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00:08Mum, what are you doing? We said we'd be there at 6.30.
00:11I've got the snack bag, look.
00:12I've got the snack bag. Can we go please?
00:34Oh, I'm sorry. Who's giving her that? I've just had all this cleaned. Maisie, can you get that off her
00:40please?
00:41Oh, let her have it. She's enjoying it.
00:44No Mum, she's going to get it everywhere.
00:56Mum, do you think I can't see what you're doing?
00:59It's only a bit of chocolate.
01:00Yeah, and most of it won't make it into her mouth.
01:04Is this the one?
01:05Maybe you can have it.
01:07Maybe you can have it.
01:09Right. You ready to go?
01:12Yeah!
01:12Yeah!
01:25Sylvia's mother says Sylvia's busy, too busy to come to the phone.
01:37Sylvia is a 1984 Opel Senatette, and she's the only car we've ever owned.
01:44I bought her with the wages I got from working the tills at Woolworths.
01:53So far, she's needed two new cam belts, a carburetor, three sets of tyres, and the midsection of the exhaust
01:59replacing.
02:02Other than that, she's been perfect. Better than perfect. She's been ours.
02:08Please, Mrs. Avery, I just gotta talk to one.
02:15I'll only keep her one.
02:19Please, Mrs. Avery, I just wanna tell her goodbye.
02:26Mum?
02:29Mum?
02:31Sylvia's...
02:32Mum?
02:35Yes, Maisie?
02:37Evie spelt her dream.
02:39What?
02:41No.
02:42No!
02:43Evie, no, no, no, no, turn it up the other way round!
02:46Evie, turn it up!
02:48Mama!
02:48Off the road!
02:49Yeah, yeah!
02:56That's a character, that is.
02:59What's that, Mum?
03:00Where?
03:00Yeah.
03:01This car.
03:02This car tells a story.
03:04People pay good money for that.
03:06Well, I don't think the bloke buying it is expecting seeds soaked in blackcurrant squash, is he?
03:10I'm just saying it adds character.
03:12Yeah?
03:13Well, thanks.
03:13I'll be sure to tell the bloke that.
03:16You don't have to sell the car.
03:18I'm sure something will work out.
03:20When, Mum?
03:21When is something going to work out?
03:22Because if you haven't realised things haven't been working out for a while, have they?
03:34Who likes ice cream?
03:56What can I get you, darling?
04:24Are you alright?
04:26Yeah, I'm just waiting for my ice cream.
04:28How much will that be, please?
04:29That's, er, £4.80, please.
04:44Mum, where are we going?
04:46I told you.
04:48We need to sell the car.
04:50But I like this car.
04:52What are we going to do without Sylvia?
04:55I don't know, babe.
04:58I don't want to sell her either, but we need the money.
05:02I have some money in my piggy bank.
05:05You can have that.
05:08You keep it, sweetheart.
05:10You buy something nice with it.
05:16No one ever said it would be easy, love.
05:21I don't know what I'm doing, Mum.
05:23It's okay.
05:25None of us do.
05:56No one ever said it would be easy, too.
05:57Maisie, what have I said about keeping the car clean?
05:59That man isn't very frenzy.
06:02Can you wipe it off please?
06:30BBC Radio.
06:31Back weather.
06:32Into the evening with a chance of a shower.
06:3417, your maximum.
06:35Dry overnight, 8 overnight.
06:36Tonight, tomorrow, sunny, skies, and night.
06:38Show up, let's go.
06:47Maisie?
06:50Maisie, you asleep?
06:52Are you ready?
06:53And raise yourself.
07:19I suppose I better do this now, eh, Mum?
07:23You look like you're having a nice sleep.
07:30Look after the kids while I'm gone, yeah?
08:07I suppose I'm coming here.
08:07I haven't got the lights on there.
08:09Let's take it.
08:12Let's go.
08:13Five, six, seven, eight, eight.
08:49I didn't think you were still coming.
08:50Hi.
08:51Yeah.
08:53Sorry, I got a bit lost.
08:54I'm not used to coming around these parts.
08:57Do you want to come in for a tea or coffee or something?
09:00No, we'd better...
09:03I'd better get going.
09:07So that's it, is it?
09:10Yeah.
09:12Yeah, that's her.
09:14She's a great car.
09:16Proper, reliable.
09:17And she's great on petrol.
09:19Do you want to come and have a look, check she's all OK?
09:22You're right, love.
09:22I trust you.
09:25It's just a run around for my daughter while she's doing her lessons.
09:29Well, tell your daughter to look after her, OK?
09:31Because that car means a lot to us.
09:35Of course.
09:40I guess you want paying on you?
09:42Yes, please.
09:50It's all in there.
09:51I'll chuck it if you like.
09:54Trust goes both ways, I suppose.
09:59I'd better get going, it's set to rain.
10:13That car's given us a lot of happy memories.
10:20Please look after him, yeah?
10:21Yeah.
10:24Yeah, understood.
10:27Yeah.
10:39Understood.
10:45I don't know.
10:49I do not want to go.
10:53I do not want to go too.
10:54I don't want to go too much.
10:54Not for me.
10:54I never want to go too much.
10:55I just want to go too much.
10:56But now let's go.
10:57I can't go too much.
10:58I wish I could go too much.
10:59We can't live.
10:59So, can't let her go.
10:59Oh, I want to go too much today?
11:00Now let's walk too much.
11:00If I go too much.
11:15Let's go.
11:41Let's go.
12:07To the person that gets this car, I just wanted to let you know what a special vehicle you've
12:12bought.
12:13This car belonged to my mum and I.
12:15She passed away February the 25th, 2015 in a house fire along with my six-year-old and
12:20two-year-old daughters.
12:24The last time we went out in this car together was the day they left me.
12:30This car holds a lot of special memories for me.
12:33My home and everything in it is gone.
12:36And now I'm losing this last link I have with my mum and children through no fault of my
12:40own.
12:41This car's all I had left to touch.
12:45I'm not mad at you.
12:47I hope this car is the best car you've ever owned.
12:50I hope it runs for a hundred more years.
12:52And I hope the back seat is filled with kids and toys and random things.
12:58My family filled this car with lots of love and other sticky things.
13:02We took road trips, blared 80s and country music and rolled the windows down.
13:06I've changed more nappas in the back seat than I can count.
13:10There's probably a lollipop or a crayon hidden somewhere that belonged to my baby.
13:14Maybe an entire Marmite sandwich.
13:20I don't know if you'll see it, but there might be a dirty spot on the dash.
13:25My daughter and I would pretend to go on adventures while we sat in the driveway and she'd always
13:28put her feet there.
13:31The dent on the rear driver's side fender and the dent in the passenger side door are
13:35where my daughter learned to ride and crash her bike a few months before her death.
13:42I know it's just a car to you, but to me it's so much more.
13:49Love, joy and adventure was had in this car, so now that it's yours, please remember it isn't
13:56just a car. It's a memory. This car with all its quirks is the last piece of my family.
14:03Be nice to it. Play it a country song, she'd like that.
14:09Talk to them if you like. I'm sure they'd like to see and hear about any new adventures
14:14she'd take in this car.
14:16Dad, I love it! Can we take it for a drive?
14:19Of course, love. Come on.
14:22Oh, by the way, her name is Sylvia. The very first day we got her, we all rode round and
14:27Dr Hook's Sylvia's mother came on the radio.
14:31The name just kind of stuck when my daughter said that's what we should name the car.
14:35So please don't change her name. Be blessed. Be happy. Live and love like we did.
14:44I wish you and Sylvia all the best.
14:50You're riding with angels now.
14:55My angels.
15:25You're riding with angels now.
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