I remember being at a conference a squillion years ago. A rather pompous attendee among other things was at pains to point out that he had his wife "trained" to clean his car inside and out every weekend. Anyway, he was just too irritating in so many ways.
It was decided to test the truth of the matter by hiding a ladies undergarment under the passenger seat of his car............
:-)))
Edited by Humph Backbridge on 28/09/2008 at 11:53
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When I worked for a Renault garage in London a trader once offered us a car with a sawn-off shotgun hidden under the boot mat.
Now, when I tell you the only name we had for him was Pete the Greek....
That was as close as I ever hope to come to appearing in a real life episode of Minder.
Needless to say, we declined to buy the car.
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Well I can't top the last post but some years ago and when buying a VW Variant from an odious character in Stockport, I bought the car - despite my feelings about the vendor - and when got it home and a few days later I found a fair quantity of spanners in the boot + a fair bit of spare change down the backs of the seats too.
He did say, what you see is what you buy - no come back!
Oh how I miss that car
Ian
Edited by Webmaster on 29/09/2008 at 01:08
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I got a lot of freebies with an old Ford Orion I bought. They weren't "found" though but given to me by the seller. He had bought a new car and the Orion had to sit on the road and the insurance was about to run out. Not wanting it to be on the road uninsured, and desparate to get rid of it, I got it off him for a ton (he was going to scrap it.)
It was a bargain in itself, an old car but for a Ford had virtually no rust and great bodywork for its age. Anyway it came with a full tank of a fuel, a new haynes manual (£15 in the shops) a brand new wheel crooklok thingy (£45 ish), several spare parts and tools and various accessories like a 12v fan heater and pump kept in the boot. Basically I got the car for free!
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I had to replace the petrol tank on a '70s Austin Princess. I thought the one I took out at the scap yard was heavy. The petrol in it was worth more than what I paid ;>)
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Slightly off-topic, but Humph's comment reminded me of the man in the changing room of a squash club, struggling to pull on a very tight girdle. His friend asks him "How long have you been wearing that?" He replied "Ever since my wife found it in the glove compartment of the car"...
P.
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