Biddy bye little Poppy car :(

Tahrey1043 · Post by **Tahrey1043** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 11:09 am

Well, it's finally happened, someone has walked up with a fistfull of dollars and made me an offer I can't refuse, to mix movie metaphors. Fittingly, it's someone "in the family". My uncle's building/decorating business is on the grow, and he needs to expand his Polish-migrant-labourer and equipment transporting capabilities beyond what a transit van can handle. Something sturdy and reliable, but not neccessarily all that quick, like the van

So he gets a car with a personal guarantee of working for at least six months (if not, i find him a replacement...

), being delivered today to the manchester site, I get Â£400 in the back pocket, minus six months tax and a year's insurance. Everybody's happy. Especially the car, because sitting still for the best part of a year with only occasional runs can't have done it too much good.

Got a nice jaunt ahead of me today, only problem is I should be doing college work instead as i've took annual leave to do it. Still, it's the equivalent of two weeks after-tax wages...

Must step on, got to go rub down the primer i put on the worst bits of arch bubble and add some topcoat (he's not bothered about the bodywork... but I am, still), get insured, taxed, and off on my way.
I'll be playing Divine Madness on the way up, of course. On the original tape, I think. Just so i can crank the windows down and the blaupunkt as high as the speakers will tolerate to sing along with Driving In My Car. Everybody now --- "It's not much, but it's mine. I mend it in my spare time.."*

Don't worry (celebrate?) yet as i'll be back in selling a pile of polo related gear and to baffle the odd noob asking gearbox and ignition related questions, at least for a while, sporadically

Happy trails old girl

yeah, that's the rust patch i'm on about, right there

* did once have an idea of altering it with polo lyrics from the original moggy minor ones. it kind of worked, but not brilliantly

PS... INTEL INSIDE!! Maybe i should quickly make a sticker with my one remaining page of A4 sticker paper?

Mk2Adam · Post by **Mk2Adam** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 1:52 pm

are you gonna get another polo tahrey? sorry to hear about it finally going.

Tahrey1043 · Post by **Tahrey1043** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 11:56 pm

Nah, it's a good thing, it's gonna get used, even if it's just six miles battling through the centre of manchester (currently unc's working literally across the road from the MENA) and back again with four brickies in it and some stuff on the top (gave him the roof rack as well)

And he's gonna keep it running for that outlay, at least til I forget he's got it... hehehe

I couldn't really keep it ... and i'll tell you now ... though it's plenty usable if you're patient and unadventurous, I don't think I could go back to that level of performance. Press throttle to floor. Twist egg timer. Wait for bell. Change gear. Repeat. (optional step: Turn off camera detector)

(though I got used to the comparitively jiggly ride pretty quick - it's still fun and really i'm far too used to the ashtray's squashy "magic carpet" springs for mental comfort)

Might go for a diesel mk4 5-door though... dependent on less people piping up asking "should my economy be this crap?"

..... still its not as crap as the astra's, as enamoured as i am of being able to overtake things now. It's too thirsty, too bulky (i've caved in the front bumper not from crashing, but because I still haven't got used to parking it - even today, i slipped polo right into tight spots like a small child's greasy thumb into the neck of a panda pops bottle) and distressingly silver...