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[Mr Skrunts]

How old where you then, Skruntie?

Would have cost a pretty penny to insure if you were young.

Born in 61. Car was B Reg (Aug 1st reg) so I must have been 23.

Insurance was £365, so a £1 a day to insure.

Bonus was I got a 7.5% discount and paid £6520.20 for it.

Final straw was after filling with petrol I went to start the car, turned the ignition and the wireing loom under the bonnet went up in smoke.

With in a week I did a part ex, got a brand new Sylvia, and got £6500 alowed on the GTE 8 months old with 8K on the clock.

Wish I still had the Sylvia, it handled so well.

2 new cars in the space of 8m months, wish I never bought the Astra, made me realise how mush I hate FWD and the brakes with the servo on the passenger side didnt help the brake performance.

[TheBoy]

Mine was built in June 2003 and registered in September 2004.

TVP had the foresight to place a bulk order just before production closed.

Was your car also resident in a muddy field for 15 months.

I bought a brand new Aste GTE in 84 and put it on the road 1st august.

But I rekxon that must have been stood for quite a while asis had 2 x A4 pages of faults with including rust, so sold it after 8 months and bought a new Sylvia turbo instead.

My GTE (1990, I bought it when it was a year old in 1991) was showing quite a lot of body rust by 1992....

I sold it after a year, as it was too much hassle. Couldn't leave it anywhere without some scrote having a go at it.  Well, that and the 3 grand renewal on insurance

 Three grand......Clucking bell.....

 I  pay about 10% of that to insure the little Mexican, but then I'm probably a couple of years older than you were in 1991.

I still had my boyish good looks.

I used to average about 2 - 3 tugs a week from the old bill as well, which was another reason for getting shot.  A lot of them involved having to show documents at the local cop shop, much to the amusement of the geezer behind the desk....