Pashley26

I've been off work for three days because I can't talk. Ironic.

I won't be.

Colder, denser, more air, should give more powaaaah.

No it really isn't Mark, it's that age old case of TF syndrome.

Why would he have a build thread? I don't think so, not sure.

Yes, 320's are shit and slow. All the fuel economy and sound of a 6 pot, with none of the torque or power.

Apart from fitting the clutch (which I helped with) and fitting 312's I did every single piece of work on the last A3. When I met Lou it was a standard car with an air filter and a set of 312's. The only thing she paid for on that entire car was the coilovers, drunk on New Years day in Barnstaple. The S3 I did a load of work to as you know. The E36 I stanced out, fitted the coilovers, refurbished the wheels, spaced it, fitted camber shims. That started out as a standard car. The Clio 172 I mapped, fitted camber bolts and a rear roll bar, had the front bumper resprayed and replaced the fog lights, replaced the thumb grips and the interior radio trims and door grabs. That started out as a standard car. The only cars I have bought "done" and not done anything to was my first A3, the 306 and my Mk2 Golf (but even that I fitted big brakes, spacers, replaced the bumper inserts and rewired and fitted a four light grille.) You're chatting shit blud innit.

http://totalfratmove.com/guy-goes-to-mexico-to-kill-himself-spends-week-doing-coke-and-banging-hookers-decides-to-keep-living/ That is all.

So, my tonsillitis is back. Again. My voice has gone, with this horrendous squeak replacing my voice it is almost impossible to talk. I saw Prawn and Custard today, they found it hilarious. I've just had a fantastic shit, reached for what LOOKS like a reasonably full toilet roll to find it is actually just a piece of toilet paper on top of the roll. f**king f**k sticks. Went for a wipe with the one sheet, it wasn't a one wiper. Tried my hardest to shout down the stairs to get my mums attention to bring up some toilet roll from downstairs, no luck. Voice wasn't loud enough. So I phoned her, she answered. Voice still wasn't loud enough 'Waaaa'? Did you just say toilet roll?' I hear footsteps coming up the stairs, I assume she's got the message and she's brining me toilet roll. Great. As the footsteps near the door she says 'I think your phone's being funny, I'll just check if we need any.' BOOM in she walks whilst I've got my phone on loud speaker between my legs and I'm just reaching to grab a flannel from the side of the sink on the other side of the bathroom to sort my arse out with. Where I've been so quiet because I can't talk and I'm feeling ill I've been in my room, she's assumed I've gone for a run (no pun intended) and for some reason have stopped off at the shops and was asking her if we need toilet roll. As though I'm going to run home with toilet roll under my arms like a f**king shit stain superhero or something. Yey embarrassing.

It's clearly the tits.

It's only the body that's neglected, it's a chassis underneath and the body is bolted to that. The driving and mechanics of it are faultless, but it was painted by hand thirty years ago, never lacquered or anything. If you polish it the paint comes off and it goes all faded, but if you don't polish it then it oxidises. It's just a catch 22.

I like the Pop how it is, I like it's rattly old engine, and I like that it doesn't go anywhere in a hurry. The body work is on the 'rotten' side of patina now, so I need to step up to it in the next year. I've got a full interior for it, and all the clips, seals and grommets. But I thought my dad was driving it, so I'd assumed he would also be cleaning it and keeping on top of it. Mechanically he has, it drives perfectly. But he isn't really one for cosmetics... Really it needs a full body respray, new window seals, new 1/4 panel seals, new chrome and the new interior fitting. But then it would look like every other show quality pop, and I'm not into that. Last year my dad and I fitted an aluminium head to it, a pair of twin carbs and a tubular manifold, so it'll do 50mph now.

Dangerous territory indeed Mark That car means more to me than anything in the world, it's old, it's good, it's got a lot of character and I've got a lot of history with it. My dad bought it when I was 11 for my birthday present, he paid £200 for it and we pulled it out of a barn. He got it running and taught me how to drive in it, he expected me to crash it up into things then he was going to sell it on for spares. 13 years down the line I've still got it and won't ever part with it. Other old stuff I've had a Mk1 Fiesta with a 1300 crossflow in it, SAAB 99, Series 1 Jaguar XJ6, Ford Capri 1600 Laser, Ford Cortina 2000XL (Mk3), Mk1 Granada, SAAB 95, Jaguar XJS (V12 one), Austin Allegro SS, Rover 2200, MGB GT Jubilee, Series 2 Land Rover, BMW 635CSI Highline, three SAAB 900 turbo's, V6 Audi 80 Avant, Mk2 Golf GTI, 205 GTI, Mk2 Scirocco GT2... It doesn't matter what it is, I'll just get bored with it and sell it/swap it. I just like buying cars, learning all about them and moving on to the next one. It's what I do. The Pop's the forever car as I said, anything else I buy I just buy to play with. Maybe I'll spend a bit of money on the Pop instead of buying another toy.

I get bored, they're just toys to me.

Still got it, it's badass. I'll never sell it, had her for 13 years in April next year. It's been sat in my dads unit since April, went to it early this morning, put some air in one tire, pulled the starter button and away she went. The Pop's my 'for life' car, everything else is just fun. - Jog on Haz, the S3 was lovely, my A3 was lovely. I've made loads of lovely cars. I always get a fair market value for the cars, you can't say fairer than that. It's healthier than a lot of activities that cost the same money

I think I just enjoy spending money and making mediocre cars good.

We drove it through a river and everything. Can't do that with a track car.*

Nothing amazing or anything stupid like that. But about 6 months ago I got into taking Polaroids with an old 600, nothing special. Just a nice keep sake at track days and things, snap somebodies car, give them the picture to stick on their fridge then get them to give you a few passenger laps. Well about a month ago my dad gave me an Olympus Trip 35 point and shoot, I took a couple of pictures with it and they weren't fantastic. Here are a few particularly bad ones. And even with a reasonable quality flash in the hotfoot it didn't seem to be able to operate quick enough in low light when in it's automatic 'flash' setting. (sorry for the subject matter) It wasn't working as it should, and I contemplated just binning it because replacements were so cheap. But then I thought, if everybody binned things like this and bought another one there wouldn't be any left. And I like using it. So I sent the camera off to be professionally cleaned, it came back and was taking some lovely pictures, but the colours were very pale and it was over exposing, I've been told after sending some pictures of the back of the camera to a specialist that it's the light seals. So I've ordered a new set and I'l replace them next week when they arrive. I'm really keen to shoot with it, because I'm told they're something that can 'last a life time' and some of the pictures I've seen shot with them are fantastic. My long convoluted question is... Does anybody have a negative scanner? And can anybody recommend me one?

Basically. Probably. So my sister is 100% moving out in the second week in Jan, so I've got a massive 3 bed house with three parking spaces which is 15 minutes from work for £400 a month. And now that I've sold everything, and now that I've cleared any debts or payments, and had an immense November and December I have got £12/14,000 just sat in my bank account, and a credit card with 34 months 0% on it and a £8000 limit. So I could buy my 996 turbo. But instead today I spent all morning Facetiming my girlfriend and walking around town buying loads of household items, furniture, ordered a new bed, blah blah blah blah. And by the time I'd ordered a new bed, ordered new wardrobes and cabinets, bought a dining table and chair set etc etc for the new house I realised I could have bought a nice Mk2 Golf GTI. And we've now agreed that we'll live in Fleet for at least a year to make sure that we're all settled in our jobs and so she can get established at a school. So yeah, I've not done all this work for nothing. But it wouldn't kill me to buy something a bit more serious than the S3 and sit on it. But really I just want something to tinker with and make lovely, E30, 205 GTI, a special Mk2 like an Edition One or something. I dunno. It's all happening now. Prawn drove the Panda today, he didn't hate it.

Stupid shit is happening at the moment. f**k my life.

It's quite clearly parked well within the confines of the bay. *being defensive, I parked it there.

Yup!!!! Bloke I work with, he started for us about 6 months ago as a carpark attendant. Well spoken, well presented bloke, has an air of inherent poshness about him. ''Thoroughly pleasant chap'' probably sums him up well, I like him. He drives a cruddy old Volvo estate. I turn up in my track car one day, we get talking, turns out he's a bit of a peddler, he's done a few trips to Spa, been to the ring, done a few track days. All behind him now. He's always asking me about cars, what have I been up to, what's going on in my automotive social life etc etc etc. Well. f**k me sideways. Today he turns up in this! He only bloody owns an E30 M3 Sport Evolution, more importantly he didn't tell me? I said to him 'why the f**k didn't you tell me you had this?! Is it because you knew we couldn't be friends anymore once I knew?' 'Well, it's just a car isn't it. I thought I'd bring it in today to cheer you up after selling yours.' Now I just want to go to work on Monday so I can interrogate him about it. I want one. If you want to know what it is, read this article -http://www.pistonheads.com/doc.asp?c=161&i=19345 It's NOT just an M3; it's a proper homologation special. I couldn't believe the attention to detail, the glass is a specially thing and held in with pegs rather than trims, there's no interior grab handles, lights, all sorts of things. But it's all got this entirely factory fit and finish and it's just supposed to be like it. I could revel in the details of it for hours, and I'm absolutely going to be getting more involved with this thing.

Dull dull dull dull dull dull dull. S5's that is. Today I drove by far and away the best car I've ever driven in my life. Any guesses whilst the pictures upload?

I never said I was getting more, my 19 are all me and Mrs Right.

Do you find that you spunk so much a day that it actually dehydrates you to the point that it looks like your body is a vacuum inside and by 11PM and your 19th go you're looking a bit like this. Or is that just me?