E is for... exiting the fleet.

[Guest Hooli]

Sorted. Got any salmon?

 

 

Larrrrrrvvvvley!

[Tadhg Tiogar]

All they did with it in the end was give it a new badge:

 

[cms206]

The Carina has been here for over a month. Time flies.

 

It continues to break without axtually breaking - latest victims are the NSR window and the tailgate wiper - but otherwise it continues to do 36mpg in relative comfort, with heat, space and a really rather good OEM radio cassette setup. It is surprisingly good fun to press on with, it's nippy when it needs to be and it's really a piece of piss to park anywhere, partly because it's so dull people don't even look at it, but also because it's smaller than a current generation Astra estate in EVERY external dimension.

 

I entered a couple of roffles recently; the second I had to pull out of because of reasons not relating to cars as such, but as roffle time came on the first I genuinely didn't want to win. I actually like the Carina. It is economical, capable, comfortable and I don't honestly think I've found a car that fits me as a person and where my life is as the minute better than the Aleutian Blue beauty* parked on the drive outside my house right now.

 

I have been driving since I was seventeen years and three months old. I am about to turn 32. I have had many cars over the years, so I recently sat down with a scribblestick and worked out where the Carina lies on the list.

 

This had two surprising outcomes; one, the Carina really is my first Japanese car - I've had an R8 but they don't count - and two, where the same Carina lies on on that list.

 

It's taken nearly fifteen years to get here, but it appears that the answer to life, the universe and everything is actually as the late Douglas Adams predicted.

 

 

Ladies and gentlemen, the Toyota Carina E 1.6GS; or as I like to refer to it, number 42.

 

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[hairnet]

when you have boss and sprog and life to happen

 

sometimes car dont matter

 

its a tool

 

lets you get oan wi tha good stuff

 

32 really ???

[Talbot]

the shamen back in the 90s were singing about the carina as Es were supposed to be good.

Nope. They seem to like Hondas: (at least I think so.. Is that an accord fastback?)

 

 

 

Also.. well bought. Very well bought! Given the state of the fleet here at Talbot Towers, a reliable boring estate car would be *Very* welcome.

[Talbot]

On describing the thread to Mrs. T. (including the Shamen reference) :

 

A philosopher once wrote:

 

"Torquey Torquey, very Torquey".

 

[cms206]

Time stands still for no car... and it looks like time is up for this one.

 

On Saturday I purchased no.43, as a direct replacement for the Carina. No.43 will be the newest car on fleet.

About three hours ago on ebay, I won no.44. It is now the oldest car on the fleet by less than two months.

 

 

I've not bought a car in fucking AGES and then done two in a week again...

[hairnet]

ya canny stoap capn

 

 

 

SPILL.

[hairnet]

Time stands still for no car... and it looks like time is up for this one.

 

On Saturday I purchased no.43, as a direct replacement for the Carina. No.43 will be the newest car on fleet.

 

About three hours ago on ebay, I won no.44. It is now the oldest car on the fleet by less than two months.

 

 

I've not bought a car in fucking AGES and then done two in a week again...

43 avensis estate or a newer E

[Six-cylinder]

The question is, is it the one I was outbid on this morning?

[cms206]

The question is, is it the one I was outbid on this morning?

You probably cost me a couple of hundred quid there, Chris!

 

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[Mrs6C]

He only bid £256 because the heated seats didn't work...

[Six-cylinder]

Huh, you have got my car, bidding that excessive amount!

[hairnet]

cooncil estates brutha??

[cms206]

Huh, you have got my car, bidding that excessive amount!

I said I'd go to 500 expecting it to go to about 800... oops!

 

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[brownnova]

I was there as that one closed watching like a hawk ready with my max bid (which was surpassed) too.

 

Looks like a really good buy!

 

Perhaps we should have coordinated and one of us could have had it cheaper!

[brownnova]

Although in fairness I was only interested as it was so cheap... no new cars are needed at Brownnova_towers until relocation time this summer!

[Six-cylinder]

I was there as that one closed watching like a hawk ready with my max bid (which was surpassed) too.

 

Looks like a really good buy!

 

Perhaps we should have coordinated and one of us could have had it cheaper!

 

We needed a committee along the lines of the Great Escape Tunnelling committee!

[Six-cylinder]

You probably cost me a couple of hundred quid there, Chris!

 

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Anyway well done, I sure you needed it while I only desired it!

[hairnet]

but it woulda been

 

chris epic collection thread

 

andy just doon tha road ken

 

[cms206]

Any well done, I sure you needed it while I only desired it!

 

Oh I didn't NEED it... but seeing as the Council Estate is still off the road I thought a stand-in Council Estate would be useful.

[Six-cylinder]

I was second in line for the council estate when it came up for grabs from Sam Glover and you took that from me as well!

[cms206]

I was second in line for the council estate when it came up for grabs from Sam Glover and you took that from me as well!

Yeah... sorry about that too

 

It's out the back of the workshop at work just now needing a steering rack... I'll maybe get round to testing that over the next six months or so for when Council Estate 2 runs out of test.

[cms206]

Seeing as my unplanned Volvo purchase was blown out the water by two other shiters bidding on it, this was the actual planned Carina replacement; 2.0i Zetec, 42k on the clock and full Ford service history, along with two keys, dealer plates, dealer stickers, the lot.

 

It needs sills, which I should hopefully have next week for it then I can fetch it up the road from Kilmarnock.

 

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[DodgyBastard]

How much is the Carina?

[cms206]

How much is the Carina?

Not sure... offers? Drives ace but my welder CBA.

 

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[cms206]

Here goes nothing... a sweaty 156 is chrain wan.

 

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[cms206]

Chrain 2 made four minutes early...

 

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[hairnet]

Fix the carina ffs

 

Mondeo fuck sake

[320touring]

Doing me an anticipate