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[rml2345]

I'm not allowed a Scammell Explorer, Leyland Martian, Iron Fairy or any sort of fire engine. Also, I can't replace the Volvo with something tiny because she has the Bini currently and we need both a big and small car on the fleet. Three cars is considered excessive however given that we struggle to park one.

The Iron Fairy would solve this issue but she still remains adamant I'm not getting one.

[Remspoor]

I have been totally forbidden to purchase any Merc. We once lived in a area with many nationalities. Most were Moroccans or Turks. Their love of cars is really Mercedes orientated. Now Mrs R. is no way a racist, but she has seen so many many Bavarian Taxis she cannot take it any more. Now we are in Spain that is a shame as there are quite a number on the road which take my fancy.

[UltraWomble]

  ANYTHING

[Angrydicky]

I'm not allowed a three-wheeler of any description. She'd probably also draw the line at anything without a passenger seat too. Pretty much anything else goes, fortunately.

[Snipes]

Just about any Rover because cock piss partridge.

Carina E (or anything I find appealing) because old.

[sierraman]

The only car the wife has liked that I had was the silver mk3 Mondeo I had. I think she just accepts that I'll go out and buy a knackered old Ford of some description.

[stuboy]

I've never let someone else tell me what car / bike I can't buy tbh.

exactamondo

[motorpunk]

My squeeze is pretty easy with my love of crud, although she likes a bit of bling and stopped me from buying a rusty bike for €8 at the weekend. TBF we had no way of getting it home anyway.

[warninglight]

Mine sometimes voices that she doesn't like something I've been looking at buying. Never let it stop me, and with some she has begrudgingly admitted she has grown to like it!

 

What she drives is her choice, but my interest in maintaining something depends on it being something I appreciate too...

[BavarianRetro]

Any motorbike.

Any Land Rover.

 

 

To be fair, the LR thing was at my request. To save me from myself, many years ago, I made her promise to ensure that I'd never buy another Land Rover product.

[dougiefourspeed]

I pay for the lease on Mrs Fourspeed's car specifically on the understanding that if I then want to go out and buy a pink and yellow Nova with a Max Power bodykit and 8000 decibel subwoofer or a Lamborghini LM002 with a machine gun on the back then I can do so without let or hindrance. 

[captain_70s]

Anything else, on the grounds of financial sensibility.

 

I was allowed the Acclaim on the basis that it was replacing the Civic but was told I wasn't to keep the Rover 220...

 

Also no Reliant three wheelers.

[John F]

Wonder how well the 'controlled' blokes in this thread would get on if they tried telling their lasses what shoes, etc. they can buy?

[Tetleysmooth]

Anything with a manual 'box.

 

I'm happy with that.

[Eddie Honda]

There I no vehicles the other half won't let me have, regardless of number of wheels.

 

I'm not allowed a three-wheeler of any description.

 

I told Mrs H before we got married that she'd be out the door before my Reliant Regal.

 

Also no Reliant three wheelers.

We all know the solution to that:

 

1969 Bond 875 by Alan Gold, on Flickr

 

After one of those you'd be allowed a Reliant.

[Kringle]

Wonder how well the 'controlled' blokes in this thread would get on if they tried telling their lasses what shoes, etc. they can buy?

To balance the arguement I tell her what haircut she should have.

Also shoes don't cost anywhere near as much as we have collectively invested* in shoddy motors.

 

One of the issues I have is the amount of time I work on them, a 1 hour job results in a 6 hour job of researching/buying/fitting/getting bloody sheared bolts off/rust proofing/ finding more bloody broken bits/ etc etc. This puts strain on us all and enthusiasm from her wears thin after a while.

 

However I still have 47 tabs open full of perfect* potential motors.

[cms206]

Marelle generally kicks off when I bring another waif home but at one point I had 11 cars - I tried to explain that they were much easier to store than the dozen or so buses I used to have but she wasn't having it.

 

Other than that, nothing is specifically veto'd with the exception of Nissan Qashqais.

 

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[jonny69]

I'm not really allowed any of my current ones, but I get away with it

[Eddie Honda]

but at one point I had 11 cars

 

Amateur!

 

Mrs Honda thinks I only have 11 cars...

[dozeydustman]

Wonder how well the 'controlled' blokes in this thread would get on if they tried telling their lasses what shoes, etc. they can buy?

 

 

At the moment it's more a case of we don't have the money to run a third car. She did relent last night and said I could have a Morris Minor or "one like the purple smiley car" in the future (I think she means SiC's Ex-Cats, Ex-Vulgalour 1100) because they look "happy and cheerful".

[garbaldy]

My misses doesn't give a shit what I buy but does complain at the lack of space in the drive because she's not so good at reversing,

She also doesn't know just how many vehicles I own I just tell her I've got a dozen or so and she just shakes her head.

[Zelandeth]

My father did at one point object to the chaos he tended to encounter when emerging from the house hoping to use his car - The Fusion here is the only one that's his - and I didn't even actually live there at the time.  Pretty sure I was standing on a Saab to take this photo, and that there's a VW T25 just out of shot as well.

 

 

(the particular arrangement was because I was doing welding on the nearside of the Lada)

 

The current three (four if you count the two Invacars individually...though that will be pretty quickly back down again once I've finished stripping useful bits of KPL) does seem a little inconsequential.

 

...Though it's about to increase anyway as I'm bringing something else home on Monday - which I had expected everyone to say no to, but they didn't...so I wasn't going to argue!

[Richard]

I think I'd be in trouble if I attempted to buy another GM Saab or any 21st century diesel. That's unlikely to happen though.

[TataBobu]

Also shoes don't cost anywhere near as much as we have collectively invested* in shoddy motors.

 

 

 

I once bought a Lada 2105, with some ITP (that's MOT for you) remaining, for 83% of the price of my wife's pair of boots. Mind you, it's not the boots that were too expensive.

 

Wonder how well the 'controlled' blokes in this thread would get on if they tried telling their lasses what shoes, etc. they can buy?

 

Really not a problem for me. I once told her something along the lines of "when you ask me about outfit, shoes or whatever don't expect a beautified reality. I'll tell you exactly what I see". And she still takes my advice and asks for it. Mind you, I don't give it unsolicited.

[Simonsays]

My good lady hated the streetkak, she found it difficult to get into and out of when it was parked on our steepish drive. Coupled with a boot that struggled to contain a paperback book and toothbrush and the generally uncivilised drive she was glad to see the back of it.

 

The Volvo V40 she likes. Comfy wafting and it does sterling service on tip runs and big supermarket shops.

 

She knows that I'm working up to buying something entirely inappropriate though. I can see the despair forming behind her eyes. I'm thinking properly big fast estate of some sort.

[eddyramrod]

Well... I can't drive at the moment and have already flogged the Rover.  MrsR has decreed that Huggy must go, and I've got one bloke interested on Facebook already.  After that goes, I have my orders not to buy another old Cadillac, at least for a good while.  Not that I'll be buying anything for some time anyway.  Pretty sure she will stand for "old" as long as it's good enough, but I won't get away with American.  Yet.

 

I wonder if I can get away with a few 1/18s?

[pompei]

A Citroen CX, as I had one before and she hated it.  I think I must be married to Junkman.

[pompei]

Mrs P belongs to the "Why do you need more than one car/guitar etc ?" school of thought. Although, paradoxically, I don't think she would object if I brought home a pre-facelift Fiat Multipla. However, due to extremely poor wealth* management on my part, this scenario is somewhat unlikely in the foreseeable future.

[PrimeraMike]

I've been denied quite a few cars over the years, most memorable is the Celica 6th gen - because apparently weird looking front??

But 80's cars in general are a nono and 90's somewhat allowed. Mostly because I've proven they're more reliable than the 00 and onwards generation.

 

That said, then I've had 33 cars in total since I received my license in '97, and out of those the 29 have been in the 12 years we've been married. So she's used to seeing yet another crap car in the drive now and then.

Buy first, tell later, is a loosing strategy with my wife. That much I've learned.

[Craig the Princess]

Any and all motorbikes.

 

Fortunately almost every car gets a well if you want it buy it.