Laydee Di-Shite

[Guest Breadvan72]

That's the point.  The investor who bought the car is probably canny.  The twuntiness belongs to those whose drooling worship of Royals dead and alive confers inflated value on a very ordinary car.

[Cavcraft]

As much as it may surprise you some people like the royals.

One of them likes them more than your tiresome talk of them in this thread alone.

[Spiny Norman]

As much as it may surprise you some people like the royals.

 

Always preferred Mayfairs meself...

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[Wilko220]

Can we all just stand to attention while Billy sings the national anthem please...

[fordperv]

She had a Mk3 Escort as well didn't she? Did you know Princess Margaret drove a Reliant Scimiter ?

 

she had a black s1 rs turbo with slatted type grille, as she didnt like the original type, it currently resides in the bonkers collection

 

      

[Guest Breadvan72]

If you like Royals, why not start a "Royalz is wikkid innit"  thread?  Participation in this one is optional.    

[HillmanImp]

That Escort is WELL FIT. 

[Richard]

Diana wasn't a royal was she?

[Shep Shepherd]

I liked that silver Escort 1.6 Ghia she had in the early 1980s. It's in a museum in the States now

[cort16]

That black escort is mega!

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

She made a sound judgement about the Escort grille. My opinion on her has gone up considerably. 

[Guest Breadvan72]

Bonus: this thread has formented sedition, and produced kwalidee Escortporn.  That counts as winnage, even if Cavette does have me carted off to the Tower.

[Junkman]

A motoring history like this

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

would indicate she was an Autoshiteress at heart. Considering all this was real Futureshite at the time, she was even a pioneering Autoshiteress.

I therefore lack the ability to muster any disrespect.

[Guest Breadvan72]

FPWM, also she totally pissed off Brenda, Phil the Greek, and their whole worthless brood, so maybe she rocked after all.

[Hendry]

Is it just me who thinks that if you are a toff who was married to one of the Royal family and therefore would've had oodles of money, why the fuck would you be driving a base model Metro or a mk3 Escort?

 

Surely with that sort of money you'd be pootling around in a Bentley/Roller/Aston/insert ridiculously expensive and/or fast car here, ok so if like most on here you liked old shite you'd probably have a Metro or an Escort but with the bank balance of a euromillions lottery winner you'd have some expensive stuff too?

[Wilko220]

Old money class

[Justin Case]

Don't knock Phil the Greek though. Wasn't he seen on some otherwise somewhat boring documenatary giving a Land Rover Defender (of the Faith) some welly around Windsor Great Park while talking to the camera    and in an earlier life he did own a Lagonda before they became all wedge-shaped and electronicy. I wouldn't be surprised if his CV and Breadvan's bore uncanny similarities

[Guest Breadvan72]

 

Old money class

 

 

 

I guess so.  Di would have regarded Brenda as insufferably parvenu and middle class.

 

As for my CV linking to Phil's, if you mean that regrettable incident of handing round drinks on a tray while naked except for a mask at that Profumo party, I can explain.... 

[Bobthebeard]

That's the point. The investor who bought the car is probably canny. The twuntiness belongs to those whose drooling worship of Royals dead and alive confers inflated value on a very ordinary car.

+1

So... If one of us bought something (for example an old, but shiny car) on EBay that used to belong to "someone very famous" for £100, then later managed to sell it to a collector (of such things) for £10000 it would probably run to ten pages of Autoshite back slapping and congratulatory "well done mate, wish I had done the same" kinda stuff.

 

If whoever bought 'The Audi' then later doubles his/her money does that make 'em a twunt?

It's an investment opportunity. Hardly bought as a daily driver! The fact that it was owned by Royalty has nowt to do with it, apart from "anything to do with the Royal Family and all that stuff annoys me".

Discuss...

[Richard]

It wasn't owned by royalty.

[Bobthebeard]

It wasn't owned by royalty.

Eh? Thought that the titles of 'Princess' and 'Her Royal Highness' somehow conferred Royal status....

Could be talking Bollox though, as my knowledge of such things is very limited!

[Richard]

She definitely wasn't royalty between her divorce and her death, I can remember her bitching about it. After she died the media decided she was royal after all.

[Guest Breadvan72]

Maybe he means "not born to the purple" or some other nonsense, which is pretty daft since being Royal just means that some ancestor of yours once got to be top thug in a world of thugs, and anyway Di's family had been posh since before God went to Eton.

[Richard]

Maybe he means "not born to the purple" or some other nonsense, which is pretty daft since being Royal , and anyway Di's family had been posh since before God went to Eton.

 

That's a rather flawed argument. If being royal just means that some ancestor of yours once got to be top thug in a world of thugs, then not having such an ancestor means you are not royal. Posh is not the same as royal.

[fordperv]

my opinion of her whether or not she was "proper" royalty is what a woman, compassionate with a great choice in cars especially the escorts she had but i may be bias on the ford front

[Bobthebeard]

She definitely wasn't royalty between her divorce and her death, I can remember her bitching about it. After she died the media decided she was royal after all.

Whatever the ins and outs of being 'Royalty'. If someone has the cash to buy the Audi and punt it in for a profit fair play to 'em. Wouldn't you?

[Bobthebeard]

my opinion of her whether or not she was "proper" royalty is what a woman, compassionate with a great choice in cars especially the escorts she had but i may be bias on the ford front

She seemed a nice person. Sounds trite etc, and only based upon various media stories, but reading between the lines etc etc she seemed ok. Sounds a bit of a victim really, rather than a chancer.

[Guest Breadvan72]

That's a rather flawed argument. If being royal just means that some ancestor of yours once got to be top thug in a world of thugs, then not having such an ancestor means you are not royal. Posh is not the same as royal.

Yeah, but the whole concept of inherited status is so nutso anyway that quibbling about whether or not someone is a proper Royal is like quibbling about whether Mickey Mouse is more realistic than Bugs Bunny.

[Bobthebeard]

Yeah, but the whole concept of inherited status is so nutso anyway that quibbling about whether or not someone is a proper Royal is like quibbling about whether Mickey Mouse is more realistic than Bugs Bunny.

That's true enough! But thought that the point was inferred that the buyer of the Audi was a twunt... Seeing as it used to belong to Diana. I would have bought it if I could have afforded it! Bet it goes for double the price next time it appears in a specialist auction!

Or knowing my history of buying cars, maybe not.

[Richard]

I would rather drive an ex-Savile car that hadn't been valeted.

 

I don't see it as an investment opportunity anyway, If anybody was willing to pay more for it they would have done so. When people relist cars on eBay they always make less because they are minus the original winning bidder, I can't see why this would be different.