Indeed, but what I miss most nowadays is the sound:
the typical high VRRRRN VRRRRN, I would know my mother was approaching
the house about 5 minutes before she arrived! (and the same goes for
the peugeot indenor diesel in my fathers old sierra). In these days
you'ld know what was coming around from the corner. I surely miss the
different characters on the car market.
and another anecdote: when my parents were building their house, there
were trenches for the foundations of the garden wall. One day my mother
drove backwards in one of them. Nobody around, and she had to go
somewhere.
So she lifted the dyane out of the trench by herself! Made her my women
of 10.000.000! (I was about 8 years at that time, and it was our first
dyane, multi-coloured beige from the anti rust treatment :). (remember
dinitrol?).
iwert.
Op 1-apr-06 om 19:27 heeft Chris Barker het volgende geschreven:
>
> Perhaps we should be grateful, eh, Iwert ... ;-) They were a pain to
> work on: even the ignition was hidden behind something big (the fan).
>
> Chris
> ~~ >-)-
>
> On 1 Apr 2006, at 13:23, iwert wrote:
>
>> Ah, the Dyane, that's the car I learned to drive in, brings up
>> memories.
>> Good for a dry french climate, but in our wet climate, after 15 years
>> (!) the bottom plate was more like an emmenthaler cheese. When it
>> rained, you'ld better have rubber boots on!
>>
>> I don't think there are cars made like these anymore :)
>>
>> Iwert.
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