Great stories guys, this almost could be a new chapter on the forum
I also remember the time when Sports were easier and cheaply available on the market also here in Holland. Damn, my wallet was not full at that moment. My first car was a rusty Alfasud Ti 95hp HF 66 BP, 8 years old back in 89 for 400e in todays money. I changed it after a few months for a marvelous 1 owner Alfasud 5m DJ 54 NR with 65 K km which I sold within a month(stupid me)to buy my first Racing, LG 66 LK. Silver, some rust, not too bad with a mint interior. A crash because I had a puncture brought me a lot of parts. Taking the car apart showed much more rot as before expected.......... From the company where I was on saturday I got a Lada 1200 donated. That was not my car so my moneypig was broken and from the last money I bought a little rusty Giulietta 2.0 Lusso HH 96 JL from an elderly lady. Great car which I sold because I got a companycar(Peugeot 305). A few months later I came accross DF 77 YF, the orange Sport I still own. She was horrible then, 3 times resprayed, worn interior, oily engine, broken rearaxle and rust rust rust, but I thought it was my last chance to buy one. Interior, technics and a lot of bodyparts I had. It took years before I started but in the 90s she's restored and I am happy I still own the car. Nice part of the story, I bought the car with the money I got from the Giulietta, my salary came in a few weeks later. I was away with the Racing as I bought it with an extremely noisy exhaust and almost absent brakes. Of course the police kept us and took the car for a proper check. They took it of the road, keeping the papers and I had to register it again officially. The bill I got from the police was 6 guilders less as my entire income that month
Sweet memories.........
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