A/s/l + Work And Other Interests

[geocool69]

this thred is for people in the seo/sera/ep forum.

alright.. started this thred to get a background to go with the picture..

i comunicate to all of u almost every day through this forum..but i dont have a clue what any of u do or get up to apart from Andrew....

to start things off

my names georgius cole but people call me geo or joe for short..

i reside in a small village town cald biggar..which is located in south lanarkshire in between glasgow and edinburgh.

i live with naomi my girlfrend and our cat lubo..named after the famous celtic striker lubo meravchek

im 23 and have worked with the NHS.. in practicioner services for almost two and a half years...

iv recently gone part time to concentrate my efforts on starting my own company fabricating different upgread suspension compnents...

i like to go up to the crail drag strip or knockhill track days whenever i have time or a free weekend. im into the modifying scene but not as much as i used to be.

im a festival junky and luv to go to any outdoor music events in the summer time.

hopefully the german loveparade will be on cards this year...

my ep is my therd car having previusly owned a tasty saxo which i killed!..

my first car was a red nova gsi which i still have. this car is stripped..sorted out suspension wise and cained regularly as a track car..

hope this gives you a better picture of me.

what do u people do???

[Hou]

Hi my names mark houston (no jokes please) which is why i go by Hou!

My SR is my fourth car after killing a clio and nova then had a 106 for 18 months

Im 19 and live in yorkshire in a little village called eggborough!

At the moment im a trainee accountant

Im into the modifying scene and i am a member of SPWC.co.uk

Travel on a regular basis to newcastle to see my 24 yr old girlfriend and have an alsation puppy called jake!

[sera_beetle]

Hi My real name is Tim Newton

I am 20 years old I use th name sera_beetle Because I have just spent 4 years (last till 2003) Restoreing a 1970's beetle which has been fully customized to look like 1960's beetle it's Dark metalic blue with cream and the same for the inteior, I love that car! It had it first long jounry it did 160miles and once round the M25!! i was shocked too.

Just before chirstmas i bought myself a Sera Which i love to bits :-) :D

It's great i am just bring it up to top condition then i will perfomce tune it I want about 200bhp

I live in suffolk. I own a New Media Design Company and i also do computer testing for europe.

Thats about it, i love UK music i.e Uk Hip Hop & Metal It rocks!

Great Idea To have this post! pat your slef on the back mate.

Take it easy

Tim Newton

[toyotasera.co.uk]

My name is Andrew Cliffe. I'm 29. I bought a Sera in 1998 after seeing one at an auction in 1992.

I started the Sera club and started supporting the Sera as Toyota didn't want to know.

I work for a company called Omicron Engineering, really Lancia specialists, involved in supply, design and manufacture of spare parts, but also full workshop facilities - engine work, suspension / brakes / steering, bodywork and race prep.

I'm restoring a Lancia Montecarlo in my spare time to look like a Lancia 037. Doing all the work myself...

When I'm not doing car stuff I am into amateur dramatics. Not the on stage stuff, but I do the sound and lighting for about 5 local groups, and am currently doing an opera.

I'm married. No kids but 4 cats instead.

[Jamesb4uk]

James Bell

IT support for Laing O'Rourke PLC

im 24 - spotted the Cynos at an auction & drove away the same day.

main hobbies are beer ciggies & women - not neccessarily in that order

Ohh i live near Sevenoaks, Kent

J

[DazH]

Well, I'm 38 I live in Chester-le-Street 6 miles north of Durham, married and have an 8 year old son.

I'm assistant manager at a large motor factors in Newcastle.

Main interest is bikes, now's first time I've been without one since I was 16 :( Sold it last year as I wanted a car and didn't ride a much as I should. Was a tough decision but at least my son can come along in the car. Might get an off roader shortly, less chance of getting wiped out! Got a 45 gallon reef tank in lounge (corals, anenomes etc) and a 42 gallon fish only marine tank in hallway that take a bit of looking after.

Bought the car as it was something different liked the looks and it handled so well.

And for my sins I follow Newcastle United :P

[marcgt]

well my names Marc Read and i drive a starlet GT, and funnily enough thats why my names marcgt :hokus-pokus:

I live in a little village called Marks Tey, about 10 miles from Colchester (britains oldest recorded town ;) )

I'm 20, soon to be 21, bugging my girlfriend already for some nice goodies for my car!!

My girlfriends also 20 and goes to university, thinks she's clever!! haha!!

And i'm an Assistant Quantity Surveyor, done 4 yrs training, now got another 3 yrs! oh well the company pays for everything and i get a nice shiney degree afterwards! lol

Hopefully be modding my little GT a bit more in the future and get down the pod!!

Probably see alot of you guys at JAE, should be camping with the missus!

Marc

[whitestarlet]

ok everyone my names gerard lennon (no relation to john from the beatles though)

im from a little town called portaferry in the north east side of ireland!

im 21 and have been workin on tractors since i was knee height and am now a tractor mechanic! cool dirty smelly job!

part from tractors ive a big interest in cars and i drive a white starlet hence the name! which i have recently transplanted a 5e-fe paseo engine into. which is now gonna get work done 2 it.

ii has an interest in rallying aswell the latest one was this weekend at the circuit of ireland! which was great craic! think thats every thing about me!

really interested to know how many other N.I. members we got on ere!

[Domi]

Ok my real name is Dominique van veen but everbody calls me Domi.

I'm 19 years old and don't have a car ATM, but i'm going to buy a EP82 non turbo and then swap the engine into a 4E-FTE.

I live in the Netherlands and we only have the non turbo starlet's here :(:(

I work as a mechanic @ the local hyundai dealer.

So i think that was my little story if you wanna know more about me ask me at MSN.

P.S. I hope you understand it because my english is not that good.

And maybe i meet someone at the JAE this your

Cu guys

[Boro Sera]

My name's Richard Cargill.

I'm 38 and live in Middlesbrough. Cat called Georgia (after the former Russian State - don't ask).

I'm a repairman. Worked in all sorts of trades. Currently working as a maintenance engineer in an electronics factory. Bought my Sera last summer.

My main hobby/ pastime/ thing is golf. Apart from that I'm pretty reclusive.

Rich

[mellow_yellow]

im 24 - spotted the Cynos at an auction & drove away the same day.

lol. same here. only it was the Paseo, and i was 20.

real name: Jag Hayer

location: West Midlands (thats all your getting!)

age: 22 now. (getting old!)

occupation: Student! (marketing and HRM), and part time Field Rep. though im looking to jack all of this in and join the property ladder (buy, renovate, sell).

cars: before the seo, i had a fiesta, which got totalled whilst my sister was driving. so then we got the seo, and now i got my P1 too! :D

hobbies: i weight train pretty hard (but not as committed as i should be, when i take a week off, it usually turns into a month and then i have to start all over! im trying to save to get the P1 out to the 'ring but its gonna be a massive bill and will have to wait a year or two for that...umm... i guess i follow the car industry as whole with great interest. oh and im not too bad at snooker either ;)

[matt_hillyard]

Name: Matt Hillyard

Age: 19!!! 20 soon :(

Location: Ipswich, suffolk or Norwich, Norfolk.

The reason i have 2 locations is becuase i am a student currently studying accounting and finance at UEA (university of east anglia). I used to have a little scooter then a cagiva planet 125 but sold it to get a car. I did my test so i can always get a bike when i want.

My first car was a 5dr 1.1 ford fiesta and got rid of that quickly to get my seo. I only really had the fiesta for about 3-6months! I got the seo through the family as my dad had just bought a new MR2 and i bought the seo off him.

My hobbies are mainly my car, motorbikes, mountian biking, music, women, beer. Not in that order though!! :D I also have a little claim to fame as i won the east anglian cross country mountain bike champoinship, that was a while ago now tho!

As far as my seo goes its an ongonig project that started life as a seo si and is constantly changing.

This weekend im fitting some front Speakers and will soon be fitting lowering springs, x-racing kit, induction kit, strut brace, exhaust backbox and more neons. This will hopefully be done for JAE if i can get my a**e in gear and work loads!!!!

And thats a bit of my life history! lol. :D :P

[monkfish]

Name: Jon Jacobs

Age: 24

I'm from Edinburgh and I make my money (hahahahahahahaha! etc.) as a musician, playing guitar and singing in bands and teaching. I know absolutely jack about cars, so I came on here with the hope of learning a bit. My previous cars were: A vauhall cavalier (crud, totalled it on the west coast of scotland 'cos I tried to make it turn a corner a wee bit faster than it actually could, my neck still makes funny sounds if i turn my head too fast.....), An ancient Nissan Bluebird (which was actually pretty cool) and a citroen saxo, so as you can prolly imagine, I've never had anything worth tuning (until now). Used to play a bit of Rugby, but I discovered that smoking and drinking were actually much more fun.

[starletsy]

Simon Wills

Well i'm an agricultural mechanic, i'm in my last year doing a HNC in engineering. I'm 21 and was into the whole modding scene but now my attention has mainly become focused on the Jap scene. What they are upto over there and how they tune there cars.

I hope either next year or the year after to take a trip over there and take in the Tokyo autosalon and some of the main EP tuning companies such as JAM and Cruise Power.

Most of my time is either spent at work, doing college work or on the car oh and try to fit the girlfriend (suze) in there somewhere

The starlet is under constant development and i'm trying to keep to a true JDM style as possible.

Simon

[starletsr]

Hello everyone!!!!

My name is Shelly Tang, gonna be 22 this August. Yes I am a British Born Chinese. Never been to Uni before because i aint clever enough lol... but studied 4 years in college doing computing. Currently working at HSBC business park and chinese take away.

I live in South East Surrey, Berkshire area.

Currently driving a Starlet SR, in many cases my car has been mistaken to be a Corsa or either a Nissan Micra?! Last night I had many Pikey 12 year old kids on their BMX's thinking it was a Nissan Micra and dissing my car down at my local McD's in Farnborough

Nevermind.

I was influenced into the car scene by my cousins and uncles with their nice Jap motors

Well i guess that's all i have to say

[Robertbbb]

Robert Brockman

41 years, very old...

I live in Gig Harbor Washington USA

I am a support director for a video card company in Redmond Wa.

Been in and around cars since before most of you were born :)

I became an auto tech in the mid 80's and started out with a few clunker American cars. I then went into the military and my interest in muscle cars bloomed.

I had a 1970 Cuda 440 6 pack car that I rebuilt from the ground up over 5 years.

It dynoed at 627WHP and almost caused a divorce...

I obtained a rare 1964 Plymouth Sport Fury that had the original 383 Ci motor and floor shifter (What a beauty of a car that was...)

Then my taste's changed and for some reason I moved onto VW bugs, my pride and joy's being a 59' non-oval window car and then a 1971 show car with a jugged 1960cc 145HP motor. After having 20+ Beetles I moved to Scooby's and had them exclusively for many years. At last count I think I have owned 50+ cars in the 26+ years I have been driving not to mention the 10 or so bikes including a 1985 Yamaha VMAX

My wife and I wanted to get 2 newer cars and after haggling for hours on my new 200sx for commuting, bought it and drove it home.

On the way home I spotted a tidy little red sporty car for my very practical wife.

We test drove the 92 Seo and with 2 other people in line waiting to drive it I didn't haggle and bought it on the spot for the Mrs.

We got both new cars home at the same time and the first thing my wife does is put her portable physical therapy table in the trunk of each car.

Guess which one the table DIDN'T fit in? :)

Hence I defaulted to the Seo as my commuter and te rest is history.

I can never leave anything alone so I started tuning the Seo.

That was 9 months or so now...

[Yaris_Tsport]

Carl Sadler here driving a Starlet. Have own VW polo(R.I.P) and a Peugeot 106(R.I.P). I am an upholster. Hoping to do start me own company doing car interoirs and car sound systems some time in the near future. looking to get down to more meeting soon. when starlet is on bigger alloys(should be here in the next week) i will be out a load more.Go to ipswich quiet a bit and sometimes to cambridge.but mostly in bury st edmunds.

[Carlgolsby]

Hello,

My name (strangely enough) is Carl Golsby, I live in Walton-on Thames in Surrey UK but I'm originally from Ipswich. I live with my girlfriend Katie and we're getting married on June 26 this year ( :o ) I'm art editor for Practical Caravan magazine (I'm into design – not the subject matter!) and I'm 31.

Had my Sera for about 2 and a half years and is an on-going project but currently all cash is going toward the wedding. I love cars, my Sera is my 11th – I've previously had an Austin Metro, MG Metro, Ford XR3, Toyota Celica ST, Toyota Celica GT, MG Midget, Toyota Celica ST (again!), Mazda 323, Honda Prelude XX and Honda Civic in that order. I hope to take my Motorcycle test next year. and I love all things Japanese :)

[Starlet Nath]

Hello,

My name is Nathan Gibson and I drive a Starlet SR. I live in a little mining village called Rossington, which is near Doncaster South Yorkshire. I live with my girlfriend Alex, we are both 24.

I have always been really big into cars from an early age, and was always interested in the custom/modifying scene. But I'm only really interested in the Jap scene nowadays due the Max Poo idiots Not that only following the Jap scene is a bad thing

I'm in the process of modifying my car, it will have a turbo in it sometime soon But I bought a house with Alex last year and we're getting married in September this year, so the car modifying's in limbo at the minute!!!

Oh yeah..

I'm an Electrical craftsman in a Power Station and I'm in the process of finishing my HND in Electrical Engineering

[piesje]

Hi,

I'm Serge Tjin from Suriname, 32yrs, I run a civil engineering company with my dad and brother.

I drive a pretty heavily modded EP91 Glanza Turbo,

http://www.toyotaownersclub.com/forum/member....o&member=piesje

My other area of knowledge is this (how to use these, build these):

[LittleBlueTerk96]

My name is Garret Laborde. I live in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA. I drive a 1996 Toyota Tercel STD/DX with a 4E-FTE transplant in it. Yes, turbo is great.

I'm 20 years young, I started a tiling job (small local business) two weeks ago and it's not enough to pay the bills so, starting this week I'm looking for a part time night job.

I've owned a couple of cars so far, first was a hand-me-down Sentra E 1.6L (dead now) and the second vehicle was an Isuzu Humbre truck that was quite pimp. Wouldn't die (eventually did from what I hear from the guy I sold it to @ 220,XXX miles on it). One after than was another Sentra, although XE model this time, fully loaded... totalled it after six months. Don't sleep behind the wheel kids! And then I needed a car quite bad, and happened upon the Tercel. Hadn't even heard of them before seeing this one on the lot, but I bought it anyway. That was almost two years ago.

So, now I'm driving around in a Starlet GT powered turbo Tercel... Like that? I do.

[Maximum Paseo]

My Real name is Kevin, Im currently am a sophmore in high school.I own a red 1993 Paseo.I live in Lake Jackson,Texas.I am planning to mod my seo.

So far i have had bad luck in my seo, but i hope that will end,if you want to know find my forum topic.and you can share your crap days in your Paseo/Starlet/and that other car.Im a car fanatic,and will always be one,lol.

[starlet gt turbo]

hi there , well im kieran rosling, im 17, live in long eaton , in notts. i drive a 1998 white starlet sr. My previous car was a red corsa 1.2 which i had for 2 months as it was 2 slowwww lol. bought the sr as not many people have them compared to the corsa :) .

Well i live at home with the parents still, untill i finish my aprentership. i left school and did a year at 6th form where i got my AS results, i then got a job at a presicion engineering company where i am doing a advanced aprntership in meachanincal engineering, i am soon to start my hnc

In the spare time im looking for new things to do to the starlet or in notts (sunday nites sy lol )

[VyperZero]

my name is Vincent Van Pelt- Reeves. i drive a 92 tercel. i have swapped in the 5e-hfe and i plan on giving it a little bit of a boost upgrade soon. my first car was an 84 tercel and that thing took a whole two years of abuse for me to kill it properly ;) . anyhow, im 21 in august and i have just recently started going to school again. im trying to get into the video game development business and i found out you cannot do it without an extensive portfolio. so im in school cause i figure that would help me learn too.

vince

[VyperZero]

oh yeah, i live in Boulder, Colorado, USA.