How long have you owned your current Chim?
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Fast_Fellow said:
From new. August 1998. An occasion from collection to today.
I really couldn’t have put it better myself. Owned mine from new in March 2000 so for 21 years, & it still feels like a special event when I drive it. An analogue palate cleanser in what is sadly going to become an increasingly quiet clinical & characterless digital world 
10.5 years.
Got the V5 out today to tax it.
The bloke before had it three months. After it's first visit to Dan Taylor, I wasn't surprised.
Anyway - drew some compliments on the underneath from the MOT man even now, so all good. Still wasting money on it
. One day it will be a good one!
Got the V5 out today to tax it.
The bloke before had it three months. After it's first visit to Dan Taylor, I wasn't surprised.
Anyway - drew some compliments on the underneath from the MOT man even now, so all good. Still wasting money on it
. One day it will be a good one!
phazed said:
14 years for my two chims together. Now sadly gone and replaced with something German.
A great and interesting journey that may be repeated in the future.
I bet you haven’t got many German car owners dropping by just to swap difs out, or blag you into replacing his clutch including fork arm ( which I can recommend highly ) and a game of table tennis, 24 fresh eggs off the missus and a fine BLT sandwich. A great and interesting journey that may be repeated in the future.
I miss them days
Because you greased the fork arm pivots my clutch is still as smooth and light as a Fiesta Peter. I put a modern hyd pipe on which is of a thinner inside dia but it’s still just as good.
I’m still appreciating that work I tell you.
Happy days Alun.
I’m going to have a barbecue here in the next couple of months so make sure your car is ready!
I must admit, as much as I love my German, I do miss tinkering in the garage. I put it in the garage and put on the cover when the weather changed in October, attached a trickle charger, took it out two weeks ago when the weather changed and all that I had to do was check the tyre pressures. Where is the fun in that?
I guess that’s why I passed my ML on to my youngest, Michael and bought the P 38 Rangie . At least It is British and there is always something to fix! Everything done now apart from the heated seats and the satnav screen.
I’m going to have a barbecue here in the next couple of months so make sure your car is ready!
I must admit, as much as I love my German, I do miss tinkering in the garage. I put it in the garage and put on the cover when the weather changed in October, attached a trickle charger, took it out two weeks ago when the weather changed and all that I had to do was check the tyre pressures. Where is the fun in that?
I guess that’s why I passed my ML on to my youngest, Michael and bought the P 38 Rangie . At least It is British and there is always something to fix! Everything done now apart from the heated seats and the satnav screen.
As of last Thursday, I've had mine for ten rather memorable years. So, I'm pretty new to Chimaera ownership in comparison to most on this thread, but like many who've joined the club, I reckon it's a keeper...
As a quirky aside, I worked out recently that in those ten years, I've spent ten full months living out of its boot on various trips. Or to put it another way, for 8.3% of the last decade, the fibreglass beastie has been my home...
As a quirky aside, I worked out recently that in those ten years, I've spent ten full months living out of its boot on various trips. Or to put it another way, for 8.3% of the last decade, the fibreglass beastie has been my home...
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