Missed Opportunities
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Ever missed an opportunity?
On the way to and from work at one time I passed a breakers. They were shut when I went in and open when I went home. I was driving an early Range Rover at the time that lacked a sunroof. One day the breakers acquired a Range Rover of a very similar age to mine but with a sunroof. Buy the whole roof, unbolt it, take it home, bolt it on. Easy.
The problem was the entrance to the breakers was on the work side of the yard and so every night I remembered about going in when I saw the Rangey by which time I had already missed the entrance and couldn't be arsed to turn round and go back. Eventually I did remember in time and turned into the yard. I told them what I wanted and walked through the yard to the car to find that this was the very day they had put another car on top of it and collapsed the roof.
Strike while the iron is hot, as they say.
My Range Rover never did get its sunroof.
On the way to and from work at one time I passed a breakers. They were shut when I went in and open when I went home. I was driving an early Range Rover at the time that lacked a sunroof. One day the breakers acquired a Range Rover of a very similar age to mine but with a sunroof. Buy the whole roof, unbolt it, take it home, bolt it on. Easy.
The problem was the entrance to the breakers was on the work side of the yard and so every night I remembered about going in when I saw the Rangey by which time I had already missed the entrance and couldn't be arsed to turn round and go back. Eventually I did remember in time and turned into the yard. I told them what I wanted and walked through the yard to the car to find that this was the very day they had put another car on top of it and collapsed the roof.
Strike while the iron is hot, as they say.
My Range Rover never did get its sunroof.
Yep, loads of times, two particular ones i really wished i hadnt missed involved women, but by far and away the biggest missed opportunity, concerns the welding course i was doing at the time. I got offered a job, in another field, and decided i needed the regular paypacket over the welding course.
Now of course i look back and kick myself everytime i think of what i could be doing right now, and where i could be career wise. What a dunce
Now of course i look back and kick myself everytime i think of what i could be doing right now, and where i could be career wise. What a dunce
I saw a nice red 325i cabby in the scrappy with a pretty nice interior, and alot of bits my car didn't have. But I didn't have the cash on me. Came back 2 days later with the intent of stripping some nice goodies from it.
However, when I got there, there was a bashed up E36 in its place. Went further round the back to be greeted with the sight of a little red cube with half a 325i badge still visible on it.
However, when I got there, there was a bashed up E36 in its place. Went further round the back to be greeted with the sight of a little red cube with half a 325i badge still visible on it.
Kind of, shortly after I was born my late grandfather bought his Volvo PV444 up to one our garages - that was no longer being used - with the hope that he would be able to restore it now he had access to a proper ramp.
Sadly a few years later he passed away and ever since I found out that car was there, I've been wanting to get it out and restore it in remembrance of him , unfortunately due to other commitments and the business being busy I never got the chance to move it.
I thought it would be ok for a little longer but just last week
Sadly a few years later he passed away and ever since I found out that car was there, I've been wanting to get it out and restore it in remembrance of him , unfortunately due to other commitments and the business being busy I never got the chance to move it.
I thought it would be ok for a little longer but just last week
My great grandpa owned a company producing car parts, and was close friends with David Brown of Aston Martin. When they started making the DB6, he decided that he prefered the DB5, and asked David Brown to make him one even though production had stopped. Mr Brown agreed and made him the last DB5 ever, which was stored in the garage of my great grandfathers estate until he died around 15 years ago. My great grandmother left it there for a few years before selling the last DB5 ever made, with just a few thousand miles on the clock and in immaculate condition (the gardener would start it and drive it around the estate every week), for VERY little money. If I'd been just a few years older (I was about 10 at the time) that car would have been mine - my granny (great grannys daughter) told me a few days ago that they hadn't realised it was that special and that my great granny would have loved me to have it! Ho hum, my £500 Daewoo Lanos isn't that bad...
Dom
Dom
Zeemax_Mini said:
My great grandpa owned a company producing car parts, and was close friends with David Brown of Aston Martin. When they started making the DB6, he decided that he prefered the DB5, and asked David Brown to make him one even though production had stopped. Mr Brown agreed and made him the last DB5 ever, which was stored in the garage of my great grandfathers estate until he died around 15 years ago. My great grandmother left it there for a few years before selling the last DB5 ever made, with just a few thousand miles on the clock and in immaculate condition (the gardener would start it and drive it around the estate every week), for VERY little money. If I'd been just a few years older (I was about 10 at the time) that car would have been mine - my granny (great grannys daughter) told me a few days ago that they hadn't realised it was that special and that my great granny would have loved me to have it! Ho hum, my £500 Daewoo Lanos isn't that bad...
Dom
Holy sDom
t. Close the thread. Nobody will top that. Yeah quite a few. Mostly with members of the opposite sex, but there's been a couple that have involved me having been offered jobs very soon after committing to other projects that initially promised more but ended up being the wrong decision for any number of reasons. I think most notably accepting a permanent job in a nightclub in Germany over an offer of a summer job as Artist Liaison at a very well-known venue in Ibiza which would have turned out to have been much more valuable from a networking point of view and probably a damn sight less stressful to boot...
A Lotus Cortina that I should have bought. This was a few years ago when they were about £25K. They are now about £40K.
Then there was the Lotus VI which was a barnfind. Totally original with the Ford sidevalve engine, gearbox and axle. Bare ally body. Very, very cheap. I didn't make the phonecall.
Then there was the Lotus VI which was a barnfind. Totally original with the Ford sidevalve engine, gearbox and axle. Bare ally body. Very, very cheap. I didn't make the phonecall.
Diabolik said:
Holy st. Close the thread. Nobody will top that.
Yeah, would have been nice!! A recent missed opportunity was the link below, asking £850, probably worth about £15k even if it was in a state, £25k restored/great condition? Ad went up on the friday, I called Saturday evening and it was gone...local too!t. Close the thread. Nobody will top that. http://reading.gumtree.com/reading/66/71896066.htm...
Dom
About 3 years ago I turned down an immaculate 7000 mile Peugeot 205 Gentry on the basis that it was automatic, biege, not a GTI and probably not worth the hassle
I could have had it for £1000, it was subsequently bought by a friend and sold on to a collector for £5000
Bit of a school boy error on my part.
I could have had it for £1000, it was subsequently bought by a friend and sold on to a collector for £5000
Bit of a school boy error on my part.
Zeemax_Mini said:
My great grandpa owned a company producing car parts, and was close friends with David Brown of Aston Martin. When they started making the DB6, he decided that he prefered the DB5, and asked David Brown to make him one even though production had stopped. Mr Brown agreed and made him the last DB5 ever, which was stored in the garage of my great grandfathers estate until he died around 15 years ago. My great grandmother left it there for a few years before selling the last DB5 ever made, with just a few thousand miles on the clock and in immaculate condition (the gardener would start it and drive it around the estate every week), for VERY little money. If I'd been just a few years older (I was about 10 at the time) that car would have been mine - my granny (great grannys daughter) told me a few days ago that they hadn't realised it was that special and that my great granny would have loved me to have it! Ho hum, my £500 Daewoo Lanos isn't that bad...
Dom
That is a bad one alrightDom
Remagel2507 said:
Kind of, shortly after I was born my late grandfather bought his Volvo PV444 up to one our garages - that was no longer being used - with the hope that he would be able to restore it now he had access to a proper ramp.
Sadly a few years later he passed away and ever since I found out that car was there, I've been wanting to get it out and restore it in remembrance of him , unfortunately due to other commitments and the business being busy I never got the chance to move it.
I thought it would be ok for a little longer but just last week
Sadly a few years later he passed away and ever since I found out that car was there, I've been wanting to get it out and restore it in remembrance of him , unfortunately due to other commitments and the business being busy I never got the chance to move it.
I thought it would be ok for a little longer but just last week
How did the fire start?
Arsonists?
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