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Old Jul 29, 2004 | 10:12 PM
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I've never understood how some people afford to run their cossies and that when shit keep braking and they just pile thousands into them.

Do you save up and have a load spare "just in case" or are you all just minted???
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Old Jul 29, 2004 | 10:13 PM
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i go out with a rich bird
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Old Jul 29, 2004 | 10:13 PM
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I put limits on the amount i spend on it....................................but that soon goes out the window

Put it this way, My Misses has got a fucking lot of shoes
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Old Jul 29, 2004 | 10:14 PM
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i just struggle along skint every day but love every minute of it!
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Old Jul 29, 2004 | 10:14 PM
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minted

nah im not, i jus got no bills and dont save any money, all my cash gets wasted on cars, clothes, and going out on the piss/pull
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Old Jul 29, 2004 | 10:16 PM
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I never saw a wage packet, just went straight into my car

Thats why i'm now driving an Audi

I must have put 10k into that turbo of mine over 4 years, not much of that went on the engine . FOREVER fucking up and just rotting before my eyes

Hence why im driving this and saving up for something decent and turbocharged


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Old Jul 29, 2004 | 10:17 PM
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See, I was stupid enough to take out a huge loan to buy my cossie and pay the old queen off what I owed her. I paid too much for my cossie, broke it and the cah i was supposed to give the old queen went on clothes, beer and driveshafts.

Now I am stuck with a huge debt looming over me, 2 fucked cars and hardly any cash left over each month.

I think a bank job is on the cards
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Old Jul 29, 2004 | 10:17 PM
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I go to work and have done so for a LONG TIME !
try runing 2 then, i do and the misses loves driving it all the time

cheeRS DUNC
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Old Jul 29, 2004 | 10:19 PM
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i do all my own repairs and maintenance so its only really parts i pay for
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Old Jul 29, 2004 | 10:20 PM
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I'm fecking piss poor and it's taken me this long (23) jsut to get a proper working S1.... If it goes wrong now I'm fucked
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Old Jul 29, 2004 | 10:24 PM
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there's only one way to own and drive 2 cars; work hard, very hard !
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Old Jul 29, 2004 | 10:24 PM
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Old Jul 29, 2004 | 10:25 PM
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I can affrod to buy a cossie but not run one so I have an RS2K insetad
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Old Jul 29, 2004 | 10:27 PM
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i sell my body

dont really spend that much on the car, well i hadnt but ive had to get things sorted for the impending britball

cheers.........matt
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Old Jul 29, 2004 | 10:28 PM
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Originally Posted by TIFF-C20WTH
I put limits on the amount i spend on it....................................but that soon goes out the window

Put it this way, My Misses has got a fucking lot of shoes
Hmmmm now that sounds familair !!!............

Oh and become a WEEKEND MECHANIC !!

Al...
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Old Jul 29, 2004 | 10:33 PM
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Get married buy a house have kids buy the missis a car buy a normal car buy everthing you fooking need

Been waiting ten years before i could get the cosworth could of bought one years ago but if i got one then i sure i would not of had any money left to buy a house etc..
it`s hard to save if you own a cossie

so got everything i needed before

BEST TIP OF ALL HIDE YOUR MONEY FROM THE MISSES

just order brakes alloys and tyres cost almost Ł3000 grand
Don`t tell the misses

PS. I only use the cosy now and then must cost loads if it`s your only car and you drive it everyday
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Old Jul 29, 2004 | 10:40 PM
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Originally Posted by DOO
BEST TIP OF ALL HIDE YOUR MONEY FROM THE MISSES
Get a good paying job

Seperate bank accounts

Watch what you spend, when you do spend make sure its on the right car and the right bits for that car.

Prey it dont go wrong or blow up
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Old Jul 29, 2004 | 10:40 PM
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student loan pays for mine!

seriously - student loan pays for me to survive & i work bloody hard in the summer to afford my car!

thankfully first year of insurance is over and i'm never spending that much again on it! now i have a little more money to plough into the engine!
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Old Jul 29, 2004 | 10:42 PM
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doing this and that
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Old Jul 29, 2004 | 10:49 PM
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I drive a 1.3 escort at the moment and its a fuckin nightmare, full of problems ....lol
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Old Jul 29, 2004 | 10:51 PM
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I could afford to buy it I can afford to insure it I can afford to put petrol in it

But if it breaks - I'm fooked!!
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Old Jul 29, 2004 | 10:53 PM
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Originally Posted by DOO
just order brakes alloys and tyres cost almost Ł3000 grand
Must be good brakes
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Old Jul 29, 2004 | 11:01 PM
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Originally Posted by YUM360
Get rid of the nagging girlfriend
or get yourself a rich girlfriend like i did

ugly as fook bud very rich
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Old Jul 29, 2004 | 11:05 PM
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i work on my own cars, not only that i was in collage for 5 years doing mechanics and body spraying so i can earn more on the weekend, i could take more just on the weekend than i can in the week if i get the work from other peaple. i have a shit paid job only Ł5 an hour

do to a bitch of an ex girlfreind i cant put in amounts as she works in the tax office.
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Old Jul 29, 2004 | 11:09 PM
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Originally Posted by BARRY EVANS
i could take in about Ł000 just on the weekend
that's a lot of money mate
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Old Jul 29, 2004 | 11:13 PM
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yea like i say cant tel you the amount as my ex works for the tax office she is allready. trying to catch me doing work on the side.
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Old Jul 29, 2004 | 11:16 PM
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just go out there and kick her ass mate


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Old Jul 29, 2004 | 11:21 PM
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is that post better ????????

she made my life hell mate been single for 2 years it did take 4 months to get rid of her, she kept saying if i got rid of her she will grass me up for doing alot of cars over weekends and selling them.

she was also full of bull shit mate.
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Old Jul 29, 2004 | 11:25 PM
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some* women are real bitches innit?



*read most
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Old Jul 29, 2004 | 11:37 PM
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yea your not wrong there mate.
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Old Jul 29, 2004 | 11:56 PM
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When i'm skint i drive the S2 like yer granny just incase as i need it for work and the most advanced thing i could do to my car is change the oil or maybe brakes

When i get paid or have a wee bit extra i go baiting on the A roads

And once a year i spend a few hundred on this and that (mainly welding) to make it legal
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Old Jul 30, 2004 | 12:00 AM
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I crash cars and the fall out from them pays to buy them....

Then I crash them and my job pays for fixing em.

I have very little out goings, I drive everywhere and thus dont drink a lot.. but I do go out a lot.

I do most of the stuff my self and I'm not scared to do stuff- except tuning which Karl does.
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Old Jul 30, 2004 | 12:01 AM
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just work hard and do every bit of overtime i can get, always thinking of how to make more money
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Old Jul 30, 2004 | 07:37 AM
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How do you lot afford fast cars????
I can't!

Which is why it's sitting on my brother's driveway SORN'd, un-insured, un-taxed, un-mot'd with 4 flat, bald tyres and some skanky looking rims
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Old Jul 30, 2004 | 07:40 AM
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When my cossie needed bits i spent the same on Kaz as well, except when i got my new engine but have just bought her a 5 day trip to New york in Dec xmas shopping so i can spend on my RST and get it ready to be tracked and sold
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Old Jul 30, 2004 | 07:43 AM
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Just bought a RST and a house..... proper fucked, i can't afford to eat but got the choice of 2 fast cars to drive

I'm Lucky Kim is into cars.....she helps me waste any money i have left each month on them

Plus i do some of the work myself and the rest of the time i get my mates to do the work for me (Ford and Audi Mechanics)
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Old Jul 30, 2004 | 07:50 AM
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i dont thrash me cossie like i did me s2, need it for work everyday. Now got a very understanding girlfriend who lends me her car when mine brakes!! Got fook all money but i still think my cossie's worth it, just hate it when it goes wrong as i no fook all about fixing them!!! Just get another credit card.......
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Old Jul 30, 2004 | 07:52 AM
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I work very hard, and my misses knows how much i love my rst (sad bastard i know) it is in for it's final re-build and a full restoration and this is it for this perticular bloody car

Oh and like a few have said thing of ways to make more money

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