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Well often guys get into this topic over a beer or at a braai. We tend to get all nostalgic about cars we have owned often we remember more about them than the girlfriends we have gone out with.
Take for instance, my first car it was only a Peugeot 409 I can still remember everything about it even. What it smelt like, (not that good) but ask me about my first girl-friend and I need to think a while to even remember her name.
Well maybe it isn't quite like that for you, but I must say like the cars in my life there have been quite a variety and numerous ladies and some not so lady like and I have now been happily married for 14 years to the same 3.0CSL,,, ,,, I mean lovely woman, so maybe she makes all those that came before her pale by comparison, but it isn't that way with my cars.
Trust me when I tell you I can rattle off the list of every car in detail in chronological order but get pretty stuck on girlfriends by about the third one.
Why is it like this I don't know. That's not to say their weren't any really special woman in my life or stunning lookers for that matter, its just that I remember the the cars perfectly while only a few of the past girlfriends come to mind and not for any particular reason, maybe the ones that stick in my memory were a pain in the "donkey". While it just isn't like that with cars. I remember them all the good and the bad and the list goes like this:
Silver Peugeot 409 - got me from A to B and never let me down
Mazda 323 - Could really fit a surprising amount of beers in the boot
MGB - Crossed the country with me many times and even when a piston disintegrated 100km from arriving back home it got be back
Mazda RX7 - the girls like it and it road like stink couldn't follow a Porsche through the Harrow Rd off ramp I found out unfortunately.
VW 16V Golf (2) GTI 1800 - First out of the box purchase most disappointing and unreliable
Custom self built Porsche Speedster Kit car with 2.5L Oetinger Engine kicked every things "donkey" including superbikes but woman hated the wind in their hair
Toyota Corolla 1300 ... A to B..
Toyota Corolla 1600 (company car) also A to B..
VW Combi Pannel Van 1800 (DJ Wagon) Don't come a knocking.. say no more
BMW 3.0 CSL (I still own) My real first love and still in love
Isuzu Bakkie 2800 TD (company car) Don't go there just don't!
Yamaha V-Max (not a car but I thought I would be honest and not omit it) Great in a straight line not so good on Franchoek drive
BMW B10 Alpina (E34) - Every one thought it was a five series and no one knew who Alpina is
Porsche 928 S4 - What can I say the ugliest most wonderfull car I ever had. Should never have sold it
Shamrock AC Cobra 350 V8 - much like V-max! Oh with the wind in hair problem too
Landrover V8 Defender - Awesome offroad but I only went 4x4ing once
BMW 850i M spec- Sexy sultry and expensive to service
Jeep Grand Cherokee V8 RST - I enjoyed it, it enjoyed petrol too much
Chevy Scotsdale V8 Diesel Bakkie - Trusty old friend was there through the hard times
Yamaha MT-01 - My week end escape sounds meaner than a couple of cougars in a barrel, nimble as a ballerina looks like your Tattooed Sea Dog uncle Jack (Still have it)
BMW 740i Schnitzer Spec - My favourite piece of luxury and after some cosmetics and techno tweak, sounds like mean on Red Bull and looks like Maserati wished it did.
BMW E34 M5 - What can I say Iconic. Drove like a dream for the three hours after I picked it up in Gauteng and headed back to Cape Town. That was before I dropped a valve and am still looking for a head. (Cylinder head that is, I still have my beard rack on)
Now for the list of woman:
Ummmm!
OK Linda yes that was the first, no wait technically it was Jillian from when I was in Grade one But I thought I would rather start from about the time I started driving cars to be fair.
OK so it was Linda
Then it waaaasss uummm OK Kathy thats it Kathy
No wait it was Tracy one before Kathy
annnnnd thennn ummm ...
'''ummmmmmm ummm Sally thats it Sally
Then Rosanna She stood out (She thought I looked like Micky Rourke, when he was younger of course)
And then Nikki and she agreed with Rosanna when Rosanna unexpectedly handed me to Nikki who happenned to be sitting at the next table to us at a fashion show.
OK maybe I need to explain something right about now. I was a night club DJ and woman liked the dude with the headset at that time...
any way it gets a bit hazier as I went into the SADF for my mandatory two year sentence. No there were girlfriends during those two years I managed to organise quite a bit of detached duty and always seemed to make Formula grandPrix breakfast Sundays, its just that I discovered woman like the uniform just as much if not more than the DJ thing and so it was that my friends began to complain that I seemed to arrive with a different girlfriend to every Grand Prix Breakfast and they battled to keep track of the names. What can I say it was difficult for me too.
Now just before you start to think that I was some kind of male slut or that I was a terrible womaniser these ladies all had a great time and I didn't break any hearts or lie to any of them. That said none well almost none of them are on my Facebook Friend list but that has more to do with jealous husbands than them not wanting to know me. ( I mean they are all now married and their... ...wait why am I explaining this I thought we were talking about cars.
Well any way the list ends with
Tracy
Then a couple of one night stands
and then I fell in love over the telephone and am now happily married for 14 years.
Over the phone?
Ok let me explain I saved her from a father and son tag team in a night club we exchanged numbers and for the next four months only ever talked over the phone until the night of her 26th Birthday when I arrived unexpectedly at BabaLoos and was the only person who new or wished her happy birthday. I then arranged our first date and the rest is history.
Ok so you see what I mean the car list is neat clean full of variety some lookers there and some not so lookers.
So what do I have to say about the cars and girlfriends in my life I fell in love with one woman and love one motor Brand BMW
So what about you? Do you have any great stories about your relationships with cars and girls let us know...
Take for instance, my first car it was only a Peugeot 409 I can still remember everything about it even. What it smelt like, (not that good) but ask me about my first girl-friend and I need to think a while to even remember her name.
Well maybe it isn't quite like that for you, but I must say like the cars in my life there have been quite a variety and numerous ladies and some not so lady like and I have now been happily married for 14 years to the same 3.0CSL,,, ,,, I mean lovely woman, so maybe she makes all those that came before her pale by comparison, but it isn't that way with my cars.
Trust me when I tell you I can rattle off the list of every car in detail in chronological order but get pretty stuck on girlfriends by about the third one.
Why is it like this I don't know. That's not to say their weren't any really special woman in my life or stunning lookers for that matter, its just that I remember the the cars perfectly while only a few of the past girlfriends come to mind and not for any particular reason, maybe the ones that stick in my memory were a pain in the "donkey". While it just isn't like that with cars. I remember them all the good and the bad and the list goes like this:
Silver Peugeot 409 - got me from A to B and never let me down
Mazda 323 - Could really fit a surprising amount of beers in the boot
MGB - Crossed the country with me many times and even when a piston disintegrated 100km from arriving back home it got be back
Mazda RX7 - the girls like it and it road like stink couldn't follow a Porsche through the Harrow Rd off ramp I found out unfortunately.
VW 16V Golf (2) GTI 1800 - First out of the box purchase most disappointing and unreliable
Custom self built Porsche Speedster Kit car with 2.5L Oetinger Engine kicked every things "donkey" including superbikes but woman hated the wind in their hair
Toyota Corolla 1300 ... A to B..
Toyota Corolla 1600 (company car) also A to B..
VW Combi Pannel Van 1800 (DJ Wagon) Don't come a knocking.. say no more
BMW 3.0 CSL (I still own) My real first love and still in love
Isuzu Bakkie 2800 TD (company car) Don't go there just don't!
Yamaha V-Max (not a car but I thought I would be honest and not omit it) Great in a straight line not so good on Franchoek drive
BMW B10 Alpina (E34) - Every one thought it was a five series and no one knew who Alpina is
Porsche 928 S4 - What can I say the ugliest most wonderfull car I ever had. Should never have sold it
Shamrock AC Cobra 350 V8 - much like V-max! Oh with the wind in hair problem too
Landrover V8 Defender - Awesome offroad but I only went 4x4ing once
BMW 850i M spec- Sexy sultry and expensive to service
Jeep Grand Cherokee V8 RST - I enjoyed it, it enjoyed petrol too much
Chevy Scotsdale V8 Diesel Bakkie - Trusty old friend was there through the hard times
Yamaha MT-01 - My week end escape sounds meaner than a couple of cougars in a barrel, nimble as a ballerina looks like your Tattooed Sea Dog uncle Jack (Still have it)
BMW 740i Schnitzer Spec - My favourite piece of luxury and after some cosmetics and techno tweak, sounds like mean on Red Bull and looks like Maserati wished it did.
BMW E34 M5 - What can I say Iconic. Drove like a dream for the three hours after I picked it up in Gauteng and headed back to Cape Town. That was before I dropped a valve and am still looking for a head. (Cylinder head that is, I still have my beard rack on)
Now for the list of woman:
Ummmm!
OK Linda yes that was the first, no wait technically it was Jillian from when I was in Grade one But I thought I would rather start from about the time I started driving cars to be fair.
OK so it was Linda
Then it waaaasss uummm OK Kathy thats it Kathy
No wait it was Tracy one before Kathy
annnnnd thennn ummm ...
'''ummmmmmm ummm Sally thats it Sally
Then Rosanna She stood out (She thought I looked like Micky Rourke, when he was younger of course)
And then Nikki and she agreed with Rosanna when Rosanna unexpectedly handed me to Nikki who happenned to be sitting at the next table to us at a fashion show.
OK maybe I need to explain something right about now. I was a night club DJ and woman liked the dude with the headset at that time...
any way it gets a bit hazier as I went into the SADF for my mandatory two year sentence. No there were girlfriends during those two years I managed to organise quite a bit of detached duty and always seemed to make Formula grandPrix breakfast Sundays, its just that I discovered woman like the uniform just as much if not more than the DJ thing and so it was that my friends began to complain that I seemed to arrive with a different girlfriend to every Grand Prix Breakfast and they battled to keep track of the names. What can I say it was difficult for me too.
Now just before you start to think that I was some kind of male slut or that I was a terrible womaniser these ladies all had a great time and I didn't break any hearts or lie to any of them. That said none well almost none of them are on my Facebook Friend list but that has more to do with jealous husbands than them not wanting to know me. ( I mean they are all now married and their... ...wait why am I explaining this I thought we were talking about cars.
Well any way the list ends with
Tracy
Then a couple of one night stands
and then I fell in love over the telephone and am now happily married for 14 years.
Over the phone?
Ok let me explain I saved her from a father and son tag team in a night club we exchanged numbers and for the next four months only ever talked over the phone until the night of her 26th Birthday when I arrived unexpectedly at BabaLoos and was the only person who new or wished her happy birthday. I then arranged our first date and the rest is history.
Ok so you see what I mean the car list is neat clean full of variety some lookers there and some not so lookers.
So what do I have to say about the cars and girlfriends in my life I fell in love with one woman and love one motor Brand BMW
So what about you? Do you have any great stories about your relationships with cars and girls let us know...
