Why so many selling up? :yikes:
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...and there was I, all smug and looking forward to a very disgraceful next few years!
Like many, I got the totally unreasonable, impracticable, obsessive, irrational urge to build and own one of these things last year and acted on it, and thus a new GTR is on its way!
However, maybe I have been only seeing what I wanted to see, but I can't remember thrughout my early searching on the subject, more than one or two Ult owners selling their pride-and-joy at any one time!
....But now
it looks like (to me) that we have the whole club at it?...well..6 or 7 and thats just on this site...and that is scary!
and....oh...no....Even you Stig - appear to be selling your heart and soul...again?????? (If you get your way, does that mean you are leaving this forum?
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...so, for one who thought 'owning a dog...sorry and ult..is for life!', it is worrying that maybe there is something you are not telling us builders-yet-to-run merchants?????????
Oh btw - I changed my login from Brdee to my new numberplate cos I am old, pretentiously posh, and of course I am losing it!
Keith
Like many, I got the totally unreasonable, impracticable, obsessive, irrational urge to build and own one of these things last year and acted on it, and thus a new GTR is on its way!
However, maybe I have been only seeing what I wanted to see, but I can't remember thrughout my early searching on the subject, more than one or two Ult owners selling their pride-and-joy at any one time!
....But now
it looks like (to me) that we have the whole club at it?...well..6 or 7 and thats just on this site...and that is scary! and....oh...no....Even you Stig - appear to be selling your heart and soul...again?????? (If you get your way, does that mean you are leaving this forum?
) ...so, for one who thought 'owning a dog...sorry and ult..is for life!', it is worrying that maybe there is something you are not telling us builders-yet-to-run merchants?????????
Oh btw - I changed my login from Brdee to my new numberplate cos I am old, pretentiously posh, and of course I am losing it!
Keith
Thanks for the posts.....I was getting a tad paranoid!
As a matter of fact does anyone know how many Ults are actually either in build mode or on the road in the UK, and overseas? It would be most interesting!
Chris, that means you are evolving in your taste then? does that mean you are in line for that Lada 4x4 or Ovlov estate then?
....changing you name to Kevin? (sorry to all Kevins out there - telly ad reference! - no offence meant!)
Keith
As a matter of fact does anyone know how many Ults are actually either in build mode or on the road in the UK, and overseas? It would be most interesting!
Chris, that means you are evolving in your taste then? does that mean you are in line for that Lada 4x4 or Ovlov estate then?
....changing you name to Kevin? (sorry to all Kevins out there - telly ad reference! - no offence meant!) Keith
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
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
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
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
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