RE: Schadenfreude

["Phil Harris" <phillip.harris1@xxxxxxx>]

I still think back to happy days in Mk 1 and Mk 2 escorts...

.... handled like wet haddock but fun as hell!

Phil

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian G. Reynolds [mailto:brian.g.reynolds@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 20 September 2001 21:51
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Schadenfreude
>
>
> Good one, do modern car owners have "fun" like we used too?
I
> think not, the
> modern young-un's can afford much more expensive cars and the money is
> readily available and readily taken by insurance companies!
>
> Our era of cars were no where near as powerful as they are today? I
really
> do think the emphasis is on speed instead of looks, I drove my
Range-Rover
> with no roof for about 3 years, cold but bloody good fun!
>
> Hate cars now, been driving 21 years without a crash and still
> get clobbered
> by the insurance companies!
>
> Mind you, company van now :-)))))
>
> B.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Stuart Grimshaw [mailto:stuart@xxxxxxx]
> > Sent: 20 September 2001 21:44
> > To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> > Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Schadenfreude
> >
> >
> > On Thursday 20 September 2001 21:11 pm, Keith Doxey wrote:
> > > I once had a BT van (HA Viva) where the windscreen leaked
badly. This
> > > resulted in the drivers footwell filling with water.
> >
> > My last car did that, after I took it to a garage to get fixed,
> > after ages
> > trying to find where the water was coming from I found that the
> > door rubber
> > had been sabotaged. There was a little hole that looked a little
> > too clean to
> > be a perished hole, right under the hole that was supposed to be
there.
> >
> > Also, I had a mushroom grow in one of my old cars. A huge thing
> > it was, and
> > one day when my Mum got in the back, it started spitting spores
> at her :-)
> >
> > --
> >
> >  Stuart Grimshaw <stuart@xxxxxxx>
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> >
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