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Hi and welcome Nice to see a fiar few new owners joining up lately, and the weather is getting better too - perhaps a few weekend meets are in order to meet and greet

Slow and steady wins the day. If you are getting runs, then its going on waayy too thick. lots of fine coats is the key. If you put the metallic paint on too thick, the metalic fleck will lie flat and you wont get the sparkle.

Had both, and if funds and space allowed I'd have one of each The roadster is a blast on hot summer days, but they are few and far between. I do think the lines are spoiled slightly with the roof up, but thats just personal opinion. The storage space in the roadster is limited if you dont use the tardis (hollow area created by putting the roof up). But Ill guess you arent buying a 350z for practicality. The noise with the roof down is nice, but so is the coupe with the windows down. What you gain on the swings you lose on the roundabouts, and there is no right choice. Its whichever you feel is right for you at the end of the day.

Hi and welcome Next step after making the step from lurker to poster is to get along to one of the meets Glad you have found the club useful

It is great driving the Z in France, they are quite rare. When myself and Tracy were driving round France down to Monaco and back up to Germany the looks and stares were frequent. We even had people hanging out of cars taking photos!

Rob can we have a stand for those of us going?

I still want to go, but stand looks doubtful now bud.

Did someone say something? Why is this thread blank? Ive added friends, but not foes. You can see on the portal page if you have any friends online.

Ive been watching the prestige car market, and although this month may see a little rise as the fire sale of negative equity owners subsides, Im fairly certain that there is more yet to come. We have seen the people who were stretched to the limit sell sharpish in the last few months - next will be the people who start to see a decline in the mid/late part of 09. Then when we see the interest rates start to climb again in time, we will see them start to come out again. F430s have been dropping in price like bricks for the last couple of months, as have astons and Gallardos, and although we may see a little jump this month, I reckon the decline on the prestige market will continue.

I dont think so this time around.

Great shame to see it go Tim, end of an era. Hopefully the new owner will join us Ill have to pop round to the shop soon and arrage an evening out

Ive just read the radio transcript published by the FIA, and the statements given by Whitmarsh. Im certainly pro Hamilton, but having reviewd the above, Mclaren/Hamilton are bang out of order here. They have officially been caught with their pants down and making flat out lies to the FIA. Though immediatley after the race Hamilton told reporters/press that he had been given an order to let Trulli pass. After an hour in the Mclaren garage and being called in by the Stewards, the story changes to "no" when asked if there was any instruction to conceed the place. The radio shows otherwise. Sadly, I think its a case of he who pays the piper calls the tune. In this case, Mclaren appear to have told Hamilton what to say, and it now transpires its a pack of lies.

Weve had one race and so far have: Three protests over diffusers cleared by the FIA and the stewards. One failed protest over the same diffusers, but disallowed due to dogy paperwork. Three appeals over the rejected protests over diffusers. Two disqualifications over a dodgy wing, oddly enough only discovered after qual. One grid-penalty over a racing-incident. One post-race stop'n'go over fear of being penalised. One post-race stop'n'go recinded because of utter incompetence. One disqualification for dubious reasons. If the diffuser protests are upheld, and they are deemed illegal, then we could see Alonso handed the win in Oz. If they are upheld after a few more races then there will be some serious shuffling around going on. I hope those running fantasy F1 leagues have their calculators charged up. Its also interesting to note that Lewis gets disqualfied for this, yet Barrichellos instigation of a stock car race at the start warrants... nothing.

Having read a bit more it seems its like this.... 1. Trulli went off and hamilton took 3rd - this is on youtube somewhere. 2. Trulli complains over team radio that Hamilton took place 3. Hamilton is given orders to let Trulli back to third 4. Trulli is told not to make any moves. Interjection.... Trulli is apparently told not to make any move, becuase it turns out that taking a place under yellows if the car in front goes off the track, is perfectly fine. Taking a car on the track is not fine, unless car in front has mechanical problems and you have no choice. 5. Hamilton slows to snails pace, Trulli presumes mechanical problems and takes 3rd place back. Race finishes... Afterward, Hamilton apparently says to stewards that he was distracted by a message on his dash, and thats why he slows. This prompts stewards to come up with the penalty on Trulli, as he should not have overtaken. Mclaren keep quiet, as they fear that their own pass on Trulli earlier may be called into question (though we now know it wouldnt, as overtaking a car that has gone off under yellows is perfectly fine). It later transpires that Lewis had told reporters that he was ordered to give the place back. Stewards now have "new" evidence (the team radio). After reviewing the team radio, it is seen that Hamilton did concede the place back, and therefore Trulli should not have been penalised - although its still unclear whether a pass under these condictoins (conceding) is allowed under yellows. Hamiltons penalty is for fibbing to the stewards about his slowing down and the Trulli pass to take 3rd again. So, seems a little harsh to be fully disqualified, as Mclaren were only trying to sort the finishing order due to their uncertainty over the first pass on Toyota when Trulli went off. But technically it was fibbing to the Stewards so a disqualification may be justified?

Can anyone explain this in simple terms, as I have read two news stories on this now and still cant understand where the fault occured, and who was to blame. Wasn't it stated in Spa 08 that a time penalty could not be reversed, yet here we have one specifically being reversed?

Id go with the colour of the car... Any excuse....

Wide isnt quite the word - last time with 50 in the car park, I had an 18mm lens, and would still have had to stand 50 ft into the lake to get them all in !

Nope - but mine was shot after only 18k, hence it being the last thing I thought of as I too thought that shocks should be fine for a while longer. Worth checking.

Also worth checking your shocks. I had an issue with mine twithcing to the side quite a bit when hitting a bump, or even on raised painted lines across the road, felt like quite a violent shift/twitch too. It transpired one of the shocks wast kaput, which was causing the problem. They were both replaced so as to make sure both sides were even.

Didnt change anything. Is it working in Safari? Ill send you a PM test - dont click the pop up to read it, just see if it shows as red on the menu when you have an unread message....

I have Toyos on mine and noticed a marked improvement

The only change was to apply a red font colour to the style of the PM notification. Ive even changed it to basic and now. How bizzare that safari has an issue!

How about now Jay - is it showing now?

Hmm - that may be to do with amending the text to make it red. Seems your browser doesnt like standard color="red" html either. Why oh why wont browsers just f'ing work properly. Firefox for world domination!

Do we have a volunteer for testing the warning system....