Wife and daughter need to get to Yorkshire - Simple?
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S100HP said:
Ian Seabrook (Hubnut Facebook/Youtube) has just driven his 1970 Invacar 414 miles from North Wales to Goodwood
His YouTube channel has cost me several days of my life. Quality viewing for anyone who appreciates sheddy but interesting cars 
OP, simply present the pair of them with some big comfy old nail bought for a few hundred quid off eBay, insured for both to drive, and see how longit takes before the wife decides she can drive the Porsche all that way after all.
I've just agreed an appointment with a customer for tomorrow in Southampton. I'm worried, having read this thread, that my journey from Newcastle isn't going to be as straightforward as first thought. Should I take some spare drivers, or even a spare car, just in case?? Perhaps I should buy a house down there in case the hotel messes my booking up... Yours, worried, from somewhere further North of Yorkshire.
austinsmirk said:
I live in Yorkshire, no one is going to be impressed with a Porsche SUV turning up. we don't do displays of wealth here. That's for the soft southern lot.
Turn up in a 20 yr old Volvo, or a classic, or on a tandem pushbike, or on foot, people will want to talk to you, it'll start a conversation- especially if yr volvo has cost you nowt and done 200K. turn up in a Porsche, you're a show off.
As some context, my sisters employer is a billionaire. She's sat in a stately home in North Yorkshire right now, in some 14,000 acres. What does she get conveyed in ? An old lexus SUV thing.
My business partner sold his Bentley- always wanted one: finally got one, had to get shut, sick of people poking fun at him----------- plus up here, no one likes to think their money has paid for the flash car yr driving.
Displays of wealth or more of a Midlands thing anyhoo. It's not as though London is overrun with ostentatious motors. We'd rather spend our money on property, and rightly so.Turn up in a 20 yr old Volvo, or a classic, or on a tandem pushbike, or on foot, people will want to talk to you, it'll start a conversation- especially if yr volvo has cost you nowt and done 200K. turn up in a Porsche, you're a show off.
As some context, my sisters employer is a billionaire. She's sat in a stately home in North Yorkshire right now, in some 14,000 acres. What does she get conveyed in ? An old lexus SUV thing.
My business partner sold his Bentley- always wanted one: finally got one, had to get shut, sick of people poking fun at him----------- plus up here, no one likes to think their money has paid for the flash car yr driving.
You also want a car you can park wherever without worrying what might happen when you aren't there.
Edited by T-195 on Tuesday 21st May 18:21
sanguinary said:
I've just agreed an appointment with a customer for tomorrow in Southampton. I'm worried, having read this thread, that my journey from Newcastle isn't going to be as straightforward as first thought. Should I take some spare drivers, or even a spare car, just in case?? Perhaps I should buy a house down there in case the hotel messes my booking up... Yours, worried, from somewhere further North of Yorkshire.
Get the train (after buying the train company)FerrousOxide said:
Can you imagine how stupid you'd appear to anyone from, well pretty much anywhere apart from here, for this mentality? Do you have any idea how far will 250 miles get you in the US, Aus, or even continental Europe?
Hello, PH's token Yank, here.Yes, I'm having a wonderful time reading this thread. I can't remember the last time I laughed so hard!
We're taking about a drive roughly between 250-300 miles, a distance some of us would go for a really good pizza. I had no idea this would be an epic journey requiring the same sort of planning and forethought typically reserved for astronauts going into space! I've driven in the UK plenty of times and, until now, I had no idea how woefully unprepared I was. Amazing to think I made it out alive!
By the way, many years ago I made several trips between Chicago and Nashville (approx. 500 miles each way) in a scruffy old Fiat X-1/9.
Am I to assume this qualifies me for PH Superhero status? :-)
The other year in north carolina we nipped out for the morning, to the coast, 400 miles each way.
got back just in time to meet local friends for dinner, we then did another 200 miles to eat.
I have been known to drive to Cornwall in a day and back
edit, from Yorkshire,
got back just in time to meet local friends for dinner, we then did another 200 miles to eat.
I have been known to drive to Cornwall in a day and back
edit, from Yorkshire,
Edited by bobtail4x4 on Wednesday 22 May 09:11
Jesus wept, the inability of some women, or rather trying to keep up appearances will stop at no lengths
The fact the OP has looked for a solution to this non existent problem is even more worrying.
OP you have 3 options
1, Tell your wife to stop being so silly and drive herself and your daughter there
2, Get your daughter to drive the mini and get them told their vanity isn’t important
3, Grow a back bone
Of those options no 3 is mandatory, the other two are subject to you following no 3 first
For what it’s worth I recently drove from London to Aberdeen in a Vito van, it looked like absolute dog s
t but made the journey home in less than 9 hours. Even my wife never complained about the lack of comfort
The fact the OP has looked for a solution to this non existent problem is even more worrying.
OP you have 3 options
1, Tell your wife to stop being so silly and drive herself and your daughter there
2, Get your daughter to drive the mini and get them told their vanity isn’t important
3, Grow a back bone
Of those options no 3 is mandatory, the other two are subject to you following no 3 first
For what it’s worth I recently drove from London to Aberdeen in a Vito van, it looked like absolute dog s
t but made the journey home in less than 9 hours. Even my wife never complained about the lack of comfort CoreyDog said:
Coming from someone who had done York to South London and back on the same day in a old 1.25 Fiesta, it would be extremely easy and alot more comfortable in a Mini.
Penzance to Blackpool to Penzance in a day with two drivers in a Mk 2 997CC Fiesta was not an issue (with suitable caffeination), but I suspect I've missed the point.. It's the spec. The spec! How on earth could they slum it in anything inferior? It's a disgrace to even countenance it. Richard-D said:
FerrousOxide said:
Do you have any idea how far will 250 miles get you in the US, Aus, or even continental Europe?
I'd guess at a little over 400 kilometres in continental Europe. No idea of the others though.Condi said:
Richard-D said:
FerrousOxide said:
Do you have any idea how far will 250 miles get you in the US, Aus, or even continental Europe?
I'd guess at a little over 400 kilometres in continental Europe. No idea of the others though.
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