Why so many selling up? :yikes:

[steve_d]

Selling up soon after completion is very common in kitcar circles. Many, like myself, are more into the build than the driving.

Steve

[brdee]

steve_d said:

Selling up soon after completion is very common in kitcar circles. Many, like myself, are more into the build than the driving.

Steve

Blimey Steve, really?

Aw I must be a bit wierd then, cos although I do like building the thing, but it does mean I have much much longer to suffer the missus hunger-pangs cos we can't afford to feed ourselves properly with all that money going out in another direction!

...and every night, without fail I have vivid dreams (yup, they have replaced the others I was having - no, I am not telling!)of firing up my beauty,[v8-vummmm, v8-vummmm! - hah!] and gunning it down the road (like vanishing-point (arrhhhh! I have given my age away again!!!))...only to wake up with reality smacking me in the face...more bills..more marital moans....more excuses to try to get a bit of time in the garage!!!!!!

Ahhh well, s'pose it will be all the sweeter when the time comes...and I hope nothing happens to me in between!

Keith

[brdee]

CanAm Dave said:

Hi Keith

From one V8 plate V8 VUM to another V8 YES I have no intensions of ever selling my car. Like Wayne I hope to continue to develop the car over many years. I have lots of future plans for the car and it's not yet back on the road from the current project. The reason I will not sell is that I have owned many fast cars over the years but none give me the adrenalin rush and childlike excitement to drive it. It draws a crowd like nothing else. Last summer I think I had every kid in the village chasing me to the Tee junction and wanting me to "give it loads". Well it was rude not to!

What kind of car would I move on to from an Ultima! I can't think of one.

Regards Dave
www.v8yes.co.uk

Edited by CanAm Dave on Friday 1st September 21:56

Dave,

Ebay, that's where I got mine, I was very lucky (sorry Pete!)..no, one was bidding on it so got it for a song...well, a bit of doe and a song!

I was sorely tempted to buy another (V8 MUM) but the missus was not having it...shame!

Keith

[V8 VUM]

Ohhhh!

That's interesting....just noticed that although I changed my handle on my works PC, my home one was still posting under Brdee!!!

Ahhh.....found the little tinker (cookie!!) That's got ya!

keith

[V8 VUM]

Hey Crafty!


How are you finding your non-exploding-rivet pipe insulation?

Very interested to know if it did the job?

cheers

Keith

[andynormancx]

luckyp said:

And something to take pictures of for your grandnippers to say:

'Hey look LuckyP Jnr II, Grand pops was cool and hip once upon a time too!'

or more likely:

'Hey look LuckyP Jnr II, Grand pops once had his own hips, before needing replacements after climbing in and out of that thing for 10 years'

[GTWayne]

It is nothing like as difficult as it looks and my mother in-law is just about to have her hips done and she doesn't even know what an Ultima is!

[845ste]

was 2006......