Packard 54 at Dave's

Straight-8 meets Little-3!

A pic for a saturday

Washed, clayed and waxed today so thought I'd try and take a half way decent pic...

Honda EV-N

Thanks to Andy for sending us this link the other day - Love it!! We've always wanted an old N but this would do nicely too.

Interesting S2000

Front arches are almost beat-like, love the wheels, love the fenders but Im unsure about the back...

E-Moist Mobile...

Would love to have a go in this :D

Cory's Cube

Been meaning to get a pic of our friend Cory's cube for a while now. 3 Very silly cars all together:

KKITP 2009!

20th September was the annual Kei Kars in the Park meet at Kingsbury Water Park - the turn out was really good this year with plenty beats, cappos, a lovely avanzato and best of all, all 3 of the known AZ-1's on the road in the UK. People travelled from as far as Scotland and Cornwall to come and eat icecream and drink expensive cups of tea from the cafe.
It was a lovely day and Emily did a fantastic job of making it a great day for everyone who turned out. Best of all the Beat-club won a trophy for Best Presented Club - woo!
Sadly our pics didnt come out too great but heres a few of em:

The South-Yorkshire mini-convoy met at services on the M1 - it was great to catch up with the Beardo-Family again:


Adam's awesome 'Best Decorated Kei-Car' winning cappo gave many smiles and admiring glances from amazed kids :D:


Good turn out this year:




A famous little beat won 'Best Presented Beat':


Here's its moment of stardom:


Fantastic Avanzato:



More cappos:


Always our fav cappo - looking lovely in the sun!:


There's some great pics on Beardo's site here (including our new fav pic of our car!), and Emilys KKITP album here - both are probably a lot better than ours!

Teggy goes to TDI North

Speaking of the teg, it was time for its annual service so we popped over to TDI North in Warrington to get it done and fit a couple of bits we had for it as well. Fortuntely all was well and no other work was needed. The Mugen manifold and cat went on, along with Goodridge hoses and a FEELS engine damper. More pics to come soon once the poor thing has had a clean!
The biggest change we noticed was when the engine damper was fitted - the vibrations are felt much more in the cabin but the engine response and general feel under acceleration is really great. At first we were a bit unsure whether it would be ok for every day driving but we've quickly got used to it.

Curborough Sprint Day

Towards the end of August a bunch of the KKITP regulars headed down to Curborough Sprint Course in the Midlands for a fun day out messing around in small cars. In amongst the scoobys, glanza's and other big fast cars were a couple of cappos, don's AZ-1 and Dave's beat. Sadly Mr Beat-chan wasnt back on the road at this point so we took the teg down and had a few leisurely laps of the course - easily setting the record for the slowest ever integra lap! :D
The day was a lot of fun and certainly wetted our appetite to do it again... but definitely in the beat next time! Thanks to Emily, Tom and all the guys for a brilliant day out.

Waiting to go behind Don:


Onboard with dave:


Waiting patiently behind Andy and one of them scooby-things:


Dave takes Emily out for a spin:

mega-update pt1

Right, big update time - first thing first, the little bugger is BACK! He went for the MOT on the thursday and went straight through without any advisories. Then it was back for a quick polish before we collected him. On friday we headed down to Hawleys here in shef to get a laser alignment done and the A048's fitted. The tyres have been fantastic and really transform the car (will be sad to go back to normal tyres once the weather turns!).
We're over the moon to have the little chap back and have been having far too much fun driving around to remember to write blog updates! Thanks again to everyone who sent us messages and get well soon stuff for the car - and hugest thanks to John, Matt, Andy, Kaz and everyone else at the bodyshop for their incredible work and help. :)
Here's some pics from the friday after some new tyres and a good wax:

sticker-rescue.

This is sad i know, but i've just spent 10 minutes rescuing stickers from the underside of the wrecked old bonnet... :)

Getting REALLY excited now...

It's amazing the difference the new lights make. Hopefully MOT-time very very soon.

Friday update - nearly there!

Popped in to see how things are going earlier - and things are looking gooood! Front panel has been painted and all the new bits installed in the front. The bumper and bonnet were drying in the booth as we were there. Looks like we'll have a car again by next week!

Sillyness.

Apparently its a suzuki twin (thanks hothybrids again!). They look very daft indeed and I kinda like em!

I like these but have no idea what they are.

Just spotted one on the previous video which reminded me of this awesomely ridiculous beastie:













http://www.kc-technica.com/democar/twin/index.html