David Lowry

Anyone who knows me adequately well or is on my facebook friends list will know that I’ve been car hunting for the last few weeks. When Jonny Kirk and I went to do Route 66 we drove a beautiful Mazda 6 Sport 3 litre V6 which was a far more powerful car than either of us had ever driven before. Nevermind that Jonny informed me as we drove down I-405 in Los Angeles, CA that he hadn’t ACTUALLY driven any car on any road in four years and had never driven on a motorway… that was 3174 miles down the road.

Stolen from auto123.com

Anyway, a nice 2003 Mazda 6 2.0 Diesel Sport was in Charles Hurst and stole my little heart for a few weeks, distracting me entirely from anything reasonable or sensible that might come my way. Until two nights ago when I found on autotrader a 2001 VW Golf GTi for the right price and turned out the insurance folks over at Equity (used to be McWhirters in Lisburn) decided to be awfully nice and give me four year’s no claims bonus despite never having my own comprehensive insurance. Quality.

My New Golf GTi

So tomorrow morning I head to pick up the new vehicle, nice drive up to Bellaghy from Glengormley to spend and afternoon and hopefully not too long a night at Pete’s barn, making tea and toast and hoping that electricity supplies do not melt. Earnestly.

Ohh one thing I didn’t check - the sound system. Reminds me, I need to make my new car mix-tape. I feel it’s an epic moment that deserves such effort. To iTunes I go.

Also, turns out our internet is being disconnected today. Great. Haven’t even got our new connection details from O2 yet (cheap and appears cheerful, will review if otherwise. Sigh.