Posted in Cars on Mar 21st, 2008
I’ve just been outside and taken some final pictures of our Nissan 350Z GT before it goes in part exchange tomorrow for a 2004 BMW 535d M Sport. It’s a bit grubby but it’s too damned cold and windy to contemplate cleaning it.
My wife and I have covered 12,800 miles in the Zed since […]
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Posted in BMW, Cars on Nov 29th, 2007
So David Yu thinks the BMW E30 M3 is not worthy of its iconic status.
Some say; he’s been driving too many Ferraris, and that his web site is rubbish. All I know is, the E30 M3 is every bit as good as it’s reputation suggests.
I think David just drove a dud. Mine certainly never […]
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Posted in Cars, Caterham, Writing on Nov 16th, 2007
During the summer of 2003 I decided that I had had enough of messing around on track days and it was time to find out if I really was any good as a competative driver. I sold my Porsche Boxster S and signed up for the 2004 Caterham Academy Championships.
The kit was delivered in […]
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Posted in BMW, Cars on Nov 3rd, 2007
Seeing as BMW produced the E30 M3 in order to go racing, so it seemed only natural, mandatory even, that my own example should get a damned good spanking round my local circuit, Snetterton. Actually, what it really deserves is a damned good spanking around the Nurburgring, but that’s for another journal entry.
I’m no […]
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Posted in BMW, Cars on Nov 3rd, 2007
In my previous journal I told you the story of how I came to purchase my E30 M3, and the joys of de-muppeting the car back to something BMWs M Division engineers might be happier being associated with. I really do look upon this car as having been rescued from its previous owner!
With it […]
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