OT: So, you think your car is old?

That wooden structure is older than the States. Did they perform "carbon dating" on it to find the age?

Ah, good! It's like the Norskis to hold on to something till the mortgage is paid!

I know people who have a 70's Bug and they want to restore it and I have to think to myself, WHY? Crimminy, the seventies was the last time I cleaned up my storage shed.

Old to me is anything built around my birthday. oops! Were no Bugs then, or at least none that made it here.

I do remember a Jr. High School teacher who drove something that had no rear window - just louvers going all the way to the roof. Coulda been a super rare Bug.. or something else. (And that was before mind bending drugs so what I saw was real. :))

jj

That would have been a Tatra, rear engine V8! (The largest engine).

Pics:

The last link should be:

Here's Google's translation of that page. Apparently Google doesn't handle Norwegian so well.

P.J.Berg wrote:

The only thing I can think of is "Covered Balcony", the Norwegian word is "Svalgang". You can still see it at the front, it used to go all around the house. On a modern block or building you would walk under roof but outside the flat entrances on all floors, does that make sense? It also mentioned something about the outer layer of wood having been removed, not entirely sure what they mean by that, I don't think it was ever paneled, not 840 years ago..

J.

Wow, thanks for the awesome links. However, her car was a tiny two-door thing. I remember that because it contrasted so clearly with all the fat-assed American cars of 1955.

Now I want a Tatra. Darn you, Berg! :)

Look at the blue two-door quite early in one of the links.

Always my pleasure. #8~]

J.