A hard bargain.

The bike, not the bull.

Last edited by 1966 (2011-12-15 05:29:26)

Drink wrote:

I drive my bicycle. I want a car like that. Aren't old cars fiddly to run, get fixed and get parts for etc?

If you are going to buy an older car you need to have a man in a shed who can fix it for you. The car had 31,000 miles on the clock when I bought it so it was a bit of a find. since then I've done another 30,000 with few problems.

Although it's too newfangled for my tastes, that Surly looks like a proper camper FXH.

Bishop of Briggs wrote:

I hate cars and traffic. I travel by bus and train instead.

Excellent, if there's public transport that goes to the places you want to go at the time you want to go.  As with say, someone who lives in London and works office hours.

1966 wrote:

Although it's too newfangled for my tastes, that Surly looks like a proper camper FXH.

It's nice. Steel frame, long wheel base, see the space between back wheel and frame. Makes a good ride , like a grandads bigb6 cylinder car. I've since put the mudguards back on , looks much nicer and added a Swiss two pronged stand that lets it stand steady. Plus a sticker that says " One Less Fixie".  All it  needs now is a set of large speakers on the handlebars!

The joys of the road have gone to congestion and fellow car travellers, somewhere around '86 I reckon.

I'm a Brompton man myself, combined with the latest rail and tram technologies.

Have a Toyota Prius, or should I say the missus has.

1966 wrote:

The bike, not the bull.

rob: lovely photo

heikki k wrote:

woofboxer wrote:

Or what would you like to be driving?
After wasting money over the years on various Audis etc I've arrived at this Saab. Some would say I don't aspire very high but it does everything well and I always wanted one when I was younger.

what year, late eighties?

saab used to be very popular round my neck of woods - due to the fact that they - aside with trollhättan, sweden - they were manufactured in uusikaupunki, finland some 60 kilometres from where i live. VERY popular in the seventies and in the eighties. police cars used to be saabs back in the day (their black mariahs being ford transits), i have a lot of 'fond' memories from my teenage years of having been dragged into one. aside from that, never been in a saab. i'd like to have an old saab 96 though:

http://www.lihikset.net/images/kuuppa/S … 1962-1.jpg

as for reality, i'm driving a renault megane.

Very nice picture Heikki, were Saab 95s still 2 stroke in 1962? They had a lot of rally success in those cars, and the 99s, and traded on it for years after.

Mine's a 1989 Saab 900. Basically an upgraded 99 extended with bigger bumpers to meet US safety regulations, they were aimed at the American market and sold well over there. It's got a chip in the fuel injection system but apart from that pretty well anything else can be fixed easily and cheaply.

What brand is it, that cute little auto?

Oh - Russian.