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Perhaps it could be stripped down and rebuilt with a BMW Z3 windscreen, hood, doors, shiny plastic interior, front and rear wings and modern alloys fitted.
Then DVLA could take 'king ages to register it as a Maserati Z3 weedy 1.9 replica...
A "Freudian slip" is when you are at a dinner party with your wife, and intend to say"pass the salt dear" but instead say,
" You ruined my life you f***ing bitch"
It just kinda slips out.....
When traveling at supersonic speeds in an airplane everything is normal and a bit dull.
The fun comes when the danger increases such as cornering, braking or driving anything that WCA has had a hand in building.
;-)
Funnily enough I've been supersonic in the back of a jet fighter and it was rather normal and a bit dull. That was until we pecked at the edges of the Lebanon's airspace and got lit up by hostile radar. Then it suddenly got a bit more fun (?!!) when the steely eyed killer driving our supersonic aluminium death arrow started cornering, braking and diving at mach 1.2 while loads of alarms were going 'WEEP! WEEP! WEEP!' in my headset like when the Starship Enterprise gets attacked by Clingons.
To quote Winston Churchill "Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result." The experience exhilarated three sick bags full of breakfast and stomach lining out of me, quite a lot of which ended up smeared all over the inside of the canopy and stuck to the visor on my bone-dome
Trouble is, when you're pulling negative 'G' in a dive and you blow chunks at a bag, unless you're holding the sick bag over your head you're going to get a bit of blowback. Think of those boy scouts eating their lunch on a rollercoaster on Jim'll Fix It (dare I mention him?) magnified about a hundred fold and you won't be far away from what happened.
I suppose it didn't help that I had a massive hangover...
Sound much like my drive back from Tribute when I first picked up the car - except for the Lebanese radar and the vomiting
I know what you mean WCA - bizarrely, putting my foot down in my Spyder at 40mph feels like piloting a Viper out of the launch ramp of the Battlestar Galactica, while sitting in the back of a jet fighter five miles up at 800mph felt rather like being in a limo at 60mph on a very smooth motorway.
Had an enjoyable evening testing the effect of Stella on humans and thought I'd take another look at your car. The new paint makes such a difference - you must be chuffed with it.
It's a terrible shame to have to spoil it with number plates. I'd have a stick on for the back to follow those lovely curves, but the front is more difficult as it looks so good without one. I think a stick on will be best. Shame we can't legally have tiny little buggers like the Italians.
Look forward to seeing it at Stoneleigh.
Off to ebay now to buy something stupid. Perhaps a hot rod, or something with tassels lol.
Dark paint really suits the shape, nice! I echo the comments on the wheels above - shiny silver to contrast with the black paint. Oh, and I'd try some racing roundels to break up the larger panels too. Might just see you at Stoneleigh...
I think I agree about the silver wheels - I will be nipping up to Halfords for a rattle can shortly.
Number plates are vexing me at the moment.
I am thinking of getting one of those cheap Northern Irish plates so the car loses the age specific plate. Can't afford it right now.
This means I don't want to put stickers on it now and the replace them later. I know they are meant to be the same size so should just go over the top but I want to get the plate as small as I can.
All this is made more difficult as it needs to get through an MOT before the end of the month - I guess that a number plate on the front dash won't pass
How about fitting the front numbe rplate in the front grill?
Normal size for the mot and a small one for everyday use.
I used to have a small magnetic flexible number plate (no good for you) on my E-type, trouble was at speed it used to slide up the bonnet and when it hit the bulge would fly off so I just used to leave it inside the car (not on show in the window), I was never pulled once and it used to be a daily driver.
Just couldn't bring myself to stick a number plate on the bonnet after the car had had a bare metal respray.
If I was to do the same with a Citroen Saxo or Corsa I think I would be given a tug every few miles.
Fit the small plate and keep the standard in the boot, you could always attach it with zip ties if you get a tug, unlikely to get a fine on a first offence.
