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Re: my new daily driver

To: Barrie Robinson <barrie@look.ca>
Subject: Re: my new daily driver
From: Paul Root <ptroot@iaces.com>
Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2006 15:48:38 -0500
I am a Japanese car guy. Well, my last four cars all had Japanese
companies on it, but were assembled in America.

20 years ago I had a '69 510, great fun of a car. Just a 4 speed.
I bought it from a kid that blew the engine and had an 1800
from a 610 installed. That was nice.

I see that people drop the Rover V8 in them now. That's got to
be fun. I think they're good looking in there boxyness. I
wish Nissan would bring back the names like 210 and 510.

This morning we decided to pick up my sister-in-laws unused
'99 Outback Sport, so I don't have to bring the B out in
this rain. It's may  be short term, it may be long term.
It's basic transportation and fits the bill nicely. Drives
nice. I really like the idea of AWD up here in MN.

Of course, if you were to offer up your DB2/4... :-) That's you
right? Or your new V8.  I'm not picky. :-)

Thanks,
Paul.

On Apr 29, 2006, at 10:49 AM, Barrie Robinson wrote:

> Paul,
>
> I am not a Japanese car man - never had one, but I do think they  
> are good.  I must admit that as an old campaigning-4wheel drifts- 
> screeching tyres man I sort of hanker after a Datsun 510.  4 door  
> saloon, boxy admittedly, ...but 5 speed, independent all round,  
> twin cam etc.  Seems a nice motor
>
>
> At 10:49 PM 4/28/2006, you wrote:
>> Seems my MG is going to be my daily driver for a while.
>>
>> I got rear ended on the way home from work today. Shoved me
>> into the car in front of me. It's not good. I seem fine. Sore.
>>
>> A Chevy Blazer hit me hard from behind. I was stopped at
>> a light. That pushed me into a Toyota Echo in front of
>> me. Pushed in the bumper a little bit, but it was mostly
>> fine.
>>
>> I believe my car is totaled.
>>
>> Any suggestions for the next daily driver. I haven't even
>> begun to think new or used yet. I don't think I want to
>> go with 2 big car payments, so maybe used. I don't know.
>>
>> Probably 4 door, smaller. The second/commuter car. AWD
>> would be nice. Maybe a Subaru. Maybe a small pickup?
>> The dreaded Mini-van? No, I couldn't.
>>
>> Oh, on a completely unrelated subject. I got my
>> monthly/bi-monthly (I don't know, don't pay attention)
>> news letter from Nokia. You know, the marketing fluff
>> stuff. Pictures of happy people doing fun things and
>> having Nokia phones.
>>
>> Anyway, the happy people in this newsletter are driving
>> a RHD BRG MGB. Glory! How cool is that.




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