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[tony]

looks a lot better han mine :laugh: got to get some polish out:laugh:

[tony]

han read than,. ive got a sticky "t"

[Guest]

e692wtt - I know the feeling with work computers defaulting...our work network is NT4 based..and every login we get the same background as you do...boring blue..

Hopefully that'll change with the migration to XP Pro Workstation/2000 Server i'm overseeing in 4 weeks....I can hardly wait!

I just hope we get the chance to replicate my home desktop "start" button..:laugh:

[John S]

I see what you mean about it ONLY being fifty quid it's in fabulous condition! Looks better than my car when it was in metal bumper spec.

[e692wtt]

Very nice, F170 GGT! I thought I recognised the background - RDGelder never wants to photograph my Monty though, funny that...

Look forward to seeing F170 GGT 'in the flesh' when we locals get our little 'Weekend Run' together (see 'Events and Meetings' for details).


Wonko_The_Sane,

Re 'computers at work', these little details are just that: 'little details'. Some bloke comes and alters the settings then says 'don't try to set it back' while in the 'winnt' directory... what dos it matter (ha ha, 'dos'... - one of our two systems appears to be dos-based, and the other is Unix - see what contempt we are held in???)??? There's an 'integrated system' coming 'soon...' but then so is the end of the world... hey ho.

To paraphrase your signature. "Ne te confundant illegitimi" (or so I'm told) - it gets more like Life of Brian every hour ("...unite against the common enemy" - only it could be one of several factions).


The other other Rich.

[Austin-Rover]

Rich, Photo's of Monty can be arranged next time you are round. Get a few pics of its new modifications . Such as its new front spoiler....

....its new interior lights. Oh, and an action shot of the fuel filler release that we installed!!!! :laugh:

[e692wtt]

I'll take you up on that. Give me a chance to get the broken window fixed, though. And how can we avoid the primer below the fuel filler? Answers on a postcard, please...

I'd like to 'publicly' thank RDGelder for all the help he's given me over the last couple of weeks in swapping bits off the VDP onto Monty.

He's made things a whole lot easier - assisted me in removing the roof lining from the VDP and fitting it to Monty in 90 minutes (the old one in Monty had been missing 3 years...), fitting the fuel filler release and the rear internal lights from the VDP including associated wiring, and fitting the front spoiler off the VDP to Monty (including removing Monty's front bumper, spotting the bolts we'd failed to undo, and suggesting I drill the base of the bumper to mount the spoiler [I'd normally use a heated nail or screw... captain lash-it-up strikes again...], fitting said spoiler and putting the car back together again).

He's also encouraging me to swap the wheels from the VDP over (hence my disbelief at finding 'metric tyres' at a tenner + carriage + VAT) and to get the bodywork tidied when I get some cash (later this year).

Nice one, RDGelder!!!

The other other Rich.

[D87SMW]

:laugh:

[Guest]

That's a very nice photo you've got there. It's the first time I've really realised what colour the car is; it looks like the Flame Red the Turbos were done in, but all the other red Specials I've seen were a bit darker, I thought. Were they supposed to be the same colour?

Nice touch with the colour-coded mirrors, as well.

[D87SMW]

F170 is finished in Flame Red 1989, other Specials could be done in the earlier Flame Red which I think is a tad darker. (?)
I don't want to modify F170, but the white Specials had colour-coded wing mirrors... so why not the red ones. :laugh:
Don't think it's a proper 'modification,' though.

[D87SMW]

I think Flame Red 1989 is a really nice shade of red. I prefer it to the Vauxhall Flame Red:

[Hobson]

Mine at the moment. Notice the white Maestro Turbo in the top corner.

[D87SMW]

Where did you get that MG Maestro Turbo cartoon from. I haven't been able to find one on www.cartooncars.com

P.S: Can you get it in red?

[D87SMW]

...I'm not much impressed with the image of the new Ford Fiesta though...

[Hobson]

http://www.koolart.co.uk/detprod.asp?ProductCode=P0107

It appears that its only in white.

I made that wallpaper by cut/copy/pasting the individual pics onto a MSPaint page.