Post by tihomir88 on Jul 9, 2023 4:35:42 GMT -5
Thank you for your comments gentlemen.
Everyone has some family cars in their collections.
Here is a model of my first car.
Backstory, my father used to have a 1988 Wartburg 353W as a family car. He and mom bought it new back then just before the fall of the communist regime in Bulgaria.
The car was baby blue with a panaroma roof. Also quite noisy due to being 2-stroke powered.
90s and early 00s were turbulent times in Bulgaria, sometimes it was a matter of survival and cars were more or less a luxury item.
Thus dad stayed with the Wartburg up until 2003-04, when he had a minor accident and decided not to repair it.
As many others back in the early 00s, my family had the resources to buy a second hand car, imported from Western Europe.
Dad was choosing between a Nissan Sunny and Volvo 460 GLE, I wanted the Volvo and when he went to buy the Nissan it was sold already.
Thus we ended with a 1993 Volvo 460 GLE.
For the next 5 years it served my family quite well without many issues. Somewhere around 2009 we bought our next car a W211 E-class (which I still own)
and the Volvo was not used regularly at all. I had my driving license in 2007 but didn't drive until 2013. Logically, my first car became the Volvo.
I drove it from 2013 to 2016 and again, it was doing its job without many repairs. Just the regular oil changes and some smaller stuff.
Being an early 90s car it lacked A/C and this was a big deal for me. I sold it to a colleague of mine for 500 euros and bought my second car 2003 Mazda 6.
Here is the model made by AHC. Sorry for the long post.
Volvo 460 GLE - AHC
Everyone has some family cars in their collections.
Here is a model of my first car.
Backstory, my father used to have a 1988 Wartburg 353W as a family car. He and mom bought it new back then just before the fall of the communist regime in Bulgaria.
The car was baby blue with a panaroma roof. Also quite noisy due to being 2-stroke powered.
90s and early 00s were turbulent times in Bulgaria, sometimes it was a matter of survival and cars were more or less a luxury item.
Thus dad stayed with the Wartburg up until 2003-04, when he had a minor accident and decided not to repair it.
As many others back in the early 00s, my family had the resources to buy a second hand car, imported from Western Europe.
Dad was choosing between a Nissan Sunny and Volvo 460 GLE, I wanted the Volvo and when he went to buy the Nissan it was sold already.
Thus we ended with a 1993 Volvo 460 GLE.
For the next 5 years it served my family quite well without many issues. Somewhere around 2009 we bought our next car a W211 E-class (which I still own)
and the Volvo was not used regularly at all. I had my driving license in 2007 but didn't drive until 2013. Logically, my first car became the Volvo.
I drove it from 2013 to 2016 and again, it was doing its job without many repairs. Just the regular oil changes and some smaller stuff.
Being an early 90s car it lacked A/C and this was a big deal for me. I sold it to a colleague of mine for 500 euros and bought my second car 2003 Mazda 6.
In 2022 I had an encounter with my old Volvo. My Volvo had an aluminium "Bricco" badge on the boot and I knew all the scratches on the body.
I was surprised it was still running and apart from some rust, It looked ok for a 29 years old car.
Here is the model made by AHC. Sorry for the long post.
Volvo 460 GLE - AHC
