And there it is (above)...a jen-yew-wine 1958 Lloyd, made in Germany. (It's some old ad I found on the Internet)...cool? Nope, ugly but cheap and dependable.
Poll:- life better now or in 1959?
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And there it is (above)...a jen-yew-wine 1958 Lloyd, made in Germany. (It's some old ad I found on the Internet)...cool? Nope, ugly but cheap and dependable.
...and possibly a deterioration of immune systems due to all the wonderful "progressive" food that the friendly folks at Kraft, General Mills, Kellogg's, Nestle, and all the rest of the industrial food giants have crafted for you over the past 30 or 40 years. (Not to mention the fast food joints, Pepsi, Coca-Cola...well, the list is long)...
Well, they say beauty is in the eye of the beholder..ha, ha. The old Nash Metro was a very good little beast...used to see them on the street all over the place.
So did I. I eventually sold it to a local farmer who wanted a "beater" for running errands around the farm and out to the fields. Got $100 for it (only paid $50 originally) but I did invest some money in it along the way...3 paint spray bombs (about $6) to deepen the ugly reddish-salmon color. For all I know, the little bugger might still be out in the wheatfields of Manitoba somewhere!
Reason for selling? Wasn't cool enough...I had to have a Ford Cortina (English) which looked a bit "cooler" but didn't last that long. And it had nothing to do with my driving!
ok Metropolitan then. I don't know why I call the thing by an iscream, but oh well.
Metropolitan:
Neopolitan:
Kind of reminds me of Les's uncle's old car (1956 Nash Neopolitan):
Nash Neapolitan was a way cool looking car but it had to short and narrow a wheel base for such a heavy body. A bugger to corner at speed I would think. Never had the pleasure of driving one but always thought it looked top heavy.
You would think so (top heavy) but a buddy and I used to "borrow" his granny's Nash Metro and do all kinds of weird things with it (like high speed u-turns on gravel country roads) and it handled amazingly well. Never even had an accident. With that particular car!
My sister had one of those! It drove (almost) like a sports car. Really a fun little unit, I agree...
My first car was a British Ford Console, three on the tree, four banger, built like a tank. It died in a blaze of glory when my brother cut a 55 Chrysler Imperial stretch limo in half with it at 60 miles an hour. We ended up half way through the back seat of the limo. My brother lost his front teeth. Nobody else was hurt.
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That would be me at 19 in the driver's seat.
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That would be me at 19 in the driver's seat.
Les's first vehicle looked like this 1956 Willys truck:
He says it could almost climb trees and the ones it didn't climb it mowed down. lol Only things he didn't like about it were the vacuum driven wipers and the heater box was missing, so you got heat year round from it. lol
He says it could almost climb trees and the ones it didn't climb it mowed down. lol Only things he didn't like about it were the vacuum driven wipers and the heater box was missing, so you got heat year round from it. lol
What? No airbags? How about shoulder belts? Nope. What a cool car. Built out of real materials like steel. Too bad about the Imperial stretch limo and the Ford though. I had a couple of those "blazes of glory" but nothing quite as spectacular as that. Whew!
Les's first vehicle looked like this 1956 Willys truck:
He says it could almost climb trees and the ones it didn't climb it mowed down. lol Only things he didn't like about it were the vacuum driven wipers and the heater box was missing, so you got heat year round from it. lol
The term "built like a brick sh*t-house comes to mind.
These days most new cars some with three year bumper to bumper warrantee, some of them offer six years bumper to bumper warrantee. You didn’t have those in 1959. If you buy a used car well, there are used car warrantees.
Seven years is about as long as I keep a car. After that it is out of warrantee and repair bills start mounting up. So it is time to get a new car.
But unless your car is a real clunker, I don’t think you have to worry abut huge repair bills.
This is incredibly subjective.
I know people that put low mileage on their vehicles, give them the regular servicing as per the manufacturers and they last forever. I know others who put more miles on, or don't keep up on the maintenace as well, they change vehicles a lot more frequently. It all depends on how much use you expect and how much effort you are willing to put into upkeep.
Well, that's right, I think the best formula is probably to buy one two years old maintain it properly and keep it 15 years or more. You can do a lot of repairs on a vehicle just for the cost of the P.S.T. and the G.S.T. on another vehicle.
You first....
In 1959 I was three. What could a three year old do to prove himself a man to you?
In 1959 I was three. What could a three year old do to prove himself a man to you?