Car failed its MOT.

[Workingman]

Third year running. Broken suspension spring, £80 to repair - 30 minute job.

All four corners have now been done and the MOT guy says just run it into the ground. It's good for a few more years and I have spent very little on it, so why not? It's a '58 so not worth trading in, and tbh it is a really good car.

[meriad]

that's not bad at all! Well done your little car

[Workingman]

I got it from Aggers and it only had 20,600 miles on the clock. It now has only 37k, if that and a '58 plate/

Unfortunately he had never used it much so the tyres perished and needed replacing, and the springs were not used so became brittle and failed. Still a good car, though.

[miasmum]

Mine is a similar age and fails most years, on what Tim calls, its hips.

Wonder what happened to Aggers

[Kaz]

That's good Frank

Shell, several of us tried all the means of contact that we had, but no responses

[saundra]

I liked aggers always a gentleman
I do hope he is ok xx

[Kaz]

I fear something must have happened Saundra, being well into his nineties

[TheOstrich]

Indeed he was, Saundra, a lovely chap who used to regularly attend the Birmingham meets.

Our car is of similar age, WM, with about 7K extra miles than yours. Touch wood, it hasn't had anything more than minor niggles so far. We're hoping it'll see us out.

[Kaz]

An absolutely charming gentleman xx

[Workingman]

John (Aggers) once posted that he wanted to sell his car but was worried about test drives with strangers and someone just driving away and stealing it or hurting him in some other way. He didn't know what to do as no garage would accept it due to its age. I offered to sell it for him here in Leeds for the price he wanted - nothing less. He accepted.

So, I went down to Solihull to pick up the car, paperwork etc. to bring it home to sell. It was magnificent - pristine - it had only been used to take the dog to the park and weekly shopping trips and I decided there and then to buy it myself. We came to a deal for a few bob more than he wanted and I bought it on the spot.

Aggers was indeed a gentleman of the old school type. We kept in touch via email for a while, but then they stopped and Wendy never replied. He would be 96, I think, this next Christmas, so I fear that he has gone to that car showroom in the sky. Sad but inevitable.