Show me a nice old car

pschauss said:
My 1965 VW when it was new. (Aires 35-IIIL - Kodachrome ) I sold the car a long time ago, but I still have the camera although the shutter is frozen.

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You should have kept it ;-) The first car my parents could regularly use (=borrow from work) was a beetle, so I have been wanting one for more than 30 years. And a few weeks ago I saw this. Slight crusty, but running and very, very cheap. Oh, the temptation:


Slightly crusty yet irrisistible by Ronald_H, on Flickr

And this is what I own myself, with the exhaust freshly repaired too!


Kadett, spring 2013 by Ronald_H, on Flickr
 
My dads first Mercedes - it is waiting in the shed since the 1970s for its restoration:


Moskwa 5_01_Fomapan 100_007 von thomas.78 auf Flickr

This 1960 VW Käfer (Beetle) once (ca. 1972) belonged to a coworker of my mom.
When the oil pressure indicater had flashed she drove it to the workshop. They told her that the car needed a new engine and that is would be to expensive for such an old car, but offerd her 100 DM for the VW.
My mother told my dad about this and he offered her coworker 150 DM for it.

When he got the car, he figured out that it was just the oil pressure sensor which he paid about 5 DM for...

He drove the car for 4-5 years and put it into the same shed as the Mercedes. At 1998 we pull the Käfer out to the sunlight, replaced the braking system, put in a new (6 V) battery and new fuel into it and then I drove it for 500 - 1000 km without any serious problem.
As I liked driving the Käfer I planned to restore it.

But unfortunately I did not have that much time while studying so the progress was/is quite slow.

One and a half year agou I finished all the mecanical parts:



Super_Ikonta_Delta400_01_001 von thomas.78 auf Flickr

Now I have to do the bodywork, which I hope to complete this or next year...
 
"The car was from the pool. Bond had been offered the Aston Martin or the Jaguar 3.4.
He had taken the DB III. Either of the cars would have suited his cover.... but the DB III had
the advantage of an inconspicuous colour - battleship grey - and cetrain extras which might
or might not come in handy." (Goldfinder, Ian Fleming, 1959).

OK, it is a DB6 but who cares?

M8, 28/2.8


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I'm not sure but the car in the photo should be mor or less of my age (born 1948) and it is the model B of the FIAT 500 "Topolino" (half liter engine, four cilinder, 16,5 HP, max speed 95 km/h). When I was a child I remember my father, mother and brother with such a car drove from Genova (Italy) to Berlin (Germany).
 
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