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The Grande Brasile has just arrived at Tilbury from Hamburg and my crated GTM kit should be loaded ready to sail to Lagos :D with an ETA at Tin Can Island port on 13th November.
Plenty of jobs for the Christmas holiday.
John


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Wed Oct 30, 2013 6:50 am
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Post Re: GTM Coupe loading
Time to start getting excited - how many sleeps etc etc :lol:

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Wed Oct 30, 2013 6:11 pm
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No I just take it all in my stride - - - until it starts to look like a car :lol: Got to complete the resto of a friends old Honda Xr600R before the GTM hits town
John


Wed Oct 30, 2013 8:05 pm
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The ship has just arrived at Tin Can Island in Lagos, now the fun starts with customs, just hope they look in the box and think what a pile of Toffee :roll: :lol: and let it go through without hassle
John


Mon Nov 18, 2013 4:46 am
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Post Re: GTM Coupe loading
Sad day, just had a "notice of evaluation" which even allowing for Christmas inflation is far more than expected and have told the clearing agent to dump the only GTM to ever arrive in Nigeria (if not all of Africa) back into the sea as I'm ready to cut my losses rather than pay through every orifice in my body :x
I just hope I can call their bluff
John


Wed Dec 04, 2013 9:02 pm
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:shock: :evil: :shock:

Not good. Hope you get something sorted out, John.

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Wed Dec 04, 2013 9:24 pm
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Hi Sven,
It looks like I could be building a buggy with my Mini bits :( or just carry on fettling my bikes, What do you have stashed away as your pride and joy?
John


Thu Dec 05, 2013 2:10 pm
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I looks as if my hopes of being a GTM owner again have gone down the pan completely and another one is lost to the world in a Lagos dumping ground, I can’t in my wildest dream imagine any local mechanic would want to attempt to build it, even if he knew what was supposed to be fitted in the empty places.
But - - if another body/chassis came along I could be tempted, but would have to find yet another shipping agent as we have parted in a most acrimonious way!!
Anybody want to sell a GTM kit please let me know, I’ll be back to the UK when the weather is warmer mid April/May next year to race my Jedi for 3 weeks.
Cheers
John


Fri Dec 06, 2013 11:12 am
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Post Re: GTM Coupe loading
sorry to hear this, can you not sit at the dumping site and wait for it to be dumped and collect

Neil

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Fri Dec 06, 2013 11:34 am
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Neil why did I not think of that :roll: perhaps being more than 1000km away and not knowing which dump to sit at :lol:
Plan B anybody in the market for 1380 & 1400 engines
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John


Fri Dec 06, 2013 11:58 am
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kano nordie wrote:
Neil why did I not think of that :roll: perhaps being more than 1000km away and not knowing which dump to sit at :lol:
Plan B anybody in the market for 1380 & 1400 engines
Cheers
John


I never said it was going to be easy... :lol:

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Fri Dec 06, 2013 1:40 pm
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Oh and I forgot to mention sitting under a blazing hot sun at the dump, eaten alive by flies and mosquitoes, without a cold beer to hand :roll: :roll: No place for a white man Oh


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