Posted on: Saturday, January 10th, 2015, 9:36:11pm
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We're on a "should we shouldn't we" retirement relocation trip in Ecuador and I've just filled up with 16 gallons (possibly U.S. but who cares) of diesel and it cost $16.48!
Petrol is 50% dearer at $1.48 a gallon. Oh dear.
So that goes in the plus column.
We've driven about four and a half hours from Cuenca to Vilacamba through stunning mountain scenery on well maintained roads that twist and swoop more excitingly than the Nurburgring although I'll admit to preferring the one-way system in operation there not to mention the absence of cows.
Occasionally you come upon hairpin bends with clear sight lines with mountain on one side and very little on the other and with traffic being light to non existent you have ample opportunity to terrify yourself.
I'll admit to the occasional whimper but passed it off as excitement.
The food is largely superb and two can enjoy dinner with appropriate liquids for not much over a tenner. I'm not sure why I mentioned that.
There are loads of informal car club gatherings mainly centred on the Datsun 1200 pick-up which is like a smaller, better proportioned and far prettier VW Caddy. It appears to be obligatory to fit them with 12" Minilite copies then do very little else other than polish them to death, especially the load-bed.
I went to a meet last Thursday much to my wife's joy, "I thought we were supposed to be looking at bloody houses...." and couldn't have been more warmly treated.
The high point came when 25 or so blared round Cuenca's football stadium which handily forms an enormous roundabout. When I asked how the police reacted I was told that three of the drivers present were police officers and anyway, they weren't doing anything illegal.
It seems that a very nice Datsun pick-up (and it would need to be) will cost around a sphincter-loosening $15,000!
On the bright side I've found one of a pair of VW powered sand-rails that have been kitted out for off road expeditions and look like something out of Mad Max. The bloke who built them is returning to the US rather than have his wife leave him and the price reflects this.
Apparently if I buy them both the deal gets better although perhaps not the permanence of my marriage.
I'm not sure whether to tell my wife about the impending purchase or not as the money I'd save by not having to buy her a ticket would probably cover the cost of sticking a Subaru Turbo flat four motor in one of them (that's one of the cars, not either a car or my wife).
So, if anyone is likely to want one (or two) Cappuccinos sometime around the end of this year you'll know who to contact.
A bit of a long-winded advert but who's going to read it anyway? See what I did there?
Posted on: Saturday, January 10th, 2015, 9:49:03pm
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Best advert I've read for a long time!
His and hers sand-rails sounds perfect too
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