Pa's car was sent to the mechanic on Friday night. Preliminary assessment indicated the need for top overhaul, replacement of engine mounting, oil seal and possibily the brake oil pump. That sounds serious and would probably exceed 1K in repair cost.
The car would only be ready on Monday night and in replacement, the mechanic allowed Pa usage of his old junk...a Datsun 120Y...known as the JPJ and driving school car of yester year. The mechanic assured Pa that the car is roadworthy despite its physical outlook.
As they say, its better than nothing...so Pa accepted the offer. That night Pa came back in the old Datsun 120Y to the amusement of Ma...reminds her of arwah Atuk Rembau's Mazda 808.
We are now the proud user of a 'vintage' Datsun 120Y. The photos below was taken by Pa for rememberance before we send it back to the mechanic tomorrow night.
The car would only be ready on Monday night and in replacement, the mechanic allowed Pa usage of his old junk...a Datsun 120Y...known as the JPJ and driving school car of yester year. The mechanic assured Pa that the car is roadworthy despite its physical outlook.
As they say, its better than nothing...so Pa accepted the offer. That night Pa came back in the old Datsun 120Y to the amusement of Ma...reminds her of arwah Atuk Rembau's Mazda 808.
We are now the proud user of a 'vintage' Datsun 120Y. The photos below was taken by Pa for rememberance before we send it back to the mechanic tomorrow night.
The logo still intact
Full frontal?
Driver's side view...whats that 'injury'?
Ooops...its the signal light being taped to the body
Driver's view of the dashboard...just look at the steering wheels!
The air-cond is still functioning...hmmm...thats a plus point
The seats are pretty good
We have taken the Datsun 120Y back to Rantau on Saturday and to Seremban Tesco today (Sunday). Its been tested in the heavy rain and hot sun...passed under both conditions. Its a mechanic's car afterall. Ma has also grown to like the car; I just follow suit. Tomorrow night, hopefully Pa's car would be ready as the neighbours have been curious and asking what really happened to our previous car. Its human nature to have negative thoughts when seeing drastic change in our lifestyle.
We all have enjoyed the use of the car and thankful that the mechanic has allowed us to use it over the weekend until our car is ready.
We all have enjoyed the use of the car and thankful that the mechanic has allowed us to use it over the weekend until our car is ready.
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ReplyDelete120Y, pre-sunny boy.. that's old! But it was fats and furious, and was our geog teacher's car...
lemember, tanah landai...lemember mr. eee ah yau.. the teacher who made chalk prducares wealthy...
:)