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There
comes a time for everyone when they are faced with having to scrap
their car, maybe after an accident or an irreparable MOT failure.
But
what do you do if that car is someone you hold very dear? It seems
too painful to just throw away.
Well,
this was the problem that one of ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio Gloucestershire's lunchtime
Broadcast Assistant, Anna Pidgeon, faced at the beginning of this
week.
She learnt to drive in her Renault 5 (called Little Car) and had
had him for 7 years (yes, he was definitely male), running up thousands
of miles in trips all across the country - he was even her home
for six days when she went camping without a tent!
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| Murderer? |
Squashed
But
despite having defied all expectation with each MOT he passed, he
finally failed last week and then proceeded to break down; clearly
the time had come for him to move on.
Feeling somewhat sentimental about this prospect Anna wanted to
do more than just scrap him, and thought perhaps he would make a
nice coffee table when squashed, so she put the appeal out to ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½
Radio Gloucestershire listeners.
Thanks
to their help she was put in touch with Harry Bucklands Scrapyards
on Gloucester Road, where Rob agreed to crush the bonnet (having
informed her that if you make car smaller it does not necessarily
weigh less!) for her to keep.
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...in
just two minutes he was reduced to next to nothing.
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| Anna
Pidgeon |
Little
Car was understandably reluctant, and had to be jump-started twice
to get out of the car park, however he got his final revenge when
he broke down on the way to the yard and had to be pushed clear
of a busy crossroads.
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He
was then towed to the scrapyard, and the next day Anna went to see
him reduced to the size of a hay bale. "It was very strange,"
she said, "after all the years of me sitting comfortably as
we drove along, in just 2 minutes he was reduced to next to nothing.
Really surreal and sad."
However,
she is now the proud owner of a shelf-sized box of bonnet, complete
with Renault badge glued on by Rob, too heavy for a shelf, she thinks
maybe a coffee table but is open to suggestions from creative listeners,
so get thinking and do email in!
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In
a heartwarming tale of love and loss, ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Gloucestershire's Anna Pidgeon
recounts the demise of her Little Car. But what can she do with his
remains?
