black06z

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wow. nice Z. glad to hear someone from our sister country.

drivenCSZ

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hi my name's driven, and im an alcoh....










oh wait...... wrong forum, nevermind

Mr Chubbs

Made me smile!

Thanks for the warm welcome guys - Yes Bronzee, we have a user with the name you mention over here at http://www.350zUKownersclub.com - but I must say that this US community is much larger than ours in the UK, with many more people who have modded their Z's.

Did you guys know that over here in the UK they make us pay TWICE AS MUCH for a Z as you do? A top of the range 07 in England costs $60,000 (that's what we call a GT pack - heated leather, cruise control, 'premium' Bose stereo haha). And petrol (or gas, as you call it) is about $8 per gallon!

This leaves us much less money for mods than you guys - That's my explanation anyway!!!!


Edit - why not come and say hello to us over at THE UK OWNERS CLUB - You'll have to register (like you do for most things online these days), but it's free and then you can say hello and show us your beautiful Z - we're just nuts about them and we droool over a modded one!! A bonus is you could have a look at some of ours too - One guy has got his up to 580bhp and is still looking for new challenges!

Mr Chubbs

Thanks! Looks like your Z history goes back even further than mine - but you guys got them a few months before we did!

Maybe you can tell me why I'm unable to add my sig pic and my own avatar! Do I need to join up and pay someone?

Geoff

Shift_Z33

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Welcome. I wish I had bought the 19" LMGT4 instead of 18".

Mr Chubbs

As they say, it's only an inch, but it makes a difference!

BRONZEE

A bit like NZ. Only a limited number of Zeds here, so only a handful of heavily modded 350's so far. Cost of modding is reasonably expensive here still once you've added on freight and import duty.
Ouch, that's expensive! That's getting up there with the cost of reasonable European sports car. Average car is about 20k Pounds isn't it?
An 07 in NZ is around 76K (NZ$) or about 30K Pounds.

ps. A big thanks to the Zclub UK for the cool stuff you sent over with Handel for the Zclub NZ. The scrapbook of your clubs history is awesome.

blueZcar

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nice car, great rims

IcW@TeR

the website says you call it twilight grey and kuro black, black one looks slick, are you trying to propagate the image of the English pompous jackass? just wondering

Mr Chubbs

English pompous jackass indeed!!!

Anyway - In England, the early blacks were called Kuro (solid colour). The new, pearlescent black is called Ebisu (named after a racetrack in Japan, called Ebisu!).

The old metallic grey was called Gunmetal and the new grey is called Twilight Grey. I still think Nissan should make a dark metallic grey - The Z would look lovely in dark grey.

Funnily, we've never had Brickyard or Pearl White over here as colour options

BRONZEE

If it makes you feel any better, we don't have the same colour options as the US either.

Mr Chubbs

Nope - Just makes me feel sad for you, too

BRONZEE

Haha, that's what modding is for.

MarkM

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Hi Geoff

Mr Chubbs

Who are you?

The Brickyard Rat

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"Funnily, we've never had Brickyard or Pearl White over here as colour options "...Mr. Chubbs

Sorry but Brickyard was reserved for only those who were on G.Washington's winning team in 1783!!

Mr Chubbs

HaHaHa - Very good!!!



...but tell me old chap - what exactly was it that you won? George Dubblyah? Or was he second prize?

So if we got 'brickyard over here, I wonder what the geniuses at Nissman would call it? - Deep Purple, perhaps - and get it driven by Ozzy Osborne?

Morningglorie

Hi Geoff and welcome.

What part of England are you from? My husband is from Shropshire. Nice place to be from... (He's glad to be here now.)

Do you get many roadsters over there or does the rain make it not practical? ;-)

The Brickyard Rat

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Chubby, I think George W. was backed by the English as a get even for G. Washington's fine work a few hundred years ago! LOL!