I think the Italian influence has rubbed off my M900 on to me!
I've had a bit of a lot going on in the last few months, one of which was the loss of my mother, and after dealing with that I've been renovating and selling her house, which is nearly complete and we should complete the sale mid September.
To do the work my wife and I have spent every spare penny we had, and I said at the beginning I hope my old discovery lasts until I can replace her with the proceeds of the house sale. At 15yrs old and 232K miles I wasn't actually that worried as I've always managed to fix her.
However last week the poor old thing expired, a long story, but really wasn't worth fixing and off she went to a specialist breaker, but just 2 months before I'll have the cash to buy what I want which is another newer discovery.
So, I found my self with £1500 to spend on the best Diesel Estate car I could find that would last at least 2 months.
I got despondent, as everything I looked at was boring, mind numbingly boring, or completely shagged with 200K on the clock.
Then I found a car I knew nothing about, but have fallen in love with really quickly after just one 'spirited' trip home across the A272 from Crawley.
Its a 2004 Alfa 156 Sportwagon Veloce with the 16V 1.9TD.
It has 105K on the clock, but has a complete Service history.
Apparently it's quite special in Alfa circles being the Veloce, and despite being £1500 and genuinely just slightly sloppy, it's glorious to drive.
I now don't want to sell it when I get my newer Discovery, but don't have room for it.
I might have to sell it and look for the V6 petrol version as a Toy in a couple of years.
Nasher.
