Husky

Can I get booked in for a MOT, pretty please

we are all lucky souls

its a 3.5V6 i dont think the lessons learned in a 1L learner wagon quite translate...

i think the forum is full of pics, ran out of room?

if it wasn't for the fact my car was on stilts at the moment i would go and take a video of it being fine. You put a racing flywheel etc on then you pay the price My engine runs perfectly smoothly and is happy at that speed with no grumble or complaint. If i get to a hill i change down, if i slow down i change down, if i want to rapidly accelerate i change down. Also worth noting that my zed will accelerate in 6th from 30mph without making too much fuss. How many people have tuned their cars for more BHP while losing torque...? plenum spacer anyone?

i was driving like a granny all weekend because i was paranoid of the welsh reputation. It was because i was in a stream of cars i wasnt paying attention to my speedo, you know when you are in slow traffic you tend to go with the flow, if i had been on my own i would have been paying more attention. no impact on my job if i do get points.

the camera was pointing out its back windows. I was doing 35 they clocked me at 35 not much else i can say tbh

i wouldn't suggest you use 6th at 30mph to accelerate

Watch this and replace "mom" with "wales" kinda NSFW, most southpark never is

Have you actually ever driven at just 30mph anywhere.... ever..... despite the current welsh evidence yes

I'm reading up on who to send it to on the tourist board and found reports that the tourist board and police don't seem to get along very well apparently the tourist board doesn't like the image wales now has as it drives people away, no surprise there. PS: if i get a speed awareness course offered I have to drive back into wales to take it in the local area.

I'm actually going to go out and check

I wonder how many more of us will be getting a letter soon. I wasn't with the main convoy and the mods/admin will have looked after you I was going to the lunch stop to take pictures of you guys arriving so i was by myself.

yeah, this is what bugs me, its very lazy police work and only for money. it will have no effect on the speed tourists do through that village making it no safer than it would be without the van.

I would like to note there isn't much in the way of hills here so it doesn't have to labour at all on the flat, any kind of incline and it wouldn't like it.

yeah the very one, the entire convoy of traffic I was in will have been had, the guy infront of me will have got done for 40 most likely as he was accelerating opening up a gap while I was tootling along in no hurry. I'll put my hands up and say I was accelerating out of the zone 10m early. yes I was speeding. but, would that van have prevented someone killing a child while speeding through the village before it? no. Thankyou for the tourist office suggestion I will definitely do this

all the time, car is perfectly happy in 6th at 30

one last picture to add never spending one penny in Wales ever again for the sly placement of this van, why should I spend my hard earned money to visit a country that wants to shaft me. I actually have zero respect for the traffic police there now.

what did i do?

probably worth getting hold of some proper white photography lights for a studio to light from different directions.

yes you can but you need to cut the thing out from the background, not a diffucult task but a pain if you are doing lots of them. ontop of that it looks unnatural, although you can barely see it there is some shadowing on the background of that yellow shirt which gives it some depth. You are always better off getting the picture right in the first instance and then only use photoshop to tweek a very small amount. and you're welcome

For most of the photoshop stuff I do I use photoshop elements on my laptop, it's not the most powerful tool but its nice and simple. For a simple approach that doesnt cost you too much time I would; Crop, Auto fix (sometimes does more harm than good but can save you some time fiddling), Adjust Lighting>midtone balance, upward slightly (gives more impact in the picture between light and dark, colours "pop" more too), Adjust contrast and brightness (shouldn't need to do much here if you use a decent camera) Auto sharpen (be careful as this can pixelate an image horribly) if there is a prominent colour that looks dead change the colour balance slightly by upping the saturation of that colour, if the white background isnt "clean" enough then you could use a smart select tool to seperate it from the main image and have a fiddle with it but this takes time and is probably not worth doing. I am self tought though so could get corrected here

I think it was after hearing " your in the shot Chris " for the 10th time... It made me act completely out of character true enough, i could see you were ready to snap

thanks guys, I know what its like when you see all the pics and there isn't one of your car so it seemed like a good idea. What i didn't realise is that doing 3 squats for each car at the lunch stop would give me sore thighs for 2 days Tarmac, you disgust me Lee, you can't catch it twice Anders, i did think about it but there wasn't time as people started coming back out from lunch and I didn't want anyone posing next to the cars with their hand on their crotch....