What did you save up for but never buy.
- Thread starter Devil's advocate
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betternextyear
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- salop
Av Gorritt
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- Location
- NE Ches / SE Lancs
Just as an aside , A chap I know had a race tuned Manx Norton many years ago . He was off duty one day and called in at work for something , parking the bike outside . It created a lot of interest and one of the other fellas asked for a run . Well , yes , says the first chap , but be very careful , it's a beast . Chap no 2 goes outside , gets astride the bike , gives it a few twists on the grip to see what it sounded like , let the clutch in and promptly exited the bike by the back door , the bike shot across the car park and then stopped in a cloud of dust . Fortunately neither the bike nor the chap was badly injured .
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- Ceredigion
Opel Manta , no idea why now !
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- Cumbria
I saved up for a short wheelbase Mitsubishi Shogun. Got enough for one then some land came up for sale and I used the cash as a deposit. Never regretted it once.
AnyOldName
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- The Motor City
A wife.
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- Yorkshire
Can't believe it's taken 3 and a half pages
Its not the buying them that's expensive, its paying to get rid that's the killer!
Devil's advocate
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- Posh side of Barnsley
Dad used to grow 10 acres of potatoes all picked by hand.
Used to love picking potatoes as a boy. Then once we were done, they used to take me to the John Lewis toy shop at Blackpool, to spend my earning. I remember a action man, land rover with trailer & the next year action man motorbike with side car. Maybe 8 one year 9 the next not sure.
I do remember 1976 when I was 12 buying 36 rhode Island Red growers with my potato picking money. Did not actually get them till the following May.
- Location
- Cornwall
glasshouse
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- Location
- lothians
A britains model?I spent my student loan on a Roadless 98..
quite a good investment it turns out
- Location
- Cornwall
- Location
- Cornwall
No, the real deal…. Back when no one wanted them…. £3000, with 6k hours on her ….
glasshouse
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- Location
- lothians
Opel manta was a cracking motor
Red Fred
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- Hants/Dorset border
I was madly in love with a young lady in the 6th form and when she passed her test, she used to drive to school in her dad's Manta which was a Bright red H reg, the original with the shark like nose and the duck tail with round rear lights. We had a very happy year or two together but eventually went our own ways at college. Her brother had a newer one, bright orange with Rostyle wheels, very 1970s
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- LINCOLNSHIRE/KENYA
That was the first and last time I ever got a wage at home it was on my grandfather's farm and next harvest Dad had his own farm and rather than money we went onto a type of barter system such as work all holiday riddling potatoes you get the portable tv you want. When I wanted a car he said he'd sort it. I was muck spreading for contractor ( earning cash for University ) when I saw him and my mum towing my 'new' Chrysler Sunbeam home from an auction.
are you now saving for a divorce
toquark
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My gran had one, she used to pick us up from school with it. For some reason she traded it in for a poverty spec mk3 fiesta. It didn’t quite attract the same credibility at the school gates.
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- Lincolnshire
JCB Fastrac. Then I test drove one and it felt like ploughing with a lorry so I didn’t bother.
If there was one moment in my life where I’d started on my decline and loss of ambition it would be that moment: Mid forties. We’ve got smaller as a business ever since but made more profit.
I look through machinery mags now and they leave me cold.
If there was one moment in my life where I’d started on my decline and loss of ambition it would be that moment: Mid forties. We’ve got smaller as a business ever since but made more profit.
I look through machinery mags now and they leave me cold.