You know how you get half an idea about buying something and it kind of snowballs?
(You’re car guys. Yes you do).
I’ve been doing Gumtree searches for cheap but interesting cars for a couple of years now but never found one that I wanted enough to do anything about.
At the same time I’d been thinking it would be handy to have a cheap ute that I didn’t care about too much for getting stuff done. Something like a VU-VY or a Crewman, so I could tick “own a Holden Ute” off my list at the same time. Or an F100/F150 just because.
Then VE utes started to turn up at reasonable prices. I’ve always liked those.
And I really liked this Poison Ivy green they had for a couple of years.
And then one of those turned up in a car yard near my parents’ place. And I went to have a look half hoping it would be a shitbox so I wouldn’t buy it. But it wasn’t.
In the background of all this, my Dad’s not well and we don’t know how long he’s got. I get my Holden guy thing from him and we spend half our conversations talking about cars. Him being crook got me thinking about life, and doing things you want to do while you can, and how we’d go pick up cars either of us had bought together, and...
And so now I own a Poison Ivy green VE SV6 manual ute.
Dad came with me to pick it up and he was the most positive I’d seen him in ages. Considering he spent a week in hospital earlier this month, that was something special.
I’m on the way home and didn’t pay for the full version of Tapatalk so that’s the one photo I can post for now
Plans? It’s tidy but not mint. Perfect. I won’t feel bad about having to park it outside and doing Ute things with it, and it gives me just enough little tidy up jobs to do. I reckon I’ll scratch the Ute itch, improve it, and enjoy it for a while.
(You’re car guys. Yes you do).
I’ve been doing Gumtree searches for cheap but interesting cars for a couple of years now but never found one that I wanted enough to do anything about.
At the same time I’d been thinking it would be handy to have a cheap ute that I didn’t care about too much for getting stuff done. Something like a VU-VY or a Crewman, so I could tick “own a Holden Ute” off my list at the same time. Or an F100/F150 just because.
Then VE utes started to turn up at reasonable prices. I’ve always liked those.
And I really liked this Poison Ivy green they had for a couple of years.
And then one of those turned up in a car yard near my parents’ place. And I went to have a look half hoping it would be a shitbox so I wouldn’t buy it. But it wasn’t.
In the background of all this, my Dad’s not well and we don’t know how long he’s got. I get my Holden guy thing from him and we spend half our conversations talking about cars. Him being crook got me thinking about life, and doing things you want to do while you can, and how we’d go pick up cars either of us had bought together, and...
And so now I own a Poison Ivy green VE SV6 manual ute.
Dad came with me to pick it up and he was the most positive I’d seen him in ages. Considering he spent a week in hospital earlier this month, that was something special.
I’m on the way home and didn’t pay for the full version of Tapatalk so that’s the one photo I can post for now
Plans? It’s tidy but not mint. Perfect. I won’t feel bad about having to park it outside and doing Ute things with it, and it gives me just enough little tidy up jobs to do. I reckon I’ll scratch the Ute itch, improve it, and enjoy it for a while.
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