Now which Cigarette in SG is the cheapest?

[sundaymorningstaple]

Many years ago (over 50 years) when I was still a smoker but working offshore my pipe could get cumbersome when working. But rather than carry cigars/cigarettes as well as pouches of pipe tobacco (still carried the pipe but would only get it out after the work was done). I'd always carry several packets of papers and would roll pipe tobacco into cigarettes. First thing everybody thinks isn't it hard to inhale pipe smoke? Actually I started to smoke at 21 with the pipe only because a well off client in NW Wash. DC gave me a beautiful full-bent briar Savinelli for Xmas one year. It laid in my desk for close to a year until sometime in 1971. Nobody ever taught me how to smoke a pipe and is wasn't until a year or so later in BWI airport lounge that another pipe smoker came over to enquire about my custom blended tobacco (DC Tobacco shop) and made the comment that I was the first pipe smoker he'd ever seen who actually inhaled the pipe. Most apparently just roll the flavorful aroma-laced smoke around the mouth and then exhale. Well, it was long too late to stop me at that point. So doing rollies on board workboats was a no brainer. Oh, and while it's been since Dec 2004 since I've had a smoke, I still have that Savinelli here in this desk drawer.

[Lisafuller]

Pipes are no doubt elegant, and far more eco-friendly than cigarettes which use up so much paper (though in all honesty there is no such thing as eco-friendly smoking). But I am really intimidated by are cigars, the smoke is so thick.

[sundaymorningstaple]

I was never into Philadelphia Hoagie sized cigars. Much preferred a normal King Edward or some-such. The cigar was a short passing phase as I didn't enjoy them like a pipe and more inconvenient than a cigarette. I also wasn't rich enough and too young so didn't drip with diamond studded rolex's and rings so somehow me with a stogie looked rather silly. But with the full bent pipe I could pull it off with a tweed sportscoat and felt pinch cap in NW Washington DC where I'd worked during that time. Especially consider my ride as well. Another anecdotal story on that one but not for the forum.
My Ride? A fully restored (by me), not rebuilt, 1957 Austin-Healey. My client actually told me that was the reason for the gift as he said I should have been a Brit with my dress and transport. Wish I never sold it. Enjoy.

[Lisafuller]

Gorgeous car. Is that your own photo?

[x9200]

Sounds like the law they introduced in NZ a year or so ago. Anyone born on or after 1st January 2009 should be banned from buying tobacco products.

2009 seems awfully young... so 14 year olds can buy cigarettes?

Good spotting. What I could find, points to 18yo as the legal buying age. My guess, it is a vacatio legis so the law is not effective yet but will be effective in 3-4 years.

[sundaymorningstaple]

Gorgeous car. Is that your own photo?

Yes, it was taken in the community park opposite my apartment in my tiny home town 60 miles from DC. on the Eastern Shore of MD. The metallic silver paint was silver with a blue cast in midday sunlight but in a weaker afternoon sun it did a color shift to a more pure silver. Here another taken an hour or so later that same day.

[Lisafuller]

Sounds like the law they introduced in NZ a year or so ago. Anyone born on or after 1st January 2009 should be banned from buying tobacco products.

2009 seems awfully young... so 14 year olds can buy cigarettes?

Good spotting. What I could find, points to 18yo as the legal buying age. My guess, it is a vacatio legis so the law is not effective yet but will be effective in 3-4 years.

Gotcha. That checks out.

[Lisafuller]

Gorgeous car. Is that your own photo?

Yes, it was taken in the community park opposite my apartment in my tiny home town 60 miles from DC. on the Eastern Shore of MD. The metallic silver paint was silver with a blue cast in midday sunlight but in a weaker afternoon sun it did a color shift to a more pure silver. Here another taken an hour or so later that same day.
57Austin-Healey014.jpg

Amazing that you still have these photos after such a long time. The color is absolutely gorgeous. I wonder if they still make these... probably not, but perhaps there's still a couple lying around.

[sundaymorningstaple]

The last Austin~Healey rolled off the assembly line in 1968 The AH 3000 Mk III. Mine was the 1st of the 6 Cylinder Healey's and was labeled the 100~6. replacing the previous 100-4 (a 4 cylinder engine with a smaller lighter body). It remained the 100-6 for 2 years and then was given a new name (body style exactly the same) the AH 3000 Mk 1, followed 2 years later by the Mk II and ultimately Mk III. I had the intention of buying a new Mk III in 1968 after my release from Active Duty but by mid year every new AH had long been bought up before April even arrived let alone August when I got home. So never got one and swore if I could find a used one I'd buy it and restore it. That how I ended up with my little beauty. The photos are were taken with Kodak Kodachrome 35mm slides that hadn't seen the light of day for 20+ years. Then scanned them using a film scanner and saved the digital copies.

[sundaymorningstaple]

Restored examples go for USD50K++ easily today.
https://www.hemmings.com/classifieds/ca ... 000-mk-iii
You can set filters to show cars for the 100-4 thru to final 3000 Mk III. The 100-4s were most often used for racing.

[Lisafuller]

The last Austin~Healey rolled off the assembly line in 1968 The AH 3000 Mk III. Mine was the 1st of the 6 Cylinder Healey's and was labeled the 100~6. replacing the previous 100-4 (a 4 cylinder engine with a smaller lighter body). It remained the 100-6 for 2 years and then was given a new name (body style exactly the same) the AH 3000 Mk 1, followed 2 years later by the Mk II and ultimately Mk III. I had the intention of buying a new Mk III in 1968 after my release from Active Duty but by mid year every new AH had long been bought up before April even arrived let alone August when I got home. So never got one and swore if I could find a used one I'd buy it and restore it. That how I ended up with my little beauty. The photos are were taken with Kodak Kodachrome 35mm slides that hadn't seen the light of day for 20+ years. Then scanned them using a film scanner and saved the digital copies.

I miss when cars had character... been a long time since then

[Lisafuller]

Restored examples go for USD50K++ easily today.
https://www.hemmings.com/classifieds/ca ... 000-mk-iii
You can set filters to show cars for the 100-4 thru to final 3000 Mk III. The 100-4s were most often used for racing.

Crazy to think that cars made nearly 60 years ago Can still be driven today. Whereas in Singapore, we have to give them up after measly 10 years.

[sundaymorningstaple]

That has always been the problem with ALL consumer goods. They all can be made to last but the companies cannot last if the products don't fail or wear out. So, now everything is built with planned obsolescence. And we wonder why the earth's resources are drying up???

[sundaymorningstaple]

Back' in the late 1980's while I was living in Seletar Airbase in a black & white I had a big compound and a fairsized workshop I built in the back (it would hold two cars and assorted workshop machines). As you know now I like to restore vehicles. I bought a non-running 1966 Mini-Cooper Mk 1 that had a racing pedigree (It was originally a British factory prepared Mini-Cooper Mk 1 with a special modified racing engine and was original imported here for racing on the old Upper Bukit Timah race track. Many years, owners and rust later, time had taken it's toll but I love a good project. Picked it up for less than 1000 had it towed to my home in the camp and for the next year, in between offshore field work it was my hobby project. This wasn't a restoration job but a rebuild as a play toy, which eventually it really proved to be. I also did the painting and the pinstriping. I sold it 6 months after the COE first started. It was the last car I owned under my own name in the early 1990's.

[Lisafuller]

That has always been the problem with ALL consumer goods. They all can be made to last but the companies cannot last if the products don't fail or wear out. So, now everything is built with planned obsolescence. And we wonder why the earth's resources are drying up???

You're absolutely right. A smaller but more rampant example is fast fashion. Most of my clothes from way back when is still perfectly wearable and now considered vintage. Whereas some clothes my daughter bought 2 years ago has already disintegrated.