Westcoaster

What, listen to the radio and drink tea?

Beautiful looking car, thats how I'd like my red Supe to look! Beggars belief that it's only worth £4k, damn the price of petrol.

Cheers for that, mines was de-badged bar the Toyota ovals when I got it and I put the Supra badge on the r/h/s of the tailgate fairly recently. It was the turbo badging that confused me, I'd never seen that before. As it's US spec, that explains it!

And very nice they are too! None of the pics show the rear badging though!

Probably sounds daft, but I don't recall ever seeing a Supra with standard badging.

My how I'll live it up on my 'gold plated pension', when I retire at 67, I have the equivalent of £15,500 p.a. after 40+ years of contributions working in the social housing sector according to my latest pension forecast. The previous figure of £1500 p.a. was the performance of my AVCs. (Pensions are complicated!) My pension is paid by me, my employer and good performance from my pension fund, which is run in the public sector, not for profit. My pay has reduced in real terms by almost 10% since the financial crisis occured in 2008, I'm not due to get a pay rise this year and inflation is at 5%, how many of the fecking bankers are in that situation? :x

It may have been Formatzero's very nice white N/A.

I had a similar call last week, I thought they were selling something when they said they were from Microsoft. I told them no thanks, I have a MacBook!

The fireworks company have promised to come back on the 27th November to close Oban's Winter Festival with a big display over Oban Bay for free. The £6k worth of fireworks gave a 'shock and awe' display according to the folks I know that went along!

Was me again, I had a fast run up to Inveraray to deliver some paperwork for one of our forgetful directors, was doing 40 in the 40 limit through Minard though!

View from kitchen window

Change the thread title, if it isn't Scottish, it should be called Whiskey!

From Shelters website, here. I've dealt with it at work before, the police were happy to help. They gave the 'squatters' 30 minutes to go, or they would return and arrest them all for breaking and entering. When the squatters said they had rights, the cop offered to add to add breach of the peace to their rap sheet! The squatters left within the 30 minutes!

There are no Squatters Rights in Scot's Law, if someone occupies your home, without your permission, it's illegal entry and the police will arrest and charge. I have no idea why that isn't the case in England:search:

Why no British tanks?

In the highlands, where I live, bikers come from far and wide to kill themselves on our corners. As many of the memorials are on tricky bends, they are a bit of a distraction. Frankly official signs that say how many people who have had the misfortune to die on particular stretches of road are enough.

My missus has a nice tidy low mileage CRX Del Sol SiR, very nice to drive and reasonably rapid. 1.6 litres and 160 bhp. Very reliable too compared with a Vauxhall or Peugeot.

It depends what model you have as well, they are mapped at the factory to power outputs starting as low as 61bhp. Have a look at this site, http://www.evilution.co.uk/ this guy knows a lot about Smart ForTwos. The Model code for the car you have is a Smart 450.

I wouldn't buy another pair of work shoes or a tie!

I think you'll find that it was the tory government of Edward Heath that took us into the EU! In Scotland our state owned ferry company has to get it's ferries from Polish ship yards whilst the Clyde shipyards who previously made them, close one by one. If government really wanted to preserve our heavy industries, they'd have figured it out over the last 30 odd years. Sadly, the tories don't work in factories, they're too busy feeding at the banker's trough.

I'm in Unison, we weren't asked to go on strike. I have no choice but be in the pension scheme I'm in, frankly I'd rather that I didn't have to be in it. Frankly, as I see it, those who have made no plans for their old age are comfortably accommodated by the state. They pay no income tax and they pay no council tax. So who's paying for them?

I've worked in the public sector in social housing since 1985, where do I get one of those "gold plated pensions"? My last pension forecast says I will get £1500 pa after 20 years contributions - gold plated my arse!

Unless it's one of these I'm not impressed!

That was me, on my way home from visiting friends down south. The Supra makes a brilliant long distance tourer, but it would be cheaper flying everywhere!

I have friends that got rid of a 2007 model Navarra due to continual problems with the immobiliser. The dealer tried numerous times to sort it and ended up giving them a very good trade in on it, so they could afford a 2009 model, which has been reliable.