Quote:Waylander .... Great first job, and you lived to tell the tale!!
Hi It was, well not quite my first job but close only about 6 months from leaving school at 16,
Working for a Main Dealer, Eddy Grimstead
we sold Honda, Suzuki, Yamaha, Kawasaki, Gilera, and a large array of kids monkey bikes, (which we used to ride round the showroom racing when the boss was out), and the odd BMW.
My job was to unpack the bikes, put them together, change the oil, PDI, fit number plates, and then take them out for a MAX 5 mile ride, but sometimes I forgot about the five mile rule
Honda CBX was one of my favs, along with the GS1000EN, Yamaha DOHC 750 Shaft drive.
these bikes are now collectors items worth loads,
Suzuki GS1000EN was about £1900 in 1980, (4 dollars to the pound back then) and was building 2-3 a day, now they are worth from about £5000-9000 if you can find a good one
in about 1983 I moved to cars, worked for Mazda, Ford, Jaguar, and the cars that I have driven I have lost count, Raced a Vauxhall Firenza 2.0 in club series in 1987-8, and said Hi to a wall at Snetterton at about 75MPH in the rain, destroyed the car and at the time could not rebuild it, so that was the end of racing,
not driver error, I was tagged on the rear corner on one one of the 80MPH bends, wet grass the rest is history.
I just remembered I had a Ferrari 308 GTB for about 2 months, horrid thing, crap gearbox and a friendly silverback gorilla to push the clutch down,
But it did turn a few heads
