Sean Dezart

zpictor - it's a 360 Ferrari Modena not Modina - after the place in Italy ! 5000 dollars might get you an engine but grow up and face realities - if you want to stop and steer, it's going to cost you a whole lot more ! If you just want to outrun him in a straight line, build a dragster ! Zeds are for taking corners too ! I 've seriously pi**ed off a 328 owner but he had more power than me ...then !

Dear Old fart, Symons' right - we're both British - Hornblower's got his final revenge on Napoleons' europe ! I even invaded his brothers' kingdom in the Netherlands ! Me too I can enjoy hilly / mountain roads at 40 mph but I'll be in 1st and 2nd, not 2nd and 3rd ! Signed, a fresh little puppy (dream on !) Still great to chat with Zedders from all over !

Me too - hope your brakes are up to it ! I was talking with Fred and we thought that maybe 2005 , we'll all come down and upset your local Porshce friends on your local circuit ! Any news on the rubber seals ?

Seriously modified or force fed a ZX ! The car should have a second pair of smaller lights though, inside and just a bit lower !

Restricted cars are those with tiny two stroke petrol or diesel engines that cannot (without the illegal addition of two turbos and a superchargerLOL ) exceed 40 mph. There are several makes including the once great name of Ligier ! They are owned by people who for one reason or another have no driving licence, ie lost due to drink / drugs / no points left or on medical grounds. "speeding is speeding ! ..... there is no safe speeding" yes there is, our m_way speed limits here are 80 mph (68 in the wet) and if I travel at 85 in the dry with no-one else near me on the road, it's still safe but illegal whatever my car or ability ! there are too many variables and so I accept a general speed limit and I accept the risk of being caught. But I don't accept that the police control more frequently the m-ways than the orinray roads just because it's easier to control the m-ways (whilst being considerably less dangerous than those ordinary roads. I am for speed controls, but intelligent and targeted uses of them. Just hope there are some wild roads left when I take delivery of my lil' baby !

"However, under no circumstances would I deliberately and knowingly exceed the speed limit just to indulge myself with a cheap thrill." Boring ! Yes, I know I open myself to loads of criticism but why do you have a Z ? Unless you have regular and inexpensive access to circuits, one cannot enjoy these cars whilst ALWAYS obeying the speed limits ! I can appreciate a Z at just 30 mph but you've gotta have some fun or I might just as well keep it in a galss case or sell it to buy a restricted car (those reserved for people who've lost their licence, generally due to alcohol) ! My favourite speed is also 70 mph !

Mike W, I just looked at your photo - you were 5 mins from my flat ! Hope they treated you alright over there ! Bizarre statement - are we referring to male corrective surgery ? Or did you just catch 'em in yer zippers ?

http://www.classiczcars.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=10348&perpage=15&pagenumber=20 Gee guys, don't fight over me !

Adaptation to the conditions which include weather, traffic, junctions, pedestrians etc and our brain CAN process all of that very quickly. Sometimes, just easing off the accelerater (and sometimes covering the brake) is enough. My accidents (luckily w/out injuries) have taught me lots of things and I'm a better driver for them. Learnt the hard way but at least I'm still here to profit by my experiences and harp on and on and ....

Guys, Don't you love these forums ? It's almost like we're all round a table after a day trekking (on foot) some nice tasty beast ! Good luck to you guys hunting, I don't like the armchair ar**holes, that's all ! And now, WHERE'S the photos ?

Story of some woman being flashed at 117 kmh (corrected to 111)in a 110 zone, 90 euro fineand 2 pts, rising to 135 if not paid within 3 days. 3 days is about the time it takes to ask and get legal advice as to whether or not to contest ! Surely if one is in an area unknown or where there are multiple hazards like traffic, pedestrians, rain, lots of junctions, one shouls already have slowed down so if you look away from the front for whatever, the risks (although still present) are reduced which is what driving is - always a risk but we try to keep it dwon to a minimum. What we all need is a system that calculates in the car the risk factor every 2 seconds, drive slower and the risk reduces, drive at the same speed through a busy area, it rises, in bad weather, it rises further etc. That or the anti-peril glasses marketed so well in Hitch-Hikers !

Yeah that sobers you up ! Here all the night clubs are located in the countryside to avoid disturbing residents and every Saturday / Sunday morning there's the carnage on the roads, too tired / too excited / dis-orientated by loud music and lights and sometimes (but not always) drunk or stoned ! So sad that they're too young to get wise !

They're usually so whacked up with juice ! They let a bird go just 120metres from my house and four of them shot at it - did they hit it ? No, but later on it flew back to where they let it go and got hit by a car ! They are not allowed to carry a gun cocked less than 200 metres from any dwelling, let alone shoot ! The other version of the sport is to build a 'hide', sit there, eat your sandwiches, quaff a drop of wine or cognac and wait for the fauna to pass by - must keep 'em fit, that one !

Here there is no difference if one is flashed by an automatic camera or stopped by the police - Zero tolerance and an automatic can process a lot more in 24 hrs and costs less ! Interestingly, the gov. promised that no automatic cameras would be used without signs up warning that there are cameras nearby. So, when the police started taking delivery of their mobile auto cameras, legally they can't use them 'cos they weren't issued with little (similar to warning triangles) signs that they must place so many metres before the camera ! datsun260z, I hear you BUT when I wrote off my 260, upside down in a water filled ditch, swimming to the road with my girlfriend all the police could do when I reported the accident was to ask me to call in later. When I did, they'd decided that a fine was appropriate ! When I asked did they think that after nearly having died and wrecked a clean 260z, they thought that was fiar, the reply was 'it's like that' ! We were wearing our seat belts which saved us even though our heads were in water !

I don't hunt - I prowl ! Over here the hunters (chasseurs) have over-hunted and breed the birds to let go during the season - the poor things don't know what to do until they get a ball in the head and die ! Sorry, not too impressed with this 'sport' !

mmh, it started with the Bordeaux that I opened last night and discovered that I'd finished it off whilst sharing a laugh with you guys - the coffee wasn't too strong, perhaps the opposite but I do feel like a girl this morning and she doesn't get home 'til 8pm this evening and the cats have seen that leary look in my eyes and fled ! No sheep here, just cows and I don't feel that courageous !

Alfadog - slip your leash buddy, come join us and sing... I think my coffee's too strong this morning !

I think your right, and I haven't seen one since - what happened to them - rust ?

Guys (and girls?) Being a closet Madonna fan isn't about singing in the shower or wearing miniskirts ! No, one has to wear ones' wifes'/girlfirends' / sisters' /(mothers'!) bra on the outside and the more you can fill it, the more whole or is that whore you will feel ! "Last night I slept with some dago.....with eyes like potatoes" or something like that !

In the UK, we can trace the cars lent by Nissan for magazine testers. What about worldwide ? Does anyone have any news on the cars used locally in each country ?

Guys - what is lo-jack , An alarm system ? tracking system ? Car lock ? This year my 240 will come out from the engineers' garage and I'm starting to sweat ! My old 240 was valued at 15000 dollars and sat outside my flat in London with never a problem but times, they are a changing !

Hello Mike - long time no read... Well, if they were personally imported, then this geezer exported his car to France where it is now up for sale. I wonder how many rough looking similar cars have had so much invested in them ?

Right, I'll take a K. Ross and a K. Bach when I don't need intelligent after s*x chat !

Please would you consider shipping to France ! I would really like to bid on the console - there isn't a crack between the starter hole and that of the gear lever, is there ? Sean