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[granfire]

Yup. We couldn't afford one.

for us, those were the CHEAP cars...
Eventually, we got a Simca....one kinda like this (gawd, how ugly...just in bright orange. I am sure it was cheaper than a good color...)

then again, this was my mom's small car, she rode it all the way from the middle of Germany (WEST) to Spain....AND back!

hers was white though, with the indicators as little horns above the doors...and once she almost got arrested, because she told the policeman she wanted a copy of the speeding ticket, because nobody would believe her she was going so fast! I think that baby topped out at 86 km/h....
the one I got in the late 80s was much more powerful, at about 24 HP...

 

[granfire]

Phase 1, day 2 of a major go live at the hospital. I haven't killed anyone. I am having sugar sandwiches and a whiskey fizzy. Don't judge.

OMG...it's been over.....decades since I had a sugar sandwich...or a nesquik one....

 

[AngryHobbit]

for us, those were the CHEAP cars...
Eventually, we got a Simca....one kinda like this (gawd, how ugly...just in bright orange. I am sure it was cheaper than a good color...)

then again, this was my mom's small car, she rode it all the way from the middle of Germany (WEST) to Spain....AND back!

hers was white though, with the indicators as little horns above the doors...and once she almost got arrested, because she told the policeman she wanted a copy of the speeding ticket, because nobody would believe her she was going so fast! I think that baby topped out at 86 km/h....
the one I got in the late 80s was much more powerful, at about 24 HP...

The first one daddy had was 1975 (we always joked he got me and the car the same year to remember how long he had it). 40 HP. His friend had the older one - the one based on the Beetle. They once stuffed ten grown men into it when taking everyone home after a party.

 

[AngryHobbit]

OMG...it's been over.....decades since I had a sugar sandwich...or a nesquik one....

It's a comfort thing - something I grew up with. Although, as I pointed to @gpseymour , by Soviet standards, I had an absolutely obscene amount of butter on them. I mean - you could SEE the butter.

 

[ks - learning to fly]

quick cures for blisters on my feet..? anyone..??

 

[AngryHobbit]

quick cures for blisters on my feet..? anyone..??

There are Dr. Scholl's blister patches - but mostly, it's the old-fashioned way. Disinfect, maybe put some antibiotic ointment on them overnight, then tape them up for the day.

 

[granfire]

The first one daddy had was 1975 (we always joked he got me and the car the same year to remember how long he had it). 40 HP. His friend had the older one - the one based on the Beetle. They once stuffed ten grown men into it when taking everyone home after a party.

back then (and in Russia) you could do that....

 

[granfire]

It's a comfort thing - something I grew up with. Although, as I pointed to @gpseymour , by Soviet standards, I had an absolutely obscene amount of butter on them. I mean - you could SEE the butter.

if the butter is as thick as the bread, and the meat as thick as the bread and butter together, it's a good sandwich...
well, most of my family is off the farm, not that anybody churned butter, but they never went without...

But sugar sandwiches would kill me these days, possibly quite literally....can't handle more than a couple of girl scout cookies at one time anymore...

 

[Gerry Seymour]

Yup, the original idea from Zaporozhets was stolen from VW bug. And then they "improved it". I'd actually worked at Kommunar - the factory that manufactured these - for two months. It was a college requirement at the university I went to back in Ukraine. I could tell you STORIES.

She could tell you. Has told me.

 

[CB Jones]

Southbound to New Orleans for Mardi Gras

 

[donald1]

Today feels like a good day to do nothing. Just sit down and do absolutely... Nothing

 

[Xue Sheng]

Today feels like a good day to do nothing. Just sit down and do absolutely... Nothing

But by telling us you were going to do nothing....you did something.....

 

[Gerry Seymour]

Mom's having a bad day (waiting for liver transplant) - might need to drive out that way this evening. Already dragging.

 

[Gerry Seymour]

Mom's having a bad day (waiting for liver transplant) - might need to drive out that way this evening. Already dragging.

I just read that after I posted it, and it sounds like a robot running out of power on a bad sci-fi show.

 

[Xue Sheng]

Mom's having a bad day (waiting for liver transplant) - might need to drive out that way this evening. Already dragging.

Hope all turns out OK

 

[Dirty Dog]

Best of luck, Gerry.

 

[AngryHobbit]

Today feels like a good day to do nothing. Just sit down and do absolutely... Nothing

<jealous>

 

[AngryHobbit]

I just read that after I posted it, and it sounds like a robot running out of power on a bad sci-fi show.

 

[AngryHobbit]

Southbound to New Orleans for Mardi Gras

Have loads of fun and take great pictures!

 

[Buka]

quick cures for blisters on my feet..? anyone..??

How quick we talking?