**ed** came down to visit for the weekend in his newly slammed passat estate…

slammed to the floor on majorly cut springs it looks the bomb! ed had done a deal with chris CSP who lives on the other side of bristol for some moon disks. yes, moon disks on the passat (more on this later).

we trucked over to chris’s place, which by rights i should know where it is, bristol isn’t a big city, but i really could only guess… so i winged it, doing that thing that shop assistants in dixons do when you ask if they can tell you about this tv or that stereo. they walk over and read out the label on the edge of the shelf to you imagining that this is some supreme feat or that by virtue of shopping in dixons you

• • a. won’t notice that they are just reading it out to you and will be grateful for their gracious assistance and superior knowledge or

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• b. will be so grateful that they can read as you were having difficulty with the complicated long words on the label

anyhow, i think either ed didn;t notice or was too polite to mention that i just seemed to be reading out the roadsigns in a knowledgable and familiar sounding voice…

so we got there and chris and geoff and geoff were doing that saturday morning car fiddling that’s almost as good as ***** ***** * ****** under a warm duvet on a winters morning. geoff 1 had to leave soon after we got there, he’d just got a new t25 and wandered off down the lane with two large fenceposts and a sledgehammer saying he had to knock a dent out….

so we got on with the customary chatting and ed fell in love with the 14inch aluminium (aluminum for our readers in the US) ones until chris mentioned that he’d got some 15inch chrome ones too…

so while chris ran off to find the chrome ones i checked out his beetle, i’d seen video of it and we’d exchanged some email before. chris does circuit racing and track days in it . he’s just got in a new type 4 engine with porsche fan etc. he’s looking at moving to megasquirt fuel injection later in the year.

chris has a website here at www.fastbug.net he runs a weblog and there is loads of stuff about racing, his cars, his rather cool t25 van and video, galleries etc…

ed decide to get both sets of moondisks and you can see why!

aftern some shopping it was off for noodles and then supper, ollie came over for a thali and gave us a lift over to see bucky (a must see bristol two piece ska/punk band) with my friend lucy providing guest vocals. his new t25 is kidney rupturingly low. something in the front suspension goes clank intermittently when you drive over large pieces of gravel. it’s cut springs (again) and still riding on what’s left of standard length shocks. i was sat in the fornt seat just waiting for the plunger rod from the passenger side damper to burst up through the floor and impale me in the thigh.
luckily this didn’t happen. here a picture of ed being unable to fit his finger between the wheel and the wheel arch.