Changed my transport
Having a lot of trips (around 1000km/week), low budget and nice people around, I got myself a better car :). This time I got Subaru 16GL (1986 year built) in almost perfect condition with low overall trip (~80000km).
Good things about this car:
- Very good condition
- Engine works like new, though I will do full inspection and maybe some renovations just make it completely perfect
- Saloon in perfect condition
- All buttons and whatever is inside works perfectly well
- Paint is like brand new
- Low fuel consumption. It needs less fuel than any of the cars I used before
- Fully equipped with fancy stuff like
- Central door lock
- Electrical windows control
- Electrical mirrors control
- Very comfortable seats (which is very important if you have to drive smthing like 200km/day)
- I got it completely free (thanks to Alexey)
- Quite cheap to fix if any problems (as people tell on the web)
- Very reliable (again as people tell on the web)
So now only few things I wanna do about this car:
- Give it for complete service/inspection in order to find out what needs to be changed (if anything) and make it perfect
- Change audio (I have this, just need to put it in)
Now just some interesting points about this car:
- Spare wheel/tire is under hood in the engine room and don’t ask how they do it :)
- Handbrake blocks front wheels instead of rare ones (important to know before trying to do a police turn involving handbrake)
- It is not a racing car and does not have fast acceleration, though can go pretty fast on highways
- Very nice noise isolation inside, which will dramatically improve the quality of the sound :)
- Engine is 6 cylinders horizontally 3 on each side going outwards. Very balanced one.
I don’t have my own photos of the car yet (coming very soon) , so for the time being here is how it looks like (found on images.google.com), but red color:
that’s it for now
(On Dec 8th, 2007 at 3:39 pm)
Congratulations! :-)
(On Dec 8th, 2007 at 4:47 pm)
Congrats! :)
(On Dec 8th, 2007 at 6:18 pm)
Thanks :)
(On Dec 8th, 2007 at 7:20 pm)
[...] I have uploaded few photos on my flickr. One set is all about my rest in Columbia Beach Resort over this weekends where I was invited for (early) Christmas party and second one is about my short trip to Troodos mountains to see the snow (and test drive my Subaru to the mountains). In the second set you will also find couple of pics of my car (red one) which I have promised before [...]