Category: Wheels
From the No Comment Department
Motard?
Doesn’t play well to my ear, even (or especially) knowing (which I didn’t) its Urban Dictionary definition: an obnoxiously enthusiastic US Marine. Another definition: Un motard, ou motocycliste, est un conducteur de motocyclette. Les conducteurs de side-car, de trike et les pilotes de compétition peuvent également porter ce nom. The funny thing about that definition is that I got to the end of the second sentence before I realized it was in French. Up until then it’s just a couple of letter-changes away from Spanish.
License plates
Fusca
Bike lane in Montevideo
Rincón, near Plaza Constitución. Horrible street (like most of them), but this is pretty cool.
I (almost) want this car
Silver antique Fiat spotted in Montevideo.
More my style than this.
If you’re new to Uruguay, and think it would be fun to fix up one of these (you know, buy one that needs some work for a few hundred bucks), you’re in for a surprise.
Yours for only …
No, I didn’t ask. Sorry. A long surfboard. With seats. And one paddle.
Palm tree and purple Fiat
To each its own
Somebody went to considerable effort to make a VW bus much more likely to tip over.