How much did it really cost?

I am with Softly on this one,

many moons ago I bought a compass for the speedboat, she was OK with the boat?
in Court hearings she brought that up, (1979) [10 years after the purchase]

been single ever since.
And no-one will ever find out what my Trophy has really cost me 'so far; and still planning, no-one:

Spare wheels and tyres added today, [still need one black wheel folks]

My '98 MK1 F cost me £1k to buy just over 2 years ago. I have spent another £2k + on wheels, exhaust, Pipercross induction and practically an entire interior change.

Eyebrows were initially raised when one parcel after another started arriving (it's hard to sneek doorcards, seats, exhausts etc past SWMBO).

However, once I pointed out that I could have bought and modded 3 cars for what her last car cost the point hasn't been raised again

I think my exact words were "I could buy and run 3 of these for what your cr*pheap cost" :oops:

My wife knows what the purchase price of the car was. As for the parcels that show up full
of parts we operate on a "Don't Ask-Don't Tell" basis, although if they appear too frequently I get THE LOOK!
Of course, she has no idea what my E-Bay feedback count is! :omg:

I have a postman step dad so can filter parcels before SWMBO knows about it...... very good or sometimes get things to work wink wink looks a bit funny when the boss sees a massive parcel they must think I'm a terrorist with the amount of parcels that go in and out of my office

I think SWMBO has given up asking!!

Ex : "Those seats look nice"
Me : "Yep, got them yesterday!"
Ex : "Must've cost a bit"
Me : "Nope, the guys laptop blew up, so I rebuilt it and he paid me with those!"

It was kind of hard to use the same excuse when the Toyosports manifold landed on the doorstep

sniperpenguin wrote: Ex : "Those seats look nice"
Me : "Yep, got them yesterday!"
Ex : "Must've cost a bit"
Me : "Nope, the guys laptop blew up, so I rebuilt it and he paid me with those!"

It was kind of hard to use the same excuse when the Toyosports manifold landed on the doorstep

lol I always use the excuse well the whole leather interior only cost £115 but now I can sell the old so it wont really cost that much lol

I always find something to offset the cost lol

Hmm now with my better half owning a trophy, I don't suppose anything will get past her - that's when I can actually stop spending money getting the Damn thing fixed... Then take her out... Then buy flowers... Hang on, no money left haha

That is what I like about these cars you can do most of the work yourself :broon:

bensewell wrote: That is what I like about these cars you can do most of the work yourself :broon:

Some of you can, the others rely on those that can to help them, or mechanics with a fetish for older blondes

As for how much I have spent on Madam, I stopped adding it up at 5 grand

I dont fib about the price just sometimes buy stuff and store it away though :lol: like spoiler in the attic :lol:

I now have a weird image of Tracey as Squirrel Nutkin!