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Details on this please. From the subsequent pic you posted, is it Zetec powered?

No I think that particular car needed a repaint.
It was funny more than anything. And it didn't really matter. It was £1250 and I saw an indicated 140mph out of it.

I owned a Tornado Red Corrado G60 that had turned several shades of Tornado Pink as old VW's do. I remember one cleaning session buffing the panels for hours and it was gleaming. The panels were hot to the touch and my dad had gone a bit over the top and buffed through the paint on the swage lines. It looked great for the afternoon and had started to fade again by the next morning.

Probably a good thing. Not sure if it was just on first gen launch control but I remember the small print in most handbooks was that in cars still under warranty, LQ was good for about 3 launches and then they would no longer honour the warranty on anything clutch/gearbox related.

That's shit Richie. Hope it's a relatively easy fix and you get the thing looking as good as it did ready for the season.

@mcmyk thats odd. My dad was a Daihatsu dealer back in in the day and i have this really vivid memory of being given a roll of promo stickers for the Fourtrak that had that slogan on. Either I've got a very skewed memory or the Daihatsu marketing department (or the garage) ripped the tagline from Land Rover. This was in Harrogate in the mid-80's so the latter could have been a tactic to get affluent North Yorkshire farmers out of their Defender's and into the Fourtrak?!

Their marketing slogan was "The best 4x4xfar". On that alone, I thought they were cool

I've honestly never had an issue with it. But that size frame would use a 650b wheel now.

Just find quiet roads with a bit of space. Northumberland is perfect for this.

As @hurricane_run suggested, plenty of this is the order of the day
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoGdC4NpnsU

Oh I get that. If you want the S, then I'd get the S, just to save the inevitable feeling of wanting to upgrade in 6 months. I'd hazard a guess though that you could get a standard one with less of a deficit on miles, and make some changes with it to make it a car you are really happy with for a lot less than difference in cost.

Jeez, theres a decent amount of play in your budget. Isn't that about £12k dearer than the white one you linked the other day?

He is marmite. And just like the spread, I can't fucking stand him.

Edited to say - RS2's are lovely and I would own one.

Wheels look good. Definitely needs hitting with the stick though

Looks ace @BRM

I hear you on the shit-jobs-close-to-the-finish-line front but you're close and you've got this far. I'd imagine the satisfaction when its all buttoned up and you are sitting on the grid waiting for your first race will be even sweeter knowing you did the majority of the work without sending it to a garage.

Amazing collection. Could spend a long time reading about those builds!

Awesome news Richie. You'll be doing next season in it all being well?

That looks like great fun. Bonus points for the filmmaker for using the music from the Hawaii level of Road Rash 2 as the soundtrack.

@zazkar & @aggi these viewpoints have come from a place of dissatisfaction with the tories, a lack of political opposition meaning no way out of this right now, and the uncertainty of Brexit and Covid. Like you say, life will largely be unaffected (I hope anyway) but I think in their minds, moving back to the country in it's current state left some people I talked to scratching their heads.

I hear you on that. I've been toying with the idea of going to a drop bar but every time I ride mine I remember how much I love the feeling of the current setup.

Awesome thanks. I might message you to pick your brains on the shipping thing if that's ok?

Thanks for the insight. Those things aside, are you happy to be back? And can I ask what the moving process was like? We moved over here with two suitcases and shipped 4 boxes but after 7 years we've got a bit more stuff (and 6 bikes)...

Weird that he is in such a similar position. It would be easier if we had some support here but my wife's parents and sister (+brother in law and neice & nephew) all moved from England are now live in Nova Scotia. Flying from here to visit them isn't much different to flying from the UK.

Things like the fallout of Brexit/Covid/Conservative government are all things that worry me but We're probably going to have a conservative government here by the next election so thats one thing that strikes the other out.

There are definitely things I'll miss about living here. Mainly friends that we've made. Greggs > Tim Hortons so thats easily settled. The other things we really love about living in the city (gigs, great restaurants etc are all good if you can access them but over the last 8 months, they've pretty much been off the table due to restrictions. Same with flying to the States/Montreal.

This might be a bit of an odd one as I'm not currently in London but I didn't want to start a thread for it.

Currently live in Toronto with wife and 3 month old child. We've been here 7 years and both my wife and I are dual-citizens so aren't on any kind of clock. We've had a good time but I've been homesick for some time and Covid and having a baby has only made me long to live back in the UK more, specifically Northumberland where I grew up. Positives would be: Being close to my parents, them having an active relationship with their first grandchild and by default able to help us with child care (Childcare in Toronto is currently around $2500 p/month if you can get a place), being able to afford a house (this is pretty unattainable in Toronto. To be the kind of house we'd like is over $1mill - nothing fancy I hasten to add). Another thing would be the feeling that we wouldn't be staring again from scratch - we still have a good group of friends there that we've stayed in touch with. There are other things too - close to nature and open spaces, affordable,

However, when mentioning it to some people their first response has been "Why would you move back, England is fucked!?"

Without waffling on any more, what are peoples thoughts? Am I looking too much through rose tinted specs?

Incredible build. Looks like it was as much fun to build as it is to ride.