It doesn't actually have any petrol in it at the moment.

Dave, you ever heard of the saying *a fool and his money are soon parted*?

Well call me a fool if you like I bought my 96P 20vt from auction for £20k in Feb 97 saving myself about £4.5k and side-stepping the 6 month waiting list (yes, can you believe it, a waiting list for a Fiat ) I wasn't ready to buy really, I was going to wait a few years, but I'd seen a Porto Blue one at a dealer and liked the colour and when this ex-Fiat UK press car came up at the auction launch of the Alfa GTV and Spider, I just had to have it...

So assuming it's worth say £4k now (no idea really, don't care either ) that's a little over £1.5k per year depreciation (ignoring interest on the original £20k) and I think that's really excellent value for money, so there

I paid a tad under 19 grand for mine in 1995 - metallic paint and sunroof options - and so far it's depreciated all the way down to £178 (which is what I paid for it from the insurers).

Which is under two grand a year.

There was a waiting list even then; ordered it in May and didn't get it until October

A ten grand ford would have depreciated to zero in, what, five years?

Dave, Dave, Dave, Dave, you misunderstood, I meant if you offered the Northerner £2.60 for his car!

Ah OK, as long as he's not from Yokshire, or Scottish, I'm sure he'd take the £2.60

No actually I think I still misunderstand

You want some of my tablets?

Are they the ones with the ten commandments on? What with you being the law and all that, they must be

No, these aren't the ones handed down by the missus, these are the ones that make all the colours look sparkly and matron gives me them

I like the way Stan has expertly managed to steer this totally off topic

John

Sorry, it was JimO what told me to do it.

not the voices in your head then?