I first remember hearing
about the smart as the swatch concept car, which I thought was pretty cool. Next
time I saw it was at the Motorshow in 1999 where I thought it was brilliant! I
was sold and bought my first smart...which sat with me on various desks from hall
of residence at university through to my current job.
On graduating and starting a proper job, I suddenly found I had a lot of money
as I couldn’t get used to not living like a student. Realising I was now gaining
money instead of building up more debt, I saved up and bought a full size version
of the car I bought 4 years earlier.
While saving up I tried to find out as much as I could about the smart and
spent a lot of time ‘lurking’ on the Smartclub and Funkysmart. Eventually I turned
up at the Reading meet and at my first meet met Justrules, also turning up for
his first meet!