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Very generous indeed! I think I will be framing my picture as it's the first and only time I have been flashed.

I was due to take my gf and the zed around Europe last week but as I'm currently in the process of buying a house it became much more prudent to go to sunny Wales instead I got all the gear together and stacked all the bags in the hall before going to bed the night before. We got up early and I got some breakfast and noticed the gf was having trouble carrying all the heavy bags outside, naturally I gave her a hand by suggesting it would be easier for her to carry them one at a time. She was immensely pleased at my suggestion and even seemed to wave at me as she walked outside - bless her! I finished my breakie and went outside to see how far she had got on with the packing of the car, to my dismay she had put all the bags in the back of her Fiesta! The next 10 minutes passed with the arguments for and against taking the zed camping in Snowden, the against arguments were aplenty with issues such as 'it's raining and we will almost definitely get stuck somewhere', 'it's not really big enough to fit all the stuff in', 'the petrol cost will be far higher' etc tec but in the end my rebuttal of 'but she's so pretty and deserves a holiday herself!' more than put all other issues to the side. It was decided that if we could fit all the gear in the zed then we would take it, then began the life size Tetris game to get all the stuff in - and it all fit perfectly! Off we went on out little road trip, the gf was not too happy about my lack of planning and constant reassuring that we don't need maps or places to stay as that is all part of the adventure. I headed west and informed her that in Snowden was as big as people say it is then how hard can it possibly be too find?? A fair few hours later we still couldn't find the bloody mountain. I tried to fool her a fool times by professing that the medium sized hill in front of her was indeed Snowden, but the wily little fox that she is pointed a book at me clearly showing a far larger hill. Off we went again, round and round the valleys with the 'friendly' Welsh village folk more than happy with my zed noisily driving around there little country roads - some of them even gave special waves of appreciation (not too dissimilar to how my gf was waving at me earlier!). When we finally found what I was convinced was the mountain it was pissing down with rain, we found a few campsites but they didn't seem 'rustic' enough for my liking so we continued down the roads. We came upon a very nice place within a forest and drove over to check it out. We went to reception and booked in and was told to drive around the little forest roads to find a pitch and set up where we liked. As we left reception some 45 year old scout leader scoffed at the zed proclaiming it to be highly unsuitable for camping, I pointed smuggly to the amount of gear we had and after looking quite impressed he asked me if it was 4 wheel drive. 'Of course not' I replied 'where's the fun in that?', he gave me a wry smile and told me that the ground is rather wet and he would advise on using a for wheels drive vehicle to go further into the forest. I thanking him for his advise and explained my lovely little zed was more than capable of conquering any terrain that was thrown at it and also explained to him the most important fact 'look how pretty she looks with all these tree's around her though!'. We drove down some little dirt tracks and found a lovely patch of green, thinking this would do perfect I swung the zed around and aimed at a perfect patch. Much to the delight of the fellow outdoorsman across the patch we powerslided accross the whole patch, tearing up the grass and coming to a halt just before a very large tree. Fearing a reprisal from the yocals I decided I didn’t like this patch anymore I tried to drive off, by now though we were firmly stuck in the churned up mud. I stuck the gf in the driving seat and started to try pushing her out of the mud, the only problem was I didn’t really want to get too muddy. Through the mist there was suddenly a figure. Of course, scout leader Bob was walking towards us looking very smug indeed! 'Need a hand?' he shouted to which I told him we were completely fine and this was how we parked. After 10 minutes of pushing and getting nowhere I had to hand my head in shame, and go get help 4 other people came and helped to push the car, after I made them all show me there hands were free of rings and anything else that could scratch the zed of course! They did such a good job I realised that they didn’t actually need me and were happy to get muddy while I supervised the operation. After we were finally freed from the swamp the gf decided the best way to get out of the rest of the mud was to redline the zed in first and proceeded to rip up the other side of the patch. After this we decided that we didn’t like it there anymore and maybe a different spot was in order! All was fine after that and we went up Snowdon and had a very relaxing time, that is until we parked in a small village car park. I was not too happy at all about the sizes of the spaces and was having a little think about how best to proceed. I had left little more space on one side as the car I parked next to had kids opening and closing the doors constantly, I decided I would wait until there were finished and gone before I would straighten up a little and leave the zed. Just then a VW estate pulled up the other side, there seemed to be enough room and so no issues. I pointed out to the gf the woman was opening her door awfully close to my front wing and made sure they knew we were in the car watching them. The father of this particular family then went back to the passenger door and banged it slightly against my door. The red mist fell across my vision and the gf sensed things were not going well calmed me down a little. Then he banged his door FOUR more times against my door. I flipped out and charged out of the car. I shouted at him and asked him what on earth he was playing at. His wife came over and told me to stop being silly and that ‘it’s only a car and everyone gets dings in car parks’ this did not exactly calm me down and I started lecturing them on both on how to respect other people belongings, especially when the belongings were so pretty! At this point the guy banged his door against my yet again, I nearly went at the guy but was very restrained (partly due to the fact that he had young children with him and he wasn’t there fault daddy was a prick!). I checked that there was know damage and politely informed him that if I returned and there was any damage to my car then I would be climbing onto his bonnet and putting my foot through his windscreen. They walked of after a small heated exchange and I got back into the car to calm down. Of course I had to move the car to a more appropriate place otherwise I would not have been able to settle down, we did so and have a very pleasant day trekking about. Just for information, if anyone happens to see the following car please don’t worry if you have a little ‘accident’ when opening your door next to it. All in all it was a nice little break, some good walking and a lot of nice driving roads. So nice were the driving roads in fact, that a kind police officer wrote to me on my return to comment on how nice my car was. So much did he like it that he took a little picture and recorded how fast it could go. Thank you mr police man

cheers Alex! I'll let you know if and when I need a set

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you shouldn't play with peoples emotions like this!

that was, quite literally, hilarious! funniest thing I've seen for a long time!

Welcome, happy searching!

I'd hang on until DreamCustomz is back up and running

Happy Birthday!

but which one?!

Nissan 369z just doesn't have the same ring to it!

just get a TV with freeview HD built in and ethernet plug in back, should see you fine without need for extra channels and so can go for a more basic phone/internet package. Thats what I'm planning on doing when I get into my new house - that's my excsue to the gf why I NEED a new 40 inch telly

Looks good, it's one of those jobs which I think most of us have on the list but never get around to!

I don't want the lights THAT much! I'm not into that kinda thing anyway, sorry!

soon im sure there will be and if only that person woud do my lights for free!

love the pimp posing in the chevy pic - classic!

if only there was someone here who was talented enough to mod existing headlights for fellow members....

that is one sexy, shiny intake pipe

Yup its been done buddy, especially within the drift world....... why have white smoke when you could have red coolio, I'm going waste some time at work searching the interweb for this.....

yes but about completely coloured rubber - has that ever been done? Not something I wouls consider myself for my car but surely some of the richest people out there have tried something with completely custom tyres?

different coloured tyres?! That's a genius idea! Why the hell do we all have to have black tyres?

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