I’ll see your bangernomics and raise you a Bamditnomics. In 2004 I bought a Mk1 B6 with 800 miles on the clock for £500. It had started life (bought by someone else) as the half faired model but it fell off its side stand and one of the fairing mounting tabs on the frame snapped, so the insurer wrote it off as a CatA(?). Someone picked it up at auction for buttons, got the DVLA to let him put a Q plate on it and then sold it on to me for a monkey.
Previous to my (Dis)Astra I had a pre VW Skoda Favorit 1.3 bought for 400 notes, thrashed for 13 months and sold for 300 notes mileage didn't increase as the odometer was fekked I changed the oil and washed it once - boy I miss those care free motoring days
I’ve done bangers for last 10 years, (more money to spend on bikes of course), before that Alfa’s and Porche, cost a fortune, anyway 5 years £500 focus diesel, passed every MOT except the last so scrapped it, then £400 focus pertrol, 5 years same story, but recently my missus said I was making the driveway look untidy and I should buy a nice car again, in a flash of brilliance I purchased a mini that looks brand new, but was high miles for a paltry £850, clever I thought, anyway it cost me £400 in brakes/radiator and other bits and bobs in the first month, bloody minis! Here it is, the piece of shi...
At the risk of sounding like one of the four Yorkshiremen...when I was on my arse I bought a Citroen XM for £200 at an auction. Ran it for 6 months until someone bumped into it cracking the windscreen and broke the wing mirror. Their insurance said a write off and paid me £1750. Went to the auction and got a 3 litre model with leather for £225 - ran it for several months until the suspension decided to retire. Got £20 for it for scrap. I wish I'd kept it...I've got a soft spot for big Citroens.
I’m not lion, I promise. I suppose that although it was counted as frame damage it was about as minor as it could be and so it passed the SVA test
I thought Citroens came with collapsed suspension direct from the dealer anyway? I had another banger around that time, which for some reason also charmed its way into my heart - a black Fiat Uno diesel. It survived being half-rolled on the underground roundabout near Canary Wharf when I was trying to keep up with one of my mates in a Clio Williams, so it had a big scrape down the passenger side and you couldn’t open the door, but it finally went to the scrap yard in the sky when one of the belts went and not having RAC cover, my “get me home” bodged belt jumped and jammed the pulleys and there was the inevitable and terminal meeting of pistons and valves
Well, as I mentioned somewhere on this forum recently, maybe even this thread, I have a 911 at the moment and tbh after bikes, even quickish cars, are a bit “meh”, and most of my journeys are either by motorbike or ebike anyway, so what I really need and what I’ll be getting (when I sell the Porsche) is a motorhome with a bike trailer. I’m actually really excited about it because not only will I need to put up with this arseache every time I have a bike problem and I won’t need to worry about crashing at track days and not being able to get home afterward, I’ll be able to “walk the earth, get in adventures and shit”
Totally agree, unless you find living in a 2D world and sitting in traffic jams exiting of course , a mate of mine has an F430 Scuderia, Noble M500, Type R accord, JCWS mini and a porche cup race car, and some other really top end Porche race car, I’ve been telling him for years that cars are a bit boring compared to bikes, so finally he went and took his test, then bought a Honda 250 trail bike, the twat, so I made him buy an XSR900 Yam, the result?, his cars have all remained firmly locked in the Garage for the last 3 months, (obviously I tried to get him straight onto a Ducati but evidently “they don’t sound as good as high reving bikes “ like I said, twat), at least it’s not a 4 cylinder!, anyway he had the nerve to say that I should have told him how good bikes are years ago, erm, I did, lots of times! . Compared to bikes cars are just too sanitised and you are too far removed from various sensations dynamic and otherwise that a bike delivers in spades, I’ve driven his Ferrari a fair bit and I’ve never told him but it bored me to death!, yes it’s fast etc but 150mph feels like 70mph, what’s the point!? PS motor home + bike = brilliant idea.
My brother has a Ferrari FF, and an S1000XR - and readily admits the bike is the most exciting. When we went to the Ducati factory earlier this year, him and our other pal were directed away from the car park on their BMW's while I was waved through to the car park on my Supersport. One of the highlights of my trip
if you are with AA watch their trailer cover, when I looked they restricted teh overall length of car and trailer meaning you could only be towing a very small trailer indeed, I'm with Green flag, originally arranged through caravan club but you only have to do that for the first year (join caravan Club) I have personal cover, with trailer for me and the missus (anything we are driving riding) so covers all the bikes and 3 cars (they do have a n age limit though I've recently discovered) costs me about £100 a year for both of us.
That was more or less my situation and Carole Nash cover recovered the bike for me. Downside is that there is then no prospect of them being unaware of your mishap
