The best part was that SOFA status, and the military’s conspiracy with Roh Tae Woo meant that we junior troops could run down anyone we wanted without fear of consequences. In fact, we were paid a secret bonus. I must have killed 50 people. Those were the days.

The hooptie cars (as they’re called, not sure of the spelling), usually aren’t any older than the early 1990s at this point.

Those of you in Europe, are Opels considered good cars, okay cars, or crap? We got a rent an Opel rent-a-car during the one week we were in Lazio, and it was decent.

Ah yes, the Daewoo Maepsy. In my opinion, this was the original Korean crapmobile (crappier than any Hyundai) and you can probably find some of these still beating around the military bases, passed down from departing GI’s to newbies. When I was a kid here in 1990 you sometimes would see this same car badged as a “Saehan Motors Bird”. But it was exactly the same as the Daewoo and both of ‘em were about 100% GM/Opel on the inside. The models tooling around the bases then were from the early 80’s although the engineering was late 1960’s/early 1970’s under the hood.

A real stinker.

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BTW, can you tell me anything about the Brisa B-1000 pickup. Is that related to any Madza product, or homegrown?

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