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Ewen, I recommend the Horner Longhorn 3.5 Should make sure you keep everything smooth for that intimate skin-to-skin contact that you crave.

They do come up for 8k - I sold a very good condition 70,000mile '93 6-speed for 8k not so long ago, but I priced it to sell - it went within a couple of weeks, so I think you'll have to either: - wait for someone else looking to sell quickly - increase your budget slightly - would have thought 9k would be enough - settle for an auto!

The reason why COWS GO MOO is because they have trouble getting their tongue around saying the letter N. If it weren't for this unfortunate speech impediment we'd understand that they were trying to say MOON (hence the endless repetition of MOO, MOO, MOO). http://www.cowsgomoo.co.uk/

Nice roundabouts - especially the fact it's a dual-lane going over the A3 from Milford -> Elstead way Always seems to be a few sightings round this way, but never by me - so if you get flashed and waved at by a grinning idiot in a big black pimp-mobile, it's probably me in my pseudo-Supra!

Nice looking car, BD - rear creaking is almost invariably boot rubbers! By the way, I take it you're aware that the Falcon Predator 4+ is not a Thatcham approved alarm?

The Ferrari thing is based on the fact that Ferrari owners don't all go out crashing their cars. As I mentioned - the likelihood of you crashing the car is one of the most important parameters. I guess that the % of ferrari owners crashing is considerably lower than the % of Supra owners.

Remember the value of your car is only one of the factors that controls your premium (and a comparatively minor one, to be honest). It's also related to the the likelihood of it getting stolen (in part), the likelihood of you crashing it (this is the main one), and the estimated approximate value of what you're going to crash it into (this is guesswork!)!!!

Quality cars these. If I couldn't have gotten hold of a decent Aristo, I would have looked to pick up a 55AMG.

No locks on the broads.

Just wanted to say a public thanks to Inti at Dragon Audio and Security for another quality install for me this weekend. Top quality work from a top bloke. A real pro.

I can't believe it's that easy, or everybody would be at it, no?

I often wonder about this. What is supposed to happen if a customer claims they never received goods but the company did send them? Does the credit card company give them their money back arbitrarily? Do they then try and claim it back from the vendor? What happens if the vendor provides proof of recorded delivery?

Errr - he looks plenty happy to me, and the tank looks fine for him. I think this is your problem, not his!!! Google brought up a lot of good info for keeping turtles happy: http://happyturtle.ms11.net/setup.html

If you're seriously considering an LCD and you mainly watch SD television, you're probably best waiting towards the end of the year when all the 2nd batch of the new 100hz sets will be out.

Looks like Ladymead, Guildford, no?

Only pic I could find at short notice. Think it's the same one I posted here before: http://aycu21.webshots.com/image/17100/2003406439720044620_rs.jpg I'm the one on the left, btw - showing the lad a good close up of the grandiose embarrassment of a schnozz that he's bound to be cursed with inheriting!

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Remember that insurance isn't just to cover the value of the car you buy (in fact, for 3rd party only like this, the value of the car itself doesn't matter a fig!). It also has to recoup the insurance pay outs for thefts and the (potentially limitless) damages to the other cars/buildings/pedestrians that you're going to run in to, and I imagine scooby drivers are just statistically 4 times more likely to have their car nicked or (more likely) plant it into something expensive than TVR drivers are....... In fact, it's probably the case that cheaper high-performance cars are more likely to be bought by younger, more inexperienced drivers than your more-expensive TVRs, so all other things being equal, I would always expect the insurance cost to be higher.

Thinking about it, if you were genuinely keen to help her out, but need some sort of security you could turn this around: you could lend her the money with some sort of collateral. What about offering her the money in exchange for transferring the V5 and therefore ownership of the car? Would that work? If she won't trust you with that, why should you trust her with your money?

How come she can ask you, but can't ask her own parents???

My insurance with Sky went up from ~£450 to ~£550, but the car is valued in at £2k higher than my Supra was. All Aristo's, both MkI and MkII (apart from a certain MkI ^^^ ) are auto, although the Vertex edition MkII's have tiptronic shift. MkII's are a b*tch to get hold of at the moment, tho!

Any news on what's going to happen to the little sh*ts that did it? Man, this country is really going to the pits. I was reading a report recently from a senior police consultant who'd come over to the UK from the US and stated that the UK today was exactly the same as New York in the 1980's, and if they don't do something to fix the police powers and judicial system soon, he believed it will rapidly develop into the same gang and crime level problems that occur in New York today.

Yeah - I enjoy watching the odd boxing match. I enjoy it for the same reason I enjoy most other sports - it's the skill-based, technical aspects of throwing a good punch and the strategy and tactics of understanding and out-boxing your opponent (respectively) that I enjoy, not the fact that it's two blokes pummeling the cr*p out of each other, if that helps explain why I like it? That's probably why I don't enjoy watching pure strength/speed tests (ie. most athletics/weight lifting/etc. stuff bores me rigid). There IS a technical, strategic element to boxing, even if you don't see it at first. THAT'S the interesting bit.

My mates had a go in my Supra when I got it. In return I get to try out their M Coupe, 911, etc....

Torrential here in Surrey, and it has been constant since the early hours.