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[csl177]

Will a Tooheys fit? Oil can Foster's sucks.

[crisis]

those pallets are cute beats normal drink coasters

aha! I was wondering what the point of them was. They are very cool coasters.

[crisis]

Oh, hey crisis... nice speakers.

Cheers. I have already have splits in the front. These are just to replace the crap factory ones in the back.

[pimento]

As to those miniature pallets presented by one of our unfortunate Aussie friends... WTF?

Pfft, philistine. They're regulation sized coasters so they'll take anything up to a regulation pint.. or so. They're styled after a standard aussie pallet, though I must admit I only found out that pallets differ throughout the world after I made them.. hence the ones in the link I had earlier being different looking.

They're just balsa wood trimmed to size with a stanley knife and glued together.. but they gave me something to do last night.

[Savageduck]

Congrats, SD... at a certain age, one values comfort and civility in one's transportation choices.

Well, I am a spry 62.
This purchase is my 4th MB. The first two were "Teutonic beasts" a 560SEL & an S600 coupe. This is my second E350.

Here is my former S600. That was like driving a P-51 down the Hwy.

[RacingManiac]

Just pre-ordered this:

LeMans with Steve McQueen - Blu-Ray [LEMANS 40 BLURAY] - $24.95 : The Motorsport Collector

[thebrochureman]

I might be bending the rules of this thread a bit because i didn't buy it myself. My dad’s just brought a Hyundai iload van, it a x demo van with 1800 miles on the clock and it's about 6 month old. The iload is a really nice van, it's very quiet for a van and very comfortable, the Hyundai dealers really like it but there not that popular; i only know 2 other business in my area which have one.


This is a picture of a Hyundai iload, i will post a picture of my dads van when it come next week.

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[Matra et Alpine]

Chinese model maker now doing 1/18th scale of the Alpine A610.

DONT do blue and wont ship me one unbuilt.
Thanks to eBay managed to get one and plan to strip it and repaint in Alpine Blue

[Kitdy]

Peter, you exhibit either extreme dedication or maniacal obsession.

[Matra et Alpine]

both

EDIT: Actually worse ... I also have my Matra collection and have now started a Mazda rotary one too

[Kitdy]

both

EDIT: Actually worse ... I also have my Matra collection and have now started a Mazda rotary one too

Pics Matra... Pics!

[thebrochureman]

both

EDIT: Actually worse ... I also have my Matra collection and have now started a Mazda rotary one too

Talking about rotary engines my friend got an insurance quote for RX-8 for his first car just to see how much, it would cost him £2500 a year, that brilliant a corsa will cost me £4000. it's probable because a RX-8 is classed as a 1.3l not bad really.

[RacingManiac]

http://www.apelectrix.com/

Got mine yesterday, a refitted load cell based brake pedal mod for my Logitech G25....still getting used to it...

[NSXType-R]

http://www.apelectrix.com/

Got mine yesterday, a refitted load cell based brake pedal mod for my Logitech G25....still getting used to it...

For better brake feel?

I have a very old Logitech wheel for Gran Turismo 3. Should still work with GT5.

But that was before I had experience driving- when I went back, I was appalled that the brake pedal drops straight to the ground. In real life, that'd be a really bad thing to happen.

[Matra et Alpine]

Hmmm, VERY interested to read feedback on you trying this.

NO vids on their site either which is annoying, so if you could capture some of it "used in anger" woudl be great

Like many other owners, I've a squash ball in the mech to give SOME feel, but it's stil not as realistic as I'd prefer. ( NSX, you want to do that as a minimum )