15 January 2007 - What have I done?!?!?

That's not a cry of anguish... i just cant remember what I've been doing for the last few weeks.

Let me think.

Jesus is running!! She sounds pretty good and seems in good order though I admit to knowing very little about old French vehicles - maybe she'll blow up tomorrow! The guy who fixed her has been quality.. fixing her up pretty cheap, giving advice on painting and generally being a good bloke.

So I tried to insure her the other day... you need to do that before you register a foreign vehicle in the UK. I've never had my own policy and have a massive ugly blemish on my driving licence (young and foolish). First quote i got was for £2600 quid! No sympathy. Next one told me £1200. Nice. Shopped around a little more and am now insured fully comp for £800. Happy.

All sorts of other stuff happening but I've talked it through with so many people and thought stuff over in my own head that it slightly hurts my brain now to think about it.

I've decided on a name!

"Luardos"

My cousin called me the other night, slightly drunk, telling me that I HAD to call it "Dirty Sanchez".

This was him...

"Imagine.. you're with your mates, you see this van, you go over, get a fat steak burrito, eat it, go back to your mates - "I just got a dirty sanchez!". And they're all like "Wooah, I want one".

God I would love to call it Dirty Sanchez. Make the meatiest tortilla wraps you ever saw and hand out free scratch and sniff tashes. I cant though. Am too scared.

It's been alot of fun so far and am still nowhere near being set up and running. Hard work as well - I've been working a 50 hour a week removals job and working on Luardos in the evenings and at weekends. Friends have been brilliant! Just hope that the end result is worth all the effort.