What is the strangest process that has led to you buying a car?

[chodweaver]

I'm mostly still confused by the above anecdote, but it has all the right components: sexual variety, military police and associated jeopardy, hiding in bathrooms, a borked Renner and of course a free car.

A+ Great story, would read again etc.

 

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[timolloyd]

That anecdote sets the bar for 'extreme shiting' surely?

[New POD]

YES, you should. Really

 

Yes. I really should.

Although I probably should have kept a few other cars too.

[yellowperil]

Not a car, but two wheels.

Years ago I bought a Kawasaki Z550 LTD as a project.

The petrol tank was dented on both sides and on the top, so I made a trip to the breaker.

 

 

The breaker is located on a bit of private ground and as I drove in he was getting his stock out and had just started up a Honda VFR400Z NC21 Japanese import.

 

It was facing toward me, running and it had no fairing and two headlights shining at me.

As I got out of the car the breaker said "Just give that a warm up."

So I hopped on and rode her up to the end of the industrial estate.

 

Before I got back I knew I had to buy it.

 

I paid £800 for it and didn't regret it for a second. It was used all summer in the company of much bigger, more powerful bikes and never missed a beat, after years of riding around on a Kawasaki GPZ900R having a lightweight bike again was a revelation.

I took it on a track day at Cadwell Park, my brother took it around Snetterton and a mate of mine took it around Mallory Park and it just excelled itself.

The only time it let me down was when I took a roundabout far to fast and the end can on the exhaust touched down and lifted the back wheel slightly and I slid off and cracked the right hand engine case. A secondhand one from the breakers, an oil change and away we went.

 

I bought a Suzuki GSXR 1100, so the Honda was surplus to requirements and i sold it to a mates dad, who stripped it down and stored it under his workbench, where I believe it still rests.

 

For the money it was by far the best bike I have ever owned and I think the breaker knew what he was doing when he got me to ride it.

[cms206]

Had a few moments of stupidity, probably the most far fetched being swapping a rotten Mk1 1.1 Fiesta van with an X-pack body kit but no floor (EYS 231X) for a running, driving, class 6 MOT'd Dennis Lancet which I then hired to a local coach operator for six months before selling it as the MOT was due to expire for more or less 10x what the Fiesta had cost me. Wish I'd kept the Lancet now to be honest.

 

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[Six-cylinder]

Had a few moments of stupidity, probably the most far fetched being swapping a rotten Mk1 1.1 Fiesta van with an X-pack body kit but no floor (EYS 231X) for a running, driving, class 6 MOT'd Dennis Lancet which I then hired to a local coach operator for six months before selling it as the MOT was due to expire for more or less 10x what the Fiesta had cost me. Wish I'd kept the Lancet now to be honest.

 

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I wish somebody had swapped a Denis Lancet for my Fiesta!

[anonymous user]

Too many to list, for example going with a mate to Cornwall to look at A40 Devon pick ups that he was thinking of buying and me buying a Vauxhall Victor FB estate because it was there. Went with another mate to collect some Volvo spare parts from a chap, found that he had a Volvo 164 for sale, so bought it

Went to post an urgent letter at the sorting office in Cardiff (had missed the local collection) saw an Alfa Romeo S3 Spider on the forecourt of a garage a few doors down, thought it looked pretty so I bought it. (the car not the garage)

[purplebargeken]

I remember the tale of the pregnant lesbian/bi and her US MP partner! Ah, the good old days! 

 

However, in all honesty the mere fact that most of my recent buys have been down to just being part of Autoshite has to be the strangest route for most people. 

 

Not that I would change anything mind.