How emotionally attached are you to your car?
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Turkish91 said:
I have a s
tty old Astra G that I refuse to get rid of. It's the most battered Astra in the entire country I reckon, has many faults that I constantly repair/replace but I just cannot bear to see it go to the scrapyard! I was already attached to it anyway, but the bond got even stronger in January this year.
Pretty much a carbon copy of Clarkson's story with the Porsche 928... I got a phone call from my Mum crying her eyes out as my 83yr old Grandmother was on her deathbed up in Inverness. We jumped in without checking any fluids and in a mad rush... My Astra took us non-stop through the night from Warwick to Inverness in six and a half hours despite the A9 being a good 4-5inches deep in snow once we were past Pitlochry. It soldiered on, surefooted throughout despite driving like I was on a rally stage, and we made it to Inverness with half an hour to spare before she died.
As far as I'm concerned, best car in the world hands down. I'll be heartbroken when it finally dies.
Great stuff. Apart from your grandmother passing away, of course, that's a lovely story.tty old Astra G that I refuse to get rid of. It's the most battered Astra in the entire country I reckon, has many faults that I constantly repair/replace but I just cannot bear to see it go to the scrapyard! I was already attached to it anyway, but the bond got even stronger in January this year. Pretty much a carbon copy of Clarkson's story with the Porsche 928... I got a phone call from my Mum crying her eyes out as my 83yr old Grandmother was on her deathbed up in Inverness. We jumped in without checking any fluids and in a mad rush... My Astra took us non-stop through the night from Warwick to Inverness in six and a half hours despite the A9 being a good 4-5inches deep in snow once we were past Pitlochry. It soldiered on, surefooted throughout despite driving like I was on a rally stage, and we made it to Inverness with half an hour to spare before she died.
As far as I'm concerned, best car in the world hands down. I'll be heartbroken when it finally dies.
The wife always gets emotionally attached to our cars and upset when they go. As they've all been company provided for a few years I find myself having no real attachment to them at all as they are there to do a job. I like them as they've been good cars but if someone replaced them tomorrow with another I wouldn't really care less.
What I want is a car for me, bought for utterly selfish reasons that I can lavish time on and form a bond with. With that in mind I'm hoping to get myself a weekend toy in the next 12 months. Top of the list at the moment is an S2 Elise 111R.
What I want is a car for me, bought for utterly selfish reasons that I can lavish time on and form a bond with. With that in mind I'm hoping to get myself a weekend toy in the next 12 months. Top of the list at the moment is an S2 Elise 111R.
This thread got me thinking, I have had somewhere in the region of 60 cars since I started driving and most of them I have loved when I had them but by the time it cane to sell them I was ready to move on.
Even my current 110 which I am getting close to how I want it, runs brilliantly, but there are several things that remind me its a massive pain in the arse. It also has a list of work it will need before the mot in november which is a month before I get medically discharged from the army with nothing lined up yet! But even if I do bring myself to sell it I have no idea what I would replace it with!
Me and some mates were chatting before, if you had every car you ever owned lined up in front of you and you could take just one which would it be?
Even my current 110 which I am getting close to how I want it, runs brilliantly, but there are several things that remind me its a massive pain in the arse. It also has a list of work it will need before the mot in november which is a month before I get medically discharged from the army with nothing lined up yet! But even if I do bring myself to sell it I have no idea what I would replace it with!
Me and some mates were chatting before, if you had every car you ever owned lined up in front of you and you could take just one which would it be?
Cfnteabag said:
This thread got me thinking, I have had somewhere in the region of 60 cars since I started driving and most of them I have loved when I had them but by the time it cane to sell them I was ready to move on.
Even my current 110 which I am getting close to how I want it, runs brilliantly, but there are several things that remind me its a massive pain in the arse. It also has a list of work it will need before the mot in november which is a month before I get medically discharged from the army with nothing lined up yet! But even if I do bring myself to sell it I have no idea what I would replace it with!
Me and some mates were chatting before, if you had every car you ever owned lined up in front of you and you could take just one which would it be?
If I had to pick one, it'd be my first decent car, that I had to pester the owner to sell in 1979, a Cortina 1600E in Amber Gold with tan interior.Even my current 110 which I am getting close to how I want it, runs brilliantly, but there are several things that remind me its a massive pain in the arse. It also has a list of work it will need before the mot in november which is a month before I get medically discharged from the army with nothing lined up yet! But even if I do bring myself to sell it I have no idea what I would replace it with!
Me and some mates were chatting before, if you had every car you ever owned lined up in front of you and you could take just one which would it be?
I've had some vastly superior machinery since, but that one means the most to me and has teenage memories of family and friends tied up in it....
Which is why I still have it and will get it completely restored when I can find the time.
Like many people here I get attached to cars not so much for what they *are*, but more about what we *did* together.
I remember taking an old Fiesta on a run with friends to Alton Towers - first proper road trip! After that trips to various beaches (same group of friends) it then got passed on to my sister ... Who mullered it after only 2 months.
I can remember being genuinely angry and griefstruck that she'd done this to 'my' car... Has anyone else had this after selling a car to someone they know? Can't be the only one. Anyway, I resolved to never resell a car to somone i was going to see again.
Other cars i've loved all come doen to the journeys i've done in them - ST170 (Reading <> Derby, eating up the roundabouts as i drove past Silverstone), Cougar (worlds biggest boot so plenty of use as the dog carrier; plus it was awesome on motorways, like driving whilst sat in the comfiest armchair) and even the old XC90 (traded in for a new T8 XC90, but still miss the D5 growl - very reliable towcar and family wagon).
Currently other than the wife, my 3 kids and 2 dogs i'm in love with my 996 C2 ... It's at home on motorways or in the twisties so makes the daily commute a joy. Not bonded as much with the other family car - the aforementioned T8 XC90; it's very capable but a bit soulless.... A few more miles may change that.
I remember taking an old Fiesta on a run with friends to Alton Towers - first proper road trip! After that trips to various beaches (same group of friends) it then got passed on to my sister ... Who mullered it after only 2 months.
I can remember being genuinely angry and griefstruck that she'd done this to 'my' car... Has anyone else had this after selling a car to someone they know? Can't be the only one. Anyway, I resolved to never resell a car to somone i was going to see again.
Other cars i've loved all come doen to the journeys i've done in them - ST170 (Reading <> Derby, eating up the roundabouts as i drove past Silverstone), Cougar (worlds biggest boot so plenty of use as the dog carrier; plus it was awesome on motorways, like driving whilst sat in the comfiest armchair) and even the old XC90 (traded in for a new T8 XC90, but still miss the D5 growl - very reliable towcar and family wagon).
Currently other than the wife, my 3 kids and 2 dogs i'm in love with my 996 C2 ... It's at home on motorways or in the twisties so makes the daily commute a joy. Not bonded as much with the other family car - the aforementioned T8 XC90; it's very capable but a bit soulless.... A few more miles may change that.
Edited by MrJingles705 on Wednesday 31st August 11:41
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