What have you done in 2012?


sambo711

sambo711

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start from the beginning

Got a girlfriend
Fitted B20 to the 9
Gained my wee nephew who was born
Got dumped by the girlfriend
Went on holiday to Portugal
Drank loads
Fitted turbo kit
Set of coilovers fitted to 9
Gained my offshore survival tickets
Went on holiday to Spain
Lost my job
Got another girlfriend(still with this one and going good)
Got another job, only lasted a month and quit
In a job a love now and still there
Pulled out B20 and fitted B18
New set of wheels
 
had a girlfriend
dumped the girlfriend
wrote off my corsa
bought my civic :)
got pissed a fair few times
had a couple different jobs lol
 
Swapped my silvia for a dc2
Went on castle Combe at japfest
Done track days at mallory park, Pembrey and Llandow
Drove to Amsterdam then to the Nurburgring
Got a girlfriend
Got pissed a fair few times
Almost got sacked a few times
 
Took Astra 888 to brands,
Sold Astra for S2000
Took s2000 to brands twice and nurburgring,
Then another brands in the s2000
Sold s2000 for ek9
 
went to work
huge gains on track
went to work
got a hatch
went to work
installed a cop in the track car
went to work some more...
 
Brought an ek9
Went to work
Slept a lot
Gym
Swapped ek9 for pulsar
Work
Gym
Took girl to Venice
Sold pulsar
Gym
Saving for new toy
 
Spent the new year with mates in Aviemore
Ran a race ek9 over winter with no heaters
Went snowboarding in france
Bought a flat
Tore the flat to bits and started again (this took 6 months of work)
Spent alot of time faffing with an ek9
Broke said ek9 for parts
Bought a forester
Went for a mountain biking trip around scotland with mates
Turned 25
Finished flat and moved in
Sold forester and bought Audi S4
Started collecting parts for a new project
Got a girlfriend
Got ploughed down off my road bicycle by a 4x4 on boxing day
Just about to have a sober new year as i am on Tramadol amongst other pain killers

Obviously lots of work, partys, drinking, cycling, training etc in there too

What will 2013 bring?

Had to cancel snowboarding holiday after getting hit by a car
Get back to full fitness once i can walk properly again
Collect parts for new project
Go back to nurburgring with new project and break 8 mins btg
Expand whisky collection
Cycle lots
Do another triathlon
Generally have a good time
 
- Finished College
- Went on a 2 month holiday to Cyprus
- Came back from Cyprus - 16th August
- Bought my First Civic! Black EJ9 - 23rd August
- Started studying IT @ University of Hertfordshire
- My first parking ticket - 1st October
- Stripped my whole car interior and put it back together so I can install new speakers all around + an amp/sub - 10th October
- Bought a Skunk2 Pro Series Camber Kit (Couldn't even install them) :(
- Had a list ready of what to order for my birthday in march (lips, wheels, coilies etc) so I can do all my mods properly and declared for my cheaper insurance on my Birthday.
- Spent £60+ on a detailing products. Polish/Clay Kit etc etc.. and spent the whole day detailing the car - 12th November.
- Involved in a non-fault motorway accident at 60mph and lost my car :( - 14th November
- Being a bum at home waiting for the payment from insurance for the car and refreshing Gumtree/AutoTrader/Ebay/Pistonheads looking for a new Civic EJ9 SE - (14th November till' present!)

Overall a great year for me actually minus the accident!
 
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Bought a ****** clio
Sold ****** clio
Bought ej
Spent about 2-3k on bits
Went to French car show
Went to knockhill and car shows/meets
Sold civic
Bought Ibiza cupra
Applied for army
Proposed to the girlfriend (so fiancé now)
Swapped Ibiza for dc2
Spent Xmas with wife and that Gucci ****
Birthday soon on the 2nd yus!
 
booked my wedding band, photographer
bought my fiancee a puppy
sold and bought cars
had my car stolen
graduated from uni
started postgrad law at uni (what a mistake haha)
carried on my dads business until he got better
went away to london
saw the spice girls musical wooohooo lol

too many things to list its been a busy year thats for sure
 
got dumped for being fat
bought a house
bought a land rover
got bored of being fat
became skinny
went the nurburgring
bought a lawn mower
used said lawn mower
bought another land rover
bought a mk1 golf
gained another girlfriend
got dumped on my birthday
cried
an that's my 2012 in a nut shell.
not going to lie but 2012 took a massive **** on me so anything better that amputated limbs/death in 2013 is a fuckin bonus!!
 
damn sammy b rough year bro

mine was got 8k loan

waisted 4k in casino

bought ukdc2

6months later ukdc2 rust to peices up to 2k to fix and no promise it wont come back

so i wasted 8k basically im left with a good b18c and s80 4.7 box i suppose and nearly have loan payed off so could be worse

very bad year on the ladies front may i add barely a shag all year :angry: ha

just got to find a clean shell for b18 pay off loan and get in shape for ladies
 
I sold everything I owned, moved to Brazil to work for the wifes family business. Couldn't adapt, have come back and now starting all over again. New job, new area, etc. Baby on the way so i'm happy.
 
Put the rally car 3 feet under water in a river first event of the year
Since then done 11 stage rallies
2 10th overalls
2 1st in class's
2 2nd in class's
3 3rd in class's
won 4 autotests and a 1st in class
2 hillclimb 1st in class's
7 road rally 1st overalls and won championship for 5th year in a row
finished 4th overall and 1st 1600 in aswmc tarmac championship
lost 5 stone in weight then gained 3 after starting mountain biking, so back to 20 stone
went to Prague to see Nightwish live
got a girlfriend
had an awsome christmas with the family
2012 was damm good :)
 
in 2012 i turned 20, rageing not a teenager any more,
resprayed ek9,
got in **** loads of trouble with the law in the ek9, :/....
so bought a toyota altezza.
blew up the engine in altezza,
fitted new engine to altezzza
completed 2nd phase of my motor mechanic apprenticeship
broke up with girlfriend after 3 years,... not nice, :(
sold altezza
bought cl1 euro R accord- didnt blow that up, :)
bought ep3 type r civic, blew that up :(
rebuilt k20, now cant decide wheter to refit to ep3 or k-swap the '9
bought stupidly wide rota's for accord
kerped one = murderous rage for 2 days.
spent all my christmas holidays stripping the ek9 for another rebuild,
and im back to work tomorow,.....pissedoff.com :(

fairly shitty ole year 2012 was for me, heres to '13 being somewhat better :nice:
 
holy **** sammy b not good, hopefully 2013 is better for you!

took redundancy from work
joined family business
bought 1st house with girlfriend
trained at gym loads
got banned from playing footy
back playing footy now after ban
kept the 9 clean
exhaust fell off last week so looking for a new header
santa never brought me a new header :(
played xbox loads! :)

done and happy
 
Damn sammy b, a rough year for you. Hopefully good things will happen to you this year bud.

Jan - cant mind much... work, gym, sleep, eat
Feb - Chinky Tuesday at Sugarcube, wee road trip to St. Andrews, some gym
March - Wee bro shot some pics of the teg, some more gym
April - More Chinky Tuesday at Sugarcube, took 2k loan for insurance, Went to Staffordshire to collect my Amuse exhaust and track wheels, car broke down, ended up using half of the 2k loan,
May - Banzai show at Crail, stripped car for some spring cleaning, finally fixed teg's starting issue
June - Went to HK/China for 3 weeks
July - Back from HK/China with goodies, Scottish Car Show
August - Trackday, Pheonix trackday show, more gym, grandma sadly past away, cried for a while
September - Sold some old parts to friend, had a nandos, mot'd the teg
October - teg sorn, wee trip to blackpool, kept quiet, work and gym
November - some parts came, jizzed at parts, aunt past away, more work and gym
December - more parts came, more jizzing, ek9 meet in edinburgh, smashed some vtec in mate's jordan, molested a sticky toffee pudding and finish year with wild night in town.

Been ups and downs in 2012... hopefully 2013 just has ups FULL STOP!!!
 
-Turned 22
-Gradutated from uni
-Spent the whole year driving carefully because the civic burns much oil! and have been lazy with sorting it.
-Had another good year with the girlfriend
-Got a good job straight out of uni (lucky)
-Had a nice short hols in Devon with the gf.
-Eventually decided to start an engine build (more or less done now)
-Good chrismas and great new year.
-Generally had some good times, but still feel I could have made more of the year....still, cant complain!
 
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Hmmm this could be hard to remember.

Started the year working week on week off on a ferry driving a shitty green freelander winter beater.
Blow up said beater
Bought a IS200 auto , stayed away for modified cars
Couldnt do it
Sold the IS200 to a mate
Bought a EG
Change job and disappeared
Floated about the med on a super yacht (The new Job)
Met some famous and rich people - Tina Turner Lol
Still on said yacht job.
Booked my honeymoon
Finished most of the wedding plans
Deciced to start working out again dropped roughly 14kg in a copule of months
Now try to keep it off and stay fit
Bought **** loads for my EG
Got home to see the missus after Almost 6 months
And play with my EG
Fitted new shiney bits
Then some **** stole it
Got really depressed about it
Didnt want a car any more
Had to go back to work, not in a good place after the car being stole and having to say good bye to the missus for another few months
Re joined my boat in Monaco , still down here.
Turned 25 epic birthday
Decided i need a car again
Looked for a car
Looked for a car
Looked for a car
The found a mint 1st Gen RX7
Flew from Nice to London picked up said car and drove it back to moncao the same day
Had a kool Christmas and New year in the South of France although i was a way from ,y family and friends

Met some really kool people and some good new friends.
Drank heaps
 
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