Followed by bad News ...

Unfortunately, when the letter came, it was the worst possible news. BM2 was beyond economic repair. I put on my dark glasses as I didn't want the rest of the guys to see how upset I was. I didn't like to think of BM2 being scrapped purely for economic reasons, so I phoned up the engineer at the repair centre to see if we could get her repaired ourselves.

The engineer assured me he would have loved to have repaired BM2, and they did in fact put her on a machine to see what would happen when they tried to pull out the dent. Unfortunately it didn't come out cleanly and the engineer could see that BM2 quite simply couldn't be put back to her pre-accident condition. Reluctantly, I had to accept that her injuries were just too serious and she wasn't coming back. We are all pleased though, that she will be a fantastic organ donor and will live on through many other cars who will benefit from her quality parts.

I thought the best thing would be to get busy finding a worthy replacement for BM2.


I called in the help of Car Bear Chelmer, who spends a lot of time travelling in Bearmobiles, and together we pored over 'What Car' and surfed the Internet. Chelmer also looked through the cars for sale in the local paper.

We had already decided, that since Bearmobile 1 is now an estate car, and as fuel is now so expensive, the next Bearmobile 2 should be a smaller car. Of course, we were only planning hypothetically when we had had this thought initially. We hadn't expected to be shopping for a new BM2 for a very long time.

Keep reading to see what we decided to look for, and what we found when we started looking.

Lots of love, Blue Bear, Chelmer & the gang xxx