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![]() ![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 17 Feb 01 Posts: 34422 Credit: 79,922,639 RAC: 80 ![]() ![]() |
Oh boy Julie. With each crime and every kindness we birth our future. |
kittyman ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 9 Jul 00 Posts: 51502 Credit: 1,018,363,574 RAC: 1,004 ![]() ![]() |
It just makes me so mad. After only one accident (it was my first), you can't get any more insurance in the whole darn country. The logic in that is hard to find I think... Kid, insurance is like our government over here. They write and rewrite the rules to suit themselves. You option was to seek shelter in the only haven left......the insurance of last resort. I was there about 40 years ago, when I HAD to have insurance just to hold a state issued driver's license. I wuz a bad boy as a kid, and wrecked a dozen or so Buicks. Not kidding. I have posted before about my youth's excesses. I can reprise if you want. Rolled my '64 Olds F85 a few days after the plates came in the mail. Anyway the only logic is that they have you over the barrel, and shall take you for everything they can. "Time is simply the mechanism that keeps everything from happening all at once." ![]() |
![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 30 Aug 08 Posts: 15401 Credit: 7,423,413 RAC: 1 ![]() |
Oh boy Julie. And what he did was put things right that once went wrong, and his only hope, was that his next leap, would be the leap home :) ![]() Member of the People Encouraging Niceness In Society club. ![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 17 Feb 01 Posts: 34422 Credit: 79,922,639 RAC: 80 ![]() ![]() |
I think we can be very happy with out insurances. I only pay €520 a year for a 6 cyl Mondeo. With each crime and every kindness we birth our future. |
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kittyman ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 9 Jul 00 Posts: 51502 Credit: 1,018,363,574 RAC: 1,004 ![]() ![]() |
I pay a bit over $600.00 for my annual insurance premium. About $250.00 of that is for the auto coverage on my '90 Olds Cutlass Ciera. The rest is for my homeowner's policy. My little RX7 is covered for storage only, I pay another couple of hundred if I change it to full coverage to drive it for a few months in the summer. Fun time....LOL. ![]() "Time is simply the mechanism that keeps everything from happening all at once." ![]() |
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![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 29 Sep 99 Posts: 16515 Credit: 4,418,829 RAC: 0 ![]() |
Good to hear you are driving again, Julie, but horrified to hear the price of your insurance. I hope that the No Claims Discount (NCD) builds up rapidly. Like many others here, including Rob, I pay a better rate for full comprehensive and protected no clains. That is the highest vehicle rate offered and I do not lose my 75% NCD is I have a prrang or two, but I expect there would be a limit. Similar to Rob, I run a 3.0 diesel 4 x 4 (not a Landie like him) and my annual insurance charge, including Tax, is £361 ($585 or €447) It's good to be back amongst friends and colleagues ![]() ![]() |
kittyman ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 9 Jul 00 Posts: 51502 Credit: 1,018,363,574 RAC: 1,004 ![]() ![]() |
Nice car, Mark! Yeah, it's a sweet ride. When I had a good job, I put a lotta money into it. The motor, built by Mazdatrix in CA, only has about 15k on it. Shipped here to Wisconsin, and I installed it with the help of one of my best buds, a class A1 import mechanic. Had the rear axle redone a few years ago and had all the posi clutch packs renewed and upped the ratio from the stock 4.00 to 4.10. I had taken a tooth off of the ring gear. The new ratio is just perfect. I've taken the shorts off of a lotta kids in Camaros and Vettes with this one. There are only 1 or 2 other '85s left running about in Wisconsin that I know of. Was a nice white one that I raced a few years back, but the guy wrecked it. I flew to Georgia to buy that car, and drove it home from there. They don't use much road salt in Georgia, so it is rather well preserved. My bud, the mechanic, has always said he is jealous as hell of that car. "Time is simply the mechanism that keeps everything from happening all at once." ![]() |
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kittyman ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 9 Jul 00 Posts: 51502 Credit: 1,018,363,574 RAC: 1,004 ![]() ![]() |
Yeah that darn road salt is a killer for the carrossery, my Ford Fiesta had a lot of rust because of it... The Ford Fiesta was notorious because of it's rust problems. I know a guy that had about 20 of them......he just never wised up...LOL. Every single one of them was a proverbial rust bucket. He used to joke about the fact that he could stick his boots through the floorboards any time the brakes failed. Which they did, often enough. My RX7 has never seen road salt. It stays parked and happy all winter long. "Time is simply the mechanism that keeps everything from happening all at once." ![]() |
![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 29 Sep 99 Posts: 16515 Credit: 4,418,829 RAC: 0 ![]() |
Sheila's Fiesta rusted more and more each year, and it cost more and more to get it through the MOT until ..... ![]() It's good to be back amongst friends and colleagues ![]() ![]() |
![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 29 Sep 99 Posts: 16515 Credit: 4,418,829 RAC: 0 ![]() |
Is it me, a very bright light, or is that the sun? Very close to a Cafe shutdown, fumigate, deep clean and restock of food and vittals. It's good to be back amongst friends and colleagues ![]() ![]() |
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Sorry for the sporadic posting, been working a lot :) Hope you doing good friends. Scorpions - Wind Of Change |
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Is it me, a very bright light, or is that the sun? I better start finishing what's left in the kitchen and bar then :) ![]() Member of the People Encouraging Niceness In Society club. ![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 17 Feb 01 Posts: 34422 Credit: 79,922,639 RAC: 80 ![]() ![]() |
Sheila's Fiesta rusted more and more each year, and it cost more and more to get it through the MOT until ..... I had 2 Fiesta`s I loved them also. With each crime and every kindness we birth our future. |
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Ours was a 4 speed auto, 3 door which we had 11 years until rust underneath took it. The engine was unusual as it was a 1.3 multi fuel injected one, and, according to Ford's literature, nothing under a 1.6 L was used on automatics. Indeed they denied the car existed, but I suspect it was an experimental one. It was as good as a 1.6 l for acceleration, which I thought was unusual ... It's good to be back amongst friends and colleagues ![]() ![]() |
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![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 29 Sep 99 Posts: 16515 Credit: 4,418,829 RAC: 0 ![]() |
Good morning to you Julie, even if it is half way through the afternoon here. The day is still wall-to-wall sunshine, dry, no wind and chilly (3C). Heading for the kitchen shortly to cook tea - grilled Gammon, with a fried egg on it, accompanied by mushrooms gently cooked in butter, and tomatoes and large white bread rolls and butter. It's good to be back amongst friends and colleagues ![]() ![]() |
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