Got my S14 !!!

[michaelj]

Took delivery this morning, and have been playing ever since. I took a couple of piccies before the sun set, to share my happiness.

I hope these work...
http://www.btinternet.com/~michael.j.kearns/car_front_small.JPG

http://www.btinternet.com/~michael.j.kearns/car_side_small.JPG

Thanks to everyone for the info about the handling. I've slowly worked up my speed around bends in the dry today, and I'm starting to get a feel for it. Only managed 120Mph on the straight so far though ;o)

On private land of course *cough*

Michael.


[This message has been edited by michaelj (edited 23-06-2001).]

[JB]

A fine car in a fine colour, if I may say so. Well done http://www.contrabandent.com/pez/otn/wink/smily012.gif

Are you going to be making any mods?

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JB
'00 Emerald S14 auto
http://www.contrabandent.com/pez/otn/mfinger/2up.gif to XR2s (except StuyMacs), XR3s,
lowered Saxo VTRs, crapped out Cavaliers
and ALL BMWs http://www.ihs4ever.com/~cwm/otn/violent/gore.gif

[michaelj]

Hi JB.

No mods for the moment, as it's already put my mortgage at 120%, and the wife will kill me if I even suggest spending any more on it just now (she does like the car though).

If I get a decent bonus come christmas, I may consider a few additions, assuming nothing else *needs* replacing in the meantime.

Is Emerald the official nissan name for the pearly green ? It seems to generally be green in colour, but at times I'll swear it's blue/turqoise/purple...

It sure is fun anyhow ;o)

[geoff_s14]

Micheal,

Your car is identical to my first S14. You're right about the colour. If you can manage to keep it clean it looks purple when the sun shines directly on it, other times it looks blue, then green. I can't remember what the official name for this colour was, but its different from the emerald on mine and JB's car, which is very close to a British Racing Green, and looks really good with the cream leather interior.

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Geoff
S14, logbook says emerald, actually dirt coloured.

[JB]

I've found that Emerald doesn't seem to be a particularly hard colour. By that I mean that you only have to look at it and it scratches and is very prone to stone-chipping.

It's also a b*gger to try to fade the scratches away. What do you think chaps? I'm worried now that wer're in the traditional Throw-Some-Stones-On-A-Thin-Layer-Of-Bitumen-And-Call-It-Road-Surfacing season.

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JB
'00 Emerald S14 auto
http://www.contrabandent.com/pez/otn/mfinger/2up.gif to XR2s (except StuyMacs), XR3s,
lowered Saxo VTRs, crapped out Cavaliers
and ALL BMWs http://www.ihs4ever.com/~cwm/otn/violent/gore.gif

[Nathan_200sx]

Nice car. the good thing about deep greens is that they shine up realy well, not like some colours where you spend all morning on it and it looks the same as when you started.
As for those sodding stone chip's I share your fears JB, I pick mine up next week from a respray so I'll be guy going 5mph over them. If I get one chip Im going around to the highways department with a sand blaster

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Nathan
Red S13 Mongoose, K&N T3 280ish BHP http://mysmilies.com/smilies/cwm30.gif
Empty bank account

[Jon]

That's my car !

I bought it on cloudy day and thought it was blue. Before I collected it my colour blind brother went for a look and swore it was green. I didn't believe him until the first time I saw it in sunlight.



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Jon in Dewsbury
'95 blue/green S14

[geoff_s14]

Jon,

I had a similar experience when I bought mine. When I first saw it it was inside a showroom, and looked a really stately shade of dark blue. I told my other half about the car in an attempt to get her enthusiastic about the idea of getting one, but she wasn't too keen about the colour as I'd described. Anyways, when I took her to see it they'd moved it outside it looked totally different, cause it was sunny and so it now looked purple.

JB - I too am a bit disappointed about the propensity of the body to pick up stone chips (hence my fitting rear mudflaps, for which you took the p1ss some weeks ago I seem to remember). The brochure boasts that the laquer on the metallic paints is extra tough - that only seems to apply when you come to try and polish a scratch out, at which point it takes on the physical properties of diamond. Drop a grain of sand on it though and it goes straight through.