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My late mother was 5' 2" and always had problems bracing herself as a passenger. My father was a careful Scotsman (living up to his regional stereotype) so rolled up an old dog bed cushion and bound it together with duct tape. It sorted mum out for over 20 years!

I wouldn't worry too much about being a novice, everyone starts somewhere.. You should be number 10, so hopefully you can dump your gear in a third garage.

I think it would be a lot warmer watching a stream. the snow man and rob Huff in the E type.

Maybe a new type of rare engine everyone seems to want vtec nowadays

I think you need to warn people before posting photos like that!

I took those off my car when fitting the cage (didn’t think they’d fit!) and went for the spa type They have odd reflections mind

I've just fitted a pair of these to my cage, a little bit different...

I've just purchased some furore headlights for mine...

If you ever find yourself in NZ and feel the need to wring the snot out of your rental car, there's few roads that can beat the Takaka Hill road in the top west of the South Island. It goes from sea level to 820 metres and back down to 110 metres in as the crow flies 15kms, so you gotta know it's twisty. The road eventually dead-ends at the village of Takaka, so there's not much traffic on the hill. A bonus to the mighty blat is the Pupu Springs at Takaka, which has the second clearest fresh water in the world, with a underwater horizontal visibility of over 63 metres, a depth of 29 metres, and discharges 14,000 litres per second! Incidently, the clearest in the world is also in NZ. We were over there to see the springs, etc about 10 years ago and had left our return too late and started the hill in the dark. From memory the missus and I had had a 'discussion' about something, so I attacked the hill, only to hit fog so thick we couldn't see more than two car lengths in front for the whole traverse. There was no-one else stupid enough to travel the hill, I was in a mood, I still had young eyes and did alot of night driving back then, so kept blasting over the hill. She says she will never travel on that hill with me ever again! It's snowing here today in Glasgow, and when I skyped my mum in NZ the other night, she said it was so hot they were sleeping with just a sheet over them. Ho, hum

This is what you call snow!

Here are a couple from this morning. lot of fuss over nowt.

This mornings snowy piccie. We have had more snow this time round than last time. It had blown away from the garage door , but a decent few inches fell over night. Not driving anywhere today, but walking dogs and open fire is on the menu. Also the first time for snow ploughs on the streets.

Pictures or it didn't happen. We like pictures

f;in hell i'll check it before I publish... cheers Panda

Hi John you are welcome to join me in my V8, but no falling asleep like our last trip, plus I don't think we will find a bridge like this in Wales

My missus wanted a footrest, but as she's only 5'1" I didn't want to screw down a permanent one to suit her as that would prevent taller people fitting in. So I got really dense chip-foam, shaped it to suit the floorpan and contoured it to clear the bungee net on the left hand side, covered it in Veltrim auto trimming carpet, and added a rubber foot pad. In fact, I made two removable footrests for her - one for flat shoes and one for heels! (I like to keep my bread buttered). It also protects the ECU which is bolted to the firewall down at the end of the footwell. Tip for schoolboys - electric breadknives cut foam superbly.

Hey, if Scotland had 1million less people, had a land mass larger than Great Britain, a summer longer than three weeks and 90% less midges and potholes, I wouldn't long for home so much - because you can't knock Scotland on a good day, especially the Highlands and Islands!

Only a few weeks to go if anyone wishes to join us. Lets hope the weather is as good as the other year.