Bye bye Micra. I couldn't reasonably expect it to go through another MOT, as I'd had to stuff plastic sacks in the rear arches to keep the water out since there was no longer metal where metal should be. Still, bought for £50 two and a half years ago and having never let me down, I can't complain. It had more than earned its sticker.
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Picking it up with the truck from work felt a little like taking a pet to the vets to have it put to sleep. Which is
daft, it's only a Micra. Anyway, the engine and gearbox live on in a little Micra racecar, so that's all right.
The nice thing about working in a scrapyard is that sooner or later something will turn up, and with a month left to run on the Micra's MOT, I happened to collect this.
Hello Wagon R!
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A 2004 1.3 Suzuki, having done 68,000 miles, and with barely a speck of rust, I couldn't work out what was wrong with it, and said so.
"It started squealing, so we bought another car."
Bought it off work, and sure enough, a week or so later it squeals. One £10 fanbelt later, it has been silenced. And since I live a few miles from the house at which I picked it up, someone's going to recognise it eventually, even without its hubcaps - I like black steelies.
Fast forward 3 weeks, there's a Vauxhall Agila (same car, different badge) in the scrap pile... with a towbar. A bit rusty, but as my manager said I could have it for nothing... Yoink! A tin of Hammerite later and we're good to go.
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Yeah, it looks goofy, and handles exactly like you'd expect it to, but it goes, stops and turns and that's good enough for me, plus I'm the envy of all my new friends at the bingo hall.
