Your cars "Story"
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Ok, I dont mean ones you leased last year and it went for a recall, older, more interesting ones, do you know much of the history, can be any car really.
My grandma was talking to my about her eccentric German boss Mr Gold, she worked in the rag trade and he owned the factory she worked in, he always had Rolls Royces and when he picked his new one up, he would, at the same time choose and specify his next model to be delivered in two years ! this is the same bloke who would get on a plane or train (first class, naturally) and go and tip the pilots or driver and ask them to drive/fly carefully. Always makes me think of all the history around something like a Rolls, who bought it originally and what did they do, what was around at the time. The Mr Gold I mentioned above lived a lovely lifestyle with his partner and died in the early eighties leaving, as far as I am aware no heirs, his much younger partner, Miss Von Kettler, sadly died of cancer a few months before.
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My Uncle has had his Jowett Jupiter for 50 years now, he bought it off my dad in 1967.
Stuff like that, am sure you can come up with some good ones, famous owners, was used in an obscure sitcom etc.
Not sure if its been done before but it could make a really interesting tv programme.
My grandma was talking to my about her eccentric German boss Mr Gold, she worked in the rag trade and he owned the factory she worked in, he always had Rolls Royces and when he picked his new one up, he would, at the same time choose and specify his next model to be delivered in two years ! this is the same bloke who would get on a plane or train (first class, naturally) and go and tip the pilots or driver and ask them to drive/fly carefully. Always makes me think of all the history around something like a Rolls, who bought it originally and what did they do, what was around at the time. The Mr Gold I mentioned above lived a lovely lifestyle with his partner and died in the early eighties leaving, as far as I am aware no heirs, his much younger partner, Miss Von Kettler, sadly died of cancer a few months before.
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My Uncle has had his Jowett Jupiter for 50 years now, he bought it off my dad in 1967.
Stuff like that, am sure you can come up with some good ones, famous owners, was used in an obscure sitcom etc.
Not sure if its been done before but it could make a really interesting tv programme.
sidekickdmr said:
A much shorter and less interesting one, but my 2008 Defender 110 utility has had a semi interesting short life so far.
It was purchased new by a guy in Ascot who poodled to the shops in it, got bored and sold it to "Mudstuff" a highly regarded defender aftermarkets parts supplier/manufacture. They kitted it out with lots of goodies and used it as their demo vehicle for a while.
Last owner then purchased it off mudstuff and he runs his own Defender forum and blog and my car was the guiniepig for all of the road tests and parts reviews.
To the point where my slave cylinder failed a month or so ago, so I googled "puma defender slave cylinder change" to see if it was something I could do myself, and the first result was the last owner, changing the slave on my very car in a tutorial video, so the part that failed I watched getting put in.
That is kind of freaky.It was purchased new by a guy in Ascot who poodled to the shops in it, got bored and sold it to "Mudstuff" a highly regarded defender aftermarkets parts supplier/manufacture. They kitted it out with lots of goodies and used it as their demo vehicle for a while.
Last owner then purchased it off mudstuff and he runs his own Defender forum and blog and my car was the guiniepig for all of the road tests and parts reviews.
To the point where my slave cylinder failed a month or so ago, so I googled "puma defender slave cylinder change" to see if it was something I could do myself, and the first result was the last owner, changing the slave on my very car in a tutorial video, so the part that failed I watched getting put in.
cheesesliceking said:
2gins said:
My first car was a 1987 Ford Escort 1.3L, after 30,000 miles and 4 years the bottom rusted out so I scrapped it.
Am I doing this right?
Yes, well i assume so. It's the most interesting story so far.Am I doing this right?
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