i thought it would interesting to see what members around the world use for transport,
please send in photos or tell us a interesting story.
here is a picture of my old 1992 izuzu bakkie and my new toyota hilux
hey mike wheres the canopy
Well seeing that I live in the Namib Desert, I thought i'd post this picture of me on the way to work last wednesday, before I shaved..... Ahem!
Goofy asked me to post this photo.
can not get his uploads to work.
Me thinks Goofy needs a new Pc and a new form of transport, I should send him a camel sometime....
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Hey its light on petrol dont ride it after a couple of beers though
...yeah, but A CAMEL don't need any petrol and if you're pissed it will drive you home all on it's own....
Yes and if you fit a tap on its hump you can add water to the brandy talking about drinking and driving??????????????
Quote from: Michael Alexander on February 09, 2008, 07:42:55 AM
Well seeing that I live in the Namib Desert, I thought i'd post this picture of me on the way to work last wednesday, before I shaved..... Ahem!
Mike, you have the look and the camel ... you should consider moving to Dubai
Old friend of my in PE on the last visit with his Bentley, he gave me a treat with a tour around the place.....
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Droool! ...me likes a lot.... wonder how much petrol it chows though.....
Quote from: Michael Alexander on February 09, 2008, 12:36:56 PM
Droool! ...me likes a lot.... wonder how much petrol it chows though.....
Very thursty, i guess about 15 L/100 km, but thats used very little only for fun and show.....
I guess you won't be doing Paris to Peking in one of those ......
Georg, what Camera are you using to take those photo's, really clear images.....
Georg, is that a Bentley or a Rolls Royce ?
... and is the guy in the red shirt German?
That guy, in red, yes German, he really worked his way up, i know him since the sixties, lived next door.
Yes that is a Bentley.....
@ Mike
Me and my cam in action here on my lake. Pentax istDs SLR here with my Bazooka 135-400 mm = 600 mm analogue
Not bad, but Nikon is far better, they all cost a small fortune, so you see cant afford the reunion in O-Mund must ride bicycle till enough is saved again for Africa.....
Note the Nam Cap !!!!!
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and a close up
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unbelievable stuff george...magic pic on number 2...
Quote from: Michael Alexander on February 09, 2008, 06:03:38 PM
unbelievable stuff george...magic pic on number 2...
Thanks mike, once youre Pensioner you will have the time to do that too
Sometimes i send you some Photo Album, i have plenty subjects including Nam and SA
You see i load those pics without using your board space...... beautiful
Here's my camel too.
Funny story behind this camel. Took my son to a game farm outside Kimberley for his 10th birthday. This camel fell in love with the game drive vehicle, got so excited when he saw us and chased us with foam flying out of his mouth. When he got alongside the vehicle, he was galloping along, fat tongue sticking out the side of his mouth, spit flying everywhere, he had me crying in fits of laughter. He would then get tired and stop. Two minutes later, he would get a second breath and come galloping after us again. Made the whole occasion very memorable.
I was happy to see this topic as I got my new car on Thursday. A Honda Jazz 1.5 VTEC. This has to be the car that is the best value for money by far. It has scored the highest rating in the JD Power survey for the past 4 years. It is automatic with a normal drive, sporty drive or low drive. You don't feel or hear the gears changing like in most other automatics. If you rather want to drive in manual, you press a button on the steering wheel and then you have 2 levers on the steering wheel, one you gear up on, the other down (just like the racing cars). The sound of the cd/radio is out of this world. There are also buttons on the steering for changing the cd/radio, volume etc. It has central locking, the driver can lock all the doors but there is also a normal locking mechanism if each person wants to manually unlock their own door. The windows are also electric with the driver being able to open or lock all the other windows too. Apart from the normal inside light, there are also map lights in front. There are cup holders, a trip counter that also shows the petrol consumption, a button that you can press and the side mirrors fold against the side of the car. An alarm beeps if you open the door and you haven't switched off the lights. A green light flashes to remind you remove your keys. There is a mirror on both front sun visors. If you unlock your car, the inside light comes on automatically and goes off once you have started your car. The car looks small but is so spacious. Has a lot of head room, my husband is very big but fits very comfotably into my car, he loves driving it. It has a huge boot with a cover that can hide what is lying in the boot. The back seats can fold down or up individually or both. It has power steering, ABS brakes, stability control. All in all, it has everything that my husband's Nissan Patrol had, except for cruise control, but cost a quarter of the price. This is my second Jazz. The first one is 3 years old and has been passed on to my daughter, not one single complaint ever in the 3 years I drove it. Prior to that I had a Hnda Ballade 150i. It was as old as my son when I passed it on to him and he will never part with it.That car was also way ahead of its time. I am a committed Honda fan and anyone who has driven a Honda will tell you, once you have owned a Honda, you never want to own anything else.
I drive a mazda Double cab bakkie, I need a big car, not for my weight, but I needed a bigger space on the back of the car for my CHeetah Sticker...... :emot19:
I have a Mazda 2 lovely car to drive and has all the mod cons. It also has duel gears, but i dont use the manual only the automatic. It will be three years old in September and I will be getting a new one. It is my 50th this year so am deciding wether to go for a mazda convertable (I will seee because when i wanted to get one 3 years ago my father said what about me) I drive him around and so he needs a car which he doesn't have to stuggle to get into. :emot186:
We drive a Golf 2005, had the newest low emission, drives with regular Petrol
Now our Petrol companies have raised the price for regular, costing the same as super.
Our super clever Minister for Enviroment has decided to mix alcohol to the petrol, that means all cars build before 2006 must fuel up with the very expensive super plus that came to the market for very old cars running with leded fuel.
However, the minister knows it better then the manufacturer, he claims that my car ´can run with that new additive,
Volkswagen however denies that,
Minister says thats not true.
We have reached the stage where dummies rule just with the stomach, i say arrogant idots just deciding without knowing. It scares me more and more.
So you down south have some Id..... we have them too
Problem is many here follow those arguments and vote for them just beleiving blind what is said
I once asked a question here in the forum about CO2. I have not received any answer.
That shows, TV can tell people any sh.... and they beleive it. Actually i was disappointed not to find an answer here or at least some thought about it.
To question is, CO2 is claimed to be the killer of the climate. Lets beleive that for a moment.
They also say that for example a car using about 7-8 L / 100 km, produces 120 gramm CO2/ km
That would make 12 KG of CO2 / 100 km
Hows that 7 kg fuel turn in 12kg gas
Also: CO2 is heavy and stays on the ground, i hear it goes high up in the Atmosphere
Next thing: Heating plants used to be accepted with a 8 % CO2 output,
Here by law the CO2 must be increased to about 14 % Any one to figure that logic ???
Our atomic plants will be switched off and be replaced by Coal and gas to share the base load
I agree nuke is a problem but this way CO2 will increase instead of decreasing, nuke produces no CO2 apart from other real problems.
I am Interested to hear from all would be enviroment protectors that repeat all that BS what those people say.
I know that post does not belong here, but i am frutsrated at all those decision by our Green and red Party B.S.
Any one to come in to the discussion ????
Hahahha... so it's not just our politicians!
Family transportation in India:
Where do I start........
My Toyota Yaris ......... use it mainly for work
Mahindra Scorpio bakkie ....... use it for farm purposes and to travel to some of my clients on farms
1994 Toyota Hilux ........... use it mainly on the farm
2001 Ford Bantam 1.8 D ......... (Boet, you need everything else in life, except a Bantam!)
then ......... I'm not gonna name all the horses here!
at times the XT 500 (but I'm getting a little scared of it nowadays)
when I'm loading sand or gravel for the roads on the farm - one of the tractors
and then on the rare occasion I will take the old 1961 911 Merc lorrie to go and get stuff from the Co-op
Me ?? I kept my Opel Kadett for 11 years , just sort of grew on me like a second skin ,, did the look at new car thing every year , but yes my beaut out on the open road engine singing ... did not see need to upgrade yet , it was adequate for my needs ... secondly there was nothing that really blew my hair back .. I did finally take the plunge as kind of christmas present to myself I got a Renault Clio , always ahd a spot for french cars ( see topic My first car) .. it was scary driving this new skin for the first few days .. but now its finally growing on me ..
My first and alltime favourite car was an Opel Kadett Cub 1400, brand new outta the box, best car I ever had.... named her Jinx I did..... and like all your cars...memories galore...good thing she could'nt talk,,,,,, her engine now lies in state at the caltex garage on the outskirts of Bitterfontein, but thats another tale....
Dalene do you actually drive those vehicles yourself? If so, dan is jy 'n regte boeretanni. The only vehicles I drive is my Honda, husband's Ford F250(need a heavy duty licence, which I don't have) or my husband's Toyota Landcruiser. Love the Landcruiser, best work horse you can get. Never worry about other driver's when I'm driving this, anyone crashing into me will come off second best, this bakkie is rough and tough.
The car and bakkies are just ordinary vehicles.
The XT is something different - got a little too much power in the throttle for me now (getting scared whilst I 'mature', but I used to do a lot of off-road biking in my younger years with a load of friends) - I only drive it on the farm and then also at a max of about 50km/h.
The tractors are nothing special - they drive sort of just like a car. Same goes for the lorry - only problem is that it does'nt have power steering - what a job! But I only use the lorry when I really have to (no licence for it - you see).
No big deal - but I am thinking of buying myself a quad bike and let the kids and the hubby do the fall thing on the XT! (ha ha ha) Currently the XT is on the crutch list - waiting for some or other part that has to be replaced - lucky for the bike that I am not the mechanic!
To add to this - the most "dare-devil" thing I ever rode was to sit on a piece of conveyer belt (a contraption some or other bloke made - kinda like a sand board you sit on with a rope handle to hold on to when you slide down the dunes - only this thing was made from conveyer belt) that was towed behind a bakkie on the donkey cart road right next to the gravel road between Dibeng and Sonstraal. Those guys don't take no hostages - they download you at a helluva speed. I scored the highest points for the "best" fall. Two other guys got off for the worse - one broke his anckle and the other one his collarbone. To my embarresment another ou toppie stopped to see what we were up to. Got out his bakkie and then flew off at me that I had to remember that I was a grown woman with kids and that it's not fitting for a woman of my age to "play" like that anymore. Wow, ...... not play anymore my a.....
The other manner for racing transportation was the luggage trolleys of the Bloemfontein Hotel. We had a ralley in the middle of the road - me standing upstraight on the trolley with a balancing act like you've never seen before, and a guy pushing/running down the road. Two more trolleys were in the race. The "Bell-boy" working at the hotel was in a state. That was not what made us scramble ------- the Blitspatrollie guys who came flying down the road with blue lights and sirens were the spoil sports. Said we were a danger to ourselves and we were restricting the flow of traffic. I tried to argue with them and to convince them that there was hardly any cars around at 3am, but they were just lenient enough to let us finish the last lap. That was back in 1995 - during the Rugby World Cup season - the English and Japanese teams were also staying in the hotel then.
Also did some biking, had a KL125 on/off road. Thing was so high, I couldn't touch the ground, was petrified I would stall at a robot and have to put the bike on its side stand and stand on the bike to kick start it. First husband, Alec Green and I rode from Nelspruit to visit my brother Dave in Vanderbijlpark, each on a KL125. By the time we got there, my kidneys were ready to jump out my body and then when still had to ride back to Nelspruit a day later. Nice memories to pass on to my children. My eldest son is a keen offroad biker. Inherited that from his father. His father raced Moto-X and enduros, even did the Trans-Namib, with me as pit crew, came second in the 200cc class. We also have a Honda 4 wheeler and a kawasaki 4 wheeler on the farm. My best time on the farm was taking Jarren, when he was a toddler,on the 4 wheeler with the dogs running next to us, to see the sheep and the cattle in the kraal. Wilhelm wanted to teach me to drive the truck but I decided not , worried he would be sending me with loads of wheat etc up and down to the co-op.
You never cease to amaze me Florrie,this is not the little girl I knew. yougogirl
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Hey oldman! Do you think anybody believes you travel that way?
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Quote from: georg ruf jr. on February 12, 2008, 11:38:10 AM
Hey oldman! Do you think anybody believes you travel that way?
Of course son....that was going to Lanzarote last year he he he
Diana, small but tough. The weird thing is you have this picture of me in your head and when you see me, you are going to feel so weird speaking to this old woman. Had the same feeling when Mark visited me, expected my old Markie and then this total stranger was in his place, the two just didn't match up.
Michele's Pride and Joy!
The beach??
Yep! Yep!... Left the Bakkie in the garage today, as I no longer have a dog to put in it and take to the beach anymore... :emot78:
Oh Mike dont :emot78: you will get another pal to take to the beach,,,i'm sure of it