davehedgehog31

Nice to meet you both! Quite the first adventure for it, you'll probably do more miles by Tuesday than I did in my full ownership. It will be great on those roads, it really makes sense on the twisties. Missing it a bit already, but it's gone to a good home.

Assuming you have four of them, if you pop one at the bottom of your black wheelie bin each time it's emptied they'll be gone by Christmas.

Could have taken his own photos mind.

Cowboy bastard cliche bingo in that advert.

If it had a bald tyre on it then it was unusable before he fitted any tyres?

🤣 Good spot, just going to leave that there.

It is indeed in the hideous tax bracket and it was indeed Tebay. Spied the Legacy on Autotrader and comms were exchanged. @jaypee and I went down a week past Sunday. It was about 5 minutes from Tebay services at a lovely big rural house. The run home was uneventful and we enjoyed a chippy in a very rainy and dark Moffat. Definitely felt like winter was setting in, so was the ideal time to buy a car like this. The chap selling it had a good collection, including an E39 M5. The Subaru had been his wife and his car for the last 12 years and had been a well maintained workhorse. It was competitive money, with a years MOT and a spare set of winter steel wheels with Nexen M+S tyres. There's a fair bit of documentation with it, although he said he had done mostly his own maintenance at his previous address where he had a lift etc. It's an Outback with the 3.0 Flat 6. Nice spec with full electric leather, working AC, Cruise etc and a few nice extras like a detachable tow bar and genuine Subaru rubber mats, boot liner and dug guard. As has been mentioned it's in the hideous tax bracket, although for some reason the insurance was extremely cheap, like less than the diesel Rover 45. Plan for this one is to run it over winter (and possibly next summer given working AC) and spend NOTHING on it, something I'm not very good at.There's a rattle from the front which is probably a drop link, both were advisories and it's taking all of my willpower to not buy parts. I can tolerate plenty shonkiness, but suspension noises make my teeth itch. I know of these things propensity for rust. I poked my head under and I couldn't prod holes in anything, but the sill covers will be staying where they are. It's a weird car to drive. With the 4WD and plenty power it can cover ground quickly. The ride is very, very firm for what it is, but that is combined with pretty light steering, so it's not really a drivers car. Still, it always feels very well planted and surefooted. Hoping for some fairly inhospitable weather this winter to test it.

And collected. That is hopefully all.

On board the Galaxy. SB on the M74 with @jaypee ETA circa 40 mins.

Think DW's Berlingo will be pre COM2000 and multiplex wiring, like a 405 etc.

Good work!

Cap well and truly doffed.

The Ford Aerostar was penned by Ford's head of design as a tribute to Simple Minds' Charlie Burchill A striking resemblance, I'm sure you'll agree.

Did the two lads on the left miss the memo about the Top Gun theme night?

Great work, glad the pump was ok. I bought it from a very rusty breaker 205 about 3 years back. I had heard it start and drive mind, so was sure it was fine.

£180 worth of scrap metal for 9 bags, where do I sign?

No problem man. Yeah, £300 on transport would make it a bit uneconomical! It would be a very satisfying thing to get back on the road, hopefully someone does!

It's on the Rover 200 forum, nowt to say it's sold yet. I can give them a PM and ask for contact details if you like?

Wonder where he'll go next. Mumsnet won't know what's hit them.

The Citroen Ami seems an odd motor to pick this battle with. I've always thought that the lack of tailpipe emissions and relatively low cost of the energy have caused manufacturers and consumers to lose sight of efficiency and overall environmental impact. Hence the popularity of massive SUVs like that enormous Tesla turd, utterly inappropriate for 90% of journeys. The accusations in his comments probably hold some weight with those kind of cars. The Ami looks great. Really hope we see uptake of this type of vehicle.

Theres a couple of services you can use to automate the bidding. I use one called Gixen occasionally.

What a fucking weapon you are. Give us all peace.

From the Rover 200/400 forum. BRAN FYND Rover 25 with 30k on the clock https://postimg.cc/gallery/NYcKTdj

Well bought Max, that looks a cracker.