What did you save up for but never buy.

[glasshouse]

I spent my student grant on a ford escort 1300 sport.
I loved that car until i rolled it one evening
Sort of saving but in reverse

 

[4course]

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 .

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

 

[bobk]

I saved up for a chainsaw .

 

[DeeGee]

A virgin

Don’t give up. Still plenty of nice lads about; according to Bald Rick.

 

[glasshouse]

I have saved several deposits for land, but never got past second place

 

[jamesy]

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

 

[2wheels]

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

105mph in orkney in a 1.1lt? did you not run out of road?

 

[A1an]

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.

I was exactly the same.

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

 

[Lowland1]

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

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.

 

[jamesy]

105mph in orkney in a 1.1lt? did you not run out of road?

Only once, bloody bend in the road jumped out of nowhere! Was only going 70-80 that time.

 

[yoki]

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]

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 !!

 

[yoki]

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 !!

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.

 

[Wood field]

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.

Always fancied a zx7 r
Old and arthritic now so have a 500 matchless and a D7 bantam

 

[Hjcarter]

I saved for a rainy day, never did buy one

I could do with a few of them now - how much are they??

 

[Adam@Rumen]

Looked a bargain for condition but not seen any sold for years !

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[serf]

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Didn't realise so may had survived !

 

[Hfd Cattle]

Always wanted a Triumph Stag . Had a couple of 2.5 pi's but never a Stag .
Now I could afford one I'm not that keen .

 

[Hfd Cattle]

Quite interesting that, except a few posts , it seems we all had a car in mind to try and purchase at some time or other .

 

[Farmer Roy]

Nah . . .