Wonder if anyone can help me out. My daughter (16) and a couple of
friends are looking for transport to their school prom in a couple of
weeks. It's a journey of about 10 miles. They are responsible teenagers
(yes, there is such a thing!).
Not being the average bimbo teenagers they don't want the vulgar limos
that many of the others are using! They'd prefer a classic car.
Something large and imposing would be good. Apart from my Merc which is
a bit modern, none of my working cars fit the bill.

I was wondering if anyone with a suitable car would be able to give up
an hour to drive them there (I'll sort the return journey - it's the
entrance that counts!), or consider lending me their pride and joy for
an evening (yes, I understand how you feel about your cars!). Obviously
we can negotiate suitable reimbursement.

Thanks for listening - it's not the type of favour I'd usually ask, but
one's daughter doesn't become a school-leaver every day!
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"Chris Bolus" <chrisB (AT) RILEYELFb0lus (DOT) com> wrote

Massey 135?

"Chris Bolus" <chrisB (AT) RILEYELFb0lus (DOT) com> wrote

More seriously though: There's a garage where HiQ used to be on Chesterfield
road opposite the city centre. They've had a big black Merc limo in for a
while (not hugely classic, early 80s at a guess, not being a Merc man) which
looks fantastic compared to modern limos. He also has a selection of 70s
Mustangs and other interesting stuff everytime I drive past. P'raps he could
hire you something?

On Fri, 2 Jun 2006 13:48:11 +0100, "Doki" <mrdoki (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote:

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Car section of the Yellow Pages.

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"Conor" <conor.turton (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote

schoolchildren-showing-off jaunts. A friend who runs three Bentleys and
a Rolls-Royce in Derby (www.bentleyweddingcars.co.uk) certainly won't
consider them.

Apart from not wanting teenagers puking all over their cars, there are
the questions of insurance (many wedding car firms are _only_ insured
for weddings) and local authority licensing. Once you get into general
private hire work, you need to jump through all the hoops of inspections
etc. There was a newspaper article a few weeks ago that explained that
most of the stretch limo firms were operating illegally - something to
do with number of seats and psv regs.


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On Fri, 2 Jun 2006 17:11:29 +0100, Conor <conor.turton (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote:

We're already onto that one, I've a few ideas. Trouble is they tend to
want silly money for an hour's work.
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On Fri, 2 Jun 2006 23:34:34 +0100, "Autolycus" <mar2006 (AT) mainbeam (DOT) co.uk>
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That I can well understand; for similar reasons some bus companies I
know won't touch school trips because the interior gets trashed.

Which was one reason that my girl and her friends (who are unlikely to
be found getting drunk anyway) only want transport there. I'll handle
the return!

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"Chris Bolus" <chrisB (AT) RILEYELFb0lus (DOT) com> wrote

But it isn't an hour's work: even if it's had well-behaved, sober
children in it, it won't be clean enough for the next wedding,
particularly if the roads are wet. So there's the time to make the
arrangements, and this cleaning time, and a proportion of the general
maintenance time, as well as the time spent home to home for the job
itself. People don't like their wedding cars to be late, so the outward
journey has to allow plenty of time for any traffic delays.

A Phantom III costs around 50p / mile for petrol alone, and with tyres
at over a thousand quid a set, and the next engine overhaul probably
around 30k, every job must put a few quid into the kitty for
maintenance.

Have you tried Bill Colliver? He's in your neck of the woods, but I
don't know whether he does non-weddings. http://www.bmcweddings.com

You'll probably see one of his cars at the PWA7C rally at Wollaton
tomorrow (4th June). Look out for a slightly battered PIII with a B80
engine. Or leave a note on the screen of anything else there you like
the look of.



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In article <1u9182pf0s86iu3cbjrk9o3n719e376vks (AT) 4ax (DOT) com>, Chris Bolus
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to get from base to customer and back to base. As well as a fuel bill
just above single figure MPGs.

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