What's the most unusual circumstances you've bought a car in?

[NorfolkNWeigh]

2008ish, went out on the piss and ended up in the Coal hole, (the Strand no less),http://www.nicholsonspubs.co.uk/restaurants/london/thecoalholestrandlondon

Anyway whilst ordering a round of drinks and some cashews, shook hands on £400 of legal SD1:

Did a couple of thousand miles in it, got to Welsh Wales and back, ended selling it to Torsten for £200! If you own it I hope this is still in the history file:

I met Mrs N in the Coal Hole in 1984- she worked in The Savoy next door, she has been forced to drive a couple of SD1's over the years- small world eh?

[Timewaster]

Woah, back up a bit.

 

You ended up in bed with a pregnant lesbian squaddie and came away with a fiesta?

 

 

I'm going to delete my lame post about a drunk metro purchase.

YOU WIN!

[Junkman]

^^

This.

The thread was won with not a narrow margin.

[D Spares & Tyres]

I went into a scrapyard to buy an engine mount for my friends Uno and came out with a complete running Fiat Panda for £30. Unfortunately the engine mounts weren't interchangeable.

Tell them what happened to the Panda.....☺

[catsinthewelder]

I did once, I'll try and find where it is and put a link up.

 

EDIT here it is http://autoshite.com/topic/16289-confessions-corner-forgive-me-father-for-i-can-haz-sins/page-3

[Jon]

I reckon that one and Junkman's rhetoric will take some beating!

 

My only meagre effort was in 2002, fresh out of uni and back at home to resume temporary work at Sainsbury's. I'd cycle across town to work or take the Imp but it didn't like the traffic and I was no longer doing evenings as before but day shifts instead, as I was now an internet shopper.

 

Parents go away on holiday for a couple of weeks and Mum being Mum, leaves me with £50 money to buy food and pay a couple of bills. So naturally, my older brother tells me of a cheap Volvo 340 he's seen, 9 months MOT - £40! Would be an ideal WBOD, had such a term been coined back then. It was an A reg 5 door in metallic maroon, with an orange interior and a dicky CVT that only worked in low gear. The 30 mile drive home was interesting, to say the least....

 

The remaining £10 of the budget was put in the tank but I remember being crushingly embarrassed by the ever increasing RPM and associated din that I never got to the end of that initial £10's worth of petrol; must've been a mild winter, as I only used the Imp for the commute a handful of times. Saw another 340 CVT parked in Tesco one day, so left a note asking if the owner knew of any spares. He e-mailed me some weeks later on Christmas Day, so I sensed he'd be a bit of a soft touch and may well be interested in taking it off my hands. Somehow wangled this and it left the driveway for £20 (never have been much of a wheeler dealer, me). Did see it hanging around in his back garden on the 4 carefully placed paving slabs he'd laid out for it but I'm sure it's long since become bean cans.

[dugong]

Worked in a call centre once, went on the piss. 

Ended up winning a 305 S5 Estate in Norwich the next day having placed a bid and forgotten about it while the bevvies were flowing. I lived in Cheshire at the time. 

[The Moog]

1982, I am 19 living in Milton Keynes.  pregnant , U.S. army, lesbian, accidental pregnancy etc. I listened then ended up in bed,.

When I got outside I realised I was the owner* of a 1979 Fiesta 1.3 GL.

[Junkman]

Yeah, that was it. The internet can be closed now. I mean, just imagining how to possibly beat this makes my brain go mushy mushy.

Besides, I'm too old for this kind of shit now. What little life I've left I have to live as a beaten man.

[NorfolkNWeigh]

But this happened long before the internet even existed, hell in 1982 I'd never even seen a computer.

Shit like this was probably happening every day, teenagers then were out doing stuff,not talking about it on Facebook or Twitter- AIDS hadn't been invented and we'd all got loads of disposable income ( relative to our parents) .

What would win the Internet would be if you could do it today.

Gentlemen ( and ladies, I suppose) , this is your challenge. ( in the interests of diversity and fairness the Gays are excused the pregnant requirement in U.S. squaddies)

[Alan_Green]

I stayed at the Hotel Dieu in the city centre and commuted to the site by bus every day. The route was passing a dealership for classic cars, mainly yanks. Of course it didn't escape me, that one of them was a '60 Imperial in LeBaron flavour. 

Cool story. My kinda road trip. Any pics from the road?  Isn't the Hotel Dieu the hospital? I stayed around there but then moved to the Le Gabriel to be nearer the KFC. Have a Beirut spot:

[sierraman]

Bought a Sierra once on holiday in Falmouth. As you do.

[Lord Sterling]

Hmmm, unusual. Probably not as unusual as most of you, but sometime in 2008 I'd crashed my TWR-kitted Rover 827Si, I hadn't got a car to roll about in and I'd just agreed to buy my Mk1 G-reg Sterling off Brad. At the time the Mk1 needed a new auto gearbox so wasn't much use to me except that it was my first Mk1 Sterling which I'd always wanted.

 

Brad also lent me an N-reg Mk2 827 Sterling which I liked so much, I ended buying both the Mk1 and 2 off Brad. I still have both cars today.

[Lord Sterling]

I wouldn't of thought such a thing as classic car dealers would exist somewhere like Beirut, didn't think they were really into stuff like that in that sort of place?

Why not? Classic car lovers isn't just a Western thing.

[Junkman]

Isn't the Hotel Dieu the hospital?

 

Asylum, too, so actually appropriate. State owned like the cement industry. Hence they often accomodate workers from abroad in it to save on expenses.

The guest rooms were very nice, though.

[Junkman]

Why not? Classic car lovers isn't just a Western thing.

 

Also I'm always fascinated how wrong a concept "Westerners" have of Lebanon. It's one of the very few genuinely nice places I've ever been on this godforsaken planet. How many countries are there, where I can decide every morning whether to go to either a beach bar, or skiing?

 

[Alan_Green]

^^^And what about the honeys? Gangs of stunning ladeez everywhere. No men, just hot women.  Here's a NY times article on the subject called "With a 5 to 1 female to male ratio Beiruts women are hot, horny, and oh so lonely."  http://www.ign.com/boards/threads/ny-times-with-a-5-to-1-female-to-male-ratio-beiruts-women-are-hot-horny-and-oh-so-lonely.130389868/

Amazing food too. Flights are £250ish. Shitefest winter break?

[Junkman]

Appartments are 40k...
I'm seriously considering to retire there.
 
Not because of the honeys, mind, I'm too old for that, but there is this:
 

 
this:

 

 

this:

 
this:

 
this (an annual event):

 

 
and this:

 
 
Being a simpleton, that's all I ever need.

[Junkman]

Fuck!

 

There is another one in Beirut!

 

 

Give me the money and I'll do that trip again! Now! Damn ISIS can't be worse than those godforsaken Chetniks.

 

Disclaimer: Lesbian pregnant GI Jane shaggage not beatable because inferior balls size.

[alf892]

I bought an allegro in an auction.

 

It was the last car through and I hadn't bought any others.

[chaseracer]

 

 

I have a thing for Chateau Musar...

[Taff]

my quest for an X-type Jag ending with an MGF is well documented within these beige pages.