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Model specific boards => Golf mk6 => Topic started by: FroGTI on 04 October 2010, 09:10
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After 18 months of fun on the forum and having you guys regularly encouranging me to empty my wallet with must-have add-ons (LED rears, RNS satnav...), my post rate has fallen off of late.
I spent the summer researching a restoration project (Triumph Spitfire, MGB...), but finally settled on this little 1998 MX5 last week. And yes, it's a UK car with the wheel on the correct side :smiley: The paint is a bit tired, especially at the front, and the brakes could do with an upgrade, but otherwise it's in excellent condition and is a hoot to drive. Nothing like the GTI, of course (in terms of gadgets, I get power steering and that's about it :grin:) but it feels good to go back to basics and I will be keeping the GTI as a daily driver.
Anyway, thanks for all your advice over the past few months. I will continue to pop back here from time to time to see how you're all getting on. Au revoir for now :cool:
(http://www.garagetech.fr/mx5/mx5_garage_blank.jpg)
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All the best mate.... The wife had a 2001 Mazda MX5 a couple of years ago and it was a great little car to drive. It will be a good car to tastefully mod and easy to work on. It will be a nice to drive for the summers you guys get over there. I must admit whenever I drove it though, I did feel like a mobile-hairdresser :laugh:
Anyway keep in touch my fellow interlagos wearer.
p.s. one last request...... can I have a close up of that poster behind the car :grin:
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Good work froggy! enjoy the new ride
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Congrats on your new purchase Frogster. Sorry if I've been a dick to you in the past, I hope you return soon.
p.s. those bloody alloys on that GTI (shakes head) :grin:
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Froggy, I got so distraught about our separation that I forgot to bless your new purchase.
Don't worry Asker - We can stalk him on the MX5 forum's :laugh:
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p.s. Froggy the red bumber on the MX5 looks a different colour to the rest of the paint work...... I would consult Asker with regard to this :laugh:
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p.s. one last request...... can I have a close up of that poster behind the car :grin:
Hehe, I'd love to oblige, but it's a photo of my wife and my life wouldn't be worth living if she found I'd been posting it on the Internet :grin:
Thanks for all your good wishes. I don't feel like a hairdresser driving the MX5, more like an old codger in a roadster (that's why I decided to steer clear of MGs) :laugh: Acceleration is a joke after the GTI, but the handling is astonishing.
I had forgotten Asker was an expert on red bumpers. Any tips on buffing up that tired paintwork? :laugh:
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p.s. one last request...... can I have a close up of that poster behind the car :grin:
Hehe, I'd love to oblige, but it's a photo of my wife and my life wouldn't be worth living if she found I'd been posting it on the Internet :grin:
I'm ' zooming in ' as we speak :laugh:
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p.s. those bloody alloys on that GTI (shakes head) :grin:
Kev, you should see the alloys (14"!!) on the MX5 :sick: They make Monza Shadows look half decent :wink:
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p.s. one last request...... can I have a close up of that poster behind the car :grin:
Hehe, I'd love to oblige, but it's a photo of my wife and my life wouldn't be worth living if she found I'd been posting it on the Internet :grin:
This reminds me of a funny thread I was reading on the Audi Forum the other day..... Its worth a read
http://www.audi-sport.net/vb/general-chat/100263-pics-your-mrs.html
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Froggy, not just red bumpers, REAR bumpers of ALL colours. Give me my due, please.
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Frog what happened to the free GTI with the house sale? Is it still happening?
Good luck with your new wheels.
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Frog what happened to the free GTI with the house sale? Is it still happening?
Good luck with your new wheels.
Still planning to move down to the south of France, but the project has been postponed for 6 months. The GTI is staying, at least for the time being :nerd:
I won't be changing the wheels on the MX5. Yes, they're tiny and unexciting, but 18" drug-dealer wheels would lokk awful on such an 'old' car. I'm going to keep it as stock as I can, just uprating the brakes because you can't see them and they are quite important :grin:
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Froggy: Have you joined the Mazda MX-5 Forum?
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Froggy: Have you joined the Mazda MX-5 Forum?
Yeeeess :smiley:
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We've been jilted for a cheap new lover. Charming.
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We've been jilted for a cheap new lover. Charming.
With a small knob :grin:
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And pray how do you know this? :shocked:
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I won't be changing the wheels on the MX5. Yes, they're tiny and unexciting, but 18" drug-dealer wheels would lokk awful on such an 'old' car.
:rolleyes: I meant new wheels as in new car, not literally :grin:
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p.s. one last request...... can I have a close up of that poster behind the car :grin:
Hehe, I'd love to oblige, but it's a photo of my wife and my life wouldn't be worth living if she found I'd been posting it on the Internet :grin:
Thanks for all your good wishes. I don't feel like a hairdresser driving the MX5, more like an old codger in a roadster (that's why I decided to steer clear of MGs) :laugh: Acceleration is a joke after the GTI, but the handling is astonishing.
I had forgotten Asker was an expert on red bumpers. Any tips on buffing up that tired paintwork? :laugh:
Jeez, bet every woman who's ever had 7 kids wishes they looked like that, I wish I looked like that and I only have had 2 :grin:
Gizzy
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That's a very nice garage Frog, wish I had one that big [a garage that is]
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Jeez, bet every woman who's ever had 7 kids wishes they looked like that, I wish I looked like that and I only have had 2 :grin:
Gizzy
Lol, I honestly don't know how she's pulled it off, either. To be fair, she's 'only' had 5 kids (the other two are mine from a previous mariage), but she does somehow seem to defy the laws of physics, nature, or whatever :laugh:
Thanks for the compliment, Rick :smiley:
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Jeez, bet every woman who's ever had 7 kids wishes they looked like that, I wish I looked like that and I only have had 2 :grin:
Gizzy
Lol, I honestly don't know how she's pulled it off, either. To be fair, she's 'only' had 5 kids (the other two are mine from a previous mariage), but she does somehow seem to defy the laws of physics, nature, or whatever :laugh:
Thanks for the compliment, Rick :smiley:
She's my kind of gal! My ex-wife is just the same and she is older than me. Fabulous.
It's in the genes! I am near pensionable age, am 6'1", still have a 31" waist, weigh 11 stone (70kg), have a full head of hair, can eat anything and everything with no weight increase!
Life is good and getting better - except for the rear bumper! :smiley:
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Jeez, bet every woman who's ever had 7 kids wishes they looked like that, I wish I looked like that and I only have had 2 :grin:
Gizzy
Lol, I honestly don't know how she's pulled it off, either. To be fair, she's 'only' had 5 kids (the other two are mine from a previous mariage), but she does somehow seem to defy the laws of physics, nature, or whatever :laugh:
Thanks for the compliment, Rick :smiley:
Well you're a lucky guy, all the best with the MX5 and the house sale. No doubt we'll hear from you sometimes when you have time away from your new project and the Mrs :laugh: :evil:
Gizzy
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Froggy is a man of taste. Beautiful wife and to top it a RED open top car. My kind of guy.
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Froggy is a man of taste. Beautiful wife and to top it a RED open top car. My kind of guy.
Lol, thanks Asker :smiley: My little MX5 is booked in for its French MOT tomorrow, so wish me luck. It has a valid UK MOT, but of course that won't suffice for the French authorities :evil:
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Lol, thanks. It got its MOT, though the guy said the rear brake pads could do to be changed (I knew that).
I've enjoyed driving around on English plates for the past week, but pretty soon the car will be French and I'll have to put nasty French ones on just like the natives :cry: