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masseur
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I knew someone would spot that and I was almost tempted to edit it out! 
there are two disabled spots in that area but there are no disabled people that ever use them (its at a mates place), so they are just treated as regular parking spots.
however, I was there for just a few mins for the taking of the pics for the MR2 MK1 club, as you can probably judge from the fact I'm not totally in the spot (just half in, half out)
anyway, twas a nice day for doing this car stuff! not sure we'll get another w/e like this for a while
@fatreg, whats your, er, brum brum?
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fatreg
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as long as it was a 2 minute stop big m! I often pull people up on the fact they are parked in disabled places at super markets, shops etc etc, and no, I'm not no goody two shoes but my father was disabled and when you see a space filled with a none disabled person it sorts of gets your back up, people often give 2 sorts of reply, a sh!t I'm sorry I'll move it or a what you gonna do about it look, in which case not a lot but don't be worried when you get back to your car and your tires have no air!
my little brum brum is only a wee Corsa D, getting ready for the winter with it, it had a proper wax and polish today.. I'll go snap some pics...
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masseur
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well I'm with you on that and never take disabled spots normally, though I do hold back form actually having a go at others.
I doubt my toy-ota will get much play during the winter unless its a dry weekend. its 21 years old but in excellent nick with just 60,000 miles and always garaged now so hopefully it will stay the way it is
so on days like these it gets more love and attention than the mrs! 
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fatreg
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you canny beat the opening sequence to the Italian Job... I may even bust it out tonight and watch it... My signed Michael Caine copy 
you know it's had some TLC when the reflection is this good...
car is very much still work in progress, need new alloys, need lowering, and I need to smooth off the door handles and go all euro on it!
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masseur
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I really thought a Corsa was something different! I didn't realise they'd modernised them to this extent.
there was a time when the Vauxhall Corsa was imported to Australia and called the Holden Barina, but I guess that was the previous incarnation of the Corsa.
looks like you've put as much elbow grease into it as I have, but I'm trying to keep mine as original as possible so not too many changes although I'm about to change the induction system for a more modern K&N jobby but I still have even the original radio casette, alloys, etc etc and it still goes like the pocket rocket it was all those years ago!
btw, a Michael Caine signed version of the Italian Job sounds cool... one of my all time favourite movies
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fatreg
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ah, but do you have any tapes to put in the cassette player?
I had one of the old incarnations of Corsa but decided I'd do;
 to it!
ahh... K&N filters, dead good but don't expect any noticeable difference in performance at all.. it may only add about 1-3bhp to your pocket rocket....
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masseur
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 oops!
remember I'm an oldie and yep, I do have a few tapes still.. even the original "now thats what I call music" on double cassette, but also my GPS has an FM transmitter and plays mp3 etc, and the reception on the radio is great! shame about hte 3/2" front and 4" rear speakers (might change those sometime)
the Mk1 club suggest the measured performance improvement from the Mk1 K&N kit is about 5-8bhp due to the cold air feed hose it comes with, but the biggest improvement apparantly is the sound (yeah!)
if there a big following of these latest Corsa? I remember from previous threads here that the previous Corsa's were popular for customising and improving performance
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MWEB
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Nicely debadged Reg, if you play your stereo loud enough, you might drown out the derv rattle and convince people it's an SRI 
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fatreg
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is it a straight cold air feed? a la flying spur? Now 1 on tape? my sweet lord, thought it was on a 12" only, there's a largish following with the corsa D, it's very big for modding in Germany and Poland the car isn't as it was though, the new Corsa is a lot roomier than it's predecessor and as such is a larger car, no longer a hot hatch, more of a meaty mortgage, but aye, the sound from a K&N filter can be rather good indeed, My bro has a K&N filter with a straight through steel exhaust, sounds real nice for a little seat....
Mweb... it's a petrol sxi.. I don't see the point of the sri, it's near as damn it the same price as the vxr...?
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oops sorry reg, with you coming from Doset n all, i thought the D that you mentioned meant the dreaded Derv , it's the model designation i now realize, very nice, classy little cars them, just a pity from my perspective that a folded pram wont fit in the boot, or i'd have one myself.
Very nice "almost classic" Toyota too Masseur
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fatreg
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ah yeah, D as in the 4th incarnation of Corsa... Although Corsa A was a Nova over here... diesel is what buses and tanks use, not cars! I'd use four star if I could buy a car that used it, I'm not sold on the whole global warming malarkey, oh and no no chance of getting a buggy in the back of a Corsa D, I struggle with my weekly shopping as I'm a single person.... so god knows how families get on that have them!
on a side note, I see F reg plates get released on 7th October, but not F47 REG.. grrr, they are only releasing F1-20 
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masseur
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On 2008-09-21 18:42:27, fatreg wrote:
is it a straight cold air feed? a la flying spur?
now you lost me... I'm not really mechanically minded though I know from my pilot studies that cold air is more dense and so gives better performance, but here's a PDF of the Mk1 kit so maybe you can tell me
but aye, the sound from a K&N filter can be rather good indeed, My bro has a K&N filter with a straight through steel exhaust, sounds real nice for a little seat
I gotta say that I'm more for the sound than the possible performance enhancement
Now 1 on tape? my sweet lord, thought it was on a 12" only
yeah, it was on viynl and casette (see wiki and its got things like Amii Stewart (of Knock on wood fame) with "Friends" on it, which at the time was alot of the reason why I bought it... its was a great party tape too in the early 80's!
there's a largish following with the corsa D, it's very big for modding in Germany and Poland the car isn't as it was though, the new Corsa is a lot roomier than it's predecessor and as such is a larger car, no longer a hot hatch, more of a meaty mortgage, ....
my first thought was that it was untypical of what I thought you'd have when you first mentioned it, but we all have our own ideas. I've always loved the MR2 since I had one of the first to arrive in Australian in 1987 but then had to give it up in late 89 when our son was about due and my wife could no longer climb in and out of the car, even with me yanking her arms!
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haynesycop
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God my car is a mess, it's not had a single clean yet, gathers dust like there is no tomorrow. When i get a chance i'll give it a clean, just been so busy lately. Looks in very good condition that nice one.
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fatreg
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get on and clean it then! a dirty car isn't pretty!
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