Hurrah! I just bought a big white lump of shat.

[Stone Fox]

Otherwise known as a Turbo Diesel Astra estate.

Now as soon as it's taxed and I'm insured, the coast will be reachable!

HUZZAH!

[sal]

the coast will be reachable!!

[CheeZee]

..My congratulations on the new found lease of coastal bound life ...

..My condolences for that lease of life being an Astra !! !!

only kidding bro .. my first pimp mobile was an Astra Belmont and it never gave me any jive ..until the much reminissed 'party night' that said Belmont was used as a ramming device to clear someones driveway from unwanted party goers and their vehicles, it just didnt drive the same after that ... lmao ..

[drowningbitbybit]

My first car was an Astra - I went from London to Shropshire in it three times... and it came back on a tow-truck twice

The final straw was a formula one style plume of smoke filling the road behind me as I coasted to a clattering and terminal halt.

[libby]

Congrats

[lucy]

Mate! That's a wicked car! My first car was a 2L turbo diesel astra estate! I kept it for 5 years until the undertray started falling off, at which point i tied it back on with cable ties & gaffa tape & promptly sold it while it was still worth some ££££! You can fit loads of stuff in it, it's really economical on fuel & most importantly, it never once let me down.. (feeling a bit guilty for selling the old faithful now.. )

[sal]

I kept it for 5 years until the undertray started falling off, at which point i tied it back on with cable ties & gaffa tape & promptly sold it while it was still worth some ££££!

Stone Fox, can i recommend having a quick squiz under your car and checking it ain't Lucy's old one?!?!?

[Real Pol]

My first car was also an Astra, I had it for two weeks then crashed it (very slowly) into a viaduct.

13 years on and I still have a scar inside my lip which I sometimes bite whilst eating my dinner.......ah the memories.

Hope you have better luck!

[Johno]

My first car was an Astra C reg bought for £400 sold for £200 rag it for 3 years and it never let me down,

Then got Pug 205 1.9 GTI then MR2 and now am back to a trusty 1.7 TD Astra esta dead reliable an excellent for bombing into Wales, economical and enough room in the back to sleep in

Astras are great

[Dec]

Hurrah! I just bought a big white lump of shat.

I thought you were going to say an Apple Mac

[.Jen.]

Ive just bought a 1988 Austin Metro 'Red Hot' for the pricely sum of £30 to use as the beach car this year. The Peugeot I had last year needed too much work doing to be worth insuring it again so ditched it.

[Stone Fox]

I thought you were going to say an Apple Mac

Credit me with SOME sense dude!

[GowerCharger]

i used to have an astra van, it was crap, but i loved it, even tho it was rusty, had no heating, and always had somethign wrong with it.

[thaya]

looking forward to seeing it (and you!) on the south coast soon!

[Stone Fox]

AAARRRGGGHHH!!!!


The FLESHING clutch just went. Thankfully one of my mates is a mechanic, hopefully having it sorted this sunday.

[Dec]

Just like an Apple Mac Have it a week and somethings bound to go wrong!!!


No, seriously...That sucks balls! How long is it going to take?

[drowningbitbybit]

AAARRRGGGHHH!!!!


The FLESHING clutch just went. Thankfully one of my mates is a mechanic, hopefully having it sorted this sunday.

Dont worry, they all do that, sir

[Jimi]

thank god for mechanic mates eh?!

Don't worry about clutches, you can just crunch it through the gears and take off using the starter motor, if you're really desperate for a surf

I once drove 320km without a clutch after the master cylinder failed in the outback.

[Stone Fox]

The problem is the clutch slips over 3500 rpm, and the more it slips, the worse it's going to get. Kind of limits me to about 50mph on the motorway.

Oh well.

It's now getting looked at monday night.

[Stone Fox]

Having wasted several hundred quid on the eponymous hero of this thread (well, eponymous VILLAIN!) I've just been given an all expenses paid company car!

Anyone wanna buy a rusty white heap of shat with a slipping clutch for £100?

Just joking.

What a piss take though. I had my mate look at it, he's a mechanic and he reckons the gearbox is going so it's not worth fixing for the money I paid for it. Grrrr.....