We had to drop our car at the Mitsubishi dealer for service the other day, and parked behind this red one. It must have just arrived from the port; it says Nelson on the rear window.There are a lot of Japanese imports in Nelson, probably like anywhere else. Some of the commercial vehicles still have the names of the organizations in Japan: "so-and-so kindergarten" on the side of a van, "this-and-that Construction" on small- or mid-sized trucks, and so forth. We've also been approached by a few strangers, who find us by word of mouth, to read car maintenance records to see if the vehicles have been in serious accidents before.
Interesting shot and I'm glad you can read the records so dangerous cars aren't sold.
ReplyDeletekudos to you for being able to read records! and what a nice writing on the window, tempting me to write my own gibberish as well :)
ReplyDeletethank you for the help in the forum about makign the image larger
Yeah there are a lot of Japanese imports here in Calcutta too including the electronic goods as also the cars...a nice shot!
ReplyDeleteDriving on the Autobahn here there are always many trucks loaded with cars who have been in accidents, heading East. Eastern Europa must be full of restored accident cars from the West. Intersting global phenomenon, the trade in accident cars.
ReplyDeletethat's definitely a car you don't see in Canada....
ReplyDeleteWe found some yen under the carpet of our Honda CRV.....
ReplyDeleteThank you for your visits, everyone.
ReplyDeleteI do recall this one older gentleman - he came to ask if I were who they told him I would be, then walked up this very steep drive way again, and got his daughter who was recently in a very bad car accident, and the two of us had to talk her out of buying another ex-accident car. She was going to get right back on the horse, as it were.
Mind you, most of the manuals we've read were of normal cars with no horrific history.
is in New Zealand a left side traffic? or a right one?
ReplyDeleteI wish to be able to read Japanese characters:)
Ummmm... Same as UK and Japan - opposite of the US and Korea, Zsolt. Driver sits on the right side of the car on most cars...
ReplyDeleteThat means it's the same side of Singapore :-)
ReplyDeleteAre they re-conditioned car that arrived in Nelson?
I'm not sure what's done in Japan, except maybe clean it up a bit. Most of the work is down in New Zealand.
ReplyDeleteWe used to have a big Honda plant right here in Nelson that built NZ-built Hondas, but that closed in the late 90's. Now we have a much smaller place that inspects and, I'd imagine, reconditions imports to be distributed to the rest of NZ.