Timewaster

You're doing it wrong love.

There was a dealer in our town and quite a few of these around at the time. My dad went there to test drive a 2nd hand 125p but to my delight it wouldn't start and he walked away. Being picked up from school in his Maxi was embarrassing enough.

They do have people in on classic auction days. Not sure if it is restricted numbers. Pre covid it used to get packed out. I remember old auctions where the crowd all get gassed out by a smokey old banger.

Coming up in the next ACA classic auction https://angliacarauctions.co.uk/classic-auctions/2610-04-Nov-2023/3508~1-1988-fso-polonez In the sort of state I remember seeing them in the 90s before they all became bean tins. "Find another!"

Saw a Range Rover with the no. plate JD 15 FUN Might belong to this guy

Oh, don't. I feel a rant coming on.........

Does anyone else find him unwatchable? It's LIKE he is trying TOO hard to sound INTERESTING and over emphasising WORDS so as NOT TO sound monosyllabic. It's almost like he is trying to be the most Clarkson like youtuber....... In the World!!

A series of accidents, Mr Bridger. I promise there will be no more.

That picture makes me think of this:

Now THAT'S a euphemism!

Honda Freed (Stock photo) Never seen or heard of them until this week, and now I've seen two.

Facebook market place. Are there ANY genuine car ads on there? There are loads of underpriced cars (sometimes vastly underpriced) and when you look at the sellers other items there is about 20 underpriced cars. All listed today. I guess they are cloned accounts that get removed and are back again with the same pictures on another account the next day. Pay a deposit to hold the "bargain" and the deposit, the car and the seller immediately vanish? there is a TVR which triggers my watch list 3 times a week, always £4995, (arguably a third of its value) always a different part of the country, always the same photo. I'm sharp enough to know it's a scam at that price for that car but some of the camper vans I wouldn't know the true value, or some of the commercials. Bastards.

They all look like they are from different eras. The girl next to the guy on the bike has an 80s look. The girl on the right looks more 40s. The guy with the tash and Harry Hill collars 50s maybe?

Fast bikes magazine? No doubt some jolly jape based on the VFRs old man image. A bit like the Accord. Very competent, 100% reliable but a bit dull. I have a VFR. I'm not bitter. (I've also not ridden it for several years).

Inside the factory, Black country living museum vacuum expert Sam I assume?

But this was all done when the car was 6 years old, 10 years ago. So all this stuff has failed again since and due to again? Just messing with you. Wish I had the guts to go for a big Cit, but it would keep me awake at night aswell as keeping me poor.

35 Osborne Rd https://maps.app.goo.gl/ssmZNzNpCnRHAZ9B7 Hasn't changed much.

Ooh. And it's in high build primer colour for easy touch ups. Late 80s we had a customer that owned a saloon. I'm not sure where he was from, Austria or Germany perhaps but he had a graveley, shouty voice and would come in and ask for spark plugs for his "Toyota Zoopa Clown!" Made us chuckle after he had left.

That is just a little bit suspicious! I wonder if it was an inside job to ensure it could become a building plot, or the work of a bitter 3rd party, unhappy at the change of ownership? Reminds me of a story I was told about a backstreet car dealer who would engage the services of a mysterious figure known as "The Dragon" who ensured that troublesome cars no longer required any warranty work once they had been brought back more than a couple of times.

Mrs 206 needed some welding for the MOT. The garage did a good solid job, but it wasn't pretty. Over the last couple of weekends I've filled and flattened the area, a bit of high build primer and all that. Today it is dry and sunny here so I took the opportunity to get a top coat on it. (No photos because I never think of that until half way through). Well the colour match is pretty good. But something has reacted with the paint and it looks like a fucking map of the moon. Bollocks.

My dad used to say the same thing. Maybe it was drummed into kids of a certain age. I don't think that particular nugget of information has ever come in handy.

I know, too much metal.

Reminds me of the Ka, Ka2 and Ka3 which I insisted on calling Ka squared and Ka cubed. Ironically they are now all cubed.

Wait, What? When did the value of these exceed 3 figures? Or even 2?

Which was exactly right. 205 trims were X for a 3 door, G for a 5 door, E,L,R for the main 3 trim levels and an extra A for a van and a D for a diesel. Except for the GTi, SR (posh spec) and sometimes a T for Turbo on a diesel. Do any manufacturers still use L GL type trim levels or are they all studio, pizzaz, water, fire and trapezium?