GazB

Still snowing your way?

Well after snow for a full week with very few rest hours we now have at least 2 foot of the lovely white stuff. Roads are covered, cars are covered and nowhere to move it to other than big piles on pavement or road and its still snowing My Golf hasn't moved all week but the Astravan has run each day to and from Notts for me to work The Merc is sat on my driveway with an ignition problem but wouldn't move anyway (it wide rears means 'no go in snow') The Supra in rsting warm and dry in garage Thought i'd share a few pics. Grandaughter built a lovely 'Snow Princess' on our lawn but its near dissapeared with fresh snow Bunny is ok with a snow insulated roof Madonna the Black cat decided to follow me when i went out

Looking good Lee, hope all goes well for you Just wish i was a little closer and able to use your sevices

Cage with padding, 5 point harness and seat. 1. Cage will give you a better level of protection from the car deforming it will also strengthen the car giving more rigidity. A rear cross member would also give a good anchorage point for the rear harness straps. Welded or bolted cages need to be made from quality materials and fixed with quality bolts to secure anchor points or welding of a good standard. 2. Padding will protect you head or any other body parts that smash 'if' for some reason you hit your head on the cage! Any quality padding is better than none. 3. 5 point harness will keep you secure in the seat and within the area protected by the cage. 4. The seat will hold you in place. The seats need to be properly anchored with good quality bolts to the cross-member/frame. Put all these together and you must be safer than a standard seat and seat belt. Using FIA/SFI rated products will mean these have been tested and meet standards, anything that doesn’t carry these may look nice, be cheap and do something but who know what! It all seem a lot of work and expense, but having these in my car defiantly gives me and my ‘co-pilot’ a sense of well being when out and about on the road. The fact my seat runners are low means I sit lower in the car giving me more head room to the cage, if a little cumbersome to get in and out of and the harness being heavier than and standard seat belt the sense of safety makes me feel better.

Happy Birthday Mike

Glad you suvived that, shame about the car. Hope you have a speedy recovery

Do you know the difference between writing something controversial and being a twat and perhaps 'others' are thinking that as well Without any Bullshit

Hi and welcome, nice looking car you have there

facts are facts do you mean?

Why question it? The guy has just lost his car and is in hospital! What difference does it make anyway

Luck lad by the looks of your pics, glad your ok

Price?

http://www.skylineowners.com/forum/showthread.php?t=154588&page=21

2 of mine

Just come across these 2 pics of my car and a couple of other supras on skylineowners site

He tried so hard, what an hero

Got home at 6am What a wait in the cold and wet, nice to see so many Supras there, meet and speak to new and old faces Slow convoy up as Adam didn't like driving quicker than 60mph in the wet but eventually arrived at just before midnight, then we parked in the line with everybody else and waited and waited and waited Some decided to do a U turn and head back home without doing the tunnel run just paying 1.20 for the return journey but others are made of more sterner stuff and decided after 3+ hours of waiting a proper tunnel run was going to be had Eventually we were let out to the final holding area, the marshal at start point said 'if you catch the little MX5! don't overtake' lol Like the was ever going to happen, cold wet tyres, cold wet roads and a concrete tunnel But we had a go anyway 'fail' Set off the line and no grip in 1st and 2nd so a slow run into the tunnel, right hand bend then tunnel drops, lets try some power (0.8bar) and 3rd gear wheel spin but we're moving. The noise was great, screamer pipe sound the bo*locks Road rises and left hand bend, drop some speed off and back down to 2nd gear, look in mirror and a very quick R32 is closing! Forget him lets just keep spinning wheel until we exit tunnel Return run (North bound) R32 still behind me waiting to leave just after i take off, this time we'll try higher boost (1.4bar) Into the right-hander and then down high section, snatch 3rd wheel spin! snatch 4th wheel spin!! speedo reads 130 Left-hander as the road rises, 'Holy Sh*t' no grip at 120 in a concrete tunnel Slam it down into 3rd, scrub a bit of speed without brakes and we make it around the bend without a R32 on my rear, this time he didn't catch us up Out of the tunnel exit and breath lol What a laugh and experience, both me and my bro who have been through the tunnel my times in our lives have never done it that way and got such a buzz. He managed to get some video phone footage of us both in deadly silence, the car squirting all over the road looking for grip blazing through the tunnel. Great night well worth the wait The journey home was a lot quicker and just 1 more fuel stop to get us back before the birds started twittering

Car done and sat on driveway ready for the off at 08:00 See you all at M1 services for 09:00 depart

don't know what time our convoy will get up to wet n wild but if we arn't there for 11:30 give me a ring and i'll update you on our progress 07771373508

What about meeting at Wet 'N' Wild car park as suggested by jonny248? Rotary Way, Royal Quays, North Shields, Tyne & Wear NE29 6DA

Karl, we arn't leaving M1 services until 9:00 so it'll be a bit after 9 before we get to you

i'm still going

I've got Jays mobile number so we can ring him when we get near Durham, Jay is also meeting up with Phil (Terminator)

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Busy boy then this winter, good luck with it all and i'll see you next year