Tomorrow, to Reading...

[xvivalve]

...with the transporter.

[Mahesh]

Sounds like interesting returns.

[xvivalve]

[Pippin]

What colour is that? Iron oxide brown?

[xvivalve]

Don't laugh, it's only the paint that is holding the form together!

There is not one panel worth saving on the car!!

[Jon Tilson]

That's looking like one expensive o-d box then...

Have given Mr Poth a heads up on the headlight bowls....

Jonners

[xvivalve]

I paid nowhere near the asking price.

[Jon Tilson]

Fuel costs for the Alfa, and wear and tear....trailer hire or wear and tear...time.....

storage costs and time and materials on breaking it...

Gosh am I becoming like my mrs...?

You love it...so why not...that's more like it.

Jonners

[xvivalve]

Last year that Alfa only did 500 miles between MoTs, which means in tax and insurance terms alone it cost me just over £1/mile. A 200 mile return trip in one day therefore will hopefully help reduce that cost for the current year.

I own the trailer, it cost me £400 about 10 years ago. It has cost me another £100 for tyres and wheel nut/studs subsequently. Every time I use the trailer, its cost per use reduces and justifies why I don't sell it.

The five hours it took me to collect it was valuable 'down time' that with current work load would likely not have otherwise taken.

I now know the location of a partly laid up '78 Inca Sprint.

All in all a productive day.

[cliftyhanger]

Hobbies on paper look poor in terms of time and money. But what they do for your wellbeing is amazing. And that is difficult to value.....

[SprintMWU773V]

That's the tattiest car I've seen for some time. A day out is a day though.

[Jon Tilson]

Love it.....
We need more people who think like Alun and less who think like Mrs T.....

Jonners