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ISSUE 378 – MARCH 2017
Three years and 40 issues ago…
■ We had to go all the way to LA
to shoot a certain spanking
flat-nosed Porker… But that’s

enough about what Jules got up
to in his hotel room.
■ Actually, it wasn’t just LA that had
a visit from our gruesome twosome
that week. They went from Vegas
What’s up, Doc? Fashion Guru to the Bonneville Salt Flats first.

A proper Car Culture Pilgrimage
You can always count on your mates Anyone who knows our Midge will tell and no mistake.
for support when you’re on the road, you that, despite him looking like a
can’t you? Well no. And that’s exactly scruffy bag of shite most of the time, ■ Rich Colbeck’s Evo was, and still is,
why our Slimming World fan, Mr Slim he’s a massive (and rather girly) easily one of the slickest Mitsis
Jules, is proud to call Midge one of his shopaholic. In fact, he blows so much we've featured.
very closest “business associates”. We of his housekeeping money on the ■ Serial modder Steve Fraser put
think you’ll agree too, that it’s just this latest garb that one of his favourite

sort of disgusting, selfish behaviour stores recently named a pair of his 400bhp into his epic S3 and there’s
that can push any relationship to its preferred jeans after him. They’re a whole load of amazing details,
absolute limits. Eating vegetables in clearly taking the piss with the ‘skinny’ too. Wavy RSQ3 brakes for
Midge’s pickup truck indeed. He should bit though… Although he could starters. Lush.

be ashamed of himself! definitely do with a pair of those boots. ■ The Rocket Bunny kit may almost
come as standard on S15s here in
2020, but David Colman’s was one

of the first… And it had the minerals
to back it up!
■ We love Telford. OK, we don’t.
But it’s still worth the drive
for Ultimate Stance.
■ s there anything better than an
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old-skool Datsun Z-car? Of course

there is. One that’s been modified
to perfecting. Well, duh.
■ Ben Parker’s amazing DC5 wasn’t
the first of his cars seen in FC…

And we have a feeling it won’t
be his last either.
Half-inched
We have to say we were most fond of Jules’ festive hat a few months ago.
But it seems we weren’t quite as big fans as our Midge, who has, and we quote,
“Absolutely no idea where that went mate”. This little workshop pic from the
other week tells a different story though. You can take the boy out of Dartford…

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