Posted on 09/15/2017 9:14:09 PM PDT by Army Air Corps
For about 6 months I drove a DKW (Der Kliener Wunder). 2 stroke engine. Filled the gas tank with oil and gas. You could hear me coming from a mile out.
Few of them....
Fiat millicento (1100)...suicide front doors
..pushbutton starter...flimsy.
Toyopet 1961...before it became toyota(i think)...not a bad car..sounded like a sewing machine with a smokers throat...
MG austin 1100...cool econobox..1100 cc engine similar to the english mini...13 inch wheels...steering wheel at same angle like a bus...so low to the ground you could almost touch ground in sitting position in front seat.i have short arms..peppy with great turning radius...fun to drive..
Chrysler 1962 4 door hardtop new yorker..pushbutton transmission...pushb.radio...push bu..air conditioner..very cool electroluminescent dashboard...with a dome like shape..eccentric steering wheel..huuuuuuge trunk...canted front headlights. 383 4 barrel..great torque and power..turn signal on left front dashboard with stalk sticking out...move stalk to left or right to operate...rear view mirrow mounted on dashboard..all red leather interior...grey exterior with lots of chrome..i still want that car..
Try neuropathy in the feet — it is literally a life changer for the worse.
Clear plastic VW, so that you could see the engine et al.
Oops. Sorry, I missed the “driven” part in the OP.
And they smelled ya long after you passed!
I remember them well in my days in Europe.
Pity they didn't step back from the drawing board and notice the various bits and pieces that could've been combined. The Sierra/Merkur would've been a monster with the 3.0 Ford/Yamaha engine designed for the Taurus SHO. A few such swaps were done with very good success.
I didn’t actually drive it, but once I sat behind the wheel of the Oscar Mayer Weinermobile.
And I still have the driver’s autograph!
My husband said to say that he sat in a gull wing Mercedes.
Beautiful car.
Did you sing the song while behind the wheel?
Driving a low rider you would at least blend in........
Domestic manufacturers have been known to sabotage or hamstring high performance cars based upon a lower tier model in order to protect their high margin vehicles further upmarket. Same thing happens to pickup trucks and SUV’s, afraid of cannibalizing sales and losing profit margin. Automobiles for many decades were more of a luxury or a toy outside of North America, so they didn’t quite have the heavily conventionalized expectations that Americans had. This could be bad in the instance of desirable vehicles that were judged “too weird,” or this could be good as far as demanding reliability and ease of maintenance. What we’ve ended up with now is increasingly dull, though, so we lost something along the way in my opinion.
Opel GT. You had pull a mechanical lever to flip open the headlights.
Reminds me of the old saying about scooters and fat chicks...........
A friend of mine replaced the manual transmission in his 65 Chevy II with automatic. He repurposed the clutch petal as a shift lever. Pulled all the way out with his toe, for 1, push in 1 click for 2, then D, then R. Push all the way to floor was Park.
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