And I thought it was women who could never make their minds up

[Sheilz]

Eldest son sold/swapped his gleaming black S2000 for a skyline. Combination of ugliness and expense resulted in it being sold/swapped for an elderly AMG Merc. While its in really brilliant condition its too much of a grandad car for his taste so now away to view a Masda 6 this evening. DVLA have been quite taken aback about the number of cars he's arranged for his plate to go on in the space of 2/3 weeks. Finally decided to wait until he knows that he'll keep the car, that's IF the Mazda is to be his next car, before arranging transfer. Had a lucky escape with the skyline though because the guy he sold/swapped it to phoned him to say the engine had imploded on itself. Moral of that story for both of them, as neither seen the car before buying, is to have the darned thing inspected before parting with hard cash. The original owner of the skyline must have seen our Darren coming though as he's the one who had tuned it out of existence so must have known it was on its last legs. It was throwing flames out of the exhaust I mean mega bad taste or what :eek:

[Stewart]

Cars blowing up, that takes me back. My group of friends years back used to buy each others cars. One an MkI ford escort Mexico went round four of them before being swapped and it blew up. What got me was my mates would watch each other strip the cars, drive them as if they had stole it and I mean drive them hard (with respect to the lads on here but on a different level) with roll cages etc and buy the time it had done the rounds it was sold or swapped to some poor sole with Blue smoke most times pouring out the back.

The Land Rover below being an Example of the mad vehicles they bought and swapped. It was race tuned V8 that could do 0-60 in something like 5 seconds, I kid you not! but could not go much faster then 80mph top speed. It beat everything off the lights including Lotus Carlton, Renault Turbo 2, Cosworths etc.

The lot of them used to have new cars every few months at times.

Lucky escape with the skyline. :Whistle:


http://i435.photobucket.com/albums/qq72/sav112g/Rover.jpg

[rpn]

S2000 -> skyline -> AMG Merc -> Masda 6 in the space of 2/3 weeks :eek: :confused:

More money than sense I'm afraid, Sorry.

My Cooper is coming up to six years old in two weeks (OK, I bought it second hand 3 years ago) and my other car will be 9 years old next March however I bought that one brand new.

[Ally S]

Mazda 6 is a bit of an off choice, no?

Its kind of a grandad car too unless its the MPS.

[Sheilz]

[QUOTE=rpn;224770]:eek: :confused:

More money than sense I'm afraid, Sorry.

Sorry I should have explained he hasn't lost any money in this merry go round of car ownership since he got the skyline and some dosh for his S2000


Thing is they've just sold thieir pre-wedding house and flat prior to buying a family sized home so me thinks that somewhere in his head there was an "O sh*t I'm almost thirty" crisis going on because now they've got the house the next step will be to fill it with kids. Me thinks this is where the Mazda comes in, stylish, certainly no slouch but with a practical edge to it. Haven't seen it in the flesh but looks good in pics I've seen.

Next step is to replace his wife's pug. Her problem is she's really quite small and the majority of cars she's tested - golf, polo, audi, can't remember what else she's been looking at - all have prominent steering columns that make her drving position really uncomfortable. She doesn't want another pug. Her current one has been a bit of a nightmare. I did suggest a mini but she's resisting :lol: