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Congratulations on winning April 2014 MOTM Chris! How does it feel
to be our exclusive Member of the Month and having your name up in lights? I must say it is an honour! I never expected that I would have the privilege to become the NPOC MOTM but I must say I am thrilled to bits about it. It has certainly put a nice smile on my face. We’d love to find out about you the person. Please tell us about
yourself and what you get up to, away from the NPOC. I am currently at Edinburgh Napier University doing Computer Systems & Networks. I am in the third year which and nearly finished, then by next May I should have my Honors in IT. It’s one of the things I had wished I had done back when I was younger but hey ho, better late than never. I was made redundant in 2008 from Samsung doing technical support, before that I was in several other similar type jobs. I took the decision then to go back and get an education on something that I have known for a long time. Back in 2002 - 2003 I was an IT technician which I got the job on experience, unfortunately most companies need bits of paper. I was so sick of being in dead end jobs, so I took the plunge and thought “time to get a career”. I have been with my fiancée Fiona for 9 ½ years. I have known her for 15 years, but we were kids. She knows I always fancied her! I am very happy with her and she gives me good motivation. She is a pain in the backside sometimes but I would never change her for the world.
I have 2 dogs, Leo who we rescued from the cat and dog home in 2005. He is a Collie / Labrador cross, 9 years old and a complete idiot. He is very loyal and his prat of a personality always makes us smile. The other dog is Jess, a full bred Border Collie who we got when she was a puppy. She’s the first dog I have ever known to be obsessed with the TV (no joke). She is a sweet little thing and loves her cuddles and is now 5 years old. I also have a tropical aquarium which I have many Guppies (thanks to Fiona who makes me save every bloody baby they have) and a few Mollies, Tetras and a Gibbicep the size of a trout.
Generally
in the summer time I like to work on mine and Fiona’s cars. Fiona’s more than
anything lately LOL. Building cars from a heap is something I love doing as I
look back on it and think “I did a good job”. I am also into computers and
stuff, the inside of my house drives Fiona off her nut. I have network cables
in all rooms routed through the loft and stuff. It’s a complicated setup! I love to go out for long runs in the car also. Even better when I have a decent car to drive. I find it pretty relaxing. I also love spending time with Fiona, we have some random conversations sometimes and I enjoy sitting watching movies on the TV and occasionally play the PlayStation when I get a bit of time.
Oh,
and I am also a Top Gear fan in case you had not guessed. I also love watching
my Formula 1 at the weekends but generally I do lead a very simple life. I know it’s been a while now but can you remember how you found the NPOC forums and are we any good? Would you happily recommend the club to other Nissan Primera owners? I think I looked on Google for some information on modifying my first Nissan Primera. I sort of joined and stayed. I think the relaxing forum and people on it just made me start becoming an active member. The amount of stuff about Primera’s at the time kept me very interested. The car and club is always recommended by me. I have not yet found another club which is as helpful or as friendly as NPOC, so I would definitely recommend NPOC for any Nissan Primera owner. Your join date from your profile shows May 2003! Which means you
were carried over from a previous version of the NPOC Forums and regardless,
you’ve completed well over 10 years of NPOC Membership now, good innings sir!
What keeps you coming back and signing in every day here? As I said the friendly atmosphere on the forums and respectful members makes me come back every time. I have had many Primera’s and everyone has always been as enthusiastic about them as myself. As the years have gone by I have had better and better projects come along. They are not limited to a Primera but others also. I love the fact that people are intrigued to what I do next. With all the help from all the members throughout the years, I always feel I owe NPOC a lot. I try and do this in the angle of knowledge I have gained. When I first got in to Primera’s, I never had the first clue about changing a spark plug (funny story about that later which I still laugh at). Through the years of seeing other Primera projects, it has just sort of forced me to become good at something and I have learned so much from NPOC. I am just glad I have learned a lot about these cars now, that I can give back and help people who need it. I must admit I never thought 10 years ago I could strip down and rebuild a Nissan engine but here I am.
Now over the last 10+
years, we’ve seen you in a few different Nissans but before we get into the
history of that lot, tell us about life before finding Nissan. Were there any
other marques of cars and how did you get on with them? Not really much to tell as I was a young lad. I kind of always liked Nissans throughout my childhood. My dad owned a Nissan Stanza and for some reason I always have a special attachment to it. I think the Stanza is rare now but I am still on the lookout for one at the right price. I have a lot of fond childhood memories of being in this car, even when my dad crashed it a bit LOL! The first official car I had was a Renault 5. When I got it, the strut broke and it was rubbing on the tyres. I remember going behind the old lorry yard near me and hooning around, it as an awesome place for handbrake turns, sadly though double clutching abuse shattered the gearbox LOL. I was actually given more for it in scrap value, then I paid to buy it. WIN! After that it was onto my first Nissan Primera. So bringing us into the Nissan era (happy days!!) But sticking
with the cars you have owned, which you no longer own.. Give us a list and any
specs you can remember please matey, oh and hopefully you have some photos
stashed away too? Here we go then, in order! 1993 P10 Nissan Primera 1.6 LX – I purchased this car for the same price I got for scrap value from the Renault 5, £150 it was. The engine was a non starter and in fact my mate Andy had purchased it first. He was 15 years old and his mum had kittens and then I offered him the price he bought it for. We got it started and that was that. The first thing we done because I was a stupid, daft wee lad, took it down behind the old lorry yard. I rallied the shit out of that thing and it refused to give up. I then invested in the car and fixed it all up. The body looked bad but mechanically was it was great. I then just fell for it and it made me find NPOC. I still remember my RipSpeed gear knob, floor covers and Belmont hub caps. Me and my mate changed the clutch in it but something was never right with it. I finally retired this P10 due to a sub frame problem. The irony is, it would be a 5 minute fix for me these days. 1999
P11-144 Nissan Primera 1.8 S – Another car I miss! I purchased this on finance.
It did unfortunately get me in to a lot of debt. I had a lot of fun in this car
though. Many early fond memories of meeting Fiona with it! I never had any
modifications done to it. I sort of learned a little basic maintenance with
this one. I got rid of it as I had a few mishaps in it. It was still a good car
but needed a lot of work doing to it.
1994
Nissan Primera P10 2.0 eGT – My first smell of the SR20 engine! I purchased
this car for £100. The engine did not sound the healthiest when I got it. The
same night I purchased it and about 2 hours later, the engine was so shot it
lost a lot of power and seized on me. This was due to bad servicing by the old guy
I bought it from. I purchased a new engine for it from a local scrap yard and
with help from NPOC and also my Brother in Law, I successfully swapped the
engines over. This is really where it all took off, as I knew that because I
achieved this I could achieve doing my own repairs. Unfortunately the head
gasket blew on it about 4 months later, so I stripped off the head to do the
head gasket and at this time, I broke the bloody chain guides DOH!. So I looked
for a donor Primera.
1993
Nissan Primera 2.0 eGT – I won this car on eBay for just £67! It was a high mileage
Primera sitting at 201k miles but did have good service history. I picked it up
from just outside Chelmsford. It was barely legal but enough to drive it home.
I remember about halfway home I put the foot down a bit and the temperature
needle rocketed. I decided it was in better condition than my other eGT so I
put this one on the road and took all the good parts off my old eGT. New MOT and
boom. It lasted 2 months until I blew the engine up attempting to race an MR2.
The oil pump had destroyed itself which lead to the engine seizing. I planned on
getting it a new engine when I sort of found the VVL engine. I thought I would
save up but unfortunately it was a bad time with debt. I scrapped her
unfortunately.
1997
Nissan Primera P11 1.6 GX – Probably the first car which made me fall in love
with the P11. I had purchased it from a mate cheap but the kingpin bearing was
shot, this was put on the road because I killed the engine in my eGT. It was a
nice comfy car to drive but 5 months later I started having a problem with it.
Turns out the Gasket had blown on this too! I attempted to do the head gasket
on it but sadly I made a mess of it and made a school boy error by not marking
which sprocket was Intake or Exhaust. When I fitted everything back I made a
guess. I did get it started though but you could hear a lot of piston to valve
contact. I gave up with it and purchased a Proton Persona and this P11 got
scrapped.
1996
Nissan Primera P11 2.0 GX – I had a few other cars in between this one and my
last P11. I purchased this one from up the north of Scotland because I really
wanted another Primera despite my bad luck. I took a test drive and instantly
fell in love with it. This car gave me a good year of motoring but the exhaust
had blown and there was a hole which developed in the floor from corrosion. I
planned on getting it fixed but I then saw a Primera GT for sale. This car got
scrapped. It did have a strong engine in it, when it was scrapped though.
1998
Nissan Primera P11 2.0 GT – My first GT! I had purchased this on eBay for around
£700 and drove to Wakefield for it. The look of the car was just awesome and I
instantly loved it. I remember on the way home just past Newcastle every turn I
made, the oil light kept flickering, I still recall the fear in my head. It got
me home, I parked her up and the first thing I did was an oil change. There was
very little oil in the engine which I drained. Anyways the next day was a drive
to work and I remember thinking that my old GX felt quicker. The next weekend I
spent a whole day working on it. I changed the old dirty components from my GX
to my GT. The next morning I drove to work and it was just pure power and
smoothness. Unfortunately my happiness was short lived as I snapped the bloody
drive shaft. It was towed home by Fiona in her Fiesta. I then used the shaft
from my GX, fitted it to the GT and was back on the road and had minimal issues
with the GT from then on. As the suspension components were tired, I replaced
pretty much everything. Front and back shocks, wishbones, the whole shebang. It
was a very loyal car. Unfortunately because I was made redundant, I could not
afford the best TLC for it. It still got me many years happy motoring, In fact
it has travelled from Scotland to the south and back a few times. But then unfortunately
I was stupid and got myself banned. Fiona took to driving it but rust started
attacking the car, the front rad support rusted very badly, as did other parts
underneath. I broke the car and saved the good components. I got that car at
162k miles, I broke her with the engine still running spot on at 220k miles. In
fact the block is in my garage ready for a rebuild.
1999
Nissan Primera P11 2.0 GTLE – I purchased a previous members old car which I had
planned on making a daily. Unfortunately hidden problems made me break it but
the car was full of goodies. It was primarily purchased for the SR20VE engine
it had. It was then broken and thankfully scrapped. Have you got a favorite out of the “previously owned” list above
and why? My first P11 GT (1998). The first car I actually thoroughly enjoyed and had an attachment to. Despite the high mileage, I did so much in that car that made me smile. I do miss it and must admit I would love to just have 1 more drive in it. It was the car that really made me learn a lot of the mechanicals about Primera’s and in fact other Nissans also. It never really let me down and always got me home (except when I snapped a drive shaft or 2 LOL).
What got you into a Nissan Primera to start with, was it on the
list of cars to own back in the day, or a chance encounter? As I mentioned before, I had purchased one from a mate. If his mum never went ape shit at him for getting it, then I probably would never have bought it. It was a chance encounter. So setting the Flux Capacitor to April 2014.. Tell us about the
current fleet you maintain please, what’s your daily (and do include Fiona’s
rides here), what’s being done up / worked on and any other projects you’re
taking on to? These days I have a nice decent fleet of cars. I will start off with Fiona’s motors. 1997 Autech Pulsar Serie VZR N1 This
was found by change on Gumtree by Fiona. She was looking for a decent N15 Almera
shell because her old GTi had rust issues, despite having a respray done. We
purchased this with a knackered engine but because it was an N1, it was like
Christmas and birthdays all rolled into one. We got it home on a low loader so
I could start work on it. I have turned a shed into one hell of a machine!
Here’s
the specs: Major Works: Full
Body Restoration Full
Engine Rebuild Full
Electrical System Repair Full
Suspension Overhaul Engine: SR16VE
N1 Cylinder Head N1
Intake Manifold N1
Camshafts CS
Adjustable Cam Gears SR20DE
4CW Crank Shaft Eagle
H-Beam Rods Modified
N1 Pistons Piston
Cam Coated for Extra Heat Resistance and Extraction G
Spec Crank / Water Pump / PAS Pulleys ARP
Rod Bolts SR16VE
Block Modified
SR20DE Distributor ACL
Race Main Bearings ACL
Rod Bearings – 5 Hole Version SR20DET
Oil Squirters Stock
Composite VE Head Gasket SSautochrome
VE Header 2.5”
FreeFlow CAS Catback HRC
Performance 255LPH Fuel Pump S14
Fuel Filter NKG
BKR7EIX-11 Iridium Spark Plugs Magnecor
KV85 HT Leads eBay
Cone Filter Dynamically
Balanced Crank / Rods / Pistons / Flywheel / Pulley Drive Train: SR16VE
N1 Short Ratio Gearbox Nismo
Mechanical LSD Black
Diamond Stage 2 Clutch Hydraulic
Clutch System Fidanza
Flywheel Engine Management: Almera
GTi ECU – Modified Nistune
Type 4 Board Greddy
MSS AEM
Wideband AEM
Oil Pressure Gauge Almera
GTi Modified Wiring Loom Suspension: BC
Coilovers – Rebuilt BC
Spring Powdercoated Red Superpro
Polyurethane Suspension Bushes Almera
GTi Front & Read Strut Brace Falken
ZE 912 Tyres Braking: Blueprint
Front and Rear Brake Disks EBC
Redstuff Front Pads Stock
Rear Pads Rear
Calipers Reconditioned Cosmetics: Fully
Body Overhaul Rear
Arches Replaced Front
Wings Replaced with Indicator Holes Removed Sills
Replaced Boot
Door Replaced Almera
GTi Doors Fitted VZR
Front Grille Almera
GTi Headlights Bulge
Indicators N1
Genuine Spoiler Almera
Ph2 GTi Front and Rear Splitter Almera
Ph2 GTi Side Skirts Team
Dynamics Pro Race Alloys Refurbed Black Interior: Autech
Pulsar GTi Full Interior – Not Fitted yet Primera
P12 Gear Knob AEM
Oil and Wideband Gauges Almera
GTi Centre Console ICE: Sony
Xplod DAB CD / MP3 Player Vibe
Black Air 6x9 Rear Speakers Vibe
Black Air Front Speakers Fli
Amp 2x
Fusion 12” Subs To Be Done: Deatchwerks
370cc Injectors – Ordered and on way Custom
Intake – Will be made by CAS Shotts Replacement
Steering Rack – Part waiting to be fitted Harley
Davidson V-Rod Shims Remap
– Will be done by ProTuner Nissan Primera P11 144 1.8 This
car is Fiona’s Daily. Her first Primera, she loves it. The car is serviced
often and has had some repair work and components replaced such as the MAF. The
car has very light modifications. Exterior: HID
8000k Kit Primera
Sport + 16” Alloy Wheels Interior: Primera
Sport+ Interior Sunglasses
Holder Exhaust: 2.0
Custom Cat Back Engine: NKG
Iridium 6 Spark Plugs Suspension: Primera
GT Front & Rear Suspension Primera
GT Front Strut Brace
Nissan Almera N16 1.5 This
is my current daily driver at the moment. Unfortunately she will be retired at
the end of the year. I purchased this car from member “Jason K” when the
gearbox had broken. I remember driving it home with a knackered gear box, I
nursed it back though. I managed to source a new gearbox for it and then fitted
this myself. Fiona had a minor mishap a few years ago and wanted to scrap it
when I got disqualified for driving. I took the car and it sat in the garage
for 2 years. I planned on VE’ing this but unfortunately the body underneath is
rusty hence its retirement on its next MOT. It has some light modifications. Engine: eBay
Cone Filter Motrio
2 Prong Spark Plugs AAS
2.25” Cat back Suspension / Brakes: H&R
Lowering Spring Primera
GT Front Brakes ICE: Pioneer
DAB Head Unit Sony
Xplod 12” Sub Edge
6x9 Rear Speakers Fusion
Amp Some
Random Amp Exterior: Colour
Coded Bump Strips Primera
P11-144 Active Alloy Wheels
Nissan Primera P11 GTSE –
Mystic My
new project, which was purchased last month. The car is currently in a sorry
state but I plan on getting some health back into her over the summer and so I
can use this instead of the N16 Almera. I have removed some of the
modifications which were on it, such as the RipSpeed head unit and Wizard of
NOS kit. Still a lot more to do! Post summer modifications will be: SR20VE Engine SR16VE
Cams H-Dev
Mapped Almera GTi ECU Custom
Intake Toyosports
Header 333cc
Injectors Half
Leather Interior OZ
Racing 17” Alloys Not really much more I can add at the moment till I start working on it. But the future plan is: Custom VE Build SR16VE
N1 Head SR20VE
Block Custom
Pistons H-Beam
Rods 8CW
Crank Link
G4Plus Extreme Stand Alone ECU 8x
270cc Injectors BMW
M3 Throttle Bodies 9000
RPM Limit CAS
2.5” Catback ICE
with Satnav – Fitted to the Monitor in back R34
Front Brakes And
much much more… Above is the bare minimum which I plan on doing but do keep an eye on my project thread here on NPOC, for its progress. All I know is I have a lot of work to do to it. At some point I will have a full Mystic respray done too. I plan on having it looking like new. One of the things I’ve noticed about you over the last decade, is
your Nissan skill set and knowledge has massively increased. Now I know you’re
a member of many Nissan based forums (whore! Hahaha!), but has the available
internet based knowledge, been beneficial in how you now tackle cars? I first got in to cars with my mate about 2001 ish. Before then I was never really bothered. I started just doing little odd jobs and then at some point I was confident enough to change an air filter. I have always been curious about things since I was young enough to walk. I took my mums video player apart (which was hired) back in around 1988, I was around 3 at the time and surprisingly I never broke any components LOL. The hire company guy saw the funny side and still fixed it for my mum but mum started to hide the tools from then on. She always said I should have been called Miles (as in Miles and the screwdriver – probably way old for some young pups to remember this). Anyways with my curiosity, it just makes me do a lot of research and learn new stuff. I then always put in to practice what I have slightly learned on the internet. When I started my relationship with Fiona, I didn’t speak to my friends as much at the time. My mate is a mechanic and he used to do all the major work but since we sort of never seen each other much, I had to stand on my own two feet. Any issues first port of call was the NPOC forums, else it was other forums. After a few failed repairs it became time I wanted a VE. Now I had done engine swaps in the past and it worked but I was always curious about it. At that time there was no specific VE owners clubs out there. I thought good idea for me to make one. After a couple of months, I met Wezz from Middlesbrough who had done a rebuild and swap, then afterwards a fellow scot named Garry who has a stunning Lucino. The curiosity just grew on from there and so I was tackling harder and harder jobs. Fiona
bought a Black N15 GTi that I spent a weekend working on. I stripped down the
brakes and revealed bad repair jobs in the past. Good car when I had finished
but there was a lot of corrosion and the car didn’t last too long sadly. She
then bought a Blue GTi but due to issues with engine coolant and it fried the
engine so at this point I suggested a VE engine as a sort of joke but she said
yes! So I started looking at importing an engine when all of a sudden the P11
GT with an SR20VE came up for sale. I did my first successful DE to VE
Conversion in that GTi (with the engine from the P11 GT). This proved to be a
very successful conversion all because of research and taking the time to think
about it. Fiona then saw the now Current N1 VZR as she was looking for a decent
shell (the blue GTi was getting rusty). I got it stripped and stored the parts.
Slowly we got all new parts and with all the stuff I had read and got involved
with and old engines to tinker with, I took on my first successful “ground up” engine
build. If I put my mind to something I make it happen. I mean I don’t really
remember how I have learned everything I know but it damn sure comes in handy. Plus
being Scottish I hate to pay for things so why pay a garage to fit stuff when I
can do that for free! As for other clubs, I am only ever on 2 clubs nowadays. NPOC as the club is awesome and NeoVVLOC as it is owned by me. You’ve specifically become
a bit of legend in all things VVL and you run a very successful club / forums
dedicated to this. Is it your intention to stuff a VVL lump in every Nissan you
will own LOL? Yes! I am very greedy with VE’s. I have 2 of the rare N1 heads, one in the VZR and the other to be built for my new GTSE. 2 standard VE heads, one from the old Primera / GTi engine and the other purchased as part of a full engine setup. One will be used for a DE / VE Hybrid for an N16 in the future. The other head will be built onto a DE block for Fiona’s P11-144 when the QG starts playing up (or in a few years time). So yeah there will be 4 Different Nissans with 4 VE’s. An N1 Nissan Primera has never been done, so I will be the first! So lots of NA power knocking around in your rides or “to be” knocking
around in your rides, why have you never considered boost and are you a turbo
hater? I am not a turbo hater. In fact, I was planning on a VE N1 Turbo until I got banned. It’s also down to cost as I plan on buying a house in a few years, so I decided for reliability and cost I will stick with N/A at the moment. I’m looking at around 250 BHP estimated for my NA build anyways, so that will still be pretty impressive. Do you think we’d all be running SR20VE engines, if the engine was
easier to source (I know I would LOL)? I would hope people would consider it. VE engines have gotten a bad reputation by people because they could never get it right. But when you do get it right, you are hooked. Pushing an SR20VE Stock to 8500 and hearing the scream just gives an adrenaline buzz - Best upgrade by far. It beats all your cam upgrades and stuff. A correctly mapped VE engine gives better MPG than a DE engine too! VET? You know we need one around the place!!? Never say never! As I said, I had planned on it but it’s not cheap to do. A VET would easy hit around 500 BHP mark but the problem is with gearboxes, drive shafts, and so on. Cost is not worth it for me at the moment but never say never! Time for the quick fire question round! What makes you smile? Jeremy Clarkson – He cracks me up! What makes you sad? Cruelty to Animals Tell us something we don't know about you.. I have a fascination of Primates Your favourite colour? Black Your lucky number? 3:16 – Back when I liked WWF What will it say on your gravestone? Nothing, I plan on being cremated Your favorite drink (any)? Coffee, a lot of coffee Your sub £10K second hand dream car would be? Nissan Navara in black Your sub £30K second hand dream car would be? Nissan Skyline R34 GTR V-Spec in Blue or Black If you could steal the keys to someone else’s car (on NPOC) for 1 day, which car would you steal and why? Come on Shaun, that Pink Primera of yours. I would love to see what peoples reactions would be, when they see me driving a Pink car! Shaun's Pink Beast pictured below!
You’ve shown up at a few North East regional club meets and
anything held in Scotland but 10+ years of membership and you’ve sadly never
made it to one of our bigger national meets, further down South. When are we
gonna get you out for Japfest / JAE or even Ace Cafe? I have set a challenge this year to have the Mystic healthy for the Ace Café Meet in December. I do plan on coming to a few big events in the next few years once I have finished University and have a few extra bob in my pocket, I‘ll be there. Tell everyone who has never come out and joined us at a Club Meet,
why they should.. The first Meet I attended was a Scottish Meet and it was such a laugh. I met some of the nicest people anyone could ever meet. We also shared a memorable moment with “the Nesbit’s” teaching a Rottweiler how to swim in a lake LOL. The meet showed it was not all about the cars but meeting new people. I was always made to feel welcome. The same applied when I went to my first North East Meet, I was even in an Almera! So over 10 years of NPOC membership Chris, is there a defining
club memory in that lot somewhere? I think the first Scottish Meet was a memorable event with the NPOC. I had an amazing time. Most of us know you have just come back from a driving ban and
whilst we’re not here to judge (we all speed regardless of who wants to look in
the mirror and deny it!) Personally I was a regular 3 figure motorway driver
years back, until I got caught.. Has the ban slowed you down and made you look
differently at how you drive? Definitely! I need to consider changing my name to Captain Slow now. I am happy to sit on the motorways at 60 MPH now. I never expected a ban to change my attitude as much as it did on the roads. Sitting as a passenger for 2 years gave me a good insight as to how stupid it was with the speeds I was doing. It’s all very fresh in my mind and I think it has made me a better driver for it. Not only that, the inconvenience of it all was hard also. Taking public transport which is always cold and damp in the winter, with old dears coughing on you and waiting up to 30 minutes for a bus drove me nuts. It took 1 hour and 40 minutes to get to University on the bus when it is just 20 minutes by car etc. The fact I had to go through an Extended Driving Test before I could drive on my own again, was hard and financially difficult. Car Insurance has taken a hit too. Although I am building fast cars, I am doing it for taking them down the drag strip or track time and as a hobby. High and illegal speeds are best kept off the public road, so I suggest that anyone learn from my stupid mistakes and think about it before you reach those speeds. It’s dangerous and could potentially be fatal, if something was to go wrong.
NPOC for life
(regardless of what car you own and drive) or leg it when you change car? For life! If I was ever to get another type of car I would still be happy to pay my Club membership and stay with NPOC. I do hope to live to see the day, when Brian finally gets Nistune sorted on his Ginger GT LOL! Tell Carlos Ghosn why he needs to bring back the Nissan Primera
brand: The Nissan Primera was / is the best family hatchback in the world. He needs to tell Renault where to go and build another Primera using the same passion as the last one. The Nissan Primera already has the best Owners Club around. As I have asked all of the 2014 MOTM winners so far, we all read
the debate in the December 2013 COTM about my decision to change the name of
our monthly feature to "Member Of The Month" and also change the
criteria and so on.. I do appreciate as a winner of this new feature, it’s
going to be potentially hard to speak out against the new format LOL but did I
make the right call in changing things around here? Or should I have left it as
it was? I think it was a good idea to implement it into NPOC. A lot of members have owned fantastic Primeras but have sadly moved on to other cars. The good news is that they have stayed with NPOC and still to this day, contribute to the club with their help and knowledge – The fact that you can now win MOTM on merit, rather than how shiny your Nissan Primera is a positive step. Unfortunately Primera’s are starting to decline in numbers but the spirit of the club still remains. Right then, so we’re
nearly at the end of this one Chris but you’ve been holding out about the promised
funny story with your old Renault 5! Cough and be judged haha! When I first changed the spark plugs on my Renault 5 GT CAMPUS, I threaded a plug going back in, because I was stupid with cars at the time, I used Jeremy Clarksons favourite tool - A hammer and a ratchet! It got the plug back in though LOL! Member Of The Month is all
about highlighting the unsung heroes around this club and also their cars,
should they be driving a Nissan Primera. You won this feature because you have
spent 10 years plus, owning and driving a variety of Nissan Primeras and other
Nissans. The help you have given our members (paying and non paying) over the
years, has been selfless and always a welcome sight - Thank you Chris, it’s
been massively appreciated and here’s to another decade of Club Life! With my
thanks out of the way, it’s over to you
Chris.. Congratulations once again for winning Member Of The Month for April
2014! Please end this feature, in your own words and feel free to thank anyone
who’s made this one possible. First off I need to give a massive thanks to my other half Fiona! She has allowed me to be into all of this and even got involved with me. She has given me projects to do for her, which have given me great satisfaction. Ant-Dat for all the useful information in the past. He has grilled me on a few occasions but only because he is always right. His knowledge and explanations as well as his tech articles, have made it possible for me to work on cars. Garry (97VZR on NeoVVL) for all the help and support on my projects also. With having a VE and meeting him, I consider him a good friend now. He has also helped me mechanically as well as technically in the past. GTIRWezz for his technical help also and allowing me to buy his N1 head. Brian (PrimeraP11GT) for having me in stitches, with some of the daft stuff he comes up with. Finally a mega thanks to NPOC, for all the help and support through the years and the support for my projects. I will be an NPOC Member and a Nissan owner for many years to come, thanks to this club and also thank you for making me MOTM. April 2014 MOTM - TheStigP11GT |
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