Buckingham Does the Business

Right. So there was a van in Buckingham, BIG money, and I wasn't particularly busy at work this morning...

Ninety minutes later than when I started, up the usual M4/A34/A43 trip familiar to anyone who ends up commuting northwards on a regular basis, I'm at the Buckingham Van Centre. Met by Andy?, who it turns out is a speedway fan, so we have something in common. The van - is great. Clean inside (ok, valeting is cheap), looks genuine, good paint, a bit superficially rusty underneath, bonus towbar and electrics, TAILGATE, stereo... and a metal bulkhead. Not sure about that, but it looks removable with a cold chisel to break the spot welds if required to be removed. Engine starts fine, seems to run ok. Good tyres. What else do you look at? Two owners, a leasing company and a guy local to Buckingham who is a landscape gardener or something, who just traded it for a newer MB Vito. Seems genuine. MOT until November, which isn't as long as I'd like... but I did get £250 off the asking, which was a pretty mickey mouse price in reality, asking for an offer.

So now I'm the proud owner of 1/40th of a VW Transporter 1.9 turbo, since I gave all I had in cash as a deposit. Now for the insurance, tax, blah blah blah. This is getting ridiculous... but I was in a crazy state of mind driving home. The rest of the day was equally insane - but more of that in a totally different blog, maybe one day.