Máté Petrány's discussions

With that in mind, here’s a relevant frame from Alarm für Cobra 11:

Somebody in Budapest told me you can drive an Autobianchi here.

A survivor.

Not the Stratos. A new car that has nothing to do with the Stratos. And all this is up in the air for now.

You need to talk to Mike and rebrand ‘Spinelli’s Hair’. It’s time.

British Rail is fine. Except for being very, very expensive for what it is.

I wanted to reply to this, but of course I had to recover my Kinja first. Thanks Helpdesk Steve! And Etele. And Ernie!

So: When I was in New York this year, and walked up to the Embassy to vote, I found this:

I don’t believe in emails. My 1985 Autobianchi A112 Abarth is very Italian. What can I do about that?

Standard wagon cleaning process.

Stop complaining, your car is from the nineties!

Who said it was dead?

This is good Jalopnik Dave! By the way, the guy I bought my A112 from back in 2013 had a perfectly restored Steyr-Puch Haflingerrel. Those are the jam!

It’s boxier.

By the time we get old, we’ll have so many similarly shitty old car stories that we’ll need more than a six pack for an afternoon chat.

UPDATE: It did not start. Then, it did, with two people working on it. I left it right there, and got on a tram.

I’m picking up my Autobianchi tomorrow, because it starts and runs now. Or at least that what they told me over the phone today. Zero mile engine, and all the things that come with it.

Get this: I have a bunch of film cameras that I should not have, but for my “car project”, I picked my Praktika MTL5, which of course is DDR stuff. Why? Because the project is to find daily driver Trabants in the center of Budapest. The film? Discontinued, expired Kodak UC, which I got from somebody’s estate. 2… Read more

Demand it!

It really isn’t. But sure, if you’ve got the space, you might be better off with a cheap 4x4 and a cheap sports car.

Mike, that’s the worst Fiat 127 I’ve ever seen. Wait. No, it’s not. Definitely not. You’ll be happy.