to chime in, Ive got this weird freind with equally weird parents I must say, now as my freind is nuts too - he refuses to drive unless its broad daylight.
anyway - his parents phone me that they need to take their skoda (dumb stupid idiot car made with precorroded yugoslavian steel). someplace and I need to be the driver to it, as they also do not drive in the night time.
So being a trustworthy person I come to the rescue (armed with jumper cables, a pack of euro fuses (sasta and tikaao quality) and some rope. Keep in mind this car has not travelled much in the last 15 years.
So in I get attempting to start it - (some kid spread news that the janaaza car is being started by the big uncle) - thinking its a sport to watch someone fight with communist engineering they are hanging from the balconies etc looking at me fiddling with the factory option rats nest fuse box in the engine bay. (sasta and tikaao fuses did not work) instead a piece of wire hot wired to the coil and carby made it run. Filled with petrol etc.
ITS ALIVE, check fluids etc. - lets go, nopes, clutch doesnt work, work it a few times to get it free - finally it caught. The tires have become square sitting for so long - I waddle the stupid car with no sense of feel in the steering. Its on the road having a top speed of 30 km/h - all of a sudden I see 3 little rats on the dash - I literally grabbed them and threw them out of the window. Be aware that this car is now a comical movie down the road.
Im travelling along and the stupid thing quits, (the wires were also aptly corroded to death) - anyways got it started again, door latch would not work - (used rope) moved down hiccupping (manhoos engine had dead compression to begin with). While moving the engine thought to change its physics from 4 to 2 stroke and also blow out its exhaust pipe - so now Im smoking the whole road travelling in a weird ugly super loud car whose door is tied with a rope and a 300 lb man is sitting in it.
Get to the destination, (my freinds relatives) ask to open up the gates to park - useless as the car wont get up the ramp, leave it on the street - forgot phone in car - got back in and the floor fell through - as the car was gathering a crowd everywhere - it was quite amusing to see the seat with my butt on it literally on the tarmac.
I visited my freind the next day and made him agree he was a kick boxing punch bag. I never understood why they had that car anyway