What is the Weakest Excuse you have used for buying a car?

[Six-cylinder]

Writing a few words about my second Visa 17RD reminded me how I ended up with it. I already have a near identical car!

 

 

Buying this car was probably the weakest excuse you have every heard, I bought it because it was for sale only 3 miles from my home!

[Skizzer]

'I won it in a raffle'

[Six-cylinder]

Nobody raffles car unless its that high end stuff you find at airports!

[doobietoo]

Its worth more in parts.... the fact that almost all the cars I buy are still does not have seemed to have registered....

[Bear]

"it's yellow"

 

[Christine]

So's mine !

 

 

 

 

Why all these bloody Likes ??? It's an  'orrible old heapashit Ford. 

 

Yellow was the only reason i bought it . I had a yellow mini mk1,  a yellow renault 17 ts , a yellow Cav mk2 , an a yellow astravan mk2 ... I like yellow !

[Bear]

I had a Mk 1 that colour! I put a similarly yellow airscoop from a Colt Turbo on it. And yellow tape on the dashboard trim bits.

[skattrd]

There's only 4 left on the road ... see Fiat Tipo

It's got pop-up lights  ... see Honda Aerodeck

It's got funky doors ... see Toyota Sera

 

It's an Umm FFS

[FakeConcern]

An investment.

[purplebargeken]

I could do with a tow bar.

 

You sit high up in it and it is comfy.

 

It's a Dolomite.

 

I like the interior

 

It was very cheap

[Richard]

"it's yellow"

 

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Yellow car.

[Richard]

So's mine !

 

 

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Yellow car.

[fordperv]

So's mine !

 

 

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Splumph that is beautiful

[fordperv]

Well out of all the sierra's I've had I've never had a sapphire.

[dome]

"I broke my collarbone and can't drive a manual just now) = me buying an xj40.

[Asimo]

I thought you would look so sexy driving this (back from the pub).

[Roostybroon]

It was gonna get scrapped if I didn't take it. (Just about every car I've owned).

[Paul Dupart]

Yeh, but if I sell it I'll always get me money back....

[Cavcraft]

99% of the time it's price first, location second (i.e local) However, I bought the last council garage door green 5 door 306 because it was diesel, and I have a spare council garage door green 5 door 306 in my garage. One day I'm going to hoist the engine/box out, put steels on to replace the Speedlines, get some other bits off then give the remains to the scrap man.

 

Oh, I once bought loads of car because a neighbour complained about the three or four I had, and bubbled me up for one not being taxed. By the time I had 15 out the front, all MOT'd, taxed and insured, he was fucked.

[sloth]

its cheap and im bored of the old one. \

 

 

 

wait thats not correct. 

 

 

it needs 11ty spent to fix (30 quid tops)

[Jim Bell]

1) I was bored.

2) I was in drink.

3) I got approved for a credit card.

4) I was sad.

[skattrd]

It was an accident, I thought I'd get outbid (half the cars I've bought off ebay).

[andy18s]

" The seats are worth more than that!!"

Yesterdays Ford Puma Thunder at Cannock being a prime example....

[chaseracer]

"You know I've always wanted a Mercedes..."

 

She got her own back with the 205, though!

 

[Pillock]

"I've got that empty garage sat there"

(Cue trip to Blackpool for an MGF)

[flat4alfa]

Wife had a gammy leg

 

So I bought an Automatic Lancia Trevi with 'her in mind'

[dollywobbler]

I had some money and found it on the internet. That's the usual excuse. What more reason do you need?

[Skizzer]

Two feeble excuses:

 

Inside the barn by Skizzer, on Flickr

 

Jag:  Scooters won this and a Triumph 2500 on eBay at the same time and if I hadn't bought the Jag he'd have had to do the eBay mong thing and get negged.

 

Dedra:  I found both of them in this barn on some land a friend was renting and it looked sad.  Owner wouldn't sell the one on the left, possibly because it wasn't quite as fucked.

[vulgalour]

When am I ever going to find another?

 

Oh, right.  But it's free and someone needs to save it.

 

Sam (Captain Slow) told me it might be useful for me.**

 

 

 

**I will add, in his defense, that Sam didn't recommend I buy the whole car.

[seth]

'Its got the same name as the daughter'