Recent content by Craig

In their wisdom (read greed) the South Australian police force installed speed cameras with the traffic light cameras. So now where I once would speed up a little if the lights turned to amber I now slam on my brakes immediately. No doubt this has increased business enormously for crash...

Ah, that must be it. I'm from Eastern Europe. Faaaaaaaar East =))

My one and only time driving in the UK. I rented a car for three days from London and then around Scotland. Remember I'm from Australia so this was like a pleasant afternoon drive for me, although the Scots I met were all incredulous that I drove so far in three days! :racecar: Anyway, thing...

I have resisted putting the hard top back on until now. Finally it's just too cold in Tokyo. Will gummi the seals, remove my old soft top rear window ready for it's new replacement in spring, and take off the aerial both to prevent busting it off and to put on a new seal. Now I just need someone...

Gotta love Amsterdam! One of the few places where a water pipe is used for what it was invented without fear of being sent somewhere unpleasant for a very long time. We have Turkish "Sheesha" shops in Japan. They smoke a very mild type of tobacco that succeeds in giving me nothing more than a...

Damn! Another thing on the list :) Sounds fantastic!

Frankie, wear the GOM (Grumpy Old Man) badge with pride! It's one of my little pleasures these days, when I am referred to in this manner by her indoors ;)

Very nice! Two things I'd never considered that look great in my opinion. The chrome roll bars and a black console looks good with the two tone upholstery which is similar to mine although I have the two tone seats. On the list for much later.

This photo brought back many happy memories of my days as a portrait photographer. Us Aussies have a fairly direct way of dealing with customers that either gets a smile or a punch in the face. Whenever I was confronted by this situation I usually said something like, " lets try that again shall...

Great until you run out of extension chord ;)

Really quite surprised so many like the red hardtop! I agree about red soft tops Boysie. They do look cool on many Z3s, not just black ones. Like the suggestion about the red calipers too :)

I always thought the Dutch were wise. This confirms it. Writing a public holiday into the statutes to recover from Christmas is brilliant! Is it otherwise known as National Hangover Day?

Here the day after Christmas is called Christmas Day. Confused? Me too. Apparently the Japanese have believed for a long time that us Westerners celebrate Christmas on Christmas Eve. So they do. But it's really like Valentines Day in Winter. Pretty much every young couple go out on a date that...

Haha! Ridge Racer :-) yes check out Wangan on YouTube. There are many roads even around little old Tokyo that bring out the speed demon in everyone. I just did a thousand Km round trip to Kyoto. The expressways here are awesome, especially at night. Very video gamish. Of course I always stick...

I have been here for nearly 13 years HT. I work as a corporate English language business trainer. It keeps me in gas and pays the bills, most of the time. ;-) Thanks for the positive comments and welcome. I can see we all suffer from the same obsession. My Z3 puts a smile on my face every time I...