Summary of vehicles (4 wheels only)

2008-06-13T20:06:00.041-03:00

An introduction to all this down here, photos are not originals, just got on the web, to show of what am I talking about. As it is said somewhere else, these vehicles allowed me to travel for many kilometers on each, driving or not.

Ford 1928 pick up

In 1952 I was 10 years old, my father had a farm, up north, 380 km from Montevideo, there, inside of a wool shed I started to learn to drive in a Ford 1928 pickup. The logical consequences, I broke several tools, then my father decided to let me drive it on the field, but never in tracks or roads.
With a few years more he allowed me to grab the wheel, at the begining on the field and thereafter on secondary tracks.

Even today it can be seen similar vehicles, perhaps that Ford 28, running in Montevideo, smaller cities and roads of Uruguay.

I will start to take photos of them, just to show these to you. Here there is a growing industry of classical cars, many units have been sent abroad already and also there are many units that still work but have not the original parts required. They will go till they break into pieces.

The unique engine sound, the moments that the engine didn't start and we have to use the "manija", how many memories.

Studebaker 1937 coupe

This impressive vehicle was imported from US for my father, it wasn't available at the local market.

Koromo 1958

In 1965, just graduatet at the Vet Faculty in Montevideo, I convinced my father to help me to buy a vehicle for my work at farms. That is how a Koromo came at home. I learned that the name came from a japanese city where Toyota started to manufacture cars. Today the city is called .......
This three gear vehicle, quite strong, buy slow

Morris mini 1962

In 1968 I went from Uruguay to New Zealand. I stayed over there 2 years and with the unvaluable help of my father and Inés I could buy a car. This the one.

Renault Mini 4 1971

After our trip to New Zealand we came back to settle down and to work hard. We hired an apartment and decided to buy a car, financed.... The offer of cheap cars was quite limited and thats how this quite simple and not very handsome vehicle came to us.
One of the best things I have every done.
I promised myself not to start with all stories about "she", but I feel I have to pay "her" a tribute.
She is still at a farm shed, dormant.

Panhard 1970 pickup

Just to admit a great error I put this car here. Not because of the make, but because of the unit I bought. To put it in a few words, the opposite of the prior unit. Friends used to tell me that this vehicle had more kilometers on tow than running.

Citroen 3 CV 1979

This is a special case. I bought it for business reasons and I ended travelling with it more than 60.000 km in 3 years.

Renault 4 1978

Just a vehicle to jump to another.

Renault 12 TS 1979

This the second best. Bought in a brief welfare financial situation. It had to go out in the middle of the following crisis. Very well balanced car.

Chevette Grumett 1976

The financial recovery began, a year wool crop was gone on it.

Peugeot 505 1989

This really was not mine, but I drove it quite a lot of kilometers. Technical advantages, a very complicated engine and a few "bad humoured" stops.

Renault 18 GTS 1991

The fourth of the make.

Other very important cars in my life

The Lark 6

And "el poderozo" Jeep Willys 1950

My history on wheels

Summary of vehicles (4 wheels only)