I’m worried that paint job would attract the wrong sort of eyes, and the narcs would totally sniff out your stash.
And then, like, bummer.
With Matt’s asperity in mind, may I ask you to look to see who it was who O’ed the T?
Ah the 2CV … never had one, often been in one, occasionally drove one. And I loved the Renault Quatre Chevaux of the 1950s really fun; and the friend’s Fiat 500 in the 1960s which I had to have the sunroof open as I was too tall for it … 4-speed crash gearbox which adapted itself to each drivers style of changing gear, making it a challenge when you took over the driving …
In 1974, my wife and I drove back from Thailand to London in our already somewhat aged Landrover IIA (2 1/4 petrol, not diesel). When we got back, people asked me if I hadn’t been frightened of breaking down in India. My answer was, “No! I was afraid of breaking down in Germany!” On our way, we had duly arrived in the campsite in Delhi and parked next to a young Dutch couple in a 2CV. The next morning, he was removing the engine, so I helped him and asked why. If I remember rightly, the crankshaft had broken, or a con-rod or something equally disastrous, but he’d found a workshop which had been fully fitted out with machine tools donated by some American organisation, who had simply been making him a replacement for half his engine, so he was taking it in to be fitted up. Didn’t cost him much, either.
You can keep your car running Linux, Jaysen … I really want one with a simple engine, which all bolts together, and which will go anywhere. But I can’t justify any such thing now, so my replacement Landrover IIA is just a dream.
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One Ioa-iffer. I was pointing at the seamlessness with which it was done, the absolute brashness of not even acknowledging the original T, and truly admiring the complete effectiveness. One simple sentence and WHAM! off we go in completely different directions.
Mr current car run an OS that blue-screens quite regularly. It can be quite unnerving to be going down a highway at 75MPH and suddenly see “System Recovery” appear. I have been told that … sp1? … will be available soon.
To your ideal car I will offer my Chevy Aveo. Made by Dawoo for GM. Purchased in '07 with 4 miles, it has just flipped 110K with nothing more than routine maintenance. One child learned to drive on it (manual transmission) and the mechanic brother in law says that when it comes time to replace the clutch it is something than can be done in my back yard. The car is a depressing drive, but is easily serviced. It may not meet your definition of “go anywhere”. It has managed the dirt roads in the Appalachians and Adirondacks. Granted a Porsche 911 could have managed those roads but the point is still there.
But could a Breton farmer drive it across a ploughed field carrying a dozen eggs in an egg-box without any of them breaking (which legend has it was the original spec of the 2CV)? 
A teenage girl can not drive it across a paved parking lot without the gallon of milk smashing the eggs all over the back seat. At least that is what we discovered.
Granted it may have had more to do with the teenage girl than the actual vehicle…
Gota have da boom boom in da trunk!
Who rudely hijacked this thread and started discussing cars! Wait, is that a Gremlin?
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May I respectfully point out that the first person to introduce the subject of cars as against thread activity was none other than KB himself in post 2.
And apologies to Matt — if he ever strays into this part of the site — Jaysen and I seem to be doing our best to Off-topic the Off-topic!
Whatever a Chevy? Not on your Nellie! Though I believe the Camaro to be quite desirable.
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I would suggest that KB’s introduction of the automobile was actually very on topic as it was his expression of disappointed hope in view of the hit count. It was the following post, the one mentioning the IROC that was completely and without any attempt at reconciliation unrelated to the original topic. He twisted an on topic post into a completely unrelated thread sending all us … not quite young … into the recesses of past for automotive memories.