As you're no doubt aware (if you follow housemate Ben's Blog) that Ben and Matthew (he has no memory of events between the years of 1939 to 1945) have been planning a little trip in a couple of crap cars to the Nuremburg ring. When they get there they intend to thrash said crap cars around the ring and then head home. However as I'm the poor sap who gave them this idea I'm going to gate crash the party with one of these...
It's a Rover 820 Coupe and it's huge. Designed for the well-to-do elderly and the dickhead executive this car cost thirty thousand pounds new back in the late nineties but now Rover has gone down the toilet no one wants these petrol swilling, luxury leviathans. This leather interiored beauty is ideal for those long drags along the autobahns and I suspect give Matt and Ben in their Johnny-Foreigner-mobiles a damn good thrashing.... maybe I hope.... Anyway this particular one I found on ebay and at the moment the bidding has only reached twenty one pounds and that is a bargain folks. I secretly and shamefully coverted this car in my early teens and memories of that time were reawakened when watching Jonathan Meades on you tube. If you have not come across Jonathan Meades he's a rum chap who wears dark glasses and delivers clever word play in a flat, monotone voice. He was extolling the vitues of Birmingham or extending a sly dig at the city's expense (I can never be sure which with Meades) whilst driving around in a Rover 800, which at the time of filming was a machine built in Birmingham. If I'm going to gate crash their fun I need to start saving now and that's all my poor cash strapped bank balance needs. Ho-hum one can dream...
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As mighty as my Jap leviathan of a Supra will be, I'm not sure that I'll be able to tow both Matt's piece of Kraut Krap AND your glorious testament to the failure of the British car industry...
Dudes, I could get on my push bike and I'd be more likely to make it to the Nurburgring than you guys.
Suck it!
Yeah whatever Ben. Your Supra is going to disintergrate into a red-brown mist of rust before it gets 200 metres down the road. That "failure of the British car industry" will show you lot up in your Kamikaze Krate and Kraut Krap at the ring. That is if either of you make it there.
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