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Stuff is happening. We have paid the insurance, but now we are in a waiting room with about 30 other people. Junkman says we should count on approx three hour wait.

 

No one is being called.

 

We have also just found out that they will want to see the car. The car is not here. The dealer will go and put it on a trailer and bring it here.

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Behind an office door in Bremerhaven

 

'Ere boss, we have a couple of nutters from England, want to register a knackered old Renault. One of them is waving an Austrian passport at me and shouting something about 1986.'

'Have you checked the dangerous persons watch list?'

'Yes, the're not on it, that can't be right, I blame the computer'

'We need to hold them while we look up the old Stasi paper files, keep them busy for a couple of hours.'

'How boss?'

'Is the car here?'

'No boss.'

'Excellent, tell them that we need to inspect it, by the time they have recovered the vehicle and we have pretended to prod it, then the paper work will have been found.'

'I'm on it boss.'

 

The junior leaves. The boss picks up a phone and dials a number written in red on the inside of his desk draw.

There are clicks on the line, then a muffled voice speaks softly, 'Yes.'

'We have a code beige situation.'

 

to be continued...

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Are you one of the other people in this waiting room?

 

Only one person has been called since my last post. Someone came out and told all the recent arrivals that they were wasting their time and should go and find a different office.

 

I am getting closer and closer to yelling "Gawd save the Queen" while waving a V5C like a flag.

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This is, of course, complete guesswork and certainly hasn't been done by me before, but surely the best way to collect a car from Germany is to do it on a Friday night & legally get all the way back to Blighty on the previous owner's registration & insurance with the boot full of crates of beer before the Verkehrsamt opens on the Monday morning?

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Deep in the bowls of the Stasi archive, an elderly communist mutters to himself.

 

'So, their names are Christian and Peter and they have come over here to buy an old Renault. Peter has a load of cat pictures on his phone and Christian owns a pair of bright yellow trousers. All this and they aren't flagged as homosexual? The whole bloody system must be bolloxed.'

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Almost exactly three hours later, the car has plates! Three hours wait for five minutes of paperwork!

 

We are trailering it back to the dealer to finish up business.

I can't understand why you didn't ask Skizzer if you could borrow the plates off his 16, it would have saved an awful lot of bother.

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Sub basement 13 NSA headquarters, a red light flashes.

 

Corporal Dwayne: 'Captain we have a trigger in Bremerhaven, Germany. Keywords Renault Autoshite Collection'

Captain Dick: 'Let me look at that, those Limey bastards are up to something. Nobody buys a car that comfortable without an ulterior motive'

Dwayne: 'Previous linked report is of ISIS, Renault 20 and Paris sir, this is a fairly tenuous link, only 23% probable.'

Dick: 'Darn it Dwayne, don't tell me the numbers, we've been two years late to every major fuck up on that continent so far. We aren't even due to know about Breixit till 2020. This time, this one time, I'm going to be in at the beginning. Activate Agent Orange.'

Dwayne: 'Yes, Sir, Dick , Sir. Agent Orange triggered.' 

 

 

Dwayne: 'Captain'

Dick: 'Yes, Corporal'

Dwayne: 'Do you feel like somebody is listening in on us?'

Dick: 'Stop being a pussy, this is the NSA, of course somebody is listening in on us'

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Your shattering this glitz and glamour image i had in my head of a European car collection.

 

someone possibly needs to go buy something from Marina's "Goldies Boutique" though most of the motors seem to be terminal non-runners and the whole operation seems to be some sort of cover for some other business.

 

Maybe not

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Stuff is happening. We have paid the insurance, but now we are in a waiting room with about 30 other people. Junkman says we should count on approx three hour wait.

 

No one is being called.

You didn't bring proof that the car papers, or even better the car itself, do not exist, that's why you have to wait.

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