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sundaymorningstaple wrote: ↑

Thu, 23 Mar 2023 5:46 pm

Same car but highly modified under the bonnet and the suspension/drivetrain. I've never tried to drive it like Rowen Atkinson sitting in a large chair on the top though.

LOL! It's got such a distinct look, and such fun history.

PNGMK wrote: ↑

Thu, 23 Mar 2023 7:10 pm

We are counting down the years now until we leave and I've become quite tight fisted. Trying to make hay while the sun shines.

How long do you have left?

We are counting down the years now until we leave and I've become quite tight fisted. Trying to make hay while the sun shines.

Same car but highly modified under the bonnet and the suspension/drivetrain. I've never tried to drive it like Rowen Atkinson sitting in a large chair on the top though.

I sold both of my cars within 6 months of the North/South line joining the new EastWest line in the late1980s. ... older Ltd Edit Ford Cortina that was celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Ford in Singapore. It was in perfect nick so it was great for traveling on the other side of ...

jalanjalan wrote: ↑

Wed, 22 Mar 2023 11:56 am

in 2009 we managed to renew our COE for 10yrs for 3k. Oh I miss those days.

Those were the good old days for sure. And less ERPs.

I sold both of my cars within 6 months of the North/South line joining the new EastWest line in the late1980s. ... older Ltd Edit Ford Cortina that was celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Ford in Singapore. It was in perfect nick so it was great for traveling on the other side of ...

in 2009 we managed to renew our COE for 10yrs for 3k. Oh I miss those days.

Yeah, that was the year before the locals decided to see where their COE pain threshold was. They finally found it in Aug & Sep of 1994 when the COE hit $104,000 for two months running before backing off a bit. It took them 27 years to make another run at it ...

Any beer tastes better served ice cold. Don’t let my British friend hear you say that ! Sacrilege! It was probably 15 years ago at a bar in Holland V where he schooled me on the British concepts of ideal beer drinking temps. Prior to that moment, I thought the same thing - best served ice ...

Note: not a shoestring budget either, just realize the value of a dollar (as noted I actually owned two cars ... driver in the family). I took one look at car prices here shortly after arriving in Singapore in November 1993 and packed my driving license away. (It's actually long since ...

I sold both of my cars within 6 months of the North/South line joining the new EastWest line in the late1980s. I lived at the end of Jln Kayu and took a feeder bus to the YCK station and fromm there to Raffles place and the short hop to ...

I'm guessing that someone asking how to live on a minimal budget is already mentally tuned to taking the train to get around. You'd be surprised, many aren't too keen on public transport. People on a shoestring budget? What they are keen on and what they will end up needing to do are separate things.

Any beer tastes better served ice cold. Don’t let my British friend hear you say that ! Sacrilege! It was probably 15 years ago at a bar in Holland V where he schooled me on the British concepts of ideal beer drinking temps. Prior to that moment, I thought the same thing - best served ice ...

Yeah, that was the year before the locals decided to see where their COE pain threshold was. They finally found it in Aug & Sep of 1994 when the COE hit $104,000 for two months running before backing off a bit. It took them 27 years to make another run at it ...