Alex Wong1697456877 Posted August 21, 2002 Share Posted August 21, 2002 Seeing as there are so many of these numbers on retention certs for sale.......... On retention. Not for sale. 😬 One day I'll find a use for it. Edited by - Alex Wong on 21 Aug 2002 10:35:11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyPandy Posted August 21, 2002 Share Posted August 21, 2002 Alex, What's the story behind VDU 7X...? Mr.Nosey Parker 😬 Superlight 143 😬 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex Wong1697456877 Posted August 22, 2002 Author Share Posted August 22, 2002 I have a superstition against 4's. My car was originally R144TNN which I really couldn't live with so I flicked through the paper to find a suitable number. VDU7X was the cheapest number with a single Seven in it (£250 if I remember right) so I took it. It took about 10 mins to find the number, call midlands registrations and buy it. No other significance but the car has taken on it's own identity, if for nothing else, probably for it's continuing saga of mechanical repairs and tweeks over the last few years. It seems to like breaking things just before or during sprints. Probably something to do with the rather hard use it gets. Last year it was the rear ARB and the ECU. This year it's been a front shockabsorber and a valve spring. It also sufferred a bent de-dion tube and a destroyed radius arm but I think that was my fault rather than the car's! Having said that, it did do 6500 miles from B'ham to Sicily and back in 2 weeks with absolutely nothing failing in 1999 and I'm hopeful that it will do the same in this years Targa Liege Enduro. Alex Wong www.alexwong.net www.slipstream-trackdays.co.uk The Caterham Links Page _________ / __ __ / ___ _//__T/__/_ ___ / (_) (_)/ /`-'/o/ _______ /o/`-'/ / /// ( VDU7X ) // / /___/--_________/--/___/ Edited by - Alex Wong on 22 Aug 2002 01:47:56 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
murph7355 Posted August 22, 2002 Share Posted August 22, 2002 Maybe you should have kept the plate with 4's in Alex Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CHRIS CLARK Posted August 22, 2002 Share Posted August 22, 2002 What four Andy? ps. A little bird told me you have other engine dreams afoot. True? Clamshell Club Founder Member. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
murph7355 Posted August 23, 2002 Share Posted August 23, 2002 Vous avez le email. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TIM 5O Posted August 23, 2002 Share Posted August 23, 2002 Just a thought if you have such a superstition with four why did you pick a plate with the letter D 🤔 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Walker Posted August 23, 2002 Share Posted August 23, 2002 A couple of years ago I went to view some flats that had come back onto the market. It was a new development and it had been marketed almost exclusively in Hong Kong. All the flats had been sold off the plans to HK Chinese except the ones with a number '4' in them - these were sold in the UK. Anyway, the ones that had come back on the market were those that overlooked the graveyard next door. As the HK purchasers had come over to see their investments and seen the view they had put them back on the market - another Chinese superstition. ❗ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex Wong1697456877 Posted August 24, 2002 Author Share Posted August 24, 2002 Tim, I thought about running on three wheels only as well...... 😬 Alex Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rynicolson Posted August 29, 2002 Share Posted August 29, 2002 Alex... you're obviously doing this years Targa Liege...are there many se7ens entered? My good friend Martin "Spike" Buckland (famed for rolling his union jack Pheonix a couple of years ago in the Alps) was trying at the weekend to persuade me into a late entry... he meanwhile is rebuilding his Pheonix with a rotary engine.... Tricks...aka darstardly Y57 CDS "Mutley" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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