05-31-2016, 02:00 PM
(05-25-2016, 05:23 PM)Minstrel Wrote: My foremost concern in a new car is the sound system.
My first car was a sky-blue Mustang II (Hatchback). I killed that car. Poor thing.
I've never driven a car. Neither I or the anomaly that inhabits my shed has ever
physically driven a vehicle and even now, at fifty-five years old, have I ever felt the
need to!
We -as a family have always had a car and these days, my wife and son have their
own, but BIAD and me...? we're walkers! (And before Gordi asks, I typed it correctly!)
There was a time when a friend and I purchased a bashed-up MG Roadster that we'd
agreed to take along with the terrible asbestolux-boarded garage it sat in. What we
were thinking, I'll never know.
The shed... because that was really what it was, had no electricity and stood on some
waste ground just itching to be broken into. The car had no battery and no paint on it's
surfaces. In all the time we tinkered with it (we were seventeen at the time!)... we never
heard the engine tick over.
Finally, we sold it for twice the price we bought it for and I just know that guy we palmed
it off onto will have made it one of those shiny, purring vintage cars you see in English
movies that trundle along country lanes with the top down.
I'm sure of it.
Edith Head Gives Good Wardrobe.