Weee! Personal Plate!

[Dup]

Today would be my 21st Brithday... actually, no now it was yesterday. Wow... that went quick...

Anywho, I woke up this morning on my birthday to a letter from the DVLA... me worries a bit before opening it. I open it. It's a reg document. "Hmmm" I think, "I've got one... oh... the reg is wrong... eh? Thats a bit odd I wanted that reg". I thought it was a letter from the DVLA from when I was looking at plates on their site.

Well, anyway my girlfriend had let on to my mother and so here it is:

"Dup" is my nickname, pronounced "Doop" from my surname, Duperouzel. It's a french name by the way, but I am in no way directly related to any French people, nor can I speak French!

The H8 was the best prefix I could find. There was D8 but "Date" is a bit big headed and that's not me. I think H8 is what a lot of people do when they see me drive, so it's rather fitting apparently.

Anywho, I now feel a little more important on the road. My otherwise "same-old" car gets a few more looks now, although that's not what I'm about, it still feels nice to stand out a tiny bit.

 

[Dup]

Leave my girly car alone! At least is isn't the CC!

It's a steady A to B car for when I grow up a little bit and get me something more my style. Right now, anything with some poke in my hands would be scattered around the fields of Lancashire with parts of me here and there too.

It could be a worse car. The pros for me is its probably the better looking car in its class, one of the safest and I find it really comfortable. Cons... it's French.

I bought it last March as I started working 45 miles from home and needed something to get me up the motorway. I had a multi coloured 1.2 60S Punto before that... scary to drive on the motorway.

It's not bad seeing as I racked up 15000 miles in about 10 months from when I bought it. I've only had the alternator brake on it. I'm also not very forgiving to it either.

The wheeltrims went into space about 2 days after I bought it. High curb plus first car with PAS = whoops! I took off the whole left side, but put back one from the other side on the front. The wheel trims cost an absolute fortune for about a fivers worth of plastic. I want to get me some Peugeot "Vortex" or "Nimrod" wheels. The standard wheels are quite nice from Pug.

It does need lowering and stiffening up a bit. I run the country roads daily and having a torsion bar setup at the back and soggy springs up the front cause it to behave rather crappy in the corners, and it rolls rather badly.