ooo! Have just remembered one!
My Capri!

About 11 years ago I bought a Capri. 1.6 Laser. It was crap. But I loved the shape.

A year later, I bought myself a new one (well, not "new" new, just new to me) - a 2.8i V6 this time. This was not crap. I loved hooning about it in, hanging the arse out like I was in The Professionals or something. Unfortunately, I got a job at the opposite end of the country to where my belioved (and my wife) lived. So I bought a sensible Clio and parked the Capri up outside my folks.

A couple of years later, my grandad died and my Capri ended up on my grandmother's drive, the rational being that it made it look like someone other than my nan lived there.

I had plans for this Capri. Big plans. I had sourced a not too battered XX-pack body kit, which would make it look not too disimilar to the DTM winning Capri and, most importantly, a supercharged Rover V8 to drop into the cavernous engine bay. MNy wife wasn't too pleased at this prospect, but I'd saved my money without putting her out at all, so protests fell on deaf ears.

Unfortunately, my nan now needed to go into a home and my dad was tasked with emptying her house. Since me and the missus were just about to buy a house, I got first dibs on all her crockery and stuff. My car had been parked on the drive for a good hour before I realised that it occupied the space where the Capri should have lived.

Turns out someone my mum worked with also loved Capris, so she had signed it over to him. He'dtaken it away on a low-loader the week before.

The wife spent my Capri money on some pointless rubbish for the house that we never use (a new boiler).

(sorry for the length, but at least it's a break from 2000AD's, Star Wars toys and Tranformers [which aren't worth anywhere near as much as people seem to think])
(ScousersPet, Tue 19 Aug 2008, 15:15, 5 replies)

Capris are cool
*click* for good yarn.
(bazmorningstar efil4nat3b, Tue 19 Aug 2008, 15:24, closed)

How..
...did you not kill them?
( FlexAlux laughed at something inappropriate on, Tue 19 Aug 2008, 15:38, closed)

seriously?
I'd have doubts as to whether I was related to someone who could something that completely, utterly, cuntishly stupid

at least without running it by me first

I'm assuming your mother was aware that you at least liked that car, or even if you didn't, that it might hold some monetary value to you?
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 19 Aug 2008, 16:10, closed)

I'm assuming
that she thought that it had no value or use, since it was sat on four flats and had actually started to go mouldy. To be fair, I hadn't done anything with it for at least four years at this point, I just wanted the shell.

It's weird, really, if you go back a couple of pages, you'll see one of my posts mentioning that my mum gave me a shoe box filled with crap I hadn't touched for years, but she didn't throw out, since she knew it was mine and didn't know if I wanted it. And my brother has left his complete collection of 2000AD's there for years...
(ScousersPet, Tue 19 Aug 2008, 16:22, closed)

Coming from Essex
Capris aren't my thing. However, one with sports suspension and a Rover V8 would be four wheeled prozac.

I wish things had turned out differently for this particular Dagenham Dustbin.
(Bicycle Repairman "you're also a bit of a wanker", Tue 19 Aug 2008, 22:52, closed)