83C's Shite-esque Fleet: Yet another collection.

[r.welfare]

The VF Series II Commodore SV6 I hired in Aus in 2017 was a seriously impressive car.

[83C]

A collection is in progress:

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And back. No collection pictures because I got a bit short of time:

[83C]

Had a bit of a ‘meh’ day today. 

As mentioned elsewhere I found that I don’t fit in a Mk.2 Citroen C4, which became a proper pain about an hour later when Mrs. 83C’s Tiguan failed the MoT. I’m usually ok at presenting cars for test but this time I missed the leaking o/s/r damper and both lower arm rear bushes on the front being badly split though in my defence they weren’t knocking at all and could only be seen when looking directly at them from under the car. Annoyingly that’s a 3 year run of 100% pass rate (over 20 tests) ended, must try harder. The Tiguan is now VOR until it can be got into the garage to sort, I don’t have time and nor do I have a press to get the bushes out of the mounts, which left me with a problem.

Mrs. 83C is not much keen on automatics, so whilst browsing Marketplace this afternoon a listing for a ***** appeared for cheap, and even better it was about a minute away from where I was collecting my daughter from school. It was also priced at easily roffleable levels so I was straight round, test drive done, deal done, and collection arranged for this evening. Mrs. 83C reacted to the news of her not having to drive an auto for the next week in her usual cheerful manner, asking “why the fuck have you bought another fucking car?’ She’s smiling on the inside, I’m sure of it…

[83C]

Well, I’m off on a collection mission again this morning. 

Just to tidy up the outcome of the last post in this thread, the mystery car that came and went within a week was of course the Fabia, now up for roffle again with the current owner.

It was a fun little thing but I’d already spotted something I quite fancied in the for sale section, from a manufacturer that I hadn’t owned an example of until today which in itself is becoming quite a rare occasion for me. 

So, usual morning routines then off to the railway station to catch the 1019.

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First station achieved. 

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Fucking great.

[Dave_Q]

They could just admit to it being late rather than adding in a load of stations with obviously made up names to try and account for some of the delay

[83C]

Right, off we go:

Engineering works overrun at Crewe, which delayed the driver who was supposed to come from Crewe to prep and bring the train off the yard at Shrewsbury. No standby or spare drivers on Sundays so delays are inevitable.

[83C]

Now to await train no.2:

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New MiseryRail train. Not been on one of these before.

Next stop…?

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Nearly there.

[UltraWomble]

Are you off to Purple Kens?

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[83C]

And home. Thanks again to @purplebargeken, the Saab drives very nicely.