The car got smashed up so badly that it had to go to the scrapyard. Well, that led to the obvious need for a new ride. My wife - Pernilla - and I decided that the criteria for the next car should be that it should be fun to ride and it should make you smile when you look at it, that was pretty much it.
 |
| Photo from the ad. |
It was Pernilla who found the 1979 Daihatsu F50 Taft on the web. It was for sale way up north in Lappland, a thousand kilometers from us! Even so, we both decided that this is exactly what we wanted.
We had never seen or heard of the Taft before - they were never sold in Sweden - but we found lots of info on the web - Let's do this! So, I took the night train to Lappland - unfortunatly I had booked a seat in the coach that allows pets, and there where loads of them, every species known to man. Didn't sleep for more than three hours that night but I was to excited to care.
I arrived at lunch and met up with the owner, a nice lady who had lived in Australia with her family for some years - that's where they bought it. They liked it so much that they decided to bring it along, halfway around the globe, when they moved back to Sweden.
The photo from the ad didn't really tell if there was rust or not but there where lots of grey patches that made me a bit nervous - was it all rusted underneath? Turns out that it was just sprayed to cover some scratch marks and spots where the paint was worn. There was actually nothing more than some minor spots of surface rust here and there, pretty amazing actually. It is quite rare to find a Taft in this condition.
I gladly handed over the money and headed south. The 2.5l diesel engine ran smooth with loads of torque. I think I smiled all the way home!
 |
| At home after a long, bumpy, noisy, fun ride. |
No comments:
Post a Comment