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General Information => General => Topic started by: Mark(The Miser)UK on February 25, 2007, 09:00:22 am

Title: look at what I just bought for The wife's mum
Post by: Mark(The Miser)UK on February 25, 2007, 09:00:22 am
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=320084099514&ru=http%3A%2F%2Fsearch.ebay.co.uk%3A80%2Fsearch%2Fsearch.dll%3Ffrom%3DR40%26satitle%3D320084099514%26fvi%3D1

 :shock: I did say I wouldn't buy a 'transverse' didn't  I? :shock:

I've actually bought it to replace my mother-in-law's Polo (a kind of Audi 50).
  :twisted: She was looking for power steering as she was 82 in August and her wrists are weakening and her night vision is reducing (better lights in one of these!) :twisted:
:mrgreen: Mark :mrgreen:
Title: look at what I just bought for The wife's mum
Post by: SMOKEYDUB on February 25, 2007, 09:10:18 am
AWESOME find! pretty clean car.
Title: look at what I just bought for The wife's mum
Post by: Mark(The Miser)UK on February 25, 2007, 09:25:30 am
It does look  up togeather.  ... Just noticed that the tacho is not there :cry:  I do have one that I was saving for my QTD's...  She won't need it.  :wink:
Title: look at what I just bought for The wife's mum
Post by: Mark(The Miser)UK on February 28, 2007, 03:37:12 am
Just like buses; see none for ages and then along comes three together!
This one looks exciting; I asked the old girl if she would prefer one with a sound system.... She declined. Although she thought it would be fun to pull up in it in her road once to shock the curtain twitchers... :shock:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=290087763358&ru=http%3A%2F%2Fsearch.ebay.co.uk%3A80%2Fsearch%2Fsearch.dll%3Fcgiurl%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fcgi.ebay.co.uk%252Fws%252F%26fkr%3D1%26from%3DR8%26satitle%3D290087763358%2B%2B%26category0%3D%26fvi%3D1

Actually this has probably been thrashed; and I/C hasn't been operating with its full cowling...
Title: look at what I just bought for The wife's mum
Post by: Mark(The Miser)UK on March 08, 2007, 12:40:28 pm
Just reporting that after afew pointers on driving the GTD my 81 yr old mother-in-law has decided she likes the GTD...

http://img110.imageshack.us/img110/200/mygtdyo5.jpg


Blast!!! Last Sunday she had got all flustered about it and was going to let me have it.  I think it was because I reduced the 'lag' so that she can nip in and out of the traffic like with her little gasser
 :roll:
Title: look at what I just bought for The wife's mum
Post by: jtanguay on March 08, 2007, 10:48:05 pm
Quote from: "Mark(The Miser)UK"
Just reporting that after afew pointers on driving the GTD my 81 yr old mother-in-law has decided she likes the GTD...

http://img110.imageshack.us/img110/200/mygtdyo5.jpg


Blast!!! Last Sunday she had got all flustered about it and was going to let me have it.  I think it was because I reduced the 'lag' so that she can nip in and out of the traffic like with her little gasser
 :roll:


hehe... if only women knew how good they have it.  Men do everything for them, but no thats not good enough...  power freaks!!! pun intended  :twisted:
Title: look at what I just bought for The wife's mum
Post by: Dr. Diesel on March 10, 2007, 10:35:29 am
where's the battery in that thing? still up front, hidden under that I/C baffling?
Title: look at what I just bought for The wife's mum
Post by: Mark(The Miser)UK on March 10, 2007, 12:30:25 pm
Quote from: Dr. Diesel
where's the battery in that thing? still up front, hidden under that I/C baffling?
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Yes it's half under the the baffling
Title: look at what I just bought for The wife's mum
Post by: Mark(The Miser)UK on March 10, 2007, 12:38:09 pm
hehe... if only women knew how good they have it.  Men do everything for them, but no thats not good enough...  power freaks!!! pun intended  :twisted:

I think I've created a monster...
 Granny is off showing her  92 year old friend :roll:

I don't wish  early death on anyone  but I hope she doesn't live to 106
I can't wait 24 years to get the car back. :cry:
The missus has already told her mum that she thinks I bought it for myself really.... She just nodded and grinned :mrgreen:
Title: look at what I just bought for The wife's mum
Post by: Kudagra on March 10, 2007, 06:08:16 pm
Holy crap...is it just me or is that super cheap??? That would be worth importing for that much.

side note:

Im sure this has been answered...but is it easy to come up with a complete GTD intercooler setup over there?
Title: look at what I just bought for The wife's mum
Post by: jtanguay on March 11, 2007, 12:35:27 am
Quote from: "Mark(The Miser)UK"
hehe... if only women knew how good they have it.  Men do everything for them, but no thats not good enough...  power freaks!!! pun intended  :twisted:

I think I've created a monster...
 Granny is off showing her  92 year old friend :roll:

I don't wish  early death on anyone  but I hope she doesn't live to 106
I can't wait 24 years to get the car back. :cry:
The missus has already told her mum that she thinks I bought it for myself really.... She just nodded and grinned :mrgreen:


yea watchout... her last days will be spent driving the crap out of that car... oh you'll get the car back... minus a hundred psi compression... etc  :lol:  

i'd say when she gets a bit older start turning down the fuel gradually...  :wink: