beautiful 340 vario

Post by **redline** » 26 Jul 2005 10:02 am

no, hes the lead singer of Style council isn't he ( oh god showing my age again LOL ) the car looks amazing for the money, well done for not letting Hugh win it , that alone would have greatly reduced its life on the road. welcome to the club , I was in Clacton a couple of weeks ago , was the car at a volvo garage in Frinton on sea ?

Post by **paulwelle72** » 26 Jul 2005 11:35 am

No the car was at an independant car sales place, and up until saturday night, tucked around the back out of sight of public (too old to be on show amongst his 'respectable' cars (his words not mine))

Post by **SteveP** » 26 Jul 2005 12:21 pm

paulwelle72 wrote: tucked around the back out of sight of public (too old to be on show amongst his 'respectable' cars (his words not mine))

Well for that, It would've been rather funny for you to drive off in the vario after a few taps on the starter from his place

Post by **paulwelle72** » 26 Jul 2005 12:29 pm

Well for that, It would've been rather funny for you to drive off in the vario after a few taps on the starter from his place

Yeah I should have realy, just to see his face drop..........

Post by **foggyjames** » 26 Jul 2005 01:12 pm

paulwelle72 wrote:out of sight of public (too old to be on show amongst his 'respectable' cars (his words not mine))

Let me guess...3 year old French hatchbacks which won't last half as long as the average 300

Of all of Paul WELLER's bands, you would pick the most obscure Mick

cheers

James

Post by **redline** » 26 Jul 2005 01:14 pm

by obscure you mean best I take it LOL

Post by **Chris_C** » 27 Jul 2005 07:46 pm

paulwelle72 wrote:No the car was at an independant car sales place, and up until saturday night, tucked around the back out of sight of public (too old to be on show amongst his 'respectable' cars (his words not mine))

Hmm, surprisingly, the same was said about the one I bought 4 1/2 years ago, and thats taken me over 40k with very little spent on it (well.... spent on it's workings... maybe a tad more on 'refinements'

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Post by **paulwelle72** » 27 Jul 2005 11:26 pm

This isnt the first one I have had, it is actually the third.

The first one was a very early one (cant remember the year) but it was bright yellow, and an absolute dog, nothing worked properly on it, so I brought another, this time a nice blue D reg one, this was an absolute dream, 1.7 leccy windows etc, and what happens..........

Some T*&T in a range rover complete with bull bars decided to use the back of it as a brake, (police estimate his speed at between 40-50, Missus was driving at the time and had our 2 kids in it (have 4 kids now) and I can honestly say, although it was a total loss, I am sure it at least saved them from serious injury, if not saved thier lives.

I was even still able to drive it home, although it obviously had no back lights left.

Paul

Post by **5lab** » 28 Jul 2005 07:32 am

bright yellow must be the 343 era.. something like

the rear protection of a 300 is quite good - my dad was rearended in his old 300 by a car doing 50mph (we were doing 10) - massive impact but the car was still driveable..

Post by **paulwelle72** » 30 Jul 2005 12:09 am

Yeah that was the colour. only it had a nice quantity of brown spots as well, RUST.........