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Hello all Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire and North East of Scotland zed members.

I'm trying to organise a meet in Aberdeen mid October before the bad weather settles in and want to extend you a warm invite to meet fellow Zedders in the NESCO area.

Venue, time and precise date are left deliberately vague so we can maximise attendance, if you're interested in coming along on the weekend of 19th/20th, please RSVP in this thread with your preferred date and time and we can take it from there.

I'll also be sharing this message on the respective Z groups on Facebook.

Thanks for your interest!

It's certainly a watershed moment in Z circles. That is a lot below what I'd have sold a Z. It's also a lot of car for the money, regardless of what you spend to make or drivable. 

I personally thought £5k was an acceptable low for a V6. Maybe I'll be proved wrong in 2018.

Ignoring what everyone else says. 17. Queue the oft repeated anecdotes about being able to die and kill for your nation, being liable to pay tax, vote etc etc. 

Letting someone drive a 1litre corsa but taking umbrage at a 3.5 V6 - what are you actually targeting? Young drivers or arsehole drivers? Because focusing on age does that idea a serious injustice. 

Give everyone equal rope to hang themselves I say. Not literally, obviously. 

Think the role of imports is a little under played in that article though. Yes they are cheap and that infers lesser quality but as we know, many fresh imports have been well looked after, come with a variety of extras and, perhaps most importantly - never seen a salty road. VED for imports is considerably cheaper than the UK spec models, too.  I'm £230 a year for the RS. 

I didn't think they'd manage to clean all the blood and faeces out of the seats.

If the advert stated that the laptop was for spares / repair, hold your ground. The buyer probably didn't read the advert probably and just thought he was getting a bargain.

I've been very close to buying things from eBay on instinct without reading the ad properly but I've never actually purchased anything. Did the guy know he was buying a non-working laptop?

This 22 year old Bellend in his M2 nearly killed himself & his girlfriend at a GT Scotland meet near Aberdeen during the summer. Did 3 passes at progressively higher speeds. Easy doing over 120 in this video. There's another video showing him very nearly hitting some bystanders and a Porsche 911 GT2 that was leaving the meet.

He survived, as did his GF.

Personally I'd jail the little ***** but as he apparently belongs to the McAlpine dynasty he's probably going to get off with a slap on the wrist.

Playing Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. Bad idea when I'm in my final year of studies but it's ridiculously good.

https://www.gumtree.com/p/cars-vans-motorbikes/nissan-fairlady-z-nismotype-rs389/1270305549

Some of you will remember this car from a few years ago...

I know Jon Parnham who owns Z1, he's a very decent guy. Also helps he owns a 350z Nismo so he understands exactly where his customer base comes from.

After a length chat with a friend about the merits and demerits of swapping an classic NSX for a similarly valued GT-R I was shocked to see how cheap you can potentially pick up a GT-R now.

http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201710039924030?atmobcid=soc3

£28,000! It is an import mind you, but holy @*!# that is a big drop on the usual £35k you see the lowest cars going for, indeed £34,000 is the next lowest car on autotrader with a Lichfield stage 2 tune.

My question / topic for discussion is, have we reached the official bottom of these cars values? Can we envisage a further drop in the value of these cars or will the increase in RRP for new GT-Rs stabilise it going forward?

Owner is open to prospect of swaps with cash his way. Someone broached the idea of a straight swap for an R35 GT-R.

Personally I'd rather keep the NSX but just to give folks ideas.

1 hour ago, Darkside said:

How about this type?

They look nice on your car - wonder how they'd look on a white one...

Spotted a solitary MK1 while driving in my mates R34 back up from Jurgen at Cramlington. My friend had never seen one before either and was quite impressed with it. You can clearly see where the Z33 Nismo V3 body kit influenced it's styling, a very pretty car.

In terms of rarity, there won't be much of them in each of thier domestic markets relative to other base models, but therein lies the issue - The Japanese, Americans, French, Germans etc etc all have had unlimited releases of the Nismo 370z, making them a little more globally widespread than cars perhaps were before. 

In reality, Nismo has become more of a trim & options package as opposed to a bespoke track-focussed production special like it used to be. Maybe it's because the sexier, more visceral stuff only gets developed in Japan that I'm sceptical of Nismos reputation in Europe, but even so, I doubt we'll see the likes of a 400R or a Z-Tune built again by Nissan, which is a crying shame.

Would love to see an Omori Factory appear in Europe that produced and retrofitted hardcore Nismo clubman cars, but it's never going to happen.

Looking for a set of clear, rear LED tail lights for the 350z/Z33. 

Like the set below.

I believe these are a popular JDM alternative to the red lights used on the late model Z33.

Anyone how has a set or knows of one, please let me know.

Cheers

Right? Have to ask a couple of questions.

1. Would knob-1 have driven forward had knob-2 not sat on his car?

2. Is sitting on the car not a form of provocation?

I'm not excusing what knob-1 did, he should have exercised a lot more restraint.

How much restraint would I need if it were my car though... how much would you need if it were your old 911 GTS?

On the face of it, a serious road-rage incident. But take a second to watch the video.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-41391992/man-jailed-for-hitting-woking-teacher-with-car

In ASBO motors Aberdeen, usually home to civics and corsas, min.

We had a mini impromptu meet on Saturday after too many people cancelled Peterborough to make JAE worthwhile. Hoping to repeat it before the summer is out and extend a welcome to newbies and lurkers.

So reverse this and it's a member of this forum parking his car in a space and comes out to find it keyed, tyres let down, smashed up etc with absolutely no idea what he / she did to deserve it.

Have a word with the owner, leave a note if necessary, being polite but assertive that you will not tolerate the bike being parked there in future. 

If he/she continues to park there despite you're reasonable behaviour, look towards legally making his life a misery, such as moving it onto a fineable part of the road or chaining it in.

I don't know what your circumstances are Steveo but first port of call is check what benefits you're entitled to from the Govt. If you've paid taxes for any length of time you will be entitled to something. A couple of friends of mine were both made redundant when the company they worked for went into administration and they both ended up with some form of payout to help with the bills / mortgage etc. Govt initiatives additionally focus on getting people newly made redundant back in to work via skills crossover or retraining.

I would personally follow the advice of keeping busy - it can be a shock to the system to find that you suddenly have bags of free time - it's important not to let yourself get into the doldrums as I've known many a person who falls into a depressive spiral after being made redundant.

Best of luck with whatever you decide to do mate and hope you find your second calling in whatever it is! One of the Aberdeen Zed fraternity started his own detailing business after losing his job offshore and he absolutely loves it! He does excellent work, too.

I'm going to take a punt that you're going to Buy one of these: Lexus LC500

 

A 1.4SR was £8,000 new, so god knows what the retail on these were.

http://www.autoexpress.co.uk/car-reviews/93816/vauxhall-nova-14sr

Sorry to hear about your Dad mate.

Without photos I can't say, but you would probably make more money going standard and hocking the mods - 19" TE37's are always a popular choice for Z owners.

You could easily sell the standard vehicle on standard rims for around the £4.5k -£5k mark along with whatever you make on the wheels & mods

or give it a fortnight on Gumtree & the Facebook car-selling pages at a cheekyy £7k and see if anyone shows interest.

 

Some other mint condition "classic cars" it's competing with at that Price.

1998 TVR Chimera 4.0 - £15,950

1987 Mini Moke 1275 - £15,950

2000 Mercedes Benz AMG C43 - £15,750

1965 Triumph Vitesse 1.6 - £14,999

1973 MG MGB 1.8 Roadster - £14.995

1990 Bentley Eight 6.8 - £14,995

1993 Subaru Impreza WRX Turbo - £14,995

1978 VW Beetle Last Edition (65 of 300) - £14,991

1998 Caterham Seven - £14,295

1999 Pilgrim Sumo 2.0 - £14,000

1960 Austen 7 Mini MK 1 - £14,000

1988 Jaguar XJ - £13,995

1990 Bentley Mulsanne - £13,995

1973 Triumph Spitfire - £13,990

1999 Rover Mini 40 - £13,750

1977 Rolls Royce Silver Shadow - £13,750

1969 Morris Minor - £13,500

1988 Mercedes G Wagen - £13,500

1989 Escort RS Turbo - £13,495

1975 Fiat 500 Evo - £13,000

1989 Panther Kallista - £12,500

1990 Jaguar XJS - £10,000

1989 Toyota Supra Turbo - £9,995

I just didn't see the Nova as being a particularly good or popular car, even when hundreds of thousands of them were in registration. It was the car that teenagers got as their first car because they were cheap to buy & insure or the car your Nan got to go down and see great aunt Elsie every month. Does that translate into it being a classic? Not in my book. Yes, some folk will have nostalgic memories of thrashing them to within an inch of their life & that might generate interest - but £16k to stare at that horrible plasticky dash with the wind down windaes and burberry chav seats?

I seem to recall the 1.6 GSi was the "Best" version of that particular car - surely that would command a premium over the carburetted 6th option?