone seen one of the new Lagunas on the road yet? Now, it looks kinda interesting and a little (dare I say it) 'cool' in the advert. But seeing it on the road the other day made me squirm. It looks absolutely terrible. From the front end it looks cross eyed and the back end it looks all out of proportion. I laughed when I saw it.

We do, as do most people who buy a weekend toy. For doing 3,000 miles a year in something at weekends or in the summer, you'd effectively get clobbered goodness knows how much more than someone doing 50k a year in a Prius!

That's very old news as well. Not quite as old as the high taxation. I bet they wouldn't abolish road tax nor fuel duty either.

Each to their own and all that....but do you remember this? :bow:

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As Brian has said, get in the thing and drive it. If it's been sat for 3 years, any oil left in the hydraulic lifters will have drained out and it can sometimes take a good bit of driving to get them to pump back up again. Letting an engine idle won't do much either as oil pressure is relatively low. You need to drive it reasonably hard, or just keep the revs up for a good period of time...with fresh oil.

£2,500 will do. ;)

Erm, no I don't think so. You wrote '2500 grand', that's £2.5 million. ;)

You pay two and a half million pounds on insurance? :wack:

Few ways to look at it. It's actually been simmering about for years, not months. I first remembered hearing about the hike to £400 then £800 for anything over a 2.0 about 5 years ago. To add to that, the amount of cars that would end up valueless and then having to be scrapped would be huge. The government would then have to either pick up the tab for removing all these cars or pay to have them taken away. The amount of energy involved in that would defeat the object somewhat. It is inevitable however than tax will continue to rise as will the cost of fuel.

...I tell you what as well, I bet the chances of that happening are 100% greater if the country was lead by David Cameron and his merry band of tree huggers.

Maybe it will now. It's happened in NI. I think Chewie pays about £500 a year to tax his Z.

I was only charged £80 to transfer my old plate.

My old boss had one and yes, I can empathise. It was about as exciting as mowing the lawn!

Who said anything about welding? :confused:

That's lovely. :bow: