Not Bad For A Girl: An essential part of any musical career - the car!

By PRSD, on Thursday, October 1, 2009

Katie Marie motors down memory lane with a breakdown of all the cars that have helped her get her from gig to gig throughout her career

Blimey! This one has been a busy one for me – I’ve been finishing things off before I go away to Germany next week. In case you don’t know I’ll be on tour over there for the next three weeks, and to say I’m stupidly excited about it would be the biggest understatement of the year!

This week I thought I’d talk about something that has been a huge part of my musical career thus far – and that is, the car! I had a wonderful conversation with a friend of mine following on from my previous article here on PRSD. We chatted away like a couple of old peeps in a pub about all the motors we’d ever owned.

It brought back so many wonderful memories… so here we go, I give you…

KATIE’S CARS!!

First up on my list of motors, is the first car I e-v-e-r bought, which was a wonderful Triumph Dolomite

I managed to pick one up for £350 and I loved it so much. But it just drank fuel like there was no tomorrow lol. Plus I was only 18 when I bought it and the insurance was just insane!

My next car has to be one of the bestest cars I’ve ever owned – and if you’ve ever had one of these you’ll know exactly what I’m talking about…

It is of course a Mini Clubman Estate, such an awesome runner. It had a massive amount of boot space in the back and it was so tiny wee you could park it in the smallest of spaces, and being bright yellow it meant I could always find it in a busy car park.

After my lovely Mini passed away I moved on to my first automatic car, which was:

…a Rover Metro!!

A lot of people used to pull a bit of a yucky type face when they saw this car, but I tell you what – it was like the tardis in the boot! I’ve never had such a little car with so much boot space. I remember I had a gig up in Birmingham and I managed to fit my PA, my guitars and a drum kit in there! Amazing.

Next up on my list was another of my favs, I just adored this car so much:

A 1980s VW Passat. It was so retro and I loved it! Ooodles and oodles of space and when you put your foot down it really shifted. In fact it shifted so well I managed to drive it into the front of a lorry (really not very clever!!)

So after the death of my lovely Passat I managed to grab this Toyota Carina 1.6, which was another automatic car.

This motor has to have the most comfy seats in the whole world! You could sit in them and it really felt like going back to bed. Such a great car with a proper kicking Sony stereo!

The next car on my list was the nippy-est car I’ve had, and it oozed charector – it is, of course, the bubbly Nissan Micra.

This car did so many long distance trips and was by far the most reliable car I’ve ever owned!

AND last! But by no means least, my first ever diesel van. A Dihatsu Hijet van!!

I loved this van soooooooo much! She had a tiny weeny engine that was right underneath the front seats and when you were going along you really had to shout to make yourself heard! Top speed downhill wind asissted was 55mph and she did 0-60 in about an hour, lol, but she was such a great van and I miss her dearly!

So there ya go, that’s my list of motors.

• What’s your fav that you’ve ever owned? Comments below, please

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