Cheeky Girls.

The disappointed seller of an early 80's hatchback motor car has revealed today that despite it being advertised on a well-known classic car website for several weeks, he has received no communication or interest whatsoever from one of Britain’s top pop acts, The Cheeky Girls.

“Cheeky Girls say 'No' to classic car ownership”

The shocking revelation, that has left both the pop and classic car world stunned, comes just days after it was revealed that a former neighbour of 'Birds Of A Feather' star Lesley Joseph once scrapped an 'uneconomical to repair' Riley 4/72 in the early eighties, and has fuelled fears that many of our top paid entertainers have a complete disregard for the classic car movement in the UK.
A source close to the Cheeky Girls, who had a string of chart toppers in the early noughties with "Bum My Cheeks" and "Hooray! Hooray! It's A Cheeky H-reg Proton" has confirmed that due to an extended summer season at Butlins in Minehead and a general disinterest in classic cars, it was unlikely the duo had ever seen the advert.
A spokesman for the classic car movement, Lord Greville Plumworthy speaking to reporters earlier, expressed his disappointment in the girls, claiming it to be a 'kick in the teeth' for all those who endeavour to keep Britain's motoring heritage alive.
However, in a happy ending to the story, it can be revealed that Leicestershire resident Bernard Fishtrousers has come to the rescue and has today added the car to his fleet.











According to 'How Many Left' - the answer is one, this one.
Less than 40,000 miles and £120 - What could possibly go wrong?

 

But will it get you to Minehead ?

 

It got me home from Leeds, it was terrifying!
Following the wife in the Scarecrow, the speedo said 120mph @ 4,000 rpms

 

...but it is a GT!!

 

It's a GT i.e. and I've broken it already!

 

but it's a G reg not H. is that why gabriella and monica gave up on it?

 

i recon if you put round headlights innit and paint it red ,it will look like a Polo..

 

I like that!

 

Compared to what?

But a Polo has a degree of reliability and wasn't the first car to have an Alcantara dashboard.

Anyhoo a fun morning later,

Wound down the lovely smooth, drivers side electric window & did it come back up?
Did it buggery.
A more fragile, contains the seeds of it's own destruction mechanism I have yet to encounter.
Still it's up again.

 

Just as it is.

 

That's because it's a Lancia, and all the rest of them dissolved in the rain.

Which is what will happen to that one if you're foolish enough to leave it parked on the road like that. Which means you'll be the proud owner of a £120 br0wn rusty stain on the kerbside.

 

hey, that's my van you're slagging.

 

The full story...

This little cracker, for it is astonishingly rapid, was completely rebuilt from a pile of rusty bits over the course of eighteen months quite recently. Lots of us followed the restoration on another web forum. Phil, for that is the name of the bloke with the endless supply of welding rod, has recently travelled to Australia to spend a year there. Rather than let the Lancia spend the year deteriorating, he has lent it out to a bunch of virtual friends, e-mates if you like, who he has never actually met, but who expressed an interest in caring for it. What a trusting bloke.
The £120 purchase price is really a sort of bond and when I sell it on again in a couple of months, I have a guaranteed sale price. Now all I have to do is hope that the fragile little bugger hasn't shat its gear box before the end of October!

 

No & he only knows me as Bernard (which isn't really my real name).

In other fun drunken motoring news, I also seem to have bought a four pound raffle ticket from an e-bloke called Barry Cade to win a Suzuki Baleno.
Imagine my panic before I found out that it's actually a motor car and not a bike.
Somewhat inconveniently it's somewhere down on the South Coast.
The fair Lady Fishtrousers will kill me if I win the bloody thing. She wasn't best pleased about the Lancia which I somehow forgot to mention.
Two additional cars in a week is potentially a recipe for an extended girlie shopping spree.