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Thread #119536   Message #2593889
Posted By: Liz the Squeak
21-Mar-09 - 04:31 AM
Thread Name: BS: Impending Armageddon?A Missing 8th Seal?
Subject: RE: BS: Impending Armageddon?A Missing 8th Seal?
My name is Liz and we had a Yugo.

And a Skoda....

And a Lada.

Gluttons for punishment really... !

Of them all, the Lada was the biggest and best to drive, solid, dependable and loved the cold but didn't do so well in the hot weather, having a tendancy to overheat if left idling in traffic queues. It was a bugger to find spare parts for too. The Skoda was a complete PITA, too small, appeared to overheat due to a busted temp guage, and was dark blue so I kept losing it in car parks. The Yugo was electric blue, so easier to find, despite trying to lose it by leaving it unlocked or the keys in the door overnight in a high car crime area. I respected it though - it could do 120mph with a full load and 4 people (at least, that's how far the speedo dial went and I had the needle tapping on the stopper at the bottom) and it was the first car I drove 'solo'.

We're working our way through the rest of the world now, having had a Ford and now a Toyota.

LTS