Age and mileage, please
I’m looking for a specific kind of vehicle, and suddenly noticed a certain familiarity about my list. See if you can spot it.Not too young - they’re too expensive.
Not too old - they’re too high maintenance
Number of owners - lots is a definite eyebrow-raiser
Fuel consumption - how heavy a drinker?
Performance when the going is tough
Comfort - definitely important
Looks - don't mind a bit tatty or dented, but not rusty
And I wouldn’t really want a vehicle which coughed, spluttered and emitted clouds of smoke when started up on a cold morning.
Yup. Very like a singles checklist
At least with vehicles I can check them on DVLA (our vehicle website) and see when they last had a roadworthy test. One possible turned out to be 10 years older than the ad said, and had 100K more on the clock. That’s a bit familiar too
Any advice? On vehicles, I mean, but all the funnier if they relate to singles too
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This conversation is getting into a wee bit of a guddle
yes Yes YESSSSSSSS
fluffy in pink is my signature look. Well, it will be. LOVE it!
@Imback: Oh no dearie, we think alike in another important thing besides this one: we share love & care at the same individual
Copy that CAPTAIN
However, I prefer the manual one coz I just love to play around with the joystick...errrr.....I mean the gear stick
I know, I know, I ask for too much.
I know this place is full of vintage cars. Good enough to polish and shine, the park in the garage as a proud owner. I am in the same category with 48000 km on the clock.
After reading pat's blog, I must add I would also prefer a zero emission electric type .
Nice blog..
You seem to be a woman who knows what she wants...A good engine and nice interior sits well...the outer part is most times can be taken care of easily...same for a partner.
It's a new option on their website and some sellers haven't
noticedgot up to speed yet - declaring the wrong mileage, the wrong year, and even saying their vehicles are in daily use when they are in fact registered as being up on bricks, to escape paying annual road tax!Would earn CS a fortune if they set up a registration website which HAD to be accurate
I was practical about the age, but I got a swish, comfortable car (black leather seats
It actually does remind me of my preferences in regards to a boyfriend
Hope all is well with you Biff
No, there will be no squeaking suspension
This is by way of being a travelling kennel, really, with me as chauffeur, navigator, and chief cook and bottlewasher. The pets have me well trained
Hmm, skedonks is a Saffer word - what's the equivalent in other cultures? Jalopies, I think, is American - rattletraps is fairly general -
and it matches your fella? Lucky GIRL
Baddum Tishhhhh!! Haha love it! I think I'll start using it whenever there's a zing.. lol
Keeping my fingers crossed for your move and heading to bed soon - have to collect 3 kids (Hotel Auntie is handy) god-knows-when from some pub in Kilkenny and not to forget our early alarm clock.
I liked my fast horses and fast cars and I better don't start how great a powerful motor, immediate reaction when hitting the gas and not to forget, thundering through turns is.
What I really need is a fundi on hand for this trip. I'm a top-up-the-oil-and-water, check-the-tyres, leave everything else to the experts, kinda driver.
Nope, I'm green full stop.
I do appreciate the good times and just hope they will last.
Sounds like an adventure and fresh start what you are planning and that was something that got me back on the current track - not easy in the start but it got me where I wanted to be.
And now I can see a time will come when I will have to slow down, sit down, watch the world going past instead of being part of the parade. It could be a year. It could be another 20 years. Some people are 20 going on 50 and some young souls are 70 going on 30. I suspect I will be 80 going on 10
To use this blog as an example - if I was a commercial vehicle I'd be taking myself off regular service and becoming a motorhome.
A good motorhome? Who the hell knows? But the best I can be.
Would you go to her yard for a milk shake if she did
i'm not a car-girl. when i look at used cars, i look at a Carfax(if ony there was a Peoplefax), look for rust, and when driving, i listen for weird sounds. hope this helps.
Although I say I'm going to sell it - I've been looking at campsites en route. They are - incredible. Rolling acres of grassland, or overlooking the sea or lakes or stuff. They have bakeries, for fresh morning rolls, and takeaways (take outs, I think you'd call that) and restaurants - pools. All the obvious services.
The photographs would make you feel woozy
I'll listen for those weird noises and my computer is making some now, time to log out
I go to Austria 5th August next Saturday, cant wait