July 21, 2003

To the Junk Yard

It looks like the Holfordmobile has finally died. It had been making a bit of a funny sound lately, generally first thing in the morning but going away after a few minutes.

Today we were just going out to get out of the flat for part of the afternoon. Mrs Holford was driving and attempted to cross the main road turning right. We barely made it. She pulled over and I attempted to get us to the garage where we had recently had work done. We limped along, managing to hit every light wrong, so that every bit of momentum was lost. Finally, as we headed uphill where Commercial Road becomes Aylestone Hill, we again stopped at the light and that was as far it the car was going to go.

Mrs Holford and Aidie exited the car and walked the rest of the way to the garage to get help. I was able to borrow a couple of orange traffic cones from the kind manager of KFC, after cars kept pulling up behind the our little K-reg piece-o-junk oblivious to the hazard lights. Once the car and I got the to garage, we learned that this repair will cost at least half of what we paid for the car and it still needs at least two other major repairs we already knew about.

Time to go shopping for a new set of wheels. And the bits that go with them.

Posted by david at July 21, 2003 07:30 PM | TrackBack
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