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+1 I'm sure ZMANALEX would also be a good source for parts, and knowledge.

Here you go : viewtopic.php?f=13&t=22251

As my dad, sis and bro live in Oz & dad kindly pays for most of our trip, it makes no sense not to go - while June & I can Not going to bore you with family holiday photos but here are few of the places/interests we enjoyed. This year we got ourselves rides on the A380 airbus to and from Singapore - their airline is top notch in my books for customer care so off we at the end of March. The plane is very smooth and quiet and if you thought the Brembo's were good I'd love to know what brakes they use on that as there was no sense or reverse thrust on landing - on the proverbial sixpence too. Rather than fly straight through to Oz, we stopped over in Singapore - it is fabulous place to visit where you feel safe, it is clean and everyone is so polite and helpful. They also have brilliant business sense IMO. Pic taken from the Singapore Flyer (their London Eye) which allows a great view of the harbour area and the F1 track (part of the track/stands can be seen that mimmics the Monaco swimming pool complex). Some of the sculptures were so life-like you could be forgiven they weren't! Onto Oz where I picked up a hire car at Canberra (a nissan, not a ZED but a crap tillda thing and auto too ) Drove out to our 5* accommodation : But the family also has a home in Bermagui - a game fishing on the NSW coast where we spent a couple of weeks and did a little fishing: (Its a Mako - unfortunately the sea was to cold in April for the Marlin) Had some spectacular sunsets; After dropping dad back to Canberra we flew down to Melbourne to go and see the sights on the Great Ocean Road (I had specifically requested a small manual but the best Hertz could do was an auto Corolla so I gave it hell - June) Much of the road is a dream to drive and in a ZED would be great, within the speed limits of course Saw some weird 'vans but at least most Aussies use decent V8's to tow em, unlike here where morris marinas seem to be the standard. The '12' apostles (only 8 now) and coastline there is stunning: And even better when we took a whirly bird ride to see a little more Then drove back to Melbourne and found a small motor museum (Fox collection) with some rare and stunning cars. Immaculate 300SL gullwing complete with pristine fitted luggage: A pristine 1937 540K Merc cabriolet (like the one Adolf paraded around in) worth around £1.5m: Various Ferrari's, Porsches Jags and Rolls Royce and somewhat looking a bit out of place but a real beast in the form of Skyline GT-R (another 'Godzilla') producing 550bhp and winner of several championships. Note one of the massive air jacks behind the front wheel: Melbourne is a stunning city and easy to get around on the trams (good fun). Didn't appear to be any sign of a recession there and much of the architecture about the river Yarra is : That tower (Entec) is the highest offering great views over the city - this one is towards Albert Park (yep, F1 again) and the pic shows a glass floored 'cube' that floats out the side of the tower - chickened out on that With our last night in Melbourne we had our evening meal on a colonial tram that travels out to the St.Kilda area and had a fright when strolling along the southbank - check this out : The noise and heat on that final explosion was amazing. After that we flew back to Singapore for another stopover before coming back home -I have to say that ariving at Heathrow is something of a down-to-earth reality check, compared to the immaculate and slick operation of the vast Changi terminal in Singapore. That's it, time for a

Better nip this thread Mike (opps, sorry meant lock) before it goes completely tits up

Never had a tat but did like this one

Cheers for the heads-up

Pleased to hear the earth still moves for you Mart

Thanks for the welcome back guys - hope to do a little write up of our trip to OZ and include a few piccies when I get a moment to upload into 'p-bucket'.

So long as it does not clash with my sun-tan

Sorry I missed out on this but looks like those who turned up had some interesting cars to look over - thanks for the great pics Chris.

Thanks Martin. Just catching up on things and now looking forward to the Wales weekend. Great to see some new organizers appointed to help share the load and that Stew and Mike have been added to the mods team - their ZED knowledge and committment will help the Forum go from strength to strength. UK56 ZED is looking decidely unkempt with a month's worth of UK weather sitting on it so I am hoping the detailing a gave it before I went away will make a clean-up easy - when the weather allows In the meantine back to page 23 or so of the 40 unread pages

Like anything new it takes a little time to adjust, but.... I think Marzman has made some valid points about the forum titles/unused space in the forum lists and identifying the key buttons which seem to be down to font size - it they were increased in comparison to the rest about them that might be helpful for users?

Sorry to see some vandal has attacked your car Jim - ought to be strung up

wash with: http://www.meguiars.co.uk/cgi-bin/specw ... 12664&tp=0 (Bought from Halfrauds) and then polish with: http://www.motorgeek.co.uk/poorboys-bla ... p-342.html followed by http://www.i4detailing.co.uk/acatalog/D ... aze_1.html which I top up once a month or so but shusshhhhhhhhh- don't let the secrect out to everyone

then:

Have a good one Nixy - get your party frock on and and get that right arm working , not too much, eh?

I wonder how many will be ordered with the optional 'track' exhaust

Do the smilies go off for tea breaks as when I opt for 'post reply' - sometimes I just seem to get their title and not the smilie itself?

at last, someone after my own heart - beginning to think this was turning into an economy drive forum, again....

Not with 600+bhp, eh Alex, but then I guess you have something a little special in your bellhousing

Might result in a complaint to the Ombudman - you might need to get out and check the size

How many of those special shirts you throwing in Tim - obligatory extras with that car. Anyone with 10 big ones burning a hole in their pocket would be a fool to miss out on this ZED - this is really a once in a lifetime purchase. And the reason for the low miles, for anyone who hasn't followed Tim out in Wales, is sod going round the corners - just straight line 'em all Have to say Tim, there is a side of me that hopes you don't make a sale and you keep the car - your presence on the run-outs and knowledge of ZEDS will be sorely missed, so I really do hope you stick around mate

Nah, didn't bother - the old git could barely hold the camera let alone write anything

Getting back the title question - tyre condition (not wear) is the probably the best indicator as to how hard the car has been driven

Chris you asked in the locked thread "Will sort the events organiser colour what colour would you like ?" My suggestion is blue - will keep Stew happy as black is no good and nor is primer......sorry Mike