Alfadog

Alan, since you were around back then I assume, you might be able to enlighten me. Did Australia always work in metric when it came to the roads? Did they use MPH at some stage? If so, when did they change to KMPH do you know? Do you know why it took so long for cars to change to KMPH if the speed limits were already at KMPH, or did everything get changed over in 1973?

No, you're right, we do work in kmph. However cars didn't have to be in kmph until 1973 I think, so that's why the Zs were mph before that date and kmph after. Why an EARLIER car would be in kmph can only be explained by someone changing it over from mph. That is reasonable as I would imagine a fair few people have done it here to avoid confusion. My 1971 240Z is in mph and my 1973 is in kmph with mph readings in smaller text as well.

Don't you dare complain! got it better than the rest of the world...

I guess my analogy is no good then Rick!

I'm very sorry to hear about you not coming this easter... I'll take pictures for you. How about 2004? OK so offset doesn't really need to be exactly the same, in fact if it meant to have a positive offset, if a wider wheel is wanted the offset should be ... more? My 240K has specified a 28 mm positive offset. How varied can the offset of new wheels be before some problems occur? Is it hard to say exactly? Are front and rear offset values different usually? Lachlan P.S. would love to see some pictures of your cars some time Graeme... you should upload them to the gallery! EDIT: Whoops, looks like you had the same idea as me and put URLs to your images in your signature! Good one.

Now, there are a whole lot of numbers on a wheel which mean different things - most of which I know already but there is a certain part of the specification that I don't understand. Hopefully one of you can help explaining this to me, and possibly some others here too. Each wheel has the following dimensions (please say if there are others too!): Stud number and pattern (e.g. 4/114.3) Diameter (e.g. 15") Width (e.g. 6") Offset (e.g. 25 degrees) What exactly is the "offset"? Why do different cars need different offsets? Do you need a different offset if you go for a wider or larger wheel? I'm just a little confused... Thank you

ROFL That's the best thing ever!!! ROFL

To a degree, I agree. Why did everyone hate the rich kid at school? Because the rich kid was arrogant? Ignorant? Pompous? Or maybe just because he was rich? Something to think about..

Someone buy this car, quick!!! Love the colour too...

If anyone doesn't want to listen about the topic of impending war they can CLOSE THE WINDOW. I dont see hte problem of an odd thread about something other than Zs, as long as it's calm and intellectual. That said, I'm not one to go into discussion about such things

Wow!! great stuff! It all looks good, except why did he choose yeeeeeeeeellow?! Ugh

Aww, I reckon they're neat Buy one over an MGB any day! But I agree, not really my style.

There's a immaculate dark blue 2000 Roadster for sale on the Gold Coast here, for $13000. Hasn't sold for a couple of weeks though so maybe it's not as immaculate as the picture makes it out to be? never seen one in real life though...

It's alright it doesn't really bother me that much Just me being dramatic... :stupid:

If heavy and complicated means it's not a sports car, then no new car is a sports car, save the Elise. The meaning of sports car, IMO, has changed. The name GT is usually reserved for expensive cars nowdays it seems.

Hi Interesting thread! Mine started 8 odd years ago when my brother had a nickname and I didn't. Everyone called him Effa (as in, E for Elliott). My name is Lachlan, and dad owned a couple of Alfa Romeos at the time so I thought it was fitting - Alfa. Later on in Need For Speed 1 the computer game, one of the default high scores was by "Alfadog". My brother thought I must have got the high score as I was Alfa... he always wanted to know how I got such a good time!!! After that I kinda adopted hte name Alfadog. It stuck On the Internet anyway. In real life people call me by my real name. Alfadog could also be taken as another word for 'Top Dog' (Alfa = A = First = Top). What pisses me off is when people spell it Alpha. The spelling came from Italy, not Greece!!! It gets on my nerves even more when people do it on the Internet, when they can clearly see how to write my name! OK, who's next?

Well said Rob. Here are the things I dont think are necessary on the main page: - Shout box (but I know others use this quite a lot so it probably should stay) - Club Stats (maybe just have members, posts and total hits? Or maybe just have the stats linked from a link in the main menu?) - Coming Z Events (is there ever an event in here?) - Private Messages (Shouldn't be there - maybe just a link in the Personal Menu?) - Automotive (It's a trick little feature, but does anyone really use it?) - Random Z car (I agree with 2ManyZ's in that if I want to see random pictures I will click the random pictures link) I do not agree however that the number of news items should be decreased. Three is a minimum, if you're going to do anything add another one! And WHOA, I've never clicked the "Got Roadster" link before. Nice sister-site Mike!!!

But you see people who buy new cars are strange. They don't WANT to work on their car.. they like things called "warranty" and they seem to think new cars have more style?????? Who knows, they're very very strange...

If I was a dumb bimbo who thought a 16 year old could own a Ferrari, I would believe that Datsun76. :classic:

George, I was considering adding something to the end of that statement but decided to hold my breath in case I aggrovated anyone I tread lightly in these times...

ROFL yes rick, you are a dirty old man... whether that's a good thing or a bad thing is questionable though!!!

Either that, or no one else is as patriotic as us !!!

A dill who is doing a full restoration to a 240Z... Oooo sounds like a chance to make some money!!! Quick, put up all your spare Z bits up on ebay!!!