- a ray of light

[hairymel]

this morning I borrowed : 1 banana transit flatbed

 

loaded on jacks + tools (powered and otherwise)

 

1 set of wheels with tyres

 

2 pack of tesco's chicken and mushroom slices

 

not enough tobbaco

 

no coffee 

 

all of my overdraft

 

oh and a bit too much optimism

[hairymel]

this threadwas supposed to be called - a ray of light at the end of the tunnel, but the other way round the m25 was slightly shorter.

 

twin wheel banana cruises at 45mph 

 

[vulgalour]

A hairymel production.  I wonder what it could be!  I imagine the answer is just over the Horizon.

[hairymel]

couple of hours later i had 'Arrived'*

 

bearing in mind i had already agreed to buy the car from a couple of crappy photos (for more than any other vehicle since 2004 swear down guv!) i felt a sinking feeling

[hairymel]

bah Angyl you can guess where this is going

[purplebargeken]

That scares me. 

[hairymel]

by this time i was franticly doing manmaths.

 

walk away and loose 25% deposit + min£100 for flatbed (fuel, courtesy beer and courtesy fuel)

 

or

 

cost of car - (already lost deposit/collection cost) = not walk away?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

fuck it thought

 

 

(and also fuck firefox and chrome - sorry for the jumbled pics!)

[doobietoo]

judging by the state of the house windows I would have run..... but this is Autoshite so expecting pez shot shortly...

[Isaac Hunt]

You don't see many of these. Other than a bit of ELM disease it is a 'minter'. A couple of strips off gaffer tape from around that window and those wings could be fixed.

 

Did you bail out on it ?

[hairymel]

obviously i investigated further

 

the vendor had been unable to open the bonnet, so checking it actually had an engine was my first point of inspection

 

[spike60]

I was going to say I would have bailed, but I wouldn't. Because I wouldn't blind buy any car, let alone a 1978 one. I'm crap at this Autoshite thing..... Much bigger balls than me.

[vulgalour]

That's lovely, that is.  Crumbly McFlakeyface.

[spike60]

inner wings look OK? Are they mouse or rat turds? My Merc had both.

[hairymel]

 

judging by the state of the house windows I would have run..... but this is Autoshite so expecting pez shot shortly...

 

house owner 'was' a bit of a horder by the looks of it.

 

don't know why you would want to fill your house up with lampshades, carrier bags and books

 

normal* people fill their houses with car parts - obviously that isn't a problem

 

also truck is banana therefore denzil shot needed

[hairymel]

 

That scares me.

pussy

[hairymel]

 

Other than a bit of ELM disease it is a 'minter'

you mean its mostly hole?

[DVee8]

Holy ffukc what have you done.

[hairymel]

 

A couple of strips off gaffer tape from around that window and those wings could be fixed.

 

true autoshite spirit

[hairymel]

 

I wouldn't blind buy any car, let alone a 1978 one

i had four or five crappy pics, mostly closeups of random bits of undersealed stuff, wormcasts and grass

 

thats not blind

 

there were no pictures of the bastard brambles intertwined in the grass however

[hairymel]

 

Are they mouse or rat turds? My Merc had both.

didn't even notice the turds - the most interesting thing under the bonnet was the number of 'special chrysler' snail carcasses, which were also present in my sadly overcooked sunbeam project

[hairymel]

 

Holy ffukc what have you done.

 

havent done it yet

[hairymel]

moving round to the drivers compartment the wing bottoms are a bit frilly

 

 

and the door doesn't feel 'mercedes' solid

 

 

 

there is air conditioning in the drivers footwell though

 

 

oh look a newspaper

 

 

 

oh look

 

 

oh

 

[Dick Cheeseburger]

Without being too number plate rain-man-ish, wasn't the number plate of your original Sunbeam project ELM???T? If so, it's MEANT TO BE!

[Dick Cheeseburger]

I think I remember seeing this one on the blue forum when the lad was asking how much it was worth. Iirc, the photos showed the nicer* parts, rather than the remaining 80% of the car...

[strangeangel]

walk away and loose 25% deposit

 

 

I'd have written that £0.50p off and gone home personally.

[hairymel]

 

Without being too number plate rain-man-ish, wasn't the number plate of your original Sunbeam project ELM???T? If so, it's MEANT TO BE!

yeah a couple of hundred numbers apart - i think its a bournmouth number possibly but have not googled extensivly

 

pretty pressed plates as well

[hairymel]

 

I think I remember seeing this one on the blue forum when the lad was asking how much it was worth. Iirc, the photos showed the nicer* parts, rather than the remaining 80% of the car...

 

'vendor' was middle man for his work collegue who had inherited the property apparently.

 

nice guy - he is planning to recycle useful bits of the minor, which is pretty far gone

 

to be fair his pictures were a bit random - my counterpoint is - how many people are shoving a load of money on a horse this weekend just because of a random jumble of letters?

[hairymel]

I'd have written that £0.50p off and gone home personally.

my overdraft facility is several orders of magnitude bigger than that

[LessThanEqual]

 

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8 days after I was born, Jesus.

[hairymel]

after reading the local paper i attempted to access the boot area.

 

the catches were jammed so i climbed in the back, removed the parcel shelf and dissassembled the offending items

 

first impressions were not good

 

 

once the tailgate was open i gave it a little prod

 

 

 

reassuringly the boot floor is full of water, as i don't want to poke around looking for holes ugh

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

about this time the vendor Mark turned up