Another bargain!

[steve_earwig]

It's not "my" country. Well, not yet anyway
I dunno what it is about the Croats, they're generally lovely people but just stick them behind the wheel of a car and sanity seems to take a back seat

[steve_earwig]

By way of a change, a whole car!!

Land Rover Range Rover Classic ... Urgent (sale required)!!!!!!
1980, 3,500cc, 100Kw, 4 speed manual gearbox, registered until, oh, er, last month 1,400€




Wow, that's amazingly cheap for this place!

Hold on a mo though, the blurb at the bottom says:
..Completely restored...new exhaust.....full service 1000km ago ......Recaro seats......almost new mud tyres ..."small disaster" in the transmission...was for 2,800€, now for 1,400....urgent....it's in the way in the yard.

[FarmerPug]

it doesnt matter about the mechanicals thats a sound 3door the 3 door rangie is a rare machine. Now all it needs is a chevvy 6.2

[Welly]

'Small disaster' eh?

I wonder how much a big disaster would cost to fix?

[FarmerPug]

british leyland had a habbit of building in them small disasters into their cars

[steve_earwig]

Pfft, looks like Njuskalo have had a reorg and most of my pics have gone Can't be asked to fix it.

On the subject of crap driving and mangled cars, I was at home yesterday morning fetching my pump (don't ask). After checking the house I was just leaving when I heard the sound of a speeding car, then a sliding noise and a loud bang. I casually strolled out the front to find some twat coming down from the hills had tried to take the bend too fast, lost it, mounted the pavement and hit my neighbour's wall. He'd also narrowly missed some guy on the pavement, who'd had to take a dive into a field. I know I should have taken some pictures but I was more concerned with sweeping the broken glass out of the road without getting run over by more idiots, who seemed quite happy to drive full speed through it all By the time I did think about it the road was clear and the car gone. It's amazing just how much garbage comes off an old Hyundai, we got a wheelbarrow full, that's besides all the bits the guy wanted to keep like the front bumper & numberplate. As there were quite a few neighbours milling about I asked the lad from across the road if anyone had called the cops, but he said no "we don't want to make trouble for this guy" Ffs, what if had been a mum with a pram on the pavement, where would she have gone? They just seemed happy to help the guy sweep up his car and let him go

Later I asked a copper I know about it, she seemed quite surprised that you have to report any accidents in GB because here they're only interested if anyone's hurt or there's damage to property, otherwise they don't give a toss.

[steve_earwig]

Oh yes, I also found out about this lad who there's a shrine for outside my house (viewtopic.php?f=5&t=11498&p=101933&hili ... ne#p101933), his bike didn't hit my wall, he did. Apparently, after he lost control he flew the 100 yards-odd and died on impact.

He was drunk.

[teamster1975]

You should lay a few RSJ's into your wall Steve, they sound like lunatics!
Riding when p1ssed?!

[steve_earwig]

I will be taking a look at my neighbour's wall, it took quite an impact yesterday and there's just a few scratches to show. It'll get done eventually, it's not a matter of the cash as I've got some put by for it, it's finding a reliable builder who seem to be in short supply here

[FarmerPug]

Thats the problem of living on a fast bend speeders always hit your wall or fence, a man that lives on a road into my local village lives on a bendy main road, and gets about 4 cars a year in his garden, he used to rebuild the fence, but just gave up and just has a few posts and some chicken wire instead, and he dug a drain so the cars dont go all the way through his garden. You be driving along and occasionally see a car in the drain or one day i seen one sitting upside down with all the emergency services at it. The only accident that ever happened outside my house was some scania lorry caught fire and the driver decided the best place to park it was up the lane to my house.

[steve_earwig]

It's not even much of a bend, it's just the camber's all wrong I guess.

Hold on...
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&sourc ... 1&t=h&z=18

The house with the black roof (hopefully in the middle of the picture)is mine. You can see it's not really much of a bend (just a pain in the arse to pull out onto ), it also starts to slope down in front of my house left to right. The car yesterday was coming from the top left from the mountains and it's my neighbour on the right whose front wall he hit. Further down is a patch of mud, sorry, a field, then a house, a shop and then the little chapel, which is where the biker lost it (going North obviously), and travelled all that way to head butt my front wall - how fast?

[FarmerPug]

That really doesnt look at all like a difficult bend to negotiate unless you were in a terrible handling car like a vectra, or morris marina.
Thats a handy point for finding your house the black roof, but why is none of the other houses equipped with such a roof.

Theres no wifi/street view available of this bend

[plod]

ah morris screamer

best back seats for a bit of jiggy jiggy i've eever tried

[steve_earwig]

That really doesnt look at all like a difficult bend to negotiate unless you were in a terrible handling car like a vectra, or morris marina.

The road was a bit damp yesterday so I guess where the road turns down the weight came off his wheels for a moment, he lost traction and crash tinkle Not necessarily a terrible car, more a terrible driver.

Thats a handy point for finding your house the black roof, but why is none of the other houses equipped with such a roof.

It's actually dark grey shingles, mine's the only one because no-one else round here thinks shingles are any good, they prefer proper clay roofing tiles because they last for 100s of years (yet the ones on this house here were all frost damaged after 15 )

Theres no wifi/street view available of this bend

There's a shock Are you getting why I have no interest in sat nav yet?

[steve_earwig]

ah morris screamer

best back seats for a bit of jiggy jiggy i've eever tried

My first car was a Morris Marina. I even have a pic of it somewhere...