Hi guys,

New guy from London UK.

Was born and brought up in East Africa, where watching the Safari Rallys, got me hooked on Datsuns, and the Z's. Unfortunately don't own one myself but is something I plan to get one day.

Other family members have, and have owned 260zs, and also have a lot of other Datsun models, that keeps me going for the time being.

Got some nice videos I took at previous safari rallys, will post them up in the appropriate section.

G

Edited December 24, 201212 yr by ragt20

Welcome to the club ragt20. You will find the members friendly and always helpfull especially when you start looking for a new hobby (Z project)

There are a threw guys from the UK on this forum.

This club (forum) is a lot more active than the clubs in the UK and Europe.

Enjoy

Chas

cheers for the welcome mate, yeah noticed a lot more activity on here, spending more of my time reading on here so far, rather than posting much..

Where abouts in London are you?

Steve

Greetings from Florida. Look forward to your videos!

Welcome, and no worries. We are all enthusiasts here, so that is what's most important.

Otherwise, I'm sure we could use a pint of bitter, and a lesson how how to eat fish and chips properly (without ketchup.)

Its going back awhile but we use to grab fish & chips with vinigar (rapped in a newspaper) in a pub called "the spotted dog" in Wilsden Green before heading of to the Frog & Firkin in Bristol. Ive heard the Frog is now a Russian restaurant called Babushka or something like that. Good old times living in Londen.

Chas

Where abouts in London are you?

Steve

Am in west london, stones throw away from Heathrow :classic:

Greetings from Florida. Look forward to your videos!

if you haven't seen em already, they are Here

I always wondered why the pubs had names like Frog & Firkin. can you help us?

Firkin was an old english fluid measurement. Back in the nighties there was a botique brewery called Firkin and they had a string of pubs all with names ending with Firkin and a catchy jingle to go with it

Frog & Firkin: Frog god sake get me another Firkin pint

Phoenix & Firkin: Phoenix my pint Ill Firkin thump him

And so it goes

The brewery has closed and the pubs have all changed names in Londen. You do find the names in other countries though.

Like I said, times gone by. We where in Londen and a project extending the Jubilee line from Charing Cross under the Themes to Elephant & Castle back to the Docklands light railway. Spending most of my money enjoying Londen.

Can I assume other pubs with names like Bull & Finch have similar circumstances?

Edited December 31, 201212 yr by TomoHawk

wouldn't say they all have their names from similar circumstances, there are a lot of various reasons, pubs have the names they have, from the real basic, where in early times many people couldn't read so going by some pictorial images to name their pubs, to the names being somehow related to the person who first started the pub, to the royalty, knights etc of the area...

have a look here Where Pubs got their names from