The car is ready! - Toyota Corolla, 1.2 L, 1974
I collected everything, installed everything, checked it on the go. One of the clients, a Tatar, whom I drove from the garage to the house for a long time, was silent, then he could not resist, swore plaintively and said: Their cars did not creak 20 years ago, and now they don’t creak, but ours (he had 2108) creak all my life ...
The first thing we decided to do was to go to Odessa for a run-in, let's say. With children (11 and 9 years old) and a dog, a poodle. For Nikolaev, they were penalized for a non-working headlight (the near one burned out), and at the entrance to Odessa, an earring of the clutch cable burst. The rope was built up with a bar from a children's metal constructor, and we drove on. It turned out to be a big problem to buy a light bulb in the center of Odessa, and they were embarrassed to offer me a set;)))
In general, they rolled fine, only the tires were very strained, urgently needed to be changed. 12 "is a rare size then.
By the way, we managed to find rubber only in the winter, at the end of 1996. But then I was already ... on one leg - I fell through the broken slate in the workshop on the concrete floor. Nevertheless, this did not prevent me from sitting behind the wheel in a month, with crutches nearby. Well, do not walk on one leg for 4 months!
Well, Toyota wouldn't leave you! Especially after you saved her life. Yes, and I, probably, if I had rights, would not have survived at home. Now I look with envy at my mother's crusts, and with my own - and at home ...
Yes, you know, from the perspective of four months (by that time it was already less than three) on foot on crutches, it did not get warmer, the brakes on the car were, although without a vacuum cleaner, but still good. I didn't drive much, and didn't press hard. And in extreme cases, you can press the brake with the left, and the handbrake was excellent.