GMan is 17, and so can now apply for, and hopefully get, his motor car learners license. SO, while he's waiting for the bureaucratic, corrupt, red tape to move him up the waiting list, he's frantically helping me to find him a car! he knows that the budget is tight, and I need to minimise my expense, but he also wont just drive anything!
hell, when I bought my first car (I bought it), all I had was a budget. I would have bought and driven anything! Be that as it may, we also didn't have peer pressure, and labels......
So, Saturday morning saw me and the princess off to Pretoria, Valhalla to be exact to view a Golf III, GSX 1.8. From the pic, looked good. From my chat with the owner, sounded ok. From my final annalisys, and inspection, it's a piece of shit!
Leather seats - yea - used to be. Have been recovered by a blind, armless, homeless person with "imitation leather"!
Motor runs well - yea - once you get it started, oh, and he does not know whay all thise wires are hanging there, what they are for, and no, he's not sure the engine parts are all there. (I noticed some parts were remodeled from non-VW parts.....)
Just replaced the tyres, - yup, with what would normally pass as "These tyres have been scrapped" "Not suitable for retreading...."
Mags - ok, so in some towns, like maybe in the South, those things are mags.....
Original paint job - it shows
All round good condition - yup - that it was - 5 years ago.
Anyway, I got to have a nice quite personal breakfast with the Princess, something we haven't done for a long time, AND WE GOT TO WASTE 4 HOURS OF OUR DAY.
So, and RSA based readers out there wanting to sell a small, reliable car, cheap, send me a note.
Salagatle!
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