@GruffHarding @jackyan

How are you going to explain the purchase after hitting a fifth division win?

Anyhoo, a few beauts today, but first this - get it and you too can pick the car of your choice

https://www.trademe.co.nz/a/motors/cars/other/other/listing/5761689924

@GruffHarding @jackyan

Number two - is purple your lucky colour? Better hope so, because British reliability

https://www.trademe.co.nz/a/motors/cars/austin/1100/listing/5761804800

@jackyan @GruffHarding

I'd hope so!

Thing I like about older cars, you lift the bonnet and can immediately recognise an engine!

@GruffHarding @jackyan

A nice honest car, with honest description

I think @BobLefridge left it sitting out the front for a few years

On the beach

https://www.trademe.co.nz/a/motors/cars/fiat/124-spider/listing/5765339931

Tidy vehicle, but $16k for a Cortina?

@GruffHarding @jackyan @IceNine

@GruffHarding @BobLefridge @jackyan

That and 323s were just everywhere

Some times they'd pass a warrant, but oh the rust

@GruffHarding @BobLefridge @jackyan

I knew I should have waited - 1.7L sewing machine

https://www.trademe.co.nz/a/motors/cars/other/other/listing/5776548241

@GruffHarding @BobLefridge @jackyan

Much relieved, except admin issues

Boo

@GruffHarding @BobLefridge @jackyan

I found a cracker though 😆

https://www.trademe.co.nz/a/motors/cars/toyota/hilux/listing/5788409900

@yakmoose @GruffHarding @BobLefridge @jackyan

They buffed the engine out!

@GruffHarding @yakmoose @BobLefridge @jackyan

So did I!

Not as eyecatching this one, and you'll have to travel a bit further Gruff than Happy Valley, but it is half the price.

I'm sure Bob had at least two of them and also did some dodgy mission in one too, but there's not many vehicles which don't tick those boxes. Nissan Cube perhaps?

https://www.trademe.co.nz/a/motors/cars/other/other/listing/5939871462

Nah. I never owned anything big and thirsty like the Sunbeam.

But I did desire a Brumby for a while. Fifteen years ago they were around $2,500 for a decent one. Suffice to say, I'm shocked at the current prices.

@jackyan @IceNine @GruffHarding @yakmoose

@BobLefridge @jackyan @GruffHarding @yakmoose

Have I finally found a car you and your brother didn't get up to no good in?!

You have us wrong. My brother and I were actually pretty discerning in our choice of vehicles. Like Gruff says, there were quite a few five hundy cars.

Between us we owned a few Vanguards, a weird fibreglass thing called a Mistral, 20-30 Morris Eights, one Morris Minor, one Morris J4 van, one CF Bedford, one Citroen GS club, one 1949 Singer Sports, a matching pair of MG Midgets and that infamous Fiat 500 which was involved in a reported "high speed (!) chase" round north Dunedin.

I've also owned a VW Variant (yellow), an Alfa Romeo GTV2000, a Saab 900, a 72 MGBGT, a Ford SIerra wagon (bland), a pair of Triumph 2500s, a Telstar (bland), the sad little SJ410 living at the back of my drive, one Escudo (bland), two Suzuki Swifts and seven Subarus.

That's all. Perfectly normal.

@IceNine @jackyan @GruffHarding @yakmoose

@BobLefridge @jackyan @GruffHarding @yakmoose

An infamous chase in a Bambina?

I thought the only one even close to a chase was an ex-cop I knew who pulled one over on Moorhouse Ave here, doing 88.

He asked the driver how he managex such a speed - driver pointed at the Colombo Street overbridge behing him.