Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2003 01:05:47 +0100 From: "brian rawsthorne" <briannopsamthorne741.fsnet.co.uk> Subject: Just bought a 9000 auto 1.4K auto 93
Have to pick this baby up before the weekend, bought it on ebay whilst "surfing-under-influence", my girlfriends 50+ good feedback's at stake so I'm getting grief at both ends (why the hell did you buy a car on the internet, why the hell are you getting drunk midweek, why did you use my username etc....), ears are hurting but cant wait to collect veeehicle! What should I look out for prior to handing over lucre? Your guys rock. have saved a fortune reading this group! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------- Boring Piffle...... My Dad sold the second two stroke Saab in the UK and had one of the first franchises. When I was a kid, at the time I was addicted to ball bearing's (had won virtually every marble in my school with'em) and in my relentless search for more found me constantly in the workshop as we lived above the showroom, one evening after tea when I should have been sweeping up and putting down sawdust I was playing with a new jack and accidentally jacked the engine out of the back of a brand new (sepia tone) rear engine Saab (thinking the engines were in the front) car in question was destined for a delivery to local doctor following morning.I'm still walking with a slight limp! My Dad's no longer here and every time I buy a car he rolls in his grave and I get to stand around my local workshop getting maced for head gaskets or turbo's. The only bright spot is I've had two bad smashes both in Saabs and survived, and sold an old 900 to my best mate (Derek) who had V.V.serious accident,oncoming Truck on wrong side of country road, so severe the fire brigade said on TV that they dreaded approaching the wreckage, he was in a nearby house having his second cup of tea and walked out to watch them cutting the roof off! (He had cooked the engine a week previous,and was driving with the bonnet flipped) So It's not all bad is it! PS. Like Derek I feel vulnerable if I'm not in a Saab, I feel for the guy with the neck thing (previous post)my old man would have got the workshop to sort something out, but in the early eighties it all reversed from the manufacturers giving out prizes to dealers (my dad got a prize for telling cars and a letter saying he had to pay for brochures and knew it was over) my old man didn't want to go to the bank to build a new workshop/showroom etc, to the specs required so walked away. The guy who now owns the "dealership" is fully loaded, and recently maced me for a dashboard light fix £200, I saw that as the end of a friendship and now get my bits second-hand. The kicker is I know nothing about cars, how they work etc hence my request.. Actually the real kicker is the guy my dad started with (another ex marine) got into Peugeot and has had a successful dealership and his son my age is a multi-millionaire. I guess I'm happy to be alive because if I'd been in a Pug when I spilled on either occasion I would defiantly be road waffle. Sorry about the ramble. --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.489 / Virus Database: 288 - Release Date: 11/06/2003
