My latest 1st gen series 3

[Ian65]

How many days/weeks did it take u to do ur new site Ian?
I would,nt know where to start!
Ta stu..

Stu, it took me about 3 hrs altogether, although I split it over 3 evenings.
It\'s actually a doddle. I don\'t know anything about web code or html code so I just used microsoft publisher which came with microsoft office 2007 and used one of the their website templates. I then deleted all the stuff on the template that I didn\'t want, changed the background and inserted text boxes and pictures. The moving text I found on the web as a code and then just changed the text to say what I wanted then pasted it in.
 
At any stage you can just click \'website preview\' and it\'ll open it in \'explorer\' without loading it to the web so that you can try out different things and see how it all looks.
 
It\'s just like writing a letter and then click publish and publisher converts it to website files. You can then upload it to a hosting site and voila, you\'re done.
 
It\'s dead easy to grab animated graphics from other websites by saving them as a picture onto your computer and then pasting them into your design. Moving images and text look impressive but are simple to paste in.
 
All in all, it\'s really easy. If you\'ve got microsoft office on your computer, open up publisher and try it out. It\'s good fun getting stuff off other websites and building one up. Just by right clicking on a webpage, you can copy the background or pictures. If I use other peoples custom graphics though, I ask their permission 1st.
 
If you can copy and paste, you can design a website.
 
If I can do it, anyone can. I can\'t even set the clock on the video recorder!

[David Nock (RIP)]

And that\'s SIMPLE?!!!!!

I\'ll stick to my scanner and email thanks. Might take me a day or 2 though to peruse my papers Ian. I have your email address, I\'ll send to that, no probs.

[Ian65]

added some cool RX7 video clips to the site...
 
http://www.tech-leisure.com/

[A7RXY]

Ian, I see the engine bay is comming along, I take it you have your own spay set up.

[Ian65]

Yeah, it\'s moved on a bit more since but I haven\'t had chance to update the website yet.
http://www.tech-leisure.com/
 
 
This was it last week in primer...
 
 

 
The engine bay has now been top coated and lacquered and looks the absolute dogs b******s!!
I\'ve tried to take some pics but it\'s so shiny that its hard to get a good clear pic. The patchy bits are just reflections.
 
The first 1 here was taken without the flash...
 
 
 
 

 
 
These were taken with the flash...
 
 
 
 

 
 

 
 
Gonna start building the engine bay back up while finishing the sill repairs to the back end.
 
The underside of the chassis rails, the front crossmember and the wheel arch side of the inner wings will be done with POR15, the old \'powder coat in a tin\'
 
I\'ll put the servo and master cylinders back on next and then the brake lines.
 
Still pondering the merits of electroplating the fixings and parts...

[A7RXY]

Decisions decisions............but  looking good

[Ian65]

a couple more...
 

 
 

 
hard to photo though.

[myatt1972]

Thats looking stunning Ian, what I want to know is what are you planning on putting in there?

[Ian65]

Turbo 2 is my no.1 choice but I\'m in no rush, I\'m going to get it rolling first.

[David Nock (RIP)]

Great Stuff Ian.....gonna be a show stopper that car.

[syebba]

That looks G8,i thought the paint would of \'bloomed\'[gone cloudy] in these cold temps.
Keep up ur fetish for all things shiney black.
What\'s ur plan after it\'s up & running track/road,r u going to keep ur red one as well?
Ta stu...

[Ian65]

I get the garage nice and warm first!
It\'s going to be a fast road car, I\'m not interested in risking my life on a race track.
I\'m undecided about the red car. I\'d like to keep it as it\'s in such good condition, I\'ve done about 100 miles in it today on the dry roads...great!
 
It depends how the project car turns out.
At the moment, I\'ve got the Jag, the red RX7, the project and the wifes car so I may have to reduce the fleet a bit but I\'ll probably keep the red car until the project hits the road.
Even then, I might just store it as it doesn\'t owe me very much and they are getting hard to find.

[Ian65]

I\'ve put 300 miles on this car this week, including motorway driving, A road and country lanes and it\'s made me realise what a fantastic little car this is.
26 years old and it pulls like a train and never misses a beat.
Get\'s loads of admiring looks as well, probably some from people who\'ve never seen a 1st generation RX7 before.
It lives with modern cars and road conditions no problem and is a pleasure to drive.
 

 
given the price that they are changing hands for at the moment, they must be the bargain of the classic car world.
How many other cars designed in the 70\'s could you use every day, give it some stick and it still drive perfectly and get you where you want to go?

[A7RXY]

The only prob I have is that I\'ve got bigger and they are so low, I cant believe that in the late 80\'s I drove one to Spain and back with the wife and luggage, even brought pots and other bits back.

[Ian65]

The only prob I have is that I\'ve got bigger and they are so low, I cant believe that in the late 80\'s I drove one to Spain and back with the wife and luggage, even brought pots and other bits back.

Funny you should say that, I parked on the side of the road today and there was a queue of traffic on the other side of the road. A few drivers were looking at this unfamiliar car that had pulled up when I opened the drivers door and more or less fell out of the car trying to climb out!
I might still feel 23, like I was when I first had one of these cars, but it\'s obviously all in my mind!