Unexpected Compliment

[roddy1960]

G'day all...This was nice..Yesterday after work the bloke I bought my 'work hack ' off to replace my very buggered old Mitsubishi Magna wagon turned up. I bought a tidy old Honda Accord off him circa 1985..Manual choke , carby of course and all..Beaut engine , new clutch drives really well..Cost me a grand with four months rego on it.Needs a wax though...
The agreement was that he'd bring the Honda if I could run him home fifty kilometres away..I couldn't get a ride to drop me off ..
I took him back in my XR6.. Turns out he's a massive Holden fan and owns a VF SS and a VE V6..The Honda was to be a run around but his partner decided it wasn't big enough so on to Gumtree it went.
Here's the kicker ,he loved my FG XR6..He asked me all about her as we went along , very impressed by the ZF trannie so I whacked it into manual and he thought it was terrific.. He's never really traveled in a later model Falcon and he really liked the overall comfort of the car , how quiet and yet grunty the old Barra was as well..
He picked up his VF SS only recently and loves it but was telling me the 3.6 litre VE has already done the timing chain and wished he'd kept his 3.8 Commodore that it replaced a few years ago.
He was genuinely impressed by the feel of the XR6 .I told him ,"you ought to see a Turbo version then'..He agreed..
Very unexpected and very happy to get such a response..
Now to give the little Accord a nice coat of polish.. Cheers Rod..
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