RE: Schadenfreude

["Steve Morgan" <steve@xxxxxxx>]

That's why I love my Landy. It's crude, slow, corners like a supertanker,
leaks like a seive (if there's no water in the footwells, then it's not
rained for a fortnight and if there's no puddle of oil under it, there's
none left), has absolutely no mod cons and is the most spectacularly fun
car
that I've ever had the privilege to drive.

I opted out of the 'New V6 Omega' every 18 months company car scheme and
now
run my Landy plus a motorbike and don't regret it for a minute.

--
Steve Morgan
2001 Deauville & 1986 V8 110

> -----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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