Here’s mine

A TVR Vixen. I bought one of these about 15 years ago and it was my only car. It’s condition wasn’t good and it needed more work than I realised/had the money for/could cope with.
Luckily I managed to sell it on after a few months and didn’t lose too much – lesson learnt.
Looking at the picture I now remember why I wanted one!

A pair of electrostatic speakers bloody huge they were. Got them home and obviously I was happy as larry however my wife was not best pleased with two 6ft tall monoliths in the lounge.

They went after around two months of relentless comments.

An engagement ring

and the winner is… iDave

Most of what I own.

Many expensive camera lenses… An electronic drum kit…

[list]New Labour. ’97… 🙄

Realised it on the morning after, when I heard Blair say (in that glottal-stoppy Fettes voice of his) “It is a new dawn, is it not?” Oh dear. Oh dear oh dear oh dear.

A mountain bike. I thought I’d spend a couple of hundred quid, play on it occasionally and that would be it. How deeply wrong I was…

Adidas Lendl Court

Bought them aged 15 a size bigger than I needed afer saving up for ages. The logic being that I would grow into them.

I didn’t.

Expensive clown shoes. 😐

Not so much “bought” as it was given to me last week. The result is still the same, I’m still in the dog house!

Perfect for getting some riding experience though!

I had a pair of those Harry. Mine fitted, though…

I’m still in the dog house!

Sort those borders out and you’ll be back in favour…

it was given to me

How come I’m never on the recieving end of this kind of thing? I must have the wrong friends 🙁

Matt

Pretty much every car I’ve bought in the last year (5)

A Canon 5D Mk II. I treated myself, thinking it was going to rekindle my enthusiasm for photography, but it ended up not being used much because my little point’n’shoot is enough camera for me, and that made me feel really guilty.

So I’ve just sold it and am going to buy another bike with the proceeds instead. That will get used. 😀

where’s hora and his forks when you need him…

I bought one of these in SE Asia, turned out not to be quite what i expected

bought or rented?

Maverick ML-8. Too big a bike for 99% of the riding I do.

bought or rented?

Bought, then got into huge paypal wrangles as the product was not described. But then complications about whether omitting to mention certain ‘design features’ is the the same as mis(s)-describing.

I had recently moved onto our road by 2 weeks, however I came home drunk and marched up and down the street playing a reveille at 4am in the morning. Bedroom lights were flicked on up and down the road with neighbours wondering what the hell was going on then enter stage left my irritated girlfriend who then gives me a bollocking in full veiw of everyone.

a tune like this

wwaswas – Member
where’s hora and his forks when you need him…

Hora started typing his response a while ago, ran out of space on here so printed it out instead….

😉

{edit} – the books are now for sale, as he decided he didn’t like the colour of the binding.

A MKII Hyundai coupe.

It looked alright and went fast enough, handled brilliantly but it wasn’t that fast and could get through a gallon of petrol in under ten miles if driven with vigour. Sold it after 9 months.

Oh, and I recently bought a load of new motorcyle gear only to be told at the last minute by my wife that no way would she accept having me riding a motorcycle.

Sharkbait – I still have my TVR Vixen S2, which I bought 10 years ago, doesn’t get used as much as it should. Going to sell my track car so I have more time and money to spend on the Vixen

Nice one 🙂 I wasn’t sure many people knew they even existed!
Mine was an S3, does the S2 have the 1600 engine as well?

Thesurfbus – i’m about to take the plunge on a track car – what’s yours?

Lovely.

Old cars are *great* toys – but *shite* transport. The older the greater the shiter.

You’ve got a bike, right? Buy another Vixen. The bike will always start on cold winter mornings.

The cheap 1970 Porsche 911T Sportmatic, that ‘only’ needed an end to end exhaust. Then the transmission started failing, and the necessary spares weren’t available. Sold as a basket case….

An alfa gt junior with a bit of rust, impulsively bought for restoration.
The mechanic at the alfa specialist jacked it up on the hoist, then walked up and down the underside poking it with a screwdriver, covering the floor with pounds of rust. Again, I ended up selling it for spares.

Sharkbait – Yeah, its got a 1660cc Xflow, BVH, Lumpy Cam, Twin 40’s etc.
My TVR
fadda – Its a Sylva Phoenix
My Phoenix

Can’t seem to post the videos, but the links should work

Few years ago, I was unusually flush, so went and bought a spensive watch. On the way home, I thought ‘wtf am I doing wasting money on a bit of jewellery?’ Took it back the next day and got a refund. Fortunately. Very silly thing to do. Bin more than happy with a cheapo dijital since. 🙂

Took a punt on some shares this morning…what a dull way to lose 28% of my money!!
Oh well, high risk is just that!

DrP

A tube ticket to Kelvinbridge…..

Bought a sax a couple of years back, started learning to play it and not finding it as easy as I thought it would be, then crashed in Morzine and broke my ribs. That was the end of the sax playing. Its still sitting in the house, unused in nearly 2 years.

A Ford Smax and a caravan. 🙁

A tube ticket to Kelvinbridge…..

There is no such station on the Tube network, so yes, you probbly shoon’t have bought the ticket. 😐

Did you buy it off some shifty-looking character in a dingy pub or something?

You’ve bin proper knocked there mate! 😆

A car I wanted but didn’t need about six months ago!! Luckily he gave me back my deposit, pretty fair bloke for saying it was a main dealer!!!

This, I was going through a bit of a stage of blingo at the time, didn’t last long… some builderbloke ran a forklift into the side of it and wrote it off.. Lucky me.

500 quids worth of a drug research company based in Cambridge that proceeded to relist itself on several exchanges until it was worth nothing. Got a lesson out of it.

Elfin – there is more than one tube system in the UK. Kelvinbridge is a station on the Glasgow underground. My now missus lived close to there…

An X-Box – never gets turned on