I shall mostly be flitting between the 888 Garage & hospitality. Woot !

I'm working with a colleague in Widnes this week, and he's been having
problems with his car. The synchro is bust, and it sounds like it needs
a new CV joint too.
He only moved down there from Blackpool a couple of weeks ago. His

Under £8k now!
http://search.autotrader.co.uk/es-uk/www/cars/VOLKSWAGEN+PHAETON/Ne-2-4-
5-6-7-8-27-44-49-53-61-64-67-103-133-146-236,N-240-4294962590-4294967159
/advert.action?R=200835317521878&distance=84&postcode=DT10+1QX&channel=C

The new 'Tesco Value Racing Car'.
X reg.
Plastic-like interior plastics.
Central locking - Your reviewer thought this was a nice touch on a car

<<http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/1983-VOLKSWAGEN-GOLF-2-8-VR6-TURBO_W0QQitemZ290256355970QQ
cmdZViewItem?hash=item290256355970&_trkparms=39%3A1|66%3A2|65%3A7|240%3A1318&_tr
ksid=p3286.c0.m14>>
'cheap insurance and tax '
Sure, with a turbo'd VR6?

Today I recieved an email with the following subject line: "Get rid of your
insomnia toads"

Went to the Hampshire Pagaent of Motoring today and had the SD1 displayed
with a couple of others from the SD1 Club.  Mostly good comments and lots of
people reminiscing of days gone by with their /their Dads SD1, which was
nice.

In a word, mental! I spent the morning at the McDonalds there (long
story involving my colleague's broadband not working) and it was
gridlock even when I left at 11:30. Met up with poor Pete M who took
over an hour to do 8 miles...

Saw a white one on the M62 today, near junction 9 at 17:30. Looks better
in the flesh than I thought it would, I quite like it!

...'running in' the set of Green Stuff front pads I had fitted to the
Passat on Friday.
Having got past the initial 200 miles the blurb that comes with them
says you need to avoid emergency braking, they definitely have a lot

That mate of yours with the 200SX with a Skyline engine in it - that car
isn't by any chance black/dark grey with a white front end and a white
rear bumper, is it?
Just wondering because one of the drift cars running at the track day at

There's a thread over in the 'Pie and Piston' with your name on it....
'motorboating' :-)

someone told me a long time ago about a TV advert in the states for IIRC the
Pontiac GTO which consisted of a huge cloud of tire smoke and a roaring V8
which cleared to show just two big black lines disappearing along the road,
then a voice over of something along the line of ...

http://www.exige.me.uk/motorsport.zip
It's a file containing the locations and the route of most race tracks
in Europe - including the abandoned tracks and those turned back over to
public roads.