Your greatest purchase?
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.A 1990 G Reg Fiat Panda Bella- G57 MSA.
Ebay- taxed and MOT'd. Paid £42 for it!
Kept it for about 2 years and a mate and I used it when our other cars were getting repaired. Ended up scrapping it because I had 3 cars on my mums drive and she was going nuts about it.
Sorely regret scrapping it. It was tomato red with Bella on the side in blue writing. chain driven 900cc engine, 4 speed- 3rd and 4th felt like the same ratio. The most basic car I've ever owned and an absolute hoot to drive. 10/10ths everywhere...
Weirdly; girls absolutely loved it!
Ebay- taxed and MOT'd. Paid £42 for it!
Kept it for about 2 years and a mate and I used it when our other cars were getting repaired. Ended up scrapping it because I had 3 cars on my mums drive and she was going nuts about it.
Sorely regret scrapping it. It was tomato red with Bella on the side in blue writing. chain driven 900cc engine, 4 speed- 3rd and 4th felt like the same ratio. The most basic car I've ever owned and an absolute hoot to drive. 10/10ths everywhere...
Weirdly; girls absolutely loved it!
SteA said:
An Isla balance bike for my little girl, it has given her and me lots of pleasure, it's made lots of strangers smile and it has had a hugely positive effect on her development 
They are wonderful. Great shout, both my boys have loved the one I bought.Mine would be the flat we bought in Clapham in the midst of the financial collapse. It has enabled us to live the relatively simple life we do. Now it's sold.
Ki3r said:
My motorbike licence.
Parents were dead against it, but honestly best thing I've done. I hate to think how much the b
d thing has cost me now though...
I was about to post much the same thing, my folks didn't like motorbikes and my wife thinks I'm going to die every time I go near one. Parents were dead against it, but honestly best thing I've done. I hate to think how much the b
d thing has cost me now though...I currently have 3 in the garage, had bikes for the last 17 years and can't really imagine life without one.
Greatest purchase for me would have been my property in London, its was my first property and wont be my last but it was eclipsed.
My father is into his watches, I found one I liked and made a dual purchase.
He got number 53 after his birth year and I got number 78 after mine, he wears that watch every single day over his Rolex/Omega/Breitling/etc and that's why its the greatest purchase as it gives him so much pleasure.
2nd would be the amazing pearl I picked up in the arse end of nowhere in Fiji, I managed to get it back, sneak it to my mother's local jeweler (child hood friend) and get it made into an awesome pendant, again it's worn every day and she loves it.
Collectively they are not the most expensive things I have ever got, just well thought out and give a lot of pleasure to the people who received them.
(Being as they are my folks, they would have probably liked anything I got, but thats not the point.
My father is into his watches, I found one I liked and made a dual purchase.
He got number 53 after his birth year and I got number 78 after mine, he wears that watch every single day over his Rolex/Omega/Breitling/etc and that's why its the greatest purchase as it gives him so much pleasure.
2nd would be the amazing pearl I picked up in the arse end of nowhere in Fiji, I managed to get it back, sneak it to my mother's local jeweler (child hood friend) and get it made into an awesome pendant, again it's worn every day and she loves it.
Collectively they are not the most expensive things I have ever got, just well thought out and give a lot of pleasure to the people who received them.
(Being as they are my folks, they would have probably liked anything I got, but thats not the point.
Speed addicted said:
I was about to post much the same thing, my folks didn't like motorbikes and my wife thinks I'm going to die every time I go near one.
I currently have 3 in the garage, had bikes for the last 17 years and can't really imagine life without one.
My Dad wanted a Bike licence, 1940`s I guess, his father told him not to bother & he would buy him a gun instead......... as it was quicker!! I currently have 3 in the garage, had bikes for the last 17 years and can't really imagine life without one.
Not sure what my greatest purchase has been, probably my first boat.
When I was 12 I saw a magnetic chess set in a 2nd had shop window in Cleethorpes, while I was on holiday. (pure glamour, my childhood!) It was quite plush, with decent sized plasic pieces and it was clear it was good quality. It looked brand new. It was £1.50 but I only had £1.25 so the owner let me have it for that.
That was 43 yrs ago. I take it whenever I go away. It's been all round the world, and I've had loads of games on it, many with total strangers. Still looks like new.
Loads of people have commented on it, how nice the pieces feel, the weight of them etc. Magnetic chess sets are very often a bit crap.
That was 43 yrs ago. I take it whenever I go away. It's been all round the world, and I've had loads of games on it, many with total strangers. Still looks like new.
Loads of people have commented on it, how nice the pieces feel, the weight of them etc. Magnetic chess sets are very often a bit crap.
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