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| posted on December 26th, 2005 at 07:34 PM |
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I got a new VW Toy.
Hi all,
I was given a present from my SIL who has just been to Africa.
The local kids play with these as toys.
Pretty cool eh.
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| posted on December 26th, 2005 at 07:36 PM |
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Doors, boot and bonnet all open
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pete wood
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| posted on December 27th, 2005 at 10:26 AM |
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that is cool. the opening doors and bonnet etc are particularly good. amazing what low budget, basic materials and ingenuity can do. Australia used to
be more like that but now we have too much cash and not enough time.
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| posted on December 27th, 2005 at 11:33 PM |
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That reminds me of the wire bicycle that I bought on the streets of New Delhi in 1973. I watched the man make it completely from memory. It is made
from one piece of wire.
I saw kids all over Africa with wire cars that they would push down the streets on the end of a long piece of wire with a wire steering wheel on it.
The cars were so well made that you could recognise what they were.
Interestingly enough, in Africa abandoned cars were thoroughly stripped of all useful sheet metal such that the only thing left was the steel skeleton
of the welded monococque frame. Sometimes it was almost impossible to identify the car from its skeleton.
We used to stand around discussing the make and model of a car skeleton and sometimes failed to identify it with certainty.
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