Talk Morgan Forums Community Vehicle Talk (non-Morgan) One & Done?

This is virtually impossible. A car needs to

• Be an open top car.
• Be of a small size unlike all the over bloated cars for sale now.
• Have a manual Transmission.
• Be RWD.
• Be able to take small kids in the back when Grand Children are around
• But also be able to take my bike to bike races.
• As well as be able to get stuff from the hardware shop.
• Take a load of garden waste to the green waste.
• Get a load of Mulch to spread over the garden.
• And even get a load of rocks to build a retaining wall.

I thought no car could do that but I remembered my Silvia was basically my sports car and daily driver as well as my landscaping workhorse. It was even fun to take on a long drive and sat well on the highway. I fitted a towbar because it needed a bit of work and the only place that worked on Japanese Imports when I got it was a nice 15 minutes bike ride though a wetlands or a 1.5 hour bus ride that went everywhere and after a few trips I really hated that bus trip. In the end I started using it with my trailer for most things I needed a car for.

Isn't it similar with women, the one and done principle? One who remains attractive forever with lots of sex appeal, who can cook well, is a caring mother, pursues her own career, always spoils her husband with little loving attentions, shares or admires his hobbies, is faithfully intelligent and full of esprit, with whom you can have lively conversations about very interesting topics, with lots of pros and cons but without being argumentative, that never gets boring and who has a very sympathetic mother because she will be your mother-in-law for a very long time.

Obviously there are lots of women like that, but where will they be able to find their 'one and done' men?

Oh yes, I forgot to say, those one and done women shouldn't be so picky as another good quality🤠

Yes women should be one and done so choose carefully.

A few years ago we bought a house for my son, we went out for a few weekends looking but there was not much being over Christmas after being told he and his girlfriend was expecting a baby. On the first Saturday in February after school goes back and the silly season officially over I found about 18 place to look at, I cut it down to 13 by looking at a few from outside myself. Saturday morning we drove around the 13 places, after 3 hours we had done 83km and just under 2 hours driving, so a bit over an hour looking at 13 hours or 5 minutes each. We decided on one and it had a lot of interest at the open home so I put in an offer and they came back with a slightly higher price so we bought it. I really only put in an offer to be first just in case someone else did, I did expect to spend about 30 minutes at the open house the next weekend. To be fair some hours only got about 2 minutes before we knew we were not interested and we probably spent 15 minutes at the one we actually bought.

Compared to buying my Octavia we went for a good hour test drive, same as our Mitsubishi, plus add some time looking at the cars at the dealership and reading reviews on line.

So it appears to me that when buying a car you spend a least an hour deciding and checking it out but buying a house that is over 10 times the price you are lucky to get 15 minutes. Extrapolate that out for women that you are probably going to be married to for 50 years does that mean you only get a 3 minute test drive?

So Women one and done for life, houses are really one and done for at least 10 years (I have been in my current house 32 years) but cars can't really be one and done as I feel you need a fun one and a practical one, I doubt Henry Catchpole would take the Ruf shopping or take the dog to the vet etc. so I don't think it can be a one and done car, maybe a one and done sports car if you are happy to have a roof (which I am not).

I felt my Skoda Octavia wagon is a one and done car that has 5 seats, nice and comfortable, active cruise control that works well even with the manual gearbox, the only bad thing is the navigation system can't pronounce nearly any of the roads in Australia (it can't even pronounce ROAD or MOTORWAY properly). Unfortunately mine is about 10 years old now so getting a bit long in the tooth, the new one looks nice but not available in Australia as a Manual.

However I feel in the video what Henry means by one and done mentioned at about 10 minutes in is this is a fun car but also very well built and reliable so you could use it for daily duties, noting it doesn't have back seats etc. When I bought my MX5 in 1990 it was really the same thing. I bought it and did about 90,000km in 7 years averaging more than the Mazda 323 practical car owned at the same time that I used for playing the band, going out with friends in the back seats, getting some bits of furniture home etc. When going shopping if what I was buying would fit in the MX5 I took it as it was more fun. Not what car you could have as a one and done car because it is practical enough to do everything as Simon originally asks for.

My Frontline MGB to me is a car like that, same as buying a fairly new Morgan. Really with a new engine there is no reason to not drive it every day when I need to and any day I want to. What stops me from choosing it whenever I can is it cost me too much for me to be happy leaving it in shopping centre carparks etc. so it is only driven on special occasions about twice a week when it is not going to be parked in a standard carpark. Plus the Insurance it is on has restricted usage that prevents it being a one and done car.

So to answer Simons question, there is not a one and done car for me as I want a 2 seater sports car and need a larger car for many reasons, like today I took my mum to lunch so needed a car I can put her wheel chair in. If I could be satisfy my wind in the hair by riding my pushbike then the Octavia would be OK but then I would not be a petrol head.

I was watching the latest episode of Bangers and Cash today and halfway through this popped up:



It was just a fleeting glimpse, it wasn't featured (or even mentioned) in the programme.

I see it went through Mathewson's auction in May 2024. Mathewsons Lot 320 - 1953 Bentley R Type