The Dark Wob

Warren t claim wrote: ↑Fri Aug 05, 2022 2:32 am

Eddie Honda wrote: ↑Fri Aug 05, 2022 2:31 am

Warren t claim wrote: ↑Fri Aug 05, 2022 2:30 am

Pics please!

I've not sure I took any at the time. I'll have to ask Tommy!

Was she more than the British Standard Handfull?

Yeah, on a slender petite frame.

Eddie Honda wrote: ↑Fri Aug 05, 2022 2:38 am

Warren t claim wrote: ↑Fri Aug 05, 2022 2:32 am

Eddie Honda wrote: ↑Fri Aug 05, 2022 2:31 am

I've not sure I took any at the time. I'll have to ask Tommy!

Was she more than the British Standard Handfull?

Yeah, on a slender petite frame.

That is indeed a rare combination.

I'm ashamed to say that I've been the last owner of far too many cars, many of which should have survived my ownership.

The one that sticks in my mind was my '99 Vectra B 2.0. I bought it fairly cheap in 2008 and ran it for 4 years and loved it.

Come 2012 when my wife and I were expecting our first child, after spending a week or 2 chasing (and curing) a misfire, the steering rack blew its offside seal in spectacular fashion. I didn't have the money to fix it and my Corsa B was pissing oil. I bought a new Chevy Aveo and financed it with the little money I had left each month. I stored the Vectra for a year but a massive fuck up by EDF energy saw me slapped with a £600 heating bill so the Vectra plus half my possessions had to go. I stripped the interior, exhaust and wheels and my wife was there as it was dragged out the lockup. I was genuinely sad as I knew it could have lived again, I just didn't have the money.

I did fix the Corsa though and that's still going with another owner.

I'm in a much better financial position these days though and I'd just farm a steering rack replacement out to a garage. The Vectra would have lived had that happened today.

As such I've never become emotionally attached to a car again. I have sent a few off as spares or repairs, clearly to their last owners but other than slight whist, I don't feel anything at all.

I've only scrapped two cars.

The first was my first car. A '97 Peugeot 306 XLdt. I ran it for 3 and a half years on veg oil and silly boost. It went bang rather terminally and I got it collected from the side of the road by a hi-ab. It looked rather forlorn going to its doom, and I admit I almost shed a tear. That was back in 2013.

The other was last year. A 56 reg Honda Civic I bought for £500 and soon after found out the rear axle mounts were made mostly of fresh air. It scrapped for £300-odd and I sold a few bits off it. Not a massive loss, and I was glad to see it go.