Lexx

As Dan alludes to above, it's far from a perfect car. Has a number of rust issues that need attention, but I bought it eyes open and have plans in place. 

What I didn't account for was finding out that the ignition was completely shagged and coukd be started with the key, a screwdriver, or a lollypop stick. 

£300 lighter from JP Car Parts and I managed to get a brand new OEM full set of keys and locks/ignition. 

Much much swearing later and a new ignition is in. Locks etc to follow. 

It'll be slow progress over next 2 weeks as the class bubble my 2 girls are in have been told to isolate so there goes my 3 weeks of free time to work on it! 

Hola folks. 

Some time since I've been around these parts, and even longer since I was in any kind of car scene. Kids etc forced me hand and I sold my last toy back in 2015.

Lots has happened since then, and when we lost one of the founder members I bought his private number plate from the guy who bought Martins 350z.

I always wanted to get those plates back onto a Zed one day. After a "life's too short" tragedy a few weeks back it was decided to put my ass in gear and sort something. 

So here we have it. OK, it's not a Z33 or Z34. But Martin owned a Z32 back in the day and I'm sure those of you who remember him will appreciate his plate living on. 

40 minutes ago, andybp said:

Hey Lexx stop bragging about all your sanitiser 

lol

I have 3 boats crews to look after and ensure we have enough supplies. It's causing me a proper headache, but just about keeping on top of it. 

Just had a new boat delivered to my company here yesterday from Turkey and the 6 delivery crew have no means of getting home to Turkey. So I've now got 6 more crew to board, feed, and keep safe. 

This is gonna be a tough week. 

10 hours ago, The G Man said:

Firstly, Lexx a ‘captain’  

 

@gangzoom as the dad of a nurse (so is her husband), I’d like to say a massive thanks for going into work and facing what you have to face on a daily basis 

 

Dan, I was a prison officer once, well more than once, CatA, cons will accept most things and mostly are indestructible, until the drugs from the visits dry up 

 

I drive trains and today I was in 6 different cabs, after 6 different drivers, with six different families, I’m running out of all ppe, wipes, hand sanitiser, gloves etc but folk need to get to work for much more important work and at more risk than me, so has to be done.

 

I’ve been a soldier and in the past been in Lashkar Gah, Camp Dimond (among many other places) and there was this one time (), we were told that 40,000 Taliban were amassing, ready to bring Armageddon down on us, there were a few gulps, but I thought, “I’ve got 240 rounds of 5.56 for my long barrel, 60 rounds of 9mm for my Glock, that should see me through the first 5 minutes, before I bayonet myself”

 

This Covid is much, much more scarier and I’m afraid for us all, even Boris (who, I wouldn’t sh1t on if he was on fire), you cannot spot or identify this enemy, most of my enemy are ‘friendlies’ but well meaning, but the best friendlies are the ones that stay invisible, stay at home, don’t put our emergency services and I include all shop workers, support workers, transport workers, anyone involved in the logistics of fighting this bastart of a virus, at risk.

 

I’m on a 7 day shift cycle at the mo, just hope I don’t bring anything, other than myself home.

 

Keep it real folks, and if you don’t have to, don’t go out 

Hey George. 

Yeah, Captain for nearly 4 years now. 

Not sure what routes you're working at the moment, but if you get as far as Aberdeen Station let me know (my number hasn't changed in 15 years we've known each other so you may still have it) and I'll walk to over and give you a 750ml bottle of alcohol based sanitiser and a 500ml bottle of Peroxide based sanitiser to keep with you for cab hopping. 

Still working as I'm classed as a key worker (Ships Captain). 

Pretty much self isolated when on a boat anyway. I used to do 4 months of this at a time, so uniquely placed to handle the lockdown I think. 

Making more time to check up on folks though - hence me popping in here for the first time in a while. 

I heard today the sad news that Mike Feeney (Mr F to many) who ran MJP has sadly passed away. 

He was a stalwart of the Z scene throughout the years. And during my ownership of a Z32 was able to source many parts for me that had proven elusive to others. 

Although he wasn't on here in recent years. He was a key paid up trader in the very early days of the club. 

RIP Mike. 

Still miss you Boss. Not quite sure how 4 years have passed already. 

My new boat arrives in a few weeks, we all wish you were here to drive her.... And then probably swear profusely when the computer controlled bits wouldn't do what you were asking. 

Raising a glass to you tonight Boss. 

You're still missed by many. 

You'll be fine on the new ferries they have running that service. Especially with standard suspension. 

They'll also have some timber handy for low slung cars so just mention it to the loading officer as you get on if you're concerned. 

2 options for me... 

Multi tool with a narrow fitted blade for sawing metal. 

Sharp cold chisel and a good lump hammer. 

Genuinely gutted I can't make this. Wanted to attend something like this that I didn't organise!

Unfortunately I'm on Holiday in France with the wee ones

Hope you all have fun

14 hours ago, scobie140 said:

Apprently not with the latest software update its been lowered to 0.2%

I watched the screen on the live readings in two different garages and both of them said 0.2 was the pass mark.

I've spoken to 3 testers in past 10 minutes and none of them have heard a thing about it. 

Also googled the @*!# out of it, and not a single reference can be found. 

2 hours ago, scobie140 said:

The CO2 limit for my year of zed has been lowered from 0.3 to 0.2

I only know this as I've been having a nightmare getting an mot due to emissions.

 

Emissions standards edition 19 still states 0.3%....

Going to be some size stand. 

As always Andy you've done a cracking job pulling this together

14 hours ago, ATTAK Z said:

IIRC Lexx had a Monaro for a short time, and of course Ekona had a BM 6 Series.

I had a TransAM V8 but probably not what you're looking for

 

Good luck with your search

I had a VXR8 not a Monaro. 

If have another in a heart beat if I could convincethe wife. 

On Amazon at the moment for £69.99

@Ebized is the man to ask about such things. 

Christ Stu, that's some amount of man love you've shown me there

Sometimes life gets in the way of the fun stuff. I'm fortunate enough that both my home and work life are fun, bit they take up so much time of late that I don't get the time to enjoy this place as well as dedicating the amount of time it deserves. 

We have one of the greatest car communities in the country right here, and it's the members who make it. 

Keep it up guys. 

Boot divider is currently in my garage. Completely forgot about it! My bad, I'll get that posted up as soon as I'm home on leave. 

The other returned item was a 10% off voucher for one of the traders. Again I'll post that up in near future. 

Completely my fault and thanks for the reminder. 

That poor RX7!

Can you charge someone with "being a bellend"?

The forum now hosts and auto resizes all images. What is the file size of what you're trying to upload?

Tapatalk was the root vulnerability that allowed the malicious attack upon the forum earlier in the year. 

Once the forum was upgraded to it's current format, there was no need to reinstate Tapatalk as the mobile access is now over and above what tapatalk can offer. 

There are no plans to reinstate access via Tapatalk. 

Just to add to Dan. 

On mobile version you need to click on the drop down arrow. 

3 hours ago, Justthejedi said:

On the old layout there used to be a "Latest posts" title at the top right hand side so you could click on that and it would bring down a list of everybody's post headers so you could scroll through them quickly and pick out the one's of interest, can this still be done on the new forum?

Yep. As Dan has linked too. 

That then gives you your own custom button.