> so these have value only to farmers and people living in the United States.

This being HK, quite possibly the driver was a mainland tai-tai, and does not have a driver licence. Hence the fleeing. 

Sorry, we forget sometimes. 

1. All lights prior to the eggs were either sealed beams or designed to invoke sealed beams.

Jeez - Tasmania. I know the US education system is rank, but that’s like writing Mizzippi.

(where half-height doors help to prevent water entering the cabin)

You’ll lose your shit when you see the dinky little battery cooling intake snorkles on some cars then...

“Three on the tree” refers to a column shifter tucked behind a steering wheel on an old three-speed car, but since there haven’t been any mainstream cars sold with that sort of technology in ages, it just isn’t familiar to people like me.

“used to enjoy having a few liters too many now and then” isn’t using English units

That would be gearbox and differential whine. Not ‘turbo noise’.

Not a kei on the right to start - not a yellow plate! Looks like a regular 2-tonne.

I think you mean, like my old S800, the trunk lid opens -forward-?

False. Our plates are the same shape, and a just few mm bigger each way than US plates. So a JDM indent will accommodate a US plate with no problems.

Here I was, thinking Subaru was a Japanese car manufacturer. Where, just so you know, front license plates are required - as we’re not like, concerned about ‘personal freedom’, or whatever wads your panties these days.

Wait until you see the cabrio version we got in Japan!

Just buy anti-glasses-fog masks? Surely, they also exist outside of Japan?

Cool guy.

Go for the wagon, for the real win.

We had a Type 1, a Karmann Ghia, a Westfalia, Muir’s book, the poster, and my wife and I the T-shirts.

Trident, not crown.