2 Stroke Fetishist
Sep. 12th, 2005 05:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pyoor_excuseI'm still waiting for SP2 to finish installing. Which is a seriously long time to wait for any software to install really; about 3 hours, I think, it's been going (including download time).
I had a shower at 15:45, at which point it had just switched from downloading to installing...
Anyway, since I can't really use the machine, at least I can use it as an excuse for not working, I've been looking on ebay for things to satisfy my 2 stroke fetish... and really painfully I found this.
Anyone who knows me well, knows I have a love of Trabants and Tatras (in addition to MZs and Morris Minors); and I've wanted a Trabant since about 1994, around when I saw one in the Design Museum in London.
But not just any Trabant; I want an early 601 Kombi (or 'Universal'). And this is the oldest I've seen, it's a runner, okay it's battered and missing lots of bits, but it's 1 frickin' Euro.
For a car.
An almost complete car!
And I'll need another car in a bit over a year when I take Rebecca off the road to properly sort out her engine and transmission. I wish I could justify it. I wish I could. It's a 1964 Universal from the first year of trabant manufacture. I don't have the time to fix it, the money to go and get it, or... well, anything. Which is frustrating. Meh.
I had a shower at 15:45, at which point it had just switched from downloading to installing...
Anyway, since I can't really use the machine, at least I can use it as an excuse for not working, I've been looking on ebay for things to satisfy my 2 stroke fetish... and really painfully I found this.
Anyone who knows me well, knows I have a love of Trabants and Tatras (in addition to MZs and Morris Minors); and I've wanted a Trabant since about 1994, around when I saw one in the Design Museum in London.
But not just any Trabant; I want an early 601 Kombi (or 'Universal'). And this is the oldest I've seen, it's a runner, okay it's battered and missing lots of bits, but it's 1 frickin' Euro.
For a car.
An almost complete car!
And I'll need another car in a bit over a year when I take Rebecca off the road to properly sort out her engine and transmission. I wish I could justify it. I wish I could. It's a 1964 Universal from the first year of trabant manufacture. I don't have the time to fix it, the money to go and get it, or... well, anything. Which is frustrating. Meh.
