Mojoman Posted February 16, 2012 Posted February 16, 2012 Worrying stuff: Johannesburg - Northern Cape police in Kimberley have impounded a 1976 Toyota bakkie whose only roadworthy part was its windscreen, Beeld reported on Thursday. "In my 40 years as a traffic policeman, it was the worst car I've ever seen on the road," head licensing officer for the Sol Plaatje municipality, Moses Alfonse, told the newspaper. The bakkie had only two gears, the tyres were completely smooth, the shock absorbers had been tied into position with wire, and the driver had been using a leaking five-litre plastic bottle, which he had mounted in the engine, as a petrol tank. "Nothing worked. It had no lights, no wipers and only rudimentary car seats," Alfonse said after the car was pulled off the road on Wednesday. The owner, a Zimbabwean, told police that he had bought the car for R5 000 from a South African in 2011. He was fined, and the car was permanently impounded. http://www8.effectivemeasure.net/img.gif
gummibear Posted February 16, 2012 Posted February 16, 2012 So he has been driving it since 2011 and never stopped
sias Posted February 16, 2012 Posted February 16, 2012 Well, if he wasn't goin faster than 120, he wasn't breaking the law! That is according to our overfed undertrained traffic cops...
gummibear Posted February 16, 2012 Posted February 16, 2012 Those Toyotas just keep on going... ...that's for sure.
Mojoman Posted February 16, 2012 Author Posted February 16, 2012 So he has been driving it since 2011 and never stopped Very strange....!
TNT1 Posted February 16, 2012 Posted February 16, 2012 So he has been driving it since 2011 and never stopped Yeah, so technically that could just be a month and a half, That's not all that long...
American Flyers Posted February 16, 2012 Posted February 16, 2012 Hilux bakkies are the best! I remember my brother rolled the bakkie and it went home....
Big H* Posted February 16, 2012 Posted February 16, 2012 Those Toyotas just keep on going... The Cops just wanted it to use the engine as a generator
gummibear Posted February 16, 2012 Posted February 16, 2012 The Cops just wanted it to use the engine as a generator Hehehe....
Shebeen Posted February 16, 2012 Posted February 16, 2012 Worrying stuff: Johannesburg - Northern Cape police in Kimberley have impounded a 1976 Toyota bakkie whose only roadworthy part was its windscreen, Beeld reported on Thursday. http://www8.effectivemeasure.net/img.gifsurely the windscreen was cracked?
The Drongo Posted February 16, 2012 Posted February 16, 2012 surely the windscreen was cracked? No. It was fine. It was on a mattress on the load bin chassis. He had just bought it from a scrap dealer.
Wannabe Posted February 16, 2012 Posted February 16, 2012 (edited) Not a Toyota fan, but when I was in the SAP in the early 80's, we had a Toyota Stout (remember those?) that we used to transport awaiting trial prisoners to court and back. That thing was as slow as can be, and we all hated it. Going from Muldersdrift to K/Dorp Court up Hillsnacks was a biatch (could have walked up there faster ) We tried everything to break that thing, just so that we could get a new vehicle. No such luck, it took everything we threw at it in it's stride, and came back for more.At long last someone rolled the thing and totalled it, but break it, we could not. Edited February 16, 2012 by Wannabe
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