Serenity superstar.

Now of course my beloved step daughter Serenity has figured not a great deal on here.

To be fair to her she has really pulled her life back together, but for the last month or so she has been carless. I didn't really ask how, sometimes it's not polite to ask.

So anyway today I have been playing hunt the car for Serenity, the first offering, an Accent had too few doors.

The next, a punto, twelve hundred cc and therefore too small in the engine room.

These were of course, motors offered to me inside the trade and therefore pretty cheap.

At this point Serenity decided to do a bit of digging for herself.

First candidate was a geriatric Rover Honda clone. 1400 cc; obviously a lot more like it. A model with lots of bells and whistles, that's all very nice if the car is new but not fun on a old car - more broken things to mend. The engine on this model is famously fragile. Insurance is a bit of an issue on the more up market models too.

Undaunted she suggested a Vectra, that's a Vauxhall of dubious electronic pedigree. Naturally this one had a boy racer engine. Time to check out the insurance again.

Now she has found another Vauxhall, it sounds great, it's not that old mind, the woad is in good condition and it has the optional scythe hubs....

R