Banshee
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So I brought my Maverick GLS 2.7TDi back in August 2012 and it's been a massive roller coaster ride ever since but I wouldn't have changed it for the world, my car has taught me so much and I feel a better "mechanic" for it :augie
You guys are great and I wouldn't have been able to do it without you
I made the 2 1/2 hour trip up to Ellesmere Port after seeing the car on eBay and ringing a guy called Steve, I remember the day well, I was sitting on the arm of an arm chair on a grey Friday evening looking outside through the window looking at the pissing down rain bouncing off the cars on my girlfriends drive and thinking how much I hate my crappy 1.8TDDi Focus :doh
It was up for £1100 and I talked him down to £900 on the phone after a 40 min conversation of what felt like a catchup with an old friend. I immediately had good feelings about the car and arranged to take a drive up the next day. Easy enough to persuade my girlfriend as she wanted to go that way anyways because she wanted to have a mooch around Cheshire Oaks anyways which was 7 minutes from the guys house.
We got there around mid day and after a good look round it, underneath, under carpets, inside the engine bay and a nice 20 min test drive (on my own)
I fell in love with it, I pulled back up and as I got out with a massive smile on my face I just remember him saying "don't think I'm coming down any more Zaccy boy" :lol
We went inside, had a cup of tea and as we were signing the log book over, his wife shouted through that she had found the folder he was looking for, she then proceeded to open and empty a folder full of old MOT certs and receipts for various work and parts and if I'm honest it had been well looked over.
After more scrutiny it transpired that for the first 13 years of it's life, it was owned by a wealthy 40 something woman from Derby who had the genius idea of having it professionally undersealed the 2nd year of owning it :thumb2
So here he is on a bit of wasteland the evening it arrived back in Wednesbury
You guys are great and I wouldn't have been able to do it without you
I made the 2 1/2 hour trip up to Ellesmere Port after seeing the car on eBay and ringing a guy called Steve, I remember the day well, I was sitting on the arm of an arm chair on a grey Friday evening looking outside through the window looking at the pissing down rain bouncing off the cars on my girlfriends drive and thinking how much I hate my crappy 1.8TDDi Focus :doh
It was up for £1100 and I talked him down to £900 on the phone after a 40 min conversation of what felt like a catchup with an old friend. I immediately had good feelings about the car and arranged to take a drive up the next day. Easy enough to persuade my girlfriend as she wanted to go that way anyways because she wanted to have a mooch around Cheshire Oaks anyways which was 7 minutes from the guys house.
We got there around mid day and after a good look round it, underneath, under carpets, inside the engine bay and a nice 20 min test drive (on my own)
I fell in love with it, I pulled back up and as I got out with a massive smile on my face I just remember him saying "don't think I'm coming down any more Zaccy boy" :lol
We went inside, had a cup of tea and as we were signing the log book over, his wife shouted through that she had found the folder he was looking for, she then proceeded to open and empty a folder full of old MOT certs and receipts for various work and parts and if I'm honest it had been well looked over.
After more scrutiny it transpired that for the first 13 years of it's life, it was owned by a wealthy 40 something woman from Derby who had the genius idea of having it professionally undersealed the 2nd year of owning it :thumb2
So here he is on a bit of wasteland the evening it arrived back in Wednesbury
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