CraigGilchrist

I'm in. I'll have to hop a train back to the 'burgh, but they run pretty late if you don't mind a little passive-dragon-chasing.

If that's the worst harassment I get, I gather I'll be getting off pretty lightly...

I'm going to try and make this, though it's the weekend after my gf's birthday... craiggilchrist (Craig Gilchrist)

Agreed. Maybe you should work for Banzai Car looks amazing though. You must have one of the shiniest engine bays

I had the rear spats nicked off my last Supra - went to my car to find the same big blobs of tiger seal that once held my spats in place. The bodyshop were confident of removing it, but it ended up damaging the paint when they tried. I was about £400 for both quarters, I think, but that included fitting new spats.

Lots of military men - if we ever need to start a revolution, or put together an elite band of mercenaries... I'm an embedded systems software engineer. Getting a little bored, though probably through being in the same job for 6+ years.

Sweet cape.

Think I drove past this on my way to the Newcastle vs Norwich game on Sunday, just after coming off the A1?

I've got a new one - just bought the car recently and don't have the old V5, just a V5C.

Just like David P above, mine just says "Toyota" for make, and nothing for 'Type' (or 'Model' for that matter, on the New Keepers Details bit)

Ha, yup! It was fibreglass ones - got the spats from a member on here, and the side skirts were from car.mad.stylings dude on eBay.

I got back into Supra ownership back in December by picking up a nice cheap 5-speed SZ-R. It had some cosmetic damage (keyed down one side, parking scrape down the other, peeling paint on the rear spoiler, bit of rust under the boot lid), but otherwise decent. I just got it back from the body shop having OEM sideskirts and spats fitted, blended, and sprayed, and I think it's looking pretty nice, myself. So, thought I'd share a couple of pics.

I was holding out to see if I could make it along for my 1st meet, but dude at the body shop managed to fit my recently acquired Supra in for its much-needed body work so I am without the car for about a week. Maybe next time. Hope you guys get good weather for it!

It may just be a trick of the lens, or the size of the wheels, but those look like some damned tiny brakes.

He sprayed "12-7" on the side of a Japanese car - it relates to the bombing of Pearl Harbour.

The hundreds of pounds of fuel to get it from Dundee to Edinburgh was a bit tough on the wallet though ;-)

Sold somehow I forgot how good a supra sounds.

Love the viper too. It was always one of my favourites on Gran Turismo as you could modify them to the point of being completely undriveable due to the crazy power going to the back wheels. Saw this one when walking home from work a couple of weeks ago. Looked awesome, even in matt black:

Heh, I was going to mention the Wildcat - My brother had that, and I had the Wolf Cub.

Done. Hope that didn't just cost me £2.50 or something...

Boooooooo! Edinburgh's most nice in the city centre - it's realy once you get out of the 3/4mile diameter of the centre that things start to get a bit scummy in places. If you're renting, you might want to look in the Morningside, blackford, maybe Stockbridge (might be a bit pricey) areas - lots of areas that are away from main streets (so no people passing through) with plenty parking, etc. When I lived on Easter Road, someone scraped the side of my Supra while (presumably) parallel parking. Some time later, someone else put a dent in the back near the petrol cap *somehow*. When I lived near Meadowbank, someone smashed up the whole left side of my car driving past it on narrow off-street parking, and I saw a bunch of neds trying to nick it by filing the locks (does that even work on cars that aren't late-80s metros?). That's just me scaremongering though...

Y'see, I read that news story and see a story about a corporation flexing it's muscle to sack someone without proper grounds. Fortunately he works somewhere with a union willing to back him up so he doesn't lose his house and his life over the unjust actions of his employer. Without a union this man would just be sacked, possibly unfairly, and have absolutely no recourse. Instead he has the union on his side. Then, the corporation drags its heels through litegation, because it has the money too. So what are the options for the employee? Bend over and take it? Good British values there. Or the union can take action, which they thankfully have. Before you go blaming the union, remember that the employer could take action in a matter of days to end this: Provide the evidence backing up their decision to fire the guy, or re-instate him. Either would avert strikes. That's all the situation takes. But they are unwilling to do either, forcing the hand of the union with the only power they have. The problem is that the management knows that this action will directly affect the public, so the public will blame the strikers, and they can carry on being [c-words] as always, and the 'great' British public will demonise the little guy fighting for his job.

I know the service pisses you off, but Jagman speaks the truth - the problem is that we sold off all the profitable sections of the rail network - after all, who would want to buy the services that run at a loss? To sell the less attractive routes we agreed to subsidise the privatisation. So now we see very little of the profits, and pay through the nose to cover the losses of these private companies. Meanwhile, they make a profit and who does this go to? The management. Then when workers are unhappy at their conditions, they strike, and management makes people like you somehow believe that the unionised workers are the bad guys!! These guys aren't demanding bentleys and country estates like the management live in, they are demanding wages reflecting the work they do, in the conditions they do them, and the regional average salaries for the areas they have to live in so that they can work in these locations. The problem is that media is controlled by men with money, so the papers report that stiking workers are the bad guys, and that they're causing problems for you, the Citizen. But that's not the case. The Management want to maximize their bank balances, at the expense of their workers living conditions. AS for the service being crap? Expect it to get worse as networks get further privatised. Unprofitable services, like sunday services, out of hours services, services to more remote locations, non-rush-hour services will all be minimized, if not cancelled entirely.

About time. That goal should settle us, keep the pressure on and we can take this.

It's tense, that's for sure. Sat in my Norwich shirt, sweatin it out.