Subtitled (three is fine just not two as long as she doesn’t find out)
Was talking at the BLTN RR meet at the Ace and I mentioned (I think to Colonelk and or Seth) I'm not allowed to own two of anything anymore - hence why a Monza is going to become a Commodore (one way or other)
Anyway this is Part 1 of a three part test of my better half's patience (Lisa - Keefy swears she doesn't exist and may other RR'rs I think have been swayed by him) with my car obsession
They do say confession is good for the soul – I would add that as long as the confession is not to your long suffering better half then it’s bad for your b4lls
So the Senator story
I owned this 3.0 24V Senator auto in star silver with black leather
Never raced or rallied
Best car I’ve ever owned J905HAB or 5haby to it’s friends but while it was on the original basket weaves and still an auto I accidently bought another Senator (Later known as the ABS club whore)
Anyway at the time of purchase it was running basket weaves and was a 3.0 12 V auto with black leather that happened to also be in star silver…….
When I say accidently most of my car purchases are accidents (I think of it as right place right time and Lisa thinks it’s wrong place wrong time and too much available overdraft – she might have a point)
Anyway before I go too far off track I’d better explain
The 12V was advertised in the local free adds with a running fault at £300 – I like adverts like that but the price seemed to be missing a 1 in front of it – it was a few years back, rang the seller and apparently it had an electrical issue and he’d thrown lots of money at it with 3 local Vauxhall dealers and none had fixed it – all had cost him lots of money and he’d had enough……. The fault – hmmm – well you could drive it for 30 miles or 30 mins and then it cut out and needed to wait 15 mins before it would restart then it was fine for another 30 miles or 30 mins. The owners daily commute was 35 miles and 40 mins time wise and he was extremely curse word off that the car required him to observe some ritual stop start process.
Well I didn’t need another car but it was cheap and I like a challenge so I went to see it and bought it
Obviously I couldn’t take it home because then I would have two star silver Senators on the drive so I parked it at work and alternated which car I used on an almost daily basis.
Now I know the clever ones amongst you will say bit it has a different reg number – well Lisa is blind as a bat (bloody good hearing but eyesight is shocking – hence why she is still with me) so number plates are just a fuzzy blur – colour of a car and leather she’s on the button.
Downside is my daily commute is 2 miles or 5 mins so I wasn’t seeing the issues.
A mate Will occasionally lurker of this parish needed a car and work were getting a bit snotty about my using the car park as overflow parking for my drive so I lent it to him – don’t worry I told him about the issue so he packed the tools he needed for an electrical issue Will was working 40 miles away and for the first few weeks the car didn’t miss behave but then it did and Will knew he had 15 mins to find the fault – he actually took 5 mins and fixed by the roadside the car never missed a beat from then on (actually it did but that’s another story and I still get grief at monthly club meets from those club members who had a 90 mile ride in an AA truck)
So the fault – an aftermarket immobiliser that was over heating it’s circuits and killing the power to the fuel pump.
Anyway Will continued to use the car and I didn’t have a storage issue – however one day Will dropped the car back on the drive as he didn't need it anymore and when I drove home in the J905 I got a surprise ooooops looks like I had a snap……
Lisa’s reaction – I bloody knew you have two Senators it every other day for a while back my hand-cream kept doing a vanishing trick and then re-appearing like magic – it was driving me nuts!!!!
Was talking at the BLTN RR meet at the Ace and I mentioned (I think to Colonelk and or Seth) I'm not allowed to own two of anything anymore - hence why a Monza is going to become a Commodore (one way or other)
Anyway this is Part 1 of a three part test of my better half's patience (Lisa - Keefy swears she doesn't exist and may other RR'rs I think have been swayed by him) with my car obsession
They do say confession is good for the soul – I would add that as long as the confession is not to your long suffering better half then it’s bad for your b4lls
So the Senator story
I owned this 3.0 24V Senator auto in star silver with black leather
Never raced or rallied
Best car I’ve ever owned J905HAB or 5haby to it’s friends but while it was on the original basket weaves and still an auto I accidently bought another Senator (Later known as the ABS club whore)
Anyway at the time of purchase it was running basket weaves and was a 3.0 12 V auto with black leather that happened to also be in star silver…….
When I say accidently most of my car purchases are accidents (I think of it as right place right time and Lisa thinks it’s wrong place wrong time and too much available overdraft – she might have a point)
Anyway before I go too far off track I’d better explain
The 12V was advertised in the local free adds with a running fault at £300 – I like adverts like that but the price seemed to be missing a 1 in front of it – it was a few years back, rang the seller and apparently it had an electrical issue and he’d thrown lots of money at it with 3 local Vauxhall dealers and none had fixed it – all had cost him lots of money and he’d had enough……. The fault – hmmm – well you could drive it for 30 miles or 30 mins and then it cut out and needed to wait 15 mins before it would restart then it was fine for another 30 miles or 30 mins. The owners daily commute was 35 miles and 40 mins time wise and he was extremely curse word off that the car required him to observe some ritual stop start process.
Well I didn’t need another car but it was cheap and I like a challenge so I went to see it and bought it
Obviously I couldn’t take it home because then I would have two star silver Senators on the drive so I parked it at work and alternated which car I used on an almost daily basis.
Now I know the clever ones amongst you will say bit it has a different reg number – well Lisa is blind as a bat (bloody good hearing but eyesight is shocking – hence why she is still with me) so number plates are just a fuzzy blur – colour of a car and leather she’s on the button.
Downside is my daily commute is 2 miles or 5 mins so I wasn’t seeing the issues.
A mate Will occasionally lurker of this parish needed a car and work were getting a bit snotty about my using the car park as overflow parking for my drive so I lent it to him – don’t worry I told him about the issue so he packed the tools he needed for an electrical issue Will was working 40 miles away and for the first few weeks the car didn’t miss behave but then it did and Will knew he had 15 mins to find the fault – he actually took 5 mins and fixed by the roadside the car never missed a beat from then on (actually it did but that’s another story and I still get grief at monthly club meets from those club members who had a 90 mile ride in an AA truck)
So the fault – an aftermarket immobiliser that was over heating it’s circuits and killing the power to the fuel pump.
Anyway Will continued to use the car and I didn’t have a storage issue – however one day Will dropped the car back on the drive as he didn't need it anymore and when I drove home in the J905 I got a surprise ooooops looks like I had a snap……
Lisa’s reaction – I bloody knew you have two Senators it every other day for a while back my hand-cream kept doing a vanishing trick and then re-appearing like magic – it was driving me nuts!!!!