Credit goes to the workshops, they could work miracles refitting imports with improvised local kits. The 'Poojoe' 303 was a Goan mainstay in E. Africa. The company pulled out of N. America in the 80's. The Brit version of the Ambassador was the Morris Oxford: I saw a survivor from the fifties in Goa, in the late sixties. Naguesh - Pearson, mellow and reassuaring, left one feeling India had won, even when we had lost. eric. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Was just wondering if anyone has heard of Surya (or Suria), the taxi-driver from Mapusa, who had an excellently-maintained Peugeot, which he maintained literally for decades without a scratch. Someone was narrating stories about him the other day.... Has anyone one else any idea of this? FN
PS: Apparently there was a saying in the Mapusa area at one time that anyone who maintained their car well had "samke Surya-bashin dorla murre"! Or, you've maintained it just as Surya would....