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OMG, I had a PT Cruiser, sliver, do not know why I bought it, but I did like it, the back seats came out totally and you could fit a double mattress in the space, great space for the dogs, but did it like petrol, you could all most see the gauge dropping, very heavy body.
I sold it to a man who worked at a car museum down Palmerston North way, he wanted it for his daughter's wedding, flew to Auckland and drove it back, the reason he was interested was because I had put in the ad that it had nitrogen in the tyres, he believed that if someone did that they must have looked after the car.
Gosh Popeye small world, you mentioning that car, I do not think about it, but I often reminisce about the mini's I owned, maybe because I had so much with them
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Thats it Kazza and GJW..
Wow I dont like heavy gas guzzlers so perhaps it was good we never got one. Mind you would be handy if going on trips and you needed a nap lol
For a while my Anglia didn't have a front left seat. I took it out when I used to do rural newspaper deliveries.. it just made it easier lol.
Time to do some painting.
They told me I couldn't, so I did.!!
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(5 hours ago)Oh_hunnihunni Wrote: (7 hours ago)Lilith7 Wrote: Only twice have I ever understood the thing some people have about cars.
When I was a kid - back in the dim dark ages - & lived in the country, our neighbours were a wealthy retired couple who'd been farmers. She imported a baby Jaguar car - gorgeous thing, all white with red leather seats - & gave every kid a ride around the block in it; we all thought we were the cat's pyjamas. 
And many years later, I was in town walking past a shop & happened to glance in their window - & there was a red Ferrarri! Which I immediately fell in love with, whipped out my camera to take a photo only to find I'd run out of film. No idea what kind it was but I remember the motor could be seen through the back window.
It was more like a piece of sculpture than a car.
I am pretty sure my love of Jags is genetic. My grandfather had one, an s type in peach, brand new off the boat in the late fifties, with walnut dash and cream leather seats. He put a Haeger panther in the rear window.
We were not allow to touch anything in that car. On pain of one of his looks. Which btw, were quite terrifying, lol.
My fabric painting fun suggests splodges are harder to do than one might think, but the underside of the duvet is rough painted pink stripes and those are so much easier to do. So pink stripes it is...
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That doesn't look too bad at all.
Yes, this jag had that lovely walnut dash & it smelled lovely, probably the new leather seats.
Did a bit more digging, lucky I did as I noticed that all that ivy pruning had caused two palings to fall into neighbours yard, no clue where he is so blocked it up with what i could find because Madame le Dog was looking at it rather too carefully for my liking.
in order to be old & wise, you must first be young & stupid. (I'm still working on that.)
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Mercury bill this month - $119. That's with no heat pump. I might actually go turn it off at the switch now, and save that little drain of power. I like that it is continuing downwards though... And I LOVE staying in credit after it hits. Might be my Scottish genes, might be my Mum's budgeting lessons!
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