Official BSM photo of the 'happy couple' on the red carpet.
Back home, had some lunch, cleared all the stuff out of the Lancer, and now off to Field's for the last time where it's going to become a courtesy car for folk wot need an automatic.
We could have sold it for slightly more on We Buy Any Car but they were going to scrap it and our Lancer deserves better 'cos:
* it was amazing value when we bought it brand new (£10k)
* we had it for 10.5 years
* it transported us 213, 528 miles
* it was always regularly serviced
* always got through its MOT without incident
* it took Vicky backwards and forwards to work (84 mile round trip) countless times,
in rain, shine, snow and wind
* it has never let us down in all that time despite……..
* an attack by a rogue wheel off a wagon wot bounced over the central reservation on the M5 in the pissing rain as we were driving to Cornwall and smashed into the drivers-side front corner
a few years ago
(nothing a strong cable tie couldn't fix - the drivers window has rattled ever since)
* the bonnet release cable snapped which meant opening the bonnet was always a challenge
* the air-conditioning had gone but, hey, that's wot windows are for
* the Catalytic Converter had gone
* the fan belt was going
* liberal amounts of black paint corrector-pen has been used (applied with great 'skill' by the owners) all over the bodywork
* one of the MacPherson struts clonked loudly when we went over a bump but, hey-ho, all of those things just added to its character and made us love it more.
It's the end of an era.
Will the new car do as well?
Only time will tell.
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