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JRS

JRS

JRS

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Been sat here too long now with no movement on my part to sort her problems and tidy her up, so she's off. Not getting anything like the money that's in her, but hey ho.

The rational part of my brain is saying all kinds of soothing stuff - taking up too much room, never gets driven, would cost a fortune to sort out, got a perfectly good car that actually works anyway. The rest of me is quite upset :( Still....maybe when life sorts itself out in a few years I'll buy another. Might even try and get that '53 MG that the lady over the road owns and has done nowt with in almost 13 years.
 
JRS said:
Been sat here too long now with no movement on my part to sort her problems and tidy her up, so she's off. Not getting anything like the money that's in her, but hey ho.

The rational part of my brain is saying all kinds of soothing stuff - taking up too much room, never gets driven, would cost a fortune to sort out, got a perfectly good car that actually works anyway. The rest of me is quite upset :( Still....maybe when life sorts itself out in a few years I'll buy another. Might even try and get that '53 MG that the lady over the road owns and has done nowt with in almost 13 years.
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Sad to hear that. But would the '53 MG get any more attention than the olds?
 
Gaijin said:
Sad to hear that. But would the '53 MG get any more attention than the olds?
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The MG actually fits in a sane-sized garage, so it would. It's only an idle thought anyway, it's about time I faced up to the fact that I just don't have the time or money (or talent to be able to get around the lack of those two) to be a car enthusiast right now.

At least the 'cento keeps plodding along (handbrake troubles at the last MOT aside).
 
Which Olds do you have? As a kid my friends dad had a Cutlass Supreme and it was awesome, all the kids in the street loved it.
 
'83 Custom Cruiser station wagon with a (truly rubbish and emissions-control strangled) 307ci V8.
 
JRS said:
Been sat here too long now with no movement on my part to sort her problems and tidy her up, so she's off. Not getting anything like the money that's in her, but hey ho.

The rational part of my brain is saying all kinds of soothing stuff - taking up too much room, never gets driven, would cost a fortune to sort out, got a perfectly good car that actually works anyway. The rest of me is quite upset :( Still....maybe when life sorts itself out in a few years I'll buy another. Might even try and get that '53 MG that the lady over the road owns and has done nowt with in almost 13 years.
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Thanks for the info? :D

pics etc?
 
Wicksta said:
Thanks for the info? :D
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Ah, Wicksta. Bless you, I needed a laugh!

Wicksta said:
pics etc?
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Almost all of my pictures were taken with a camera using this wonderful thing called "film". Basically, it doesn't use a memory card like any "normal" camera, and I have to get this film "developed" into photos and scan them into my computer. And my scanner broke a loooooooong time ago.

Oh, and my mobile phone doesn't have a digital camera either.

Right, that's the explanation done for the kids....

This is what the car looks like:

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She's nowt to look at, and isn't overly powerful, and wasn't even that well built even by American car standards. But she does have one thing going for her - size. 18.3ft long, 6.5ft wide, ~5000lbs heavy. I know exactly what'll happen to her now I've sold her on - she'll end up in a banger race somewhere. All I can say is she'll give a ******* good account of herself when that happens!
 
The trouble with long term projects is you lose your heart in them. I worked hard on my Anglia for close to two years, then it sat in the garage for over a year doing nothing, then with the threat of having to move I got cracked into it again to get it legal and in all that time I've always had people telling me I'll never finish it, what am I going to do with it etc etc. It gets tiresome after a while and I respect your decision.

You get to that point where you will quite happily spanner anything else but your own, so maybe it is time to move on and start over. I have that dilema with my other one now, I love the car and it's a hoot to drive but I have no use for it now and it's just sat in the garage gathering dust.
 
I sold my E28 yesterday for a song for similar reasons. It failed its MOT and needed about £400 of work/parts to pass. Then I also had to fix a load of other expensive problems to keep it going for another year would have cost me yet more £hundreds. It'd still be only worth about £600 on a good day even if I did all that so I just decided to cut my losses. Good news is the guy is going to keep it and spend the money not just break it for parts etc.
 
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