Emperor Ming

cheers for that I went with Keith MICHAELS in the end. I got fullycomp with full business use for me AND Mrs Ming for £546 with a £350 excess and legal cover. I thought that that was a pretty good deal in the end especially with an S71 post code. (Car crime capital of the UK you know) Ming the Ipatient

Yes mate Up to 30 players its 1st 2nd 3rd and over that we pay 4th as well. I will let you know tomorrow if my luck has changed. i am due a win as I am in a dry patch at the moment. Ming the ever Hopeful

Hi liam We play every 2nd Thursday and it is a £12 freeze out 'no limit' game that usually takes about 4hrs to finish. £10 goes to the pot and the £2 goes to the end of year game and the league winners. We run it like a league with a points system. Top ten players get a free game at the end of the year with a top prize of about £350. I also play every Tuesday and every Sunday - work permitting - at a local hostelry where we usually get two £10 games in. Mrs Ming also plays and is a very competant player. Ming the Card sharp So far this year I am £325 up!!

Cheers Liam Mrs MING is at work until 11:30 tonight so I might as well play. Anyway I run the club so I might be misseD. (I have all the chips, the money and the cloths so the other 39 players might lynch me if I don't turn up!!) I am sure you are right about the car its just maddening to take a day off and end up gardening Ming the Patient

Today should have been a good day. A day taken off work and my new car was due, my brother in law volunteered to take us up so Mrs Ming and I could have a nice long journey back in glorious sunshine and I could spend the rest of the day cleaning it until I went to poker and won lots of money. That was the plan. The day started badly as both mrs Ming and I slept in!! Got up breakfasted and at about 10:00am I called the garage. "Hi mate. Mr Sainsbury here. Just making sure the 350Z is ready for collection" "er......... er........... er ........ There is a bit of a problem! The forms from the DVLA have not come through so it has no Reg number or tax disc. i am sure they will be in the post this morniing though. can you call back in half an hour." There is a slight atmosphere in our house and a feeling of impending doom but I TRY and stay up beat. afterall the sun is out and ... and .... and ..... Two calls later and still no docs. I am now quite cross, Mrs Ming is staying out of the way and my brother in law is looking bored but trying NOT to laugh. 11:30 and i find out that the papers are on the desk in the DVLA office in outer mongolia somewhere and MIGHT be sorted today. The vendor assures me that if they are he will go and fetch them and sort everything out. At this stage I tipped hope out with the dirty dishwater and resigned myself to getting the car tomorrow (Wishfull thinking as it turns out) My brother in law my eldest son and i decide to kill time by changing the light bulb in th pond filter and proceed to cause a pipe leak that took three hours and lots of tape to fix!! Anger turned to humour turned to hysteria and we all had a cup of tea. 2:30pm and the call I was dreading. "The docs will not be ready today sir. I have asked.................... to keep them on her desk and I will get them tomorrow and we can sort the car out tomorrow evening. (He lives in Leeds so I can collect it AFTER work tomorrow) BUT" "What do you mean BUT" "Well if she forgets and puts them in the post this evening it will be late on Monday or Tuesday before I get the docs" (DVLA will not of course work on a weekend - heaven forbid it) I calmly put down the phone having wished the man a nice day and when I was happy the phone had disconnected I prayed for the wrath of Thor and the Viking gods to rain upon him - oh and I hoped his next SH*T was a hedgehog. For those of you who do not know me I am a police officer of many many years service and quite well known in the town I live and work. I decided to go and collect my uniform from work as i am at crown court tomorrow - I had intended to travel in style but its back to LDV police van - and post a few letters. I got a mile from work - 5 miles from home - when I received a telephone call to say that the case has been withdrawn for now and would be relisted. This job is 18 months old and has been to court FIVE times now!!!!! I took a long deep breath and turned around back to town to go to the post office. As I pulled through town I stopped three or four cars back in a line of traffic at a set of lights next to a town centre pub with a little 'beer garden' i am sat there with the stereo on contemplating how odd life can be when I hear. "Sainsbury you FU**ING WAN*ER" I look to my left and see a group of 10 or 12 bare chested arseh*les drinking and smiling. At least 6 of them I recognised as 'customers' but i could not decided who thought I was a left handed shuffler. I gritted my teeth and parked the car around the corner, went to the post office and then could contain myself no longer. I wandered round to the beer garden and leant over the fence smiling. A few seconds later a face looks up, see's me, smiles and says "Hello Mr sainsbury" Did I recognise the voice. You betcha I did. A few others mumbled under their breath some less than pleasant comments about officers of the law but so quietly I am surprised if their drinking duddies heard them. Me "Now then guys. Which one of you wanted to speak to me?" SILENCE me "Well one of you did cause you called me an EFFing ****er" Silence Me "Come on lads. speak up" Silence Me "Just as I thought. No bottle" I turned and walked away and as soon as I was a second out of sight. "SAINSBURY. Your a F**KING WAN*ER" My brain thinks. Dont go back. My heart says Dont you dare walk away. I go back Me "Right you ARSEH*LES. say it to my face." Silence "Just as I thought. Not a spine amoungst the lot of you!" A good long paddington bear stare and I wandered off to UTTER SILENCE. Boy did I feel better. All that angst and ire out of my sytem in one go! You would think that me day was over but oh no there was loads more in store. I went to ASDA to get some shopping and in the space of 100 yards two people reversed out at me causing two hasty stops and then as I left the store someone came the wrong way down a one way street, narrowly missing me and shouting at me for being on the wrong side of the road. I got home and tried to chill out. Decided to make mrs Ming and I a Ming special omlette. As soon as the ingredients were cooked I reached for the blended egg mix - 8 free range eggs if it makes a difference - caught the handle and then tipped the lot onto my feet. There was one of those horrid long silences that normally come just before a car crash then we all got a fit of the giggles. The picture of me in my trainer socks and 3/4 trousers covered in a bright orangy yellow GOOOO! was one that I shall long remember. And the day is yet young. I have a poker match tonight ............................... :shock: Wish me luck

The vendor reckons it will have been valeted!! Yeah right! I will do before and after photo's and post them up and a 'work in progress' with the seats out. I am already sourcing engine parts ready fro a 'full dress'. ming the impatient

I thought you meant last Thursday Oh well only a few days not much to polish in the Zed engine bay though Hi Mate Its tomorrow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Sold my little honda and MADE A PROFIT!!!!!!!!!! The blinged up engine bay helped no end I am sure so I have a little cash for blinging!! The plenum is going to go Cadbury's purple The Strut brace the same with smoked chrome ends. The covers to the battery and clutch resevoir will be wet painted the same Cadbury's colour. I am not sure about the front plastic cover yet i will see what it looks like when I get the other bits done. Thats for starters. You know me I am sure that there will be lots of little bits I can get 'blinged' up as well. I am thinking about doing the wheels the same Gun metal grey to make the car look a little 'meaner'. Would you believe that people are still asking for 'Samco' red and 'samco' blue for their engine parts on the GTO site? I can get all sorts of great colours done and they pick them! Oh well. each to his own. Minmg the Excited

Three days to go. God Thursday seems a long way away. Just advertised the Honda - powder coated engine bay and all - on autotrader. Looking forward to a seats out clean and a PROPER polish before its first decent drive. Ming the Impatient

Hi Bluffy It aint never sunny in Rotherham And its even less so in good old Barnsley Two gun metal grey Zeds in the same area We wil have to have a 'polish' off!! Lomoto. Thanks for that advice. i saw one on ebay for about £40 that claimed to be able to both convert and delimit. Guess I will have to save a few pennies and do it properly. Will post before and after pics as soon as I get her. Ming the Impatient

Hi Guys Thanks for the friendly greeting. Thanks also for the links to the spoilers. I am not sure about which one I am going to get so will wait until she is on the drive. I tend towards the Nismo style one as I think the standard one looks a bit like a TT roadster. I am happy to do the fit myself and have a mate who is VERY good with paint so matching will not be a problem. What is the Nismo one like to fit? Hi Bluffy I am in sunny Barnsley for my pains. Its cool cause there is only one other Z in town that i know of!! Hi Lomoto. Yup had an XK8 but had more than a few problems with it. (9 days into ownership CAM chain snapped = £1200 and 9 days after I got it back gearbox failed = £800) Did not really trust it after that. Also it was an auto box, they all are, and I missed the changing gear thing on the GTO. If you remember my GTO engine you will know whats coming with the Z Glad the grounding kit is just a normal mod as it did worry me a little. The car has the speedo chip fitted which should also do the delimit thing. If it doesn't they are only £40 so i will do it myself when I get the car. It has a standard double din stereo - I think - but it has a wave band expander already fitted so one less job. Got my insurance for £547 in the end but that includes full business use for me AND Mrs Ming!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! £350 excess and protected no claims. Result Ming the Impatient

Hi Guys I have been on the board for a couple of weeks now but as I paid my deposit yesterday I thought it was time to say hello. I am in the process of buying a 2003 import in Gun Metal Grey. It is a base model with leather upgrade and a nice stainless cat back exhaust (Not too loud but with a nice deep rumble) I pick her up on Thursday all being well. I am 47 and live in a high insurance area (South Yorkshire) but have got a fully comp quote of £536 including the Mrs which seems OK I am check several other sites on Monday when they are back on line so I might get it under the £500 mark. Any thoughts?? I do have full no claims and a clean licence and previous high perfomance experience. The car comes wthout a spoiler and I am after advice on where best to obtain one. I have access to a good bodywork guy who will paint and fit for me so colour is not an issue. What choices do we have in the UK? The car also has an aftermarket grounding kit (Earthing kit under the bonnet)?? Is this preventative or a sign of a problem? I have pressed all the buttons and checked the aircon and stuff and it all works fine. there is a wave band expander on the radio and it has been chipped to MPH for the SVA. Look forward to meeting some of you guys in the future. Ming the Excited