Yesterday, I took the day off and took a drive over to that Swansea.
That’s a long and boring journey, I can tell you.
Took us over fours to get there (with a pitstop halfway) and similar to get back.
The reason for my visit to Taffyland? To buy a car.
Not for me, but for Son.
Due to the extortionate insurance costs for someone his age (and gender) he’s limited to what he can afford to buy.
The make and model of car that he was looking at came in a 59 BHP version. That puts it in a Group 1 insurance category – the cheapest (although we are still looking at a couple of grand there). The next level up was 94 BHP, which puts it way up into Group 9… adding almost a thousand pounds to the premium!
Obviously, for this reason, Group 1 cars are very popular with new drivers and when a secondhand one goes on sale, it gets snapped up pretty quickly. We missed several opportunities.
So, when this one came up, we immediately slapped a 24hr reserve on it and hightailed it down the M4.
Took it for a test drive. Liked it. Bought it.
It’s a little bit more expensive than what he was looking for, but it’s low mileage and in almost-new condition.
Hopefully, it should last him a good few years.
And is it that there Shkoda? Nice car, if so. If originally registered in the Swansea area, it’s probably been well looked after and done lowish miles for exactly the same reason it took you so long to get there and back. But yes, insurance eh? Tsk.
It is.
Years ago, wouldn’t have looked at one, but now that VW own ’em, they’re pretty good cars.
Quite a long way back.. Did you had any radio contact
Nah. Put a couple of calls out on S20, but nothing.
There was, however, a very active repeater… but I didn’t have the CTCSS code, so just listened.