On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 03:57:25 GMT, "Don White"
wrote:


"Eisboch" wrote in message
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I'll tell ya ... I am kinda in the mood for a new toy and the new 2005,
300
hp Mustang is high on my list.

Anybody excited about the Chinese cars Bricklin plans to import? I owned a
Russian 'Lada' in the early '80s & it was fun to drive (if you like the
retro thing).

My wife had a Yugo - that's about all I'll say about that.

It's interesting that the former Yugo factory now makes Century
tractors which is a great product.

As long as we are talking strange vehicles, there is a farmer here in
town who has a Beloruss tractor - one of the zillion four cylinder, 75
hp diesel tractors produced during the great era of single source
Communism in the former USSR. They were the great horse of
agricultural communism being, at once, the family go-to-town vehicle,
the plow horse, the hay horse, the manure spreader - everything that a
farm vehicle does, it did.

It was his everyday tractor for a long time, but recently the beast
has developed parts disease - they are getting harder and harder to
find. Eventually he will run out of his own set of spares and it will
go to tractor heaven, but it won't die because it was built shoddily.