URGENT!!!
JAPS 2008 Sunday 6th July at Thoresby Park, nr. Ollerton, Notts. NG22 9EP
This year marks the eighth JAPS event at Thoresby Park and IPTOC will be there!!
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE - if you have an Isuzu Piazza, we would love to see you!! The event starts at 10am and continues until 4pm, with trade stalls, refreshments, exhibitions and judging of different categories of Japanese cars in order to win trophies!!
An informal and enjoyable event, IPTOC would like to see more than TEN Piazzas there this year, so come on all you "unknowns"!! Entry is £7 on the gate, a £2 refund will be given to all "new" members turning up with their Piazzas on the day by IPTOC - see Clive on arrival at the IPTOC pen!!!
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PART SALE PARTS SALE PARTS SALE PARTS SALE
WATCH THIS SPACE - I need to reduce the size of the stock inventory I am holding due to space constraints and the need for continued funding of the website etc., so I will shortly be listing some parts at knockdown prices. Some of these will be extremely rare, never-to-be-repeated offers, so all Piazza owners who intend keeping their cars - wallets at the ready!!
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COME ON ALL YOU HIDDEN PIAZZA OWNERS, WHERE ARE YOU?
We're now in April and so far I've had ONE response, so currently they're on their way to receiving a prize!!
There are 76 Piazzas in the UK which are apparently on the road (according to the SMMT) so - WHERE ARE YOU ALL?
This is no joke - of these 76 cars, IPTOC know of around 17 (taxed and on the road that is). So you all must be out there somewhere, hiding under dustsheets, generally enjoyed or just plain used as an everyday hack - AND WE WANT TO KNOW WHO YOU ARE AND WHERE YOU ARE!!!
So the gauntlet is thrown down - PLEASE all IPTOC members, if you spot a Piazza while you're out and about, take a photo, try and obtain some contact details and EMAIL IT IN!!!
All responses to this Plea for Piazzas will be popped into a hat and at the end of February, a draw will be held and the name drawn out will win a timing belt and a genuine Isuzu oil filter for their Piazza, combined value over £20.
Equally, anyone who has a "spares" car or who has in the past broken a car for spares - if you have the registration and/or VIN numbers I would be grateful for them so that I can score them off the original 1662 official imports.
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Piazzas on the WorldWideWeb
Being a bit of a sad git, I like to try and keep abreast of anything Piazza that's going on in the world, and have found these little snippets on the internet that may amuse some of you just as much as they have me!!
Firstly, the Internet Movie Cars Database has been updated, showing details of various films featuring Isuzu Impulses (the US version of the Piazza) - take a look here:
Secondly, have a squint at these movie clips on YouTube, they're pretty damn good!!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rqcpdPBz4M
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyH4dHg7Dpc
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FaP7B8a35_s
and an original Japanese advert nestles about 2 minutes 30 seconds into this interesting (ahem) collection of Japanese TV ads!
If anyone has any idea who owns these films or the copyright, please drop me a line as I would like to have MPEG copies for when YouTube and Piazzas are nothing but distant memories!!!
EXPOSURE!!
ISUZU PIAZZA TURBO to feature in PRACTICAL CLASSICS!!
Yes, Practical Classics have finally recognised the Piazza as the future classic that it is and, with assistance from IPTOC and the use of Brian Hester's car, put together a Buyers' Guide which featured in the issue published in February 2007.
PARTS SCENE
OH WOE IS IPTOC!!!
After a brief interlude, it would now appear that Isuzu stocks have been exhausted of the HBL front brake discs; i.e. they are AGAIN No Longer Available (part number 8-97030-407-0). And, according to Japan, that is the way things will stay - unless of course we would like to pay £182.88 PLUS VAT for the superseding part number . . . . (that's per disc by the way!!).
The IPTOC search for replacement HBL front discs is back on, WELL DONE to all those who managed to obtain a pair while they were briefly available!!!
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For those of you who have rusty front wings and have experienced frustration at the lack of decent second hand items, the situation has just got worse. Previously, US/Euro spec wings were still available from Japan (the only difference in them is that instead of a hole for the repeater lamp between the door and the wheelarch, they have a hole at the front end for a marker lamp).
I HAVE JUST HAD NEWS FROM ISUZU THAT THE LHS WING IS NO LONGER AVAILABLE FROM JAPAN. Therefore, it is now only RHS, US/Euro spec wings that are available, how much longer for was not confirmed.
At £143 + VAT each they're not cheap but then the UK spec ones were £205 + VAT each when they were available - and it may be worth getting one before they too run out!!
Contact me for part number and contact info as these will not come up on an Isuzu dealership computer system and are only available as a result of IPTOC talking to International Motors.
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