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Any Sunday is good for me too,

the Umart car park is definitely big enough for more cars than that, especially on a Sunday, they are under cover too, and I will open the business just for us to bum around in and drink beer if need be.

Oh and I want blue calipers, to go with the inside of my car ;)

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Green now that is an interesting idea, spose you are limited by what is available in high heat resistant paints.

Spectrix, plenty of taps available, and we might be up for a good old fashioned lan time permitting ;)

Well lets get some definite numbers and we will get it all organised so we aren't stuffing Spectrix around :)

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Yeap well so far the only confirmed is you Nex ;) I will definatly be there 100% _if_ my car is back on the road by then, which looking good as I'll probably be dropping it at Gav's tommorrow, then depeding on how busy Gav is... but I so want to do this, just too many _ifs_ for me atm, sorry, but yeah you get that on these big jobs :)

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Hmmm yeah but it'll probably still be at the mechanics, Gavin Woods to be precise, just confirmed that my replacement Mag is in and getting it towed there tommorrow morning, and Gav's is busy all this week, so they'll try to fit it in next week, so we'll see what happens ;) Even if it is still in there I might pop down and take a look see and have a nutter around so that next time I'll know exactly what is involved :)

Anyway I will keep you all informed of wether I'll be there or not as soon as I know what is happening with the vehicle :)

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