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I hope everyone had a great Christmas!

In addition to drinking my body weight in fine German beer, I got to let the old girl stretch her legs with two great drives:

First drive from my sister's place to my parents' on Christmas Eve: Link.

This route I did along with my uncle in his Mk5 Golf R32. It did take us about 6 hours, but that was with about an hour lunch stop. The R32 lost me for a section on glorious when it was wet, but in the dry I could keep up and on good surfaces I could eat him up. He was quite impressed with the 'old datsun'.

On the way home (boxing day) I went this way: Link.

I was on my own this time, and it took about 3 hours (no stops). Unfortunately it started pissing down rain as I approached nebo and it was foggy as hell, so this was a very slow section. But otherwise, another top drive.

All lives, vehicles, and licences remain intact, and most of the cargo as well (there were a couple of casualties though :D). And best of all - no traffic! Sif take the highway.

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waiting on clutch now and engine mounts

other than that we're basically good to start her up

then tehre is the extra things like my gauges/coilovers and some other goodies :D

hopefully cranking her over next sunday

waiting on clutch now and engine mounts

other than that we're basically good to start her up

then tehre is the extra things like my gauges/coilovers and some other goodies :D

hopefully cranking her over next sunday

Win ... Sif steal my bf all the time LOL

<3 almost done, weee!

waiting on clutch now and engine mounts

other than that we're basically good to start her up

then tehre is the extra things like my gauges/coilovers and some other goodies :D

hopefully cranking her over next sunday

Hahaha. Now you know how Dan feels. Cupping?

Hahaha. Now you know how Dan feels. Cupping?

naa no cupping, my paws are saved for dave and arif hahaha

Hahahahahahaha !

He said your soap works a treat to get all the lube off ... I mean oil ... :D

all jokes aside, that soap is amazing

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