Posted By: aust_powers
Goodbye and thankyou - 19/10/2010 10:42
I had my last journey in the coop yesterday morning to it's final resting place...poweritalia for breaking. It was Strangely emotional as I walked away from the car knowing that it really began life at poweritalia and was ending at the same place 4 and a half year later.
As I looked back I had a flashback over the 4 years, rewind to the beginning, Rog basically resurrected this car from the badly knocking engine with a virtually brand new unit and made the car seem as good as new. Over the years it has been the most frustrating, annoying, fiddly, unpredicatble exciting fun car I have owned, but It was never less than an event everytime I pressed the blipper and opened to door reveal the yellow strip that encompassed the dash. It never felt like a 90's car more a timeless classic.
Things changed later, but the car was present at important events in my life, I drove it to my wedding day, it took me to southampton to our cruise for our honeymoon,It transported me to my new job 80 miles a day everyday for a year,it transported most of the small items(and some of the big ones) to our first purchased house together, it took us on our last holiday together before we became parents. It didn't let me down when I had to rush my wife to hospital in labour, and it brought my baby boy home from the hospital safe and sound.
I didn't really want to let it go, but I drive two other people to work in a diesel 406 and couldn't justify having a 3 car family. Head had to rule heart.
I just want to thank Rog at Poweritalia for keeping the car sorted for me over the years, and to the the forum for answering any annoying questions I have had over that time!
I will still read the forum with interest and hopefully get hold of another car in the future if cirumstances change.
Take care
Austin
As I looked back I had a flashback over the 4 years, rewind to the beginning, Rog basically resurrected this car from the badly knocking engine with a virtually brand new unit and made the car seem as good as new. Over the years it has been the most frustrating, annoying, fiddly, unpredicatble exciting fun car I have owned, but It was never less than an event everytime I pressed the blipper and opened to door reveal the yellow strip that encompassed the dash. It never felt like a 90's car more a timeless classic.
Things changed later, but the car was present at important events in my life, I drove it to my wedding day, it took me to southampton to our cruise for our honeymoon,It transported me to my new job 80 miles a day everyday for a year,it transported most of the small items(and some of the big ones) to our first purchased house together, it took us on our last holiday together before we became parents. It didn't let me down when I had to rush my wife to hospital in labour, and it brought my baby boy home from the hospital safe and sound.
I didn't really want to let it go, but I drive two other people to work in a diesel 406 and couldn't justify having a 3 car family. Head had to rule heart.
I just want to thank Rog at Poweritalia for keeping the car sorted for me over the years, and to the the forum for answering any annoying questions I have had over that time!
I will still read the forum with interest and hopefully get hold of another car in the future if cirumstances change.
Take care
Austin