Tag: cars
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I bought a car for £250.
I bought a car for £250 from Auto Trader. I wanted to know whether it was even possible to buy a car for that sort of price that would start and work (also, it fits the engine size requirements for the Mongol rally… or at least, it did before they revised them again. Fuck it, […]
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Review: Why you need to see The Grand Tour on Amazon Prime
I was left stunned after former Top Gear presenters, Clarkson Hammond and May’s new car show came out today. The first episode of their new show, called ‘The Grand Tour’ (I saw what you did with the title, Jeremy Clarkson), made its debut on Amazon Prime today. We took out a free trial of Prime […]
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Review: We Buy Any Car (why I chose to sell privately despite being out of time)
This is a review of We Buy Any Car, discussing why I sold one car privately and scrapped the other car after trying to use We Buy Any Car. I am writing this on my website because We Buy Any Car has fiddled it so that you have to post an invoice number to review […]
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The Creative Blogger Award
Wow so it’s awards season and I’ve been nominated for The Creative Blogger Award by Brandie at TheStripedCoyote. Thank you so much I am delighted! Rules Thank the person who nominated you and include a link to their blog. Share five facts about yourself. Nominate some bloggers and add their links. Notify the bloggers you […]
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From the ashes… The Rover 75
So today, despite being barely able to stand, I had planned to go to the nearby Big City and look at cars at 2 used car lots. Then we saw a totally inappropriate vehicle that was being sold at the car place nearest my house, that was nothing like what we’d wanted, that nevertheless was […]
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Nine of the Best Dream Cars
It’s Anything Can Happen Thursday, and I want to show you my favourite cars. These are all cars that, for me, defined an era. Cars that make me go all wobbly inside and reach for my purse to check for loose change when I see them on Auto Trader. First up is the iconic Jaguar E […]
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How I converted a Citroen Xsara Picasso into a Campervan
Travel Tuesday: How I Converted A Citroen Xsara Picasso into A People Carrier Campervan Conversion Today I want to talk about ROADHOUSE (my car camper) Have you ever dreamed of owning a car that fits comfortably into a parking bay and STILL lets you sleep in it, stretched out, comfy and flat? That was the […]
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Car Camper Review: The Citroen Xsara Picasso
Reviewed: The Citroen Xsara Picasso Camper Conversion I saw three people walking their dogs in the park last week; there was a sturdy man with a labrador, a young lady with a Jack Russell and a mum with a sausage dog and a pushchair. It struck me how similar dogs and cars can be. I […]
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Vanlife fail: Pimp my ride? How ’bout M.O.T. my Ride…
My Citroen Xsara Picasso Camper Conversion has a minor problem today. In the UK, there’s this pesky thing called an MoT (short for Ministry of Transport, as in, inspection on behalf of the Ministry of Transport) which means you can’t have a car on the road that doesn’t meet some specific criteria. It was actually […]
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