Irn Bru

Pretty sure the Zed oil pressure gauges are a bit rank tbh. Might be worth having a word with the Zed guru @ZMANALEX though, what he doesn't know about zeds ain't worth knowing

1 hour ago, shaunRS said:

Yes but that's not how women work lol

Time tae pit yer fit  doon Dude 

4 hours ago, Rob350 said:

No problem, really looking forward to this as I've never been on a driving rally kind of thing or been around Scotland.

Trust me..................it'll be worth the wait 

29 minutes ago, shaunRS said:

She likes the blue i like the white more.

Who's  paying for it ???

3 hours ago, Rob350 said:

Any update on the route @Irn Bru ?

 

locations, hotels etc ?

Not yet Rob, been too busy over the Xmas and new year. Will be starting the planning this week though so will have updates during this coming week

On 05/01/2019 at 15:40, shaunRS said:

Blue or white? 

White imo Dude

Approved but please update post with your area / post code for collection

1 hour ago, ILikeDolphins said:

Tempted to join along.

 

What sort of plans would be on for the Monday? Just wondering if us down south need the Tuesday too to drive back :D.

Last time the guys from London and south drove all the way home on the Monday. I try to plan the route so we are as far south of the NC500 as possible to accommodate them. You need to think about your homeward bound journey, possibly taking a overnight stop on route home on the Monday night or you can hard core it and do it on the Monday. Entirely up to yourself as to what way you want to work it. Same applies for the start on the Friday, but most southern members drove up on the Thursday and stayed over for a refreshed start on the Friday morning.

3 hours ago, NeeZ said:

 Just a little something from my local rag, I live on the NC500 route and the local plod are always on the lookout.This has only come about because of the horrendous driving of some of the people doing this route, I do like to use my Zed to its smiles per miles potential  but the speed some clowns come through the village were I live and other villages on the route is fkn stupid to say the least. However that said there are many many miles of isolated road were any Zed driver can have loads of fun not all at high speed I do most weeks, hell I have fun visiting one of my sons and never go over 35mph .  I will now step down from my soap box, apologies if required  https://www.northern-times.co.uk/News/P ... 092018.htm  

Hope you'll come and join us for a days driving NeeZ as we'll be passing by if not through your area

, great intro and probably thee most intense hello from a new member to join this club. Great work and plans on your Zed, interesting build threads coming soon by the looks of it 

9 hours ago, GranTurismoEra said:

Sounds good, what about speed cameras, police vans, radar guns and neighbourhood watch? Anything to be worried about? Keeping within limits obviously. 10 mph over the limit is grossly irresponsible ill have you know!

 

and yes if someone wasnt a car nut or didnt like driving that could be an issue 

We're not going on a bank hiest mate lol. We didn't come across much police presence tbh, drive sensibly is our moto, except when YOU decide it's time for spirited driving. Anybody driving like a looney and putting any of the party at risk will promptly be ejected from the group. We're all there to enjoy our cars and roads, I just expect, as all should, that attend, for everyone to go home in one piece having had a great time.

5 minutes ago, TomBorehamUK said:

You've got a few months to charm her round! 

 

I'll be bringing something without a clutch this time, hopefully that'll avoid me having the same problem as before 

Lol, aye that was a little problematic and expensive for you mate

4 minutes ago, coldel said:

This what you are after mate? https://www.350z-uk.com/topic/108671-scotlands-route-66-trip-may-2016-photos/

That's the one Col. Does it include the video you made too ?

27 minutes ago, GranTurismoEra said:

Ive watched a few videos. From Youtube I can see people  recommend 5-7 days to take it all in. But I see people are limited for time.  Ill see if I can come, need a car though! As in Z

@coldel can you post the link up from our previous  trip, as in the photo and video post we all contributed to, might help with some of the members who've never done it. I'd do it but it's a faf  trying to do it on my phone, TIA.

11 minutes ago, coldel said:

I will admit I am umming and urring, would need to get it past the missus after taking 8 days off this year to drive across Europe! 

 

At least the old Celica will have new top mounts on it after one decided to collapse on that trip!

I'm sure a bunch of roses and flowers every week will win her round mate, but you could always bring her this time, plenty other halfs coming this time again.

Just now, coldel said:

We did a fair bit in 5 days last time, Edinburgh, west coast, john of the groats, right back down to fort william. Felt like we covered a hell of a lot of ground.

You need to be coming on this trip again Col, won't be the same without the GT4 being present, come on you know you want to.........

Just a FYI, but I assume the members coming up from the south who haven't done it before, you'll need 5 (five days) to do this. The Thursday to travel up to Perth / Edinburgh area meeting point for the kick off on the Friday morning.

Tbh if you really really wanted to take it all in you'd need 10 day + but that's not what this weekend is all about. It's a drivers holiday on the best roads and scenery in the UK. It's hard core and driving for 8 -12 hours a day between hotels, taking in the sights and scenery, photo and loo stops and of course lunch stops. We cram a lot into the weekend but still manage to have time to take in the roads and scenery not just blast through it, if you get what I mean. Though to be fair there are some bits that you just gota blast through !!!

2 hours ago, GranTurismoEra said:

Are you doing the whole route in 3 days?

Four days mate, Friday- monday

, fastest colour too 

3 hours ago, Scorpion said:

Not familier how you guys organise your road runs but could i join in for just part of the event? How would that be done?

 

Glamis Castle is just along the road from me and is a wonderful backdrop. The late Queen Mother's birthplace. Scone Palace near Perth too is a good venue.

 

Nigel

Full details of trip still to be confirmed but the basics are on my post a few posts up ^^ of this post. Join us for some of it or just part of it, it's entirely up to yourself bud, nobody will have any issues with whichever option you choose. The first trip had quite a few just coming along for the day, and 13 cars done the entire trip with some members peeling off to do their own thing for the day and meeting up at hotel at the end of the days drive. It's everybody's weekend break and free to please themselves without any need or pressure to do the group thing. Be glad to see you join us for some if not all of it. 

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, nice Zed

1 hour ago, SuperStu said:

I’ll have a try.

 

Personally I’m not arsed about an EU army, the sheer amount of money we waste tooling up for the [insert current rogue nation] war that’s apparently coming is a disgrace when we’ve got working people who can’t afford to eat or pensioners freezing to death. We’re lost in some sort of world police delusion that’s caused us no end of problems, rooted in “we used to run 70% of the world” nostalgia. Whether it’s a few billion in the pot here or over the water, if the Commies do invade, then we’ll be fighting alongside other Western powers anyway, we’ll just have different uniforms to one another. If it really gets out of hand, then it’ll be a very short and very nuclear holocaust. If it’s the terrorists that come for us, no amount of aircraft carriers having GB or EU bumper stickers will make the blindest bit of difference in deterring those lunatics.

 

The parts I rather like are stuff like the protections that the EU provides us from the Tories. I don’t want to go back to filthy beaches and rivers that were around when I was a kid, that came from lack of decent regulation and a “profit above all other considerations” approach to the countryside, waterways and agriculture. Improved workers rights are no bad thing either. I do also want the opportunity to go and work in other countries. I’d quite like to continue academic coordination across Europe, instead having to do all the same stuff their going to have to do, twice.

 

In terms of sovereignty/freedom/taking back control and the subsequent get rid of the foreigners rubbish that’s been emboldened by all this rabid nationalism, it has done far more to damage my pride in being English than anything multiculturalism could possibly do. I’ve certainly never been embarrassed before about being English, not like I am when Tommy Robinson or Nigel Farage starts speaking, apparently on my behalf. I remember my Grandad telling me about the Poles he worked alongside in WW2, trying to learn a few words of Polish to have a crack with them and vice versa, or the Italian he learnt fighting over there. Anyone who tells me that my Englishness is diminished because someone else on a bus is speaking Romanian, is off their rocker. It goes without saying that that’s not a dig at you Brian, I know you’re not one of the nutters, I’m speaking generally.

 

I do agree with a lot of the problems that are rightly cited with the EU. I’m certainly not for greater control than is already with the EU, or even greater payments into the pot, but at least we had a say in it prior to Brexit. Then this new deal came along, where we get the worst of both worlds. Worst of all, any money we do save (ignoring the obvious self inflicted damage to the economy that’s already underway) will go on tax breaks for the wealthy. Look at the money we wasted when we got rich on North Sea oil, chucked away in tax breaks instead of invested for the future.

 

Last but not least, if Trump thinks it’s a good idea, you know it’s because it suits his protectionist agenda for US trade. Then there’s Vlad, who’s also got a vested interest in breaking up the EU for Russia’s benefit. Anyone who thinks those two are pro Brexit because they’re looking out for the British working man, please explain why they would be?

 

If I honestly thought we’ll take our EU contributions back and invest like Norway did in the 90s, and plan for the future and invest in over burdened services, I’d be running around saying what a bloody great idea hard Brexit is. But the only people making any money out of this, are already up to their eyeballs in cash, making fortunes out of the market and currency volatility and rubbing their hands at the prospect of U.K. deregulation as we desperately try to convince businesses, that are already here now, to stay put.

Some great stuff there Stu, but do you really believe the eu hierarchy are any better than Trump. Love him or hate him, he delivers on his election promises. Sure he leads a divided country, but what country isn't when it comes to politics.  I just can't trust the eu  politicians, their worse than our own !!.

Ah the oil revenues, please don't get me started on that subject lol.

And just for the record, I have no problem with legal migrants, every country in the world is built off the back of migration and continues to be built with them.

52 minutes ago, Adrian@TORQEN said:

"In his article today, Mr Johnson says that he supports legislation backing a referendum – but warns that Britain’s problems will not be solved by simply leaving the EU as many of his Conservative colleagues apparently believe.
“If we left the EU, we would end this sterile debate, and we would have to recognise that most of our problems are not caused by “Bwussels”, but by chronic British short-termism, inadequate management, sloth, low skills, a culture of easy gratification and underinvestment in both human and physical capital and infrastructure,” the London Mayor says."

 

A column penned by Boris Johnson in 2013 that advised fellow ministers to stop blaming Brussels.

 

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/10052646/Quitting-the-EU-wont-solve-our-problems-says-Boris-Johnson.html

 

Adrian, any chance of you're own input instead of just copying and pasting other people's words, genuine question.