encyclo - 2:00 am on Apr 19, 2007 (gmt 0)

My first car was a 1989 black 1.1 litre Fiat Uno [upload.wikimedia.org]. A great car! The gearbox was a bit worn out: you could only get it into second gear if the passenger seat was pushed back as far as it could go. It was right-hand drive but I spent all but three days with it on the continent (I got a job in Switzerland). I even took it "home" to Italy a couple of times.

The entire car appeared to be made of material the strength reconstituted pasta. This made it very light and nimble, I regularly got it up to 160km/h on the autoroute (downhill!), and repaired it with parts from the local scrapyard. The brakes had an unfortunate tendency to fail at inopportune moments, luckily I never hit anything. It lasted 11 months until the rot finished it off.

Ah the memories... :)