What did you save up for but never buy.

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4course

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Location
north yorks
Av Gorritt said:
My saving wish goes back a lot further . When I was at school , I absolutely coveted a new "Royal Enfield lightweight sports " bike I got half a crown spending money from my g.father for milk carting Sat and Sun mornings , so my parents said I could ask the shop to save it and enter their savings scheme , at no extra cost . I think it was £6 odd and I had a little bit of a start , so, away I went . Fast forward to the great day , I got my final half crown Saturday lunch time ,and ran all the way up to the shop , only to find it had closed . I honestly sat on the shop step and cried ! I did get it on the next Monday , drop handlebars an' all , and final flourish , a chrome "bullet" on the end of the front mudguard . No dynamo though - that had to come later .
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ha, very similar saved all my pocket money and most of the "wages " I got for corn carting bale leading one harvest before having to go back to school. ( harvest was later back then) for a raleigh carlton silver with blue and red paintwork drop handlebars and a 10 gear derailliuer total cost just over £26 quid reckon it was about 1965 ,never saved up for anything since either do it or dont
 
jamesy

jamesy

Member
Location
Orkney
Saved up for nifty 50 when 16, really wanted a Suzuki TS50x but none came up for sale so ended up with Yamaha FS1E…… the very next week Suzuki was in the paper for sale😭.

Really wanted a MK2 XR2 for first car but ended up with Fiesta 1.1L & did a few things to it to make it look sportier!😂. I was still delighted with it & could get 105mph out of her
 
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2wheels

Member
Location
aberdeenshire
jamesy said:
Saved up for nifty 50 when 16, really wanted a Suzuki TS50x but none came up for sale so ended up with Yamaha FS1E…… the very next week Suzuki was in the paper for sale😭.

Really wanted a MK2 XR2 for first car but ended up with Fiesta 1.1L & did a few things to it to make it look sportier!😂. I was still delighted with it & could get 105mph out of her
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105mph in orkney in a 1.1lt? did you not run out of road? :)
 
A1an

A1an

Member
Sid said:
Peugeot 205 1.9 GTI
Could afford the car....but not the insurance as well as we were never a Daddy will pay family.

Same now, all my kids so far have saved, from farm wages, and paid for own vehicles.
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I was exactly the same.

Now I can afford one I cant justify that much money for a "sunny day" car.
 
Lowland1

Lowland1

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
LINCOLNSHIRE/KENYA
4course said:
ha, very similar saved all my pocket money and most of the "wages " I got for corn carting bale leading one harvest before having to go back to school. ( harvest was later back then) for a raleigh carlton silver with blue and red paintwork drop handlebars and a 10 gear derailliuer total cost just over £26 quid reckon it was about 1965 ,never saved up for anything since either do it or dont
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Same here carted corn all harvest 1976 as a ten year old but paid as a 14 year old at 42 p an hour bought a Raleigh Olympus from Halfords for £49.95. I have never saved for anything since.
 
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yoki

Member
Suzuki TL1000s.

Had done a bit of work for cash, and parallel imported stuff was cheap at the time. Before I got to our nearest Del Boy importer my presence was requested on another job, and before I had any more free time the money was needed for something else.

Oh, and a year or two before that I'd saved up and bought a 205GTI 1.9, huge disappointment and before long couldn't wait to be rid.

Never meet your heroes, etc...........................!
 
Wood field

Wood field

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
South Pennines ol14
Bit of a twist as I did buy this…
Zx9R , 1994 b1. It was for sale in local dealership on behalf of a “ friend of there’s”
Dyno print out of 125bhp at rear wheel ( some power in them days)
Anyway I coughed up the money and was to pick it up the following week as I was working away.
Phone call a few days later .. the mechanic had serviced and mot’d it but…,
Whilst going down a road in Oldham pulled a wheelie and promptly binned it !!
 
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yoki

Member
Wood field said:
Bit of a twist as I did buy this…
Zx9R , 1994 b1. It was for sale in local dealership on behalf of a “ friend of there’s”
Dyno print out of 125bhp at rear wheel ( some power in them days)
Anyway I coughed up the money and was to pick it up the following week as I was working away.
Phone call a few days later .. the mechanic had serviced and mot’d it but…,
Whilst going down a road in Oldham pulled a wheelie and promptly binned it !!
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Dodged a bullet there anyway, they were a pig until late 90's early noughties.

Unfortunately by that time R1 fever had hit and most people never found out what a good bike they had become.
 

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