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Matthew Gribben commented on Iain Phillips (aka wimpy)'s event Ace Cafe and Fueltopia InCarNation -Brighton
"1) Wimpy - Subaru L528 MJB 2)JimmyDrama - MR2 3)Skoty - who knows what car by then!! 4)garry x919 fpo 5)Karl - Astra T364 PGB 6) Alexis - BMW LM55 HFD 7) Danny Neville F363 UJH (fbs) 8) Simon Clark S13 BSC 9) Matt E5 MPE 10) Lozzy T310 ARO (fbs) 11)…"
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Ace Cafe and Fueltopia InCarNation -Brighton at Brighton Madeira Drive

April 29, 2012 all day
 On Sunday 29th April 2012, Brighton’s famous seafront road, Madeira Drive will host some of the UK’s finest automobiles as Ace Cafe London and Fueltopia team up to present INCARNATION Brighton. This event is now in its second year and  is set to out do the 2011 event. This event was conceived following the popularity of the regular monthly InCarNation meet, held at the North London venue for the past Three years, with racers, tuners and car clubs from across the country vying for space. Each…See More
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"Love going to watch these up my way, loads of fun... really should enter a car one day myself"
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"I've thought about this a great deal, my nephew is 8 now and really in 10 years time how many petrol engine cars will be left? almost none besides the ones we enthusiasts choose the keep alive and use as toys. I think its very unlikely that…"
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Matthew Gribben commented on JustJJ's blog post Glittery, Shiny, Beautiful Paintwork!
"Well done guys and great job, very glad you didn't just give up and scrap it like so many people would have done!"
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Matthew Gribben left a comment for JimmyDrama
"My immobiliser failed dude so I couldn't make it :-( but yes defo april "
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"Dude, what happened on Sunday? You guys up for April's round?"
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Matthew Gribben commented on JustJJ's blog post The work gets done...
"Amazing work, glad to see somebody putting in the effort rather than just scrap it. Keep it up"
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Matthew Gribben commented on Chris Garner's blog post Test fit of turbo setup
"Looking very nice"
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Matthew Gribben commented on Karl's blog post Two FT Staffer cars combined.
"Agree'd mate, they rear diffuser is pant wettingly good.. I love the colour...the wheels... want!"
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JimmyDrama commented on Matthew Gribben's blog post MR T - Prepping the MR2 - The tale of the exploding rad
"Argh just found this blog. Nice work man that rad looks epic. Might have to give them a look up myself as I could do with a better rad on the front of my tubby. Just have to make sure I cAn also fit the additional charge cooler rad in too being a…"
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MR T - Prepping the MR2 for the FBS 2012

Posted on February 15, 2012 at 10:07pm 6 Comments

Intended on writing this sooner but with one thing and another we haven't had time to sit down let alone write this blog! So I never intended on building a track car, or even getting this MR2! It started with an unlocked phone and ebays mobile app... a few accidental bids later and I was the lucky owner of a 'beautiful' mk2 MR2 2.0 GT T-Bar...…

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MR T - Prepping the MR2 - The tale of the exploding rad

Posted on February 13, 2012 at 10:00pm 1 Comment

Driving project MR T into the office the other day I noticed something a bit odd, i kept getting some brownish sludge spraying up over the bonnet... It had snowed quite badly so i just assumed this was from the road, I mean I was on the motorway and maybe some snow was just getting lose from the bumper with the speed.

Then i realised that brown sludge was also followed by little puffs of steam, I'm pretty sure the Toyota wasn't hiding a steam  engine under the hood so…

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At 6:14pm on March 13, 2012, JimmyDrama said…

Dude, what happened on Sunday? You guys up for April's round?

At 5:03pm on December 1, 2011, JimmyDrama said…

Hi mate, welcome to the site. Looking forward to checking out the blogs - give me a shout if you need anything

 
 
 

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