Dan E

as I said on the text, getting a 30 year old Esprit manifold off or Bob no contest, Bob doesn't stand a chance. You look after yourself Sparkles. x

you came across really well Kimbers, good to see Dad as well, I remember sitting opposite him at the TLF Christmas dinner absolute Gentleman

@Barrykearley funny you should say that, my son has been working for us for about a year mainly because he didn't know what he wanted to do and he never seemed in the slightest bit interested in doing anything electrical. He absolutely loves it, I got him a 2 week work experience at Bellway doing Quantity Surveying last Month and probably with a shoe in if he wanted it as one of my best mates is actually pretty high up in Bellway. Well he came back and said, Dad that is not for me I want to be a sparks. I was actually really pleased he did so he will start his apprenticeship in september. I have stuck him with some of the old school guys who actually know how to bend a bit of conduit and can fabricate stuff when the manufactured bits won't work. the only issue is i have noticed more and more of my power tools seem to have gone from the garage and into the back of his car 🤩

including the massively well organised one this year 🤩

I will drop it in to you this week sometime

would you like to borrow mine?

Yesterday on the 34 mile journey home from the office, I pulled out behind a Ferrari FF, lovely looking thing, now i have to drive through some country lanes to get to the M20 so we had a spirited drive through said country lanes keeping a decent distance between us, then on to the M20, the guy had excellent lane discipline and we followed each other the whole way back to chislehurst, he would let me go, then if the situation was reversed I would give him a quick flash of the headlights to let him go. When we split off on 2 different roads he gave me a thumbs up, always kept a respectful distance between us although we did hammer it when we came on to the A20 into silly numbers but safe and fun made my day.

Out of interest @C8RKH how much is a place like that?

we have it on everything, probably my fav herb!! In fact that salad @C8RKH just described is exactly what we had last night with garlic new pots, roast chicken with the addition of thinly sliced radish

@Barrykearley if you need to do the rear deck lose that spoiler and i reckon it would look stunning

100% its an esprit 😍 well i hope it is

agreed he once fixed my Esprit by telepathy and i still wish that wasn't true

I am up for that @Peapod

Sorry I think he did. I have known Sparky for 10 years maybe more and you won't find a more helpful chap as many on here will attest to (Sparkles you owe me a pint 😃)

Mr @SSA ELAN ESPRIT he really does know what he is talking about, so i would actually listen and reading the comment I don't think there was any "Smart Arse" about it

100% give him the problem. I will make sure it gets paid tomorrow

Awesome, that didn't take long 😃, I finally get my Christmas present!! Don't bother sending it I will pick it up on the way back from the office at some point and maybe we should have a pint to celebrate

Hi @Logit I have just got back from a 900 mile trek around Northern France in my GT410 sport manual with my wife. The car was absolutely epic, didn't miss a beat, even worked out on the M20 on the way home how the aircon worked 😃. The gearbox is notchy when cold but warmed up its an absolute pleasure. For me, who does 25 to 30k miles a year in an auto for work, it just wouldn't work having my fun car without a manual. My top tip for Europe trips is use this website to get a toll tag www.emovis-tag.co.uk if you have a Le Shuttle booking you don't have to pay the 10 Euro registration fee and then it is 8 Euro a year plus the usual toll fees. I can promise you cannot reach any of the toll booth stuff from the window of an Evora Dan E

just got back from France yesterday and have still only seen the first one, going to bing it over the next couple of days. The first episode was brilliant

This is the absolute joke of it all, when we done our Wills we got asked what happens if one of you die, so obvs I leave everything to Commander and she back to me, if we both die then it goes to our son, in trust controlled by a family member until he is 25. Then they asked, what if you all die!!! Didn't think about that! So spoke to my family, none of them wanted it for inheritance reasons so I have left my half to Help The Heros and Commander has left half to Cancer Research Anyway that should be enough off topic for me to get told off 😃

@C8RKH I am now on an interest only mortgage for inheritance reasons, it makes absolutely no sense for us to pay off the rest of the mortgage financially. Now you are correct, this was all done with some sound financial advice and our LTV is very favourable. So we invest the money saved on the mortgage, max out our pensions and ISA's. Its all down to playing the system and I am buggered if I am going to leave my son paying a penny to HMRC

Only seen the 1st one, brilliant

Rick i am going to text you Sparkles number

you have always wanted to work on that Elite, Rick owns a pub as you know, there is a deal in there somewhere

You are right that has been up for sale for a long time, I considered going to have a look at it but I was obsessed with getting one in Military Grey. It looks epic go and buy it