i would like to thank everyone in those weeks ( and future weeks lol ) for all their help including the collection of said "beastie" :-D
i finally got my grubby hands on the cheque and was immediatly deposited into my bank. :twisted:
it gave me very little time to pick a car due to the following wednesdays BP drag night.
my heart ruled my head and i finally decided to go for what i have always wanted... a nissan skyline.
i looked on skyline forums for over 2 years and searched autotrader etc for possibly longer.
i recently joined DRIFTWORKS after gareth had posted a link of a "ghostdancer" car.
well the day the cheque went in i saw "her" :love:
i PM'd will straight away and used bladey's name to blag first dibs :oops:
i drove the 200 miles to worthing near brighton to view her on the friday.
the drive was monotonous (sp?) and slow.
after 4 hours and reaching school rush hour i made it.
i spent all of 50 seconds out of the drivers seat and straight into the skylines passenger one!!
the drive was very firm but exciting.
i couldn't wait to have a go!!
we drove to a local post office to post a letter.
it was very warm and i was gagging for a drink!!
anyway, we approached a pair of roundabouts linked by a fly-over.
whilst explaining the cars equipment and history, will proceeded to use the DRIFTWORKS handbrake and do 2 full laps of the roundabout sideways!!
we went over the fly-over and repeated said drifting on the other roundabout!!
the look on this particular old ladies face as she waited to join the roundabout was priceless!!
although i don't condone doing this on a public road it certainly gave me a good idea of what she is capable of!!
so with a deposit left and documents confiscated i made the naff journey home.
i was able to secure a lift for mondays collection and the weekend went very sssllooowwww............
MONDAY
this was rather a hectic start as i had yet to insure the car.
i tried one more time to get a quote from keith michaels but alas i was forced to transfer the insurance from my family rover to the skyline to pick her up.
we left at 11:30am and arrived 4pm to drive her away.
a few parts were changed over the weekend to drop the price and possibly one mod led to the impending incident :roll:
i filled her up and we were on out way.
for some reason the 4th and final journey was much more fun :lol:
i used just a quarter of my tank for the first 120 miles.
why 120 miles?
well this is when the steering went funny lol.
i pulled over to discover this......
so i proceeded to remove the space saver from the boot but couldn't find the jack?
i rang will and he said there wasn't one :x
my friend who took me had left dartford and headed east to colchester to go home to beccles.
i rang him and he made the journey across country to haverhill and onto cambridge to rescue me....
so i spent 3 hours driving at 40KMH on a spacesaver.
i reached home at 11:30pm a whole 12 hours later
the next morning resulted in a visit to my local tyre centre...
i wont bother going into the fiasco there...... :?
but we also discovered the left wheel had a nut missing!!
we found out why.... no bloody bolt!!!
the result was i needed different wheels.
thankfully ben came to my rescue for the drag night and i collected the wheels from him.....
BEFORE
AFTER
i was quite pleased with the new look and that i dont have to clean them so i bought them off ben and sold the volks
the drag night was quite succesful putting in a PB of 15.29 @ 94 mph.
not bad considering i had only owned the car 36 hours lol.
gotta love them lights.....
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