Tuesday, September 28, 2004

An old car

I have a chance to drive an old car. A blue Datsun 120 equipped with lastest car stereo that can play vcd. It was on lend from our Mr Roy the mechanic because our car was on service. The experience driving an old piece of junk , yeah that's right you easily own one just paying RM 300 but have to do some repair to get back into working condition. It might cost RM2000 over and even less. That's a one month salary pay check.First thing that i noticed that the door are usually heavy and creaks when you open it. As my butt sit on the not so comfortable cushion that have been worn for so many years. My eye caught a Sony Stereo which can play everything from cd to vcd. I turned on the radio and the sound was ok. On the road, handling the was so dificullt. It felt like normal car. There is too much engine noise in the cabin and the side mirror vibrates vigourously. The vibration caused the image on the mirror to dance like mad. It need some to get use to it. The journey was smooth with the fifth i managed to do 70 km/h on the meter. I dont dare to push the accelarator further. The steering was a bit wobbly...when move the steering left to right aimlessly, the car wobbles from left to right.

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