[Paul_1978_yorks]

You’ll sell it and you’ll miss it. You might not miss that exact car, but you’ll be hankering after another R8 before long I can guarantee it. I’ve done it myself many times!

[Vulgalour]

I probably would. I still regret being forced to sell my Mk2 Polo and while opportunities have come along over the years to buy another Mk2 Polo, it wouldn't be *my* Mk2 Polo, if that makes any sense. I know if I sell the Rover I'll have the same problem, it's too much mine, and any other R8 just won't be the same. Which is daft really because I could easily recreate what I've done exactly to another R8.

In some ways, the experiment is as important for me to work out my relationship with the Rover as it is to figure out whether or not having the Princess as my only car is a sensible idea (it's not).

The other trouble is there's so many other cars I want to experience and own and to do so, one of my current cars has to make way for it. The Princess is not the car that's going to move on, there's something about it that I could never, ever replace and it goes beyond its financial worth, which is somewhat more now than it was when I bought the car. So that means the Rover is the one that would have to go, but I wonder if that's a decision that I'm not ready to make yet. What I've gone and done is get myself emotionally invested in a machine, and that's a very silly thing to do.

[Julesmat50]

What I've gone and done is get myself emotionally invested in a machine, and that's a very silly thing to do.

It's something we all do and probably just as well, else a lot of older cars would never be saved.

[ROVER Cabby]

Throw it on ebay for a 10 day auction for 99p starting on a Thursday at 19:30, (ends on a Sunday at 19:30, best time).

It is only worth what someone is willing to pay for it on the day, if you are not happy with the price it is at with 2 mins
to go then just end it and keep it or relist in May.

[RoverRevival]

ebay knows that happens now and won't let you end with either 12 or 24hrs to go, can't remember which.

[ROVER Cabby]

I ended an item with 5 mins to go as it had no bids on it, might be the reason why.

[Vulgalour]

I haven't done many miles in the Rover since starting the experiment.



Three miles. I've done three miles since starting the experiment five weeks ago and those were to go and get some fuel in it. So the end of week five I took the Rover on a 20-ish mile run about to get it warmed up and make sure everything was working and whatnot. There's two good reasons not to sell the Rover, the first being the sort of people sub-£1000 cars attract when attempting to sell them, and the second being that the new owner is unlikely to look after the car and appreciate the maintenance and improvements made to it.

I've got a 300 mile trip to do in January which I'll of course be doing in the Princess. I know the Rover is more than capable of doing this sort of journey and is comfortable in doing so. It also has a radio, which helps alleviate the boredom somewhat, which the Princess does not. It will at least help me decide what's happening with the Rover, perhaps I'll find the journey too horrible in the Princess and the Rover will become my long distance vehicle of choice. We shall see.

For now, it seems likely the Rover is going to become my Sunday car while the Princess plods along as my daily. This is completely backwards, of course, but if that's what works for me, it's what works for me.