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Vauxhaul Nova 1.3 SR

http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201704204607434?atmobcid=soc3

£16k!? How is that ever worth that much money!? 

Good evening all,

Wondering if any forumites will be attending JAE at Peterborough this coming September?

I'll be attending along with my car club - convoying down on the Friday morning.

If any of you are heading down, let me know & I'll come find you for a gab :-)

Cheers

Bloody hell Alex! That's a lot of power, little wonder it took out the main drive gear! Have you been unable to find a CD009 in the UK? That would surely be cheaper than getting one stateside?

Haha I wouldn't worry about that Stu, to create QE you need a particle smasher like the LHC or similar.

Particles are "birthed" in atomic explosions and their partners isolated. 

So unless your mum was at least 2/3rds Large Hadron, you're safe!

Yeah I ignored the poor journalism espousing teleportation. Richard Morgan's Altered Carbon does a better job of explaining the "teleportation" aspect of FTL Comms. Needless to say, we won't be doing any beam me up Scotty nonesense.

I genuinely thought this kind of scientific breakthrough was decades away but it appears not.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/science-environment-40573621/first-object-teleported-to-earth-s-orbit

QE (Quantum Entanglement) has so many possible applications, but to illustrate one popularised use in SF media - Light and radio waves have limited use in interstellar communications due to the limit imposed upon the speeds they travel at, but QE particles change state instantaneously. That means with a binary array, you could transmit video, audio or data across the entire length of the universe in real time. Faster than Light Communication. This could provide a real-life test of the causality element of Einstein's theory of special relativity.

Truly a groundbreaking achievement for Science!

One of these is for sale in the UK.

£35k

https://www.pistonheads.com/regulars/ph-spottedykywt/tommy-kaira-zz-spotted/36482

I used to live, work & travel across Europe & Africa visiting oil & gas terminals / refineries when I was first teching & can sympathize completely. I watched lads blow a whole months wages down the bookies / casio due to boredom or worse, end up pickling their liver 7 nights a week in the local sports bar.

It's always worse in places like the Shetlands & Orkney for boredom and drinking - but then again, places like Hamburg & Rotterdam have thier pitfalls, too.

I ended up enrolling for a university degree a few years but still get similarly bored offshore when I don't have any university coursework & after I graduate next year I plan on remedying any future spells of boredom with buying a games console for leaving offshore.

Dunno if the sound of buying an Xbox for spells of boredom appeals!

Yeah it was down for a map check but it turned out to be a faulty coilpack. We've been touring in it all day yesterday and today haha.

I'll stick up some photos when I get to my PC. Such a splendid example.

So I spent the whole of today in this beautiful machine all the way back from Newcastle to Aberdeen and doubt I had a single spermatozoa left in my sackatoza afterwards.

I've known the owner of this car a long time, but I've never been sold on the merits of it until I'd spent 400 miles in it. It's an absolute beauty, powerful, elegant and the wow factor is something else. What's not to love about an R34 GT-R? Seriously considering ​pulling the trigger on one of these in the very near future.

The blame has been on a fridge exploding since day zero, that has always been the cause. The cladding is the reason it managed to spread and something else is at fault for the alarms either not working or at least being ineffective. Blame isn't shifting anywhere as these things have been known since it happened.

Wouldn't have mattered if the Alarms had worked. The advice from the Housing Association and the Fire Service was in the event of fire, STAY PUT. That advice was predicated on the assumption that the block is designed to compartmentalise and restrict the spread of fires.

The cladding fundamentally changed the fire rating of the building, obviously no cause & effect analysis / risk assessment / management of change performed prior to commissioning the upgrades. The residents brought up the issues of fire safety multiple times but we're fobbed off, threatened with legal action or told to take it to court (with no legal aid, as Cameron cut it 7 years ago) That's where the true scandal lies.

I agree that posting pictures of the poor c@nt who's Fridge Freezer blew up is completely out of order, but what do you expect from newspapers these days? They get a better reaction blaming some foreign lad for his faulty appliance than using the headline "Austerity Kills"

The immediate reaction of folk was commendable, but since then we've seen well-off Kensington resident's throwing tantrums because some of these survivors might get housed in the same complex as them.

Really? Anyone could move next door to you and you wouldn't know how or where they got their money. They could be a drug dealer or a blood diamond slave master, but you don't care, he's rich so must DESERVE to be there. But the minute someone who you KNOW is **** poor and previously lived in a council high-rise, you lose your sh*t about having them move next door!?

I despair.

The headlight design is reminiscent of the Datsun 240z, which would have been an excellent touch on a completely different car. It looks like a deformed Jaguar/skyline fastback hybrid.

I did not say that you would enjoy meeting her, however. She has not aged well!

I'm so glad that's not what we ended up with...

The last Z meet up in Aberdeen - Photo courtesy of Oldbonesmgee (Daniel)

There's an impromptu JDM meet being planned for the Starbucks / Makro Car park in Cove for 1pm this coming Sunday (25th June)

https://www.facebook.com/groups/350zuk/permalink/10155508106453216/

There will hopefully be a range of different Japanese cars in attendance (Supras, Skylines, RX7's) - we're hoping that we can get a good show of force from the Z owners in Aberdeen as it's been nearly 2 years since the last big meet-up in these parts.

If you fancy coming along or know anyone who would, let them know - myself & hopefully Jeff / Daniel / Tom will be there

Wasn't a member in 2014, but if I had been I'd have given you the same advice as the body shops - The A pillar is a notoriously difficult part to remove / easy part to break - many people who try to fix leaks find that out the hard way.

I think I pass you most days on the way to and from work. I had been taking the back roads from Airdrie through newmains etc while work on the M74 was ongoing. Use motorway now. Are you a silver 350 with black spoiler and lip.

I know the car you're on about. That's a silver V3 kitted Nismo import.

This the one?

And 3 door

I was tempeted to throw some money behind another sure-fire Japanese classic - the Civic MUGEN RR

http://www.goo-net.c...0505380001.html - 5M yen

http://www.goo-net-e...8003/index.html - 4.3M yen

LOL Adrian,

I have a wee spreadsheet made-up of all the 380's that come on the market - that particular one has been on sale since January :-)

They are not very common at all, even in Japan they are few and far between with the limited production of them. In collector's circles over there it's widely regarded as a future investment, provided it's stock and in excellent condition.

They vary between 3.5 million Yen & 4 million, mostly on colour (white is the most desirable), mileage, condition & mods.

I've seen some rougher examples in silver go for around the 3 million mark.

Todays exchange rate has those at:

4M¥ = £28,000

3.5M¥ = £24,500

3M¥ = £21,000

https://auctions.yahoo.co.jp/search/search?auccat=26360&ei=utf-8&tab_ex=commerce&p=380RS&type=all

That's before shipping & taxes, obvs.

Also, it's quite obvious that the victim was emotionally vulnerable, probably suffering from some form of mental health disorder.

Looking​ at it through that prism, imagine instead of a kid he was a wealthy middle aged man suffering from depression or even the early onset of dementia, being encouraged to kill themselves by an unscrupulous family member? It's eventualities like these that prevent legal suicide hitting the statute books.

I'm gonna be brutally honest here and say that while what she did was crappy, ultimately he was responsible for his own life. I appreciate that some people will find my opinion distasteful.

And wrong. The judge ruled that the fact that the victim had attempted suicide in the past or was likely to attempt it in the future had no bearing on her behaviour. It's a legal precedent and one I happen to agree with. As the prosecution put it;

"Back years ago in order to have a relationship you had to actually see somebody - or at a minimum talk on the phone. That is no longer required. People fall in love via the internet and via text. People bully via text and the internet. You can encourage someone to die via text, and you can commit a crime via text,"

This is the new reality we live in & laws are changing in response to it.

I'm willing to bet its the LSD - not the tranny itself. My LSD makes a high pitched whine like a supercharger when I apply throttle and it disappears when I back-off. I wouldn't worry about it, as you said yourself, you've replaced the gear and diff oil and its still there. Out of curiosity, how many miles is on your Z at present?

I've been dabbling for a few years now in the AIM / Oil & Gas Market. Current position is £101,000 from an initial £21,000 investment. Hoping to see £320,000 by the end of the year & call it a day