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Fri Jan 27, 2006 2:40 am
MrDazzle - sure Geez, anytime you want! A working title should be "Beemer Dreamer - disaster becomes success in 5 long years!" ;) LOL
NO but seriously though, I cant tell you how many people as far back as 2002 were telling me this had gone on way too long and was a nightmare and to sell the car as it was and give up on it. I swore back then after Stratos and that Wankstain Graham Foster (God I hope i see that guy somewhere somehow again, preferably when im at the wheel of the M3 so i can run the muvverfolker over with it and with a perfectly set ride height I rekon i might be able to skin the guy alive as he's lying down in the road, what do you think? LOL) took my car apart and sold it in parts like a scrapper that whatever happened i would finish it and as you all have seen, its taken nightmare turn after nightmare twist to the point that i've ended up head in hands in tears many times especially during the last 4 months because i guess i really thought that finally, FINALLY, Zoom/John were the outfit to conclude this sad saga positively at last and it did look that way for some time, until John had his accident really and things slowly fell apart after that to be honest. That was the problem, that i got quite relaxed about it and stopped doubting that we would get there by Christmas!!!
So now I am again, pretty much free of skeptisism once more having had a very very reassuring talk with Phil Crouch about finishing the car, he was super down to earth and sensible in what he said. Foremost is the fact that he has done alot of other cars belonging to some people that i know about who were also shafted by Stratos but above all else, he's working on Kos's car and Ive met Kos once and spoke to him over many months and despite the fact that the guy works really hard in shifts, he's been there to help, returns all my calls, found me someone cheap to transport the car back to London and has set me up with Phil to finish my car with no delays, the guy's a hero in my book given ive done nothing for him (yet!) prior to that barring paying him a pittence for some door cards and a back seat for the car!!! Having said that, he's invited to bruntingthorpe with me to set the car up properly and sort the corner weights, suspension settings, ride height & pitch etc and after that im straight off to a trackday at Snetterton or Brands Hatch and if he's interested, I'm right there to the right of him in the passenger seat when he takes my car out for the first time on the track! That's how i treat mates who go out of their way to help me when i need them, something i thought was true of John Moffat too until 3 weeks ago, which is a shame, a real shame!
So yeah, T-Minus 5 days and counting!!! I have doubted in the last week given my wranglings with John over issues i cant discuss here but which left a very sour taste in my mouth and a sick feeling in the stomach, doubted whether i would see the car again, but given how tight knit the Beemer community is, everyone knows everyone and if anything out of order happened with my car, he'd never be able to go drifting or work in the BMW community again if anything but me getting the car to Phil transpired next week.... I spoke to him today and he seemed pretty boyant compared to other times of late, and he's gonna try and collect my bonnet, bootlid and side skirts which have been with Jason the painter for about 8 months now!!! If so, it means everything will be together and with the car ready to go to Phil's on Wednesday! Hope springs eternal and all that!
So Im fairly happy and relaxed about things for the first time in months now.
More to come next week!
Later
MFree
p.s can the mods tell me if this is the most viewed post ever on the Zone with over 7600 views? or is there a thread that beats it in the past? I rekon it'll be up to about 10,000 by the conclusion of this merry jaunt, once i have photos of the finished car up and everything has come up rosey!!!
