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my chipsaway man just told me that he can't mix up the right colour, even though I told him the specific paint code.

like this,

no, attached to the trophy, although it is possible to do it with the rig atatched to a chase car (see top pic)

with a rig

yeah me too, but there is a reason why I haven't put in any of the following photos in the sequence! :oops: :lol:

matt wants me to make it clear that he didn't process these photos, I did. Although I am better at doing it than him, he doesn't like the spot colour I did for one of them...

by the way, anyone who is looking at matt's site, if you want to see a stupid pic of me, click on the blue bubble looking thing in the bottom row :)

he is for hire actually, he has just taken a job to photograph someone's T440R privately, and he does that sort of thing quite often. www.mattwatkinson.com

Back in december I spent a day with a friend of mine doing a few snaps of the car. He works for Evo/Top Gear etc doing snaps so he is not too bad! I forgot to post them here back then, so here they are now,

journalist's girlfriend, my girlfiend, can't blame you for getting them mixed up considering you only met her briefly!

nope, I bought mine from the press fleet after it had done 7000 miles. Good to see some of what it was up to in its previous life. Glad there aren't photos of it in the sea or doing handbrake turns!

lol - theres loads of mine there too - its the one with the girl putting bottles in the boot!

read this before accepting bankers drafts http://pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.as ... 5&f=72&h=0

where can i find out the PCD of the trophy rims?

welcome

i get a pretty distinct kick, think its about 5.2 on my rev counter http://auto.howstuffworks.com/question229.htm

im tempted to get a steelie and keep it in the boot. anyone else gone this route?

nice little markup there - i paid £10k for 003 with slightly less mileage...

optimax/tesco 99. i think the difference is really in the mpg calculator probably

actually that's a bit of an exageration. When I first turn it on it is conventionally lumpy, but the throttle is also exceptionally sensitive, but also sort of slow reacting at the same time (difficult to explain!), which makes progress jerky. It will also hunt around a bit if you are on a...

got a few thing sto sort out, 1) Emissions warning light started flashing today, not too serious I would hope, since I've got a bit of driving to do before I go in next week 2) Boot catch broken 3) Very lumpy idle for the first few minutes when the car is first turned on. Impossible to...

how on earth did you do that? my car gets about 30-31mpg on cruise control at 80, and about 35 at 70...

mine is marked 003/500

I saw one last night heading south through clapham - **** CAV. Probably the same one?

37?!?!?!?! mine only does about 34 at a cruise controlled 79mph - i would imagine it does 37 at 70, but that doesnt include any stopping or starting, or overtaking....

29-30 average for me over the last few thousand miles

don't forget mine is 003 though, so a bit older than average - i'm on an 05 plate :boohoo: haven't actually been driving that much since i've had it, apart from a 1500 mile trip to france at Christmas. Will probably pound the motorway miles a fair amount in the summer when work gets busier...

lucky buggers - i only just squeaked under £1500!

im on almost 13k, but it was on about 8k when i got it

IMHO the engne in the civic i better as a piece of engineering, but to live with I prefer the clio. I think of it as a CTR engine but just 10% less frantic (and also less refined). Gearbox on CTR is a real work of art - its the one feature I would like in the trophy