technical point
if the question were get poor quick schemes i'd be a winner.

Since 2000 i've had four identical Honda S2000 sports cars. exactly like this one... www.geocities.com/napavalley/1269/pictures/s2000-lf.jpg silver, red leather - four of the fuckers.

first one - paid 26,500 quid almost 9 years ago. brand spanking new. had it 8 weeks came over a crest one fine evening at around 90mph and found a kind farmer had decided to extend half the contents of his field onto the road using his tractor wheels as a shovel - 50 yards of 3 inch deep mud. spun three times crashed through a fence. write off. (oh and my insurance renewal leapt to over 3K)

number two - grease monkey at dealership decides to 'test' next one when i put it in for its first service. skidded avoiding a bin lorry destroyed a solid stone wall. threatened dealer with press interest - new one offered.

number three. last january. local council decides to only grit one half of the notorious country road i drive to work. me, an articulated, lorry a van and three other cars all caught out with black ice. write off.

replaced with another one in february then got offered a job in dubai so forced to sell. use 5k of cash for failed IVF treatment for mrs spimf

so 5k for a wank

oh well, be lucky as they say


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( spimf ™ is whoever you want him to be, Fri 1 Aug 2008, 11:19, 3 replies)

ooohh that's lucky
I'd try a new type of lucky charm, how about a morris Marina in good nick ??
(Betty Boothroyd's Love custard Tourettes at the KOB, Fri 1 Aug 2008, 12:46, closed)

Still
At least you got to look very cool for a while. Which sort of makes it worth it.
( Madam Marlboro wonders if you've found her yet, Fri 1 Aug 2008, 12:50, closed)

^ MM
this is true to an extent although i bought the car mainly because of its power and handling - scotland is a private race track. i had 18 miles of twisting hilly road each morning to crack along a serious rate - so as much as i loved the car for being so pretty the cool thing was that i really got to use it - many people have them just to put the hood down and pose. i pushed mine to extent that its quite remarkable i didnt go through more of them. dubai is not the place for convertible roadsters, so i have my sights set on one of these

www.geocities.com/napavalley/1269/pictures/s2000-lf.jpg

and frank spencer could look rakish in one of those

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( spimf ™ is whoever you want him to be, Fri 1 Aug 2008, 13:56, closed)