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You really should see Blue Bear in action. Not only is he an ace mechanic, when it comes to car deals he is a skilled negotiator. I went with him to buy our new BM2 but there really wasn't anything for me to do. I just sat back, smiled sweetly at my favourite sales girl, Laura, and let Blue Bear secure the best deal he could.

And so, it wasn't long before we were the proud owners of a new bearmobile 2, a very smart Corsa in air blue. It went through the garage in record time and 3 days later we all went along to collect our new acquisition. As it was Laura's first sale, having only been at the dealership a week, we insisted she be in a photo with us.


As you can see, Blue bear had been in touch with the B.V.L.A. to transfer the plate from our sadly missed Golf so we could have a permanent reminder of her. Our new BM2 is honoured to be wearing the same plate, but a little nervous of following in such great wheels.


Once we got home Blue Bear put the new BM2 through her paces and gave her a thorough check. He pronounced himself well satisfied and enjoyed sitting in her and admiring the view round the cockpit. We had a job to prise him out from the driver's seat. If it hadn't been for the delicious lunch smells wafting from the house we think he'd have stayed there all day.


After lunch he was straight back to work, this time doing a bit of tuning to the Toyota Yaris we've been using as a hire car while we've been without our second vehicle.


For Blue Bear, looking after cars is a real labour of love.

Lots of love Chelmer and all at Bears Unlimited xxx

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

Disaster Strikes

There have been some long faces, and not as much laughter as usual, at the Norfolk Branch over the last couple of weeks. We are all upset at what happened to our much loved Bearmobile 2. While she was innocently and lawfully stationery in the road, waiting to make a right hand turn, someone (we will say no more about them as it wouldn't be printable) drove into BM2 at speed and did some serious damage.

BM2, being the trooper that she is, took all the impact and as a result our minder didn't suffer a single scratch. We were able to drive her home, and, as soon as I could, being the Bears Unlimited Chief Mechanic, I checked her over, to see what could be done.


Considering the force of the impact, at first inspection she didn't actually look too badly damaged. I examined her from every angle and unfortunately saw a few things that caused me some concern.


I realised that the experts needed to be called in. Our insurers sent a recovery vehicle to take her off to a big repair centre on the edge of Norwich. We were pleased that she was able to drive up the ramps under her own steam but we were very sad to see her go. We all desperately hoped we'd see her driving back into our drive before too long.


The initial prognosis did give us some hope. The engineer who inspected her, thought she could be repaired, but as she was a bit of a borderline case he said he would have to call in one of the Insurer's own engineers for a second opinion. We settled down nervously to wait for the verdict.

Lots of love from a rather subdued Blue Bear and friends xxx