The Obsession begins

What happens when your 10 year old people carrier starts to get flaky and you have to look for a new car.

In my case it was a trip to the Ford dealer to look at the sensible cars for a family of 5.

We settled on the ford  B Max, 1.4 Zetec....very practical , sensible choice, reliable, economical, comfortable...but not much fun.

A conversation with the wife reminiscing about the fun days of my MGB GT, Mazda MX5 and Beetle convertible ended with her uttering a sentence that reaffirmed the reasons that I married her.....

"Why don't you get yourself an old sports car"

The Obsession was born! 

When I was 15 I loved the spitfire, it looked cool to my teenage eyes but when I turned 17 it was too much to buy and I opted for a Mini. A few years later and my sister in Law, at that time my brothers girlfriend, was getting rid of a MGB GT I bought it and the Spitfire faded into the background.

But now a lot older, cheap insurance the only benefit of getting older, the dream was relit. We fired up the Ipad and headed for Ebay, after looking at number of ad's we came to the conclusion that most were either a "Project car" or fully restored and and so expensive. However one ad stood out. Lots of bodywork done so it was not a rust bucket , but at a reasonable price.

Got in contact with the seller and arranged to go down to Dorset to have a look. Was feeling very positive so got a one way train ticket. Had already discussed with him that if I liked it we would do deal that day and agreed to do a bank transfer for the funds.

Saw the car and it had great body work, Had a drive and decided to buy. agreed the price, managed to get £500 off advertised price and did the transfer..........1 hr later no funds in his bank, 2 hrs later no funds, rang bank.

First time payments can take up to 24hrs to go through. Got the bank to talk to seller and confirm all details of the transfer and he let me drive away with the car.

Drive home was great, 70 mph on motorway no problem, 3 hrs later back on my drive.

Welcome to your new Home 76 Spitfire