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Down on the Street: Suzuki Alto SS40

Last week on Friday I picked up my son from school. Since it was such nice warm autumn (or fall) afternoon and he was playing happily with some of the other kids at school I took a short hike in the street of my son’s school. Then I spotted this well used Suzuki Alto SS40:
Down on the Street: Suzuki Alto SS40
Actually Wikipedia refers to it as the SS80 and I only read this later after I made this video.

You can watch the video below:

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Down on the Street: Wasabicars Style MR2 AW11

Some of you may think you just encountered a deja-vu and yes you have twice!
First of all: I did feature this AW11 rustoseum over two and a half years ago.
Toyota MR2 AW11
Second of all: in the past two weeks my server crashed twice and last time I lost one day of data. Unfortunately I also lost this posting… Nevertheless I’ll repost it again. :)

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DOTS: 1979 Suzuki Cervo SC100


Half a year ago I posted a black 1981 Suzuki Cervo SC100 and thought it was a one time only… Well last Sunday I spotted another Cervo:
Down on the Street: Suzuki Cervo SC100 GX
Down on the Street: Suzuki Cervo SC100 GX

This brown GX model was parked in the back of a parking lot in front of a party-centre. You can see the sign saying “Parkeren achterzijde” which roughly translates into “rear parking”. Glad they didn’t park it there, otherwise I wouldn’t have spotted the Cervo!

Seen from the front it looks immaculate:
Down on the Street: Suzuki Cervo SC100 GX
Down on the Street: Suzuki Cervo SC100 GX

Apart from that one tiny little dent in the front bumper…

But on the rear…
Down on the Street: Suzuki Cervo SC100 GX
Down on the Street: Suzuki Cervo SC100 GX

…lots of dents in the rear bumper! How can you bump such a tiny car into something else? I mean: you can practically feel the distance when you stick your arms out of the window! ;)

MOT expired about two years ago and apart from the flat tire I can’t see anything wrong with this car…

DOTS: 1981 Suzuki Cervo SC100

When I 16 years old and still in high school there was this guy in my class who became 18 years old and was allowed to drive a car to school (in the Netherlands the age getting your license is 18). The car he drove was a tiny black Suzuki Cervo SC100 with some wicked rims under it. It looked a bit like the SC100 I found a few days ago:
Down on the Street: Suzuki Cervo SC100
Down on the Street: Suzuki Cervo SC100

Maybe it is even the same car and still owned by that same guy! ;)

Down on the Street: Suzuki Cervo SC100
Down on the Street: Suzuki Cervo SC100

Back then I thought it was one of the best cars you could possibly own: a small (economical) car with enough power to make it a bit sporty due to its size… Of course I wanted such a car as well. Back then I never concluded that my size (6 foot 5) would be a problem… I fitted on the passenger seat and my hair was scraping against the headlining, what’s wrong with that?? ;)

When I finally wanted to buy my first car I was looking for such small cars. I did drive the Suzuki Alto CA71 owned by my brother and found out that it was already hard to drive a car longer than 30 minutes when you are cramped between the seat, the headlining and the steering wheel… So in the end I started looking for a B class car instead.

To give you an impression on how small these Cervo SC100s are:
Down on the Street: Suzuki Cervo SC100
Down on the Street: Suzuki Cervo SC100

Yes that’s right: it is parked between a Toyota Starlet and a Peugeot 206 and it is about three quarters of the size of that Starlet! :D

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