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Strange - I must have missed him - wonder if he was standing behind me in my blind spot all the time? Or was it my twin cousins the 118's from the northampton branch of the family! Cheers, David

Spotted on Saturday from around 08:30 until 16:00...In Kent, Essex, Bedfordshire and Oxforshire... The biggest hair I have ever seen!! Strange - I must have missed him - wonder if he was standing behind me in my blind spot all the time? Or was it my twin cousins the 118's from the northampton branch of the family! Cheers, David

I'd just like to add my thanks - I know I've already mentioned it to those of you who now own an "arrival at Prodrive" piccie of yourselves, but you guys were so well organised and friendly to Chrissy and me that it kicked the day off to a fantastic start which just kept the buzz going all day. The Kent leg wouldn't have worked so well if there hadn't been loads of effort behind the scenes - when it comes together like this it isn't just luck!! Cheers, David P.S. that heavyweight jacket came in pretty handy later in the day

A small selection from Kent and Prodrive on their way right now- An awesome day - good luck with the rest of the run David

Picking up on the sentiments expressed here and there on the forum, I have a suggestion to offer. Can we build a list of all those companies / organisations who have donated vehicles / raffle / auction prizes etc to support the event? Partly to give them due credit & thanks, but also to allow us to put a bit of our future business their way to acknowledge what good folk they are. Similarly ( and maybe a little more contentious?), I suggest that if we knew the contact details - post or email - of the actual person who said "NO!" at the less charitable fuel companies we could each write and explain just how unimpressed we are with their attitude. To get an impact, we would really need to focus all of our contact onto the same person, rather than a range. We would also need to keep our message polite but firm - one abusive rant would spoil all the rest of the pressure that this could otherwise apply. You never know, we might even shame them into coughing up a donation to the fund after all. This weekend wouldn't have happened without the imagination and commitment of so many of you members. I might be pretty new in here, but a few of you have made one heck of an impression on me already. Look forward to meeting some of you and joining many many of you tomorrow. Cheers and be safe David

Excellent! I was going to join at South Mimms and run to Prodrive, but S*D IT - I'll get up early and meet you guys either at the Wharf, or at Fox's if we end up running late. The sound of the tunnel had already been tempting me and this has just clinched it. SCOOYTOO - I'll pm you my details in a minute. Cheers, David

Printed a copy to take in the car just in case it helps calm down any overenthusiastic traffic cop who decides to "have a word" with me anyway!

Cliff- I touch goats Cheers, David

bttt from an ex-pat £150 for the large David

My willpower gave out - just given it a tryout. First ran the tank awful low waited until it coughed as it swayed round a roundabout, then gave it 2 litres from the can to do the last 8 miles to the petrol station. You can't miss the right pump - carefully chosen to be nearest the road and with a big silver signage. The pump is well labelled - press this orange button to confirm that you are rich / daft enough to buy this!! Stand and watch the really clear stuff flow as it has a pretty little window in the pump handle where little red beads tumble in the flow Ahhhhhh! I put 5 in the can and 20 in the tank - I suppose if i ignore the low reading on the dash, then paying just over 60 squidlings ain't too scary. The folk on the till were more interested in it than I was - loads of questions and please come back and tell us chatter while the queue just grew behind me. Got a levely little booklet all about it and a sticker to advertise it for them too. The booklet shows 5 cars in their test - not identified specifically, but they name an Impreza as being somewhere in the list. The only big warning in the booklet was that if you remap to the new fuel, then never use anything less without "taking advice". Then out onto the road - ran it up and down Chicheley hill to let the magic work through the system, then headed home. I'm really not sure that I'd be able to spot just a few percent change in performance, but it certainly didn't choke on it. My initial gut feel is that it was a little bit sluggish at pulling away, but that from 5 to 7 thou there was a difference - maybe best described as spinning more freely and just a little more eager. I'll probably let it run quite low again and give it another 20-30 litres so that there is minimal dilution left in the tank, then off to Rockingham on Sunday to give it a chance on a longer run. btw running one of the first 05 WRX's to get released, plus PPP upgrade but no other tweaks. Cheers, David

Whilst I like the idea of the crowd being as big as possible, shared stickers will mean an awful lot of fivers not going to charity? I suspect the "late arrivals" won't have seen any Wilky sponsorship forms either. Don't forget the primary aim of the run - so dig deep on the day!! Any rough idea just how many will be making it to Prodrive? See you from South Mimms to Prodrive. David

Take a look at this old article to see a full story on the scam http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/mirrorinvesti...name_index.html If you'd taken the email headers apart, no doubt the source IP Address would not have been Italy - Nigeria or Eastern block are the haven's for most of these rogues. You're a brave lass taking them on as far as you did Frenchy, but it must have wound them up!! Cheers, David

I suspect that a fair few of you will be arriving at Prodrive looking for a fuel top up? (Clacket Lane to South Mimms = 55 miles and then another 80 to Prodrive) http://www.petrolprices.com/members/?searc...&fueltype=1 shows that there is Super Unleaded at nearby Tesco / Sainsbury / BP / Total, but Shell is a good 15 miles away. Cheers, David

Seen it before, so i won't spoil it for the others y answering at once! A hint - obviously, there is a need for quick folk to be used for the return trip, but once a quickie has come back, he needs to get across again sometime (maybe not straight away). Have fun David

Ouch! sites like that just remind us what a joy motoring can be - remind me never to go on-line when I'm filling up. I still like to exercise the grey matter - 50 litres is 11 gallons, but if you put 45.45 litres in each time, then it's easy to divide the miles by 10 gallons (not so easy if that won't all fit in the tank of course). Milton Keynes roundabouts certainly keep mine below 20 mpg

Spot on advice! They all exploit the fact that we are a generally trusting bunch of folk and that even a very tiny percentage of the foolish or greedy who fall for the scam is all they need to get rich. Loads of good anti-phishing sites out there, but my current preference is millersmiles.co.uk - this one is on their "hot" list and it has a good bias towards UK based scams. Cheers, David

Sadly, despite quoting the icstis web site, you didn't visit it first to see their very clear message explaining that the message being forwarded around (again) is yet another urban legend. But don't take it personal as these messages are intended to con you into doing just what you and millions of others did. Sufficiently well known to have made it to the best reference site for all email / virus type hoaxes - take a visit to snopes.com and bookmark it - you may want to add urbanlegends.about.com as well. Once you've got the hang of recognising these hoaxes, they can be quite fun to laugh at, as they will almost always make some extravagant claim and then "validate" it by quoting some impressive authority who always say "it really is true!" Cheers, David

I noticed a real change in attitude after my first WRX got wiped out - spent a couple of weeks in a Citroen C3 that must have been invisible! I drove the same roads, maybe not quite identically, but never realised how much respect the scooby used to get compared to the C3. The only really sound explanation ever offered was that things would have changed if only I'd stuck Petter's piggy decal on the mirror of the C3 <grin>