{"id":127,"date":"2008-10-12T12:29:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-12T11:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twistedpear.org.uk\/?p=127"},"modified":"2019-01-26T12:06:45","modified_gmt":"2019-01-26T12:06:45","slug":"the-real-family-bus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twistedpear.org.uk\/?p=127","title":{"rendered":"The real family bus!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_Zj30URjpR3Y\/SPHw0yAV2sI\/AAAAAAAAAA8\/F2QnpELVhKs\/s1600-h\/0ad0_1.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_Zj30URjpR3Y\/SPHw0yAV2sI\/AAAAAAAAAA8\/F2QnpELVhKs\/s320\/0ad0_1.JPG\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5256247029685148354\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>After experimenting with estate cars and finding they barely met the needs of the wifes perception of holiday luggage, and the realisation that a 24v mondeo was not ideal general transport I decide to look for a People carrier.<\/p>\n<p>A specific modle MK2 2.3 Ghia ( preferably not in silver ) was the goal, Impending dreadful tax laws made the ideal car a pre march 01 modle. but with them ony being introduced in August 2000 this limited the options.<\/p>\n<p>Eventualy something had to give, and I am having to bite the tax bullet.<\/p>\n<p>The new car is an 02 in Dark blue with under 55k on the clock.<\/p>\n<p>Seems quite good!<\/p>\n<p>faults so far are.<\/p>\n<p>Cruise inoperative<br \/>Interior lights inoperative<br \/>Parking sensors inoperative<br \/>Glovebox hinge broken<br \/>Radio code not in.<\/p>\n<p>It had no history but at \u00a32350 it&#8217;s not a big worry.<\/p>\n<p>I am getting ready to sell the GT, am almost finished breaking the Granada and then the scorpio is getting broken too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After experimenting with estate cars and finding they barely met the needs of the wifes perception of holiday luggage, and the realisation that a 24v mondeo was not ideal general &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"post_folder":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twistedpear.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twistedpear.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twistedpear.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twistedpear.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twistedpear.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=127"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.twistedpear.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":261,"href":"https:\/\/www.twistedpear.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions\/261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twistedpear.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twistedpear.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twistedpear.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=127"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twistedpear.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fpost_folder&post=127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}