Day in pictures, Mini meet + some night photography

[16v_paddy]

Had a pretty busy day yesterday. Got a reasonably early start which resulted in me & my housemates giving our cars a clean

Big german tank & my valver

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V6 just before he started to put on his £80 a tub swissol wax

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Then went to pick my mate Greg (creggers) up and got to a cliosport :shock: mini meet at Donington Park services. Had a nice little drive in the country which Greg got on film. I told him to edit out the downshift that I ****ed up before he posts it up :lol:

The turnout was crap to say the least :roll: but we met a couple of top blokes. I didn't take many pics tho :oops: Also met a guy who was coming to buy my spare fan blower called Ash who's got a williams, unfortunately he couldn't bring the willy so came in his van

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This is dave's 182, doesn't look anything special but I've got mucho respect for what he's done to it. It was a fully chavved up 182 with a disgusting & piss poorly fitted body kit :roll: It was also crashed so he got it stupidly cheap & worked quite hard to fix it and put it back to standard 8)

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Another guy, matt was there - Greg took some pics of his really nice R5 8)
We then went for a nice little blast and we learned how cheap tyres affect a cars handling :lol: Dave was quite impressed how my valver went round a roundabout while following & Greg got a video of him attempting to go round 1 quite quick and the result was quite funny, he went round it then turned off the roundabout - his 182 turned in really well - then the colossal understeer happened :shock: almost on full lock & still going in a straight line :lol:

Then we had to call it a day as I had to go to work :cry: After dropping Greg home, I got back to mine & realised I was running stupidly late :shock: but I managed to do the usual 25 min trip in 15 :twisted: so it was all gravy, made it with 5 mins to spare so not late at all 8)
Since I had a camera with me I decided to have a go at some night photography in the industrial surroundings of where I work

A few select pictures and the rest should be here http://photobucket.com/16v_paddynightshots


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I know it's out of focus :oops: but I quite like this picture
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[andreas395]

looking mint mate 8)

[MatrixGuy]

Looks cracking mate.

I take it your 'housemate' with the V6 has a good job?! lol. :shock:

[16v_paddy]

He works on the railways so gets paid quite well :x

Me & my other housemate manage to keep his ego in check though, we keep telling him it's just a bathtub on wheels with a 406 engine in the boot :P