Up and at 'em!

Time to rise and shine and go out and conquer the world!

At least try to conquer the job that is sitting on my desk.

Thinking about it lately, and my life has been punctuated by the cars of my life.

I have broken down all over the place, and have been to all sorts of places often in vehicles that you probably rather not go there in.

But then again, I have had old FIAT's, and that is a recipe for 'automotive interest' if there ever was one.

The Italians it seems have a certain knack for making incredibly engaging machinery, but not always in the past the same knack for making them reliable.
I have some position of experience to speak from. I have owned one and a half FIAT's and half owned another one.

I have had a 128 sedan - 1300 and 4 speed box - absolute ripper, that never stopped and never burned oil. The oil dripped out the bottom so fast it didn't have the time to burn (thought it was a Land Rover that one!).
It also regularly overheated, but it never stopped.
Actually that was another problem - the brakes would occasionally fail. My girlfriend of the time (now wife) never knew - I just drove more gently and used the gears and handbrake. Worked. That was the half owned, as it was actually Dad's car. He never knew about the brakes because I never told him - he would not have been happy to know I drove it with no brakes. Come to think of it - now I think back I can understand why.
Get home check it over, fill the brake fluid and she would be good for another month - not even losing fluid, until then in the course of a single drive the fluid would disappear, and with it the brakes.
A FIAT 2300 sedan - 1967 limo - lovely car, but the previous owner knew nothing about cars and although we rebuilt the motor three times it never was reliable. One trip we actually used more oil than petrol to get home, literally.
The half FIAT I have owned was a LADA Niva - a small 4x4 that was half ripped off from FIAT, and half ripped off from Land Rover, surely a reliability basketcase, but in fact I never had any reliability problems with it. In fact the only problem I had with it, was that it ended up being too small - growing family doesn't fit in a small 4x4.

I have a propensity to get strange cars, and I have paid for that over the years. As a result I have broken down in varied places, and taken the wrong sort of car into other places too.

Maybe I should start another place just to record those? My life according to the wheels under me or something like that.

Anyway, breaky finished, have to get my shoes on and get to the train.

Skellibert.