January is OVER and the entire country can breathe a huge sign of relief. We’ve into February now, the days are getting longer, it’s almost warm enough to go outside and the faint of the six cylinders of summer is just just starting to crank into life somewhere on the not too distant horizon.
It was a fun broadcast last night, it was really nice to hear all your stories about how your January has been. We have broken relationships, broken cars, broken bodies, new cars (some of which are already broken), new babies (which hopefully aren’t broken) and more, but my favourite answer to ‘How was your January was this one:
‘Meh. I managed to get a kebab the other day so that was good’
31 days of rubbish but it’s all ok if you can just get a kebab. Brilliant British thinking.
I’ve got a few RIPs to list, if you said you have lost friends and relatives then you have my condolences, and as this is a car page, I should also mention the Alfa Romeo and Volvo V70 which have also been cruelly taken from us too soon thanks to careless drivers. I know you’re going to read that and say ‘he put more effort into the car obitiuaries than the people’ and you’re right. Cars are easier to deal with than people, which is why I bury my head in the classifieds and not my own broken brain. I know you’re all the same!
There was no bible study last night, sorry about that, but there was some talk of Church Camp, and a pretty amusing story that I’ll call Nanny Sue and The Great Big Fire. Oddly enough the publishers said it wasn’t appropriate as a Biff and Chip book due to all the swearing.
When we finally got down to it, after the Wifey killed the Wifi when I was already running late, it was Bob Mortimer who ran away with the Gold Star and chose the BMW, amidst some superb Geoff Buys Cars suspense. Second in line was Micky (not the mouse), who was using Facebook under a fake name which meant 6 people claimed to be him before he fought them all off, ended up on top of the pile and did indeed confirm that he knows where he lives.
Following the two ‘real’ car giveaways there was a Hot Wheels Volvo 850 which Chris secured, followed by a bizarre moment when the 25 people still watching demanded that I give away the large metal Chameleon / Gecko which was hanging on the dog guard of the V70. I duly obliged and previous Geoff winner Frazer Donald channeled the correct vibes and will be getting a chameleon through the letter box.
The next day and under the cold, harsh light of the morning, Micky Mouse got in touch to say he was only in it for the BMW and didn’t even realise there was a booby prize. Apparently I don’t send enough emails….
Whether he wants the car or not is the next question… If the Shiply fee to get the car to him is half the value of the vehicle, it might be up for sale. Any offers on a Garnet Red Volvo V70 2.5? Get in touch with me and I’ll hook you up with Micky Mouse.
Lots of cool stuff is coming up, but I’m resisting the temptation to keep my foot pinned to the floor and plough headlong into the next one, because that’s when I do stupid things like cover a perfectly good Volvo in Fast and Furious stickers, rendering it completely unsellable, and even un-giveaway-able.
On that note, I have managed to palm it off on someone, and in true Geoff style obviously he’s called Paul. So Paul Trueman (well known on the YouTube channel from the Saab and Volvo V70 swap) is swapping me BACK the green V70 and he’s taking the Slow and Spacious Volvo 850 as he wants an automatic.
So I bought a green Volvo, swapped it with Paul for a blue Saab then swapped a Silver Volvo with Paul to have the green Volvo back. Capiche?!
The best bit? He’s keeping the stickers on the 850.
So, that leads me into the ‘cars currently for sale’ section:
- Volvo V70 2.0 10v Manual in Green, 7 seats – £1600 ono click here
- Volvo V70 2.5 20v Auto in Garnet Red, 7 seats – £1000 ono click here
Coming up next is my very first Alfa Romeo, and it’s going to be a Quickie with Geoff and His Small One.
By Geoff standards it is a pretty small car, but it’s also damn cool. It’s red, it’s got the right wheels on, it’s MOT’d and on the road and coming from a serial car collector.
The collection is private so I can’t tell you about it, but I was sent a screenshot of the list of cars and it’s ridiculous. I dread to think what the array of electrical faults and non-starters are like in a collection of 30 French and Italian exotics (and by exotics I mean fairly humdrum stuff from the 1990s, not supercars, obviously), but anyone who owns more than 1 Alfa Romeo 166 has a problem, anyone who owns more than 10 is something else entirely…
That’s it for now, and for a couple of days, thanks so much for the ongoing support and keep me posted on what’s going on in your car life.
If I’ve forgotten anything or anyone… Well, that’d be about normal wouldn’t it.