Our USA Datsun cruises and such,,, now with color pictures! (Read 677 times)

[gainsb1]

Well, thanks for the explanation but I'll have to read it a couple more times to understand it . Just as confusing as Australia.... but they also have to pay a fee as a percentage of what they sell their cars for... Car..razy!!... and they have to pay State Insurance at a set fee..EEeeek!

Over here, we just pay for Insurance (you can hunt around for the cheapest provider), a yearly Vehicle Excise License Tax (based on emissions or cubic capacity of engine) and a Vehicle Roadworthy Test (with some exemptions) after the vehicle is over 3 years old.

The License plate or Vehicle Registration Mark (VRM) is given to the vehicle at first registration and stays with the vehicle for it's life unless you want to pay for a personalised plate.

All of this is shown on the Police National Computer so perps' can be spotted.

Leigh (Area rep)

[bananahamuck]

We pay a one time fee of 10% of selling price when you buy a car, but it's the taxes that drive up the yearly license tag rates.. Up till about 8-9 years ago we payed 15% of value of vehicle every year, but some guy found a loop hole in the law and filed to vote on an amendment to the law,, and it passed.. Like i wrote earlier in this state we are supposed to be paying a flat fee of $30. for any vehicle, even if it is a gold plated Ferrari, but it doesn't work out that way.

Insurance is mandatory here also and having two teenage boys on it is about the GNP of Mexico. We have the option of getting the individual cars fully insured ( our whole family is on that) but i also pay $50. a month for broad form insurance which is liability only,, on any car i drive but it doesn't cover me or my vehicle, just people i happen to run over.


Our licensing schedule is pretty funky but from what i understand in California, if you have non running vehicle you have to claim your car is non-op every year or you get taxed on it, every year,, even if it never leaves your garage for many years.
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[bananahamuck]

Last weekend the annual Canby show about 2 1/2 hours south of us happened .. My son and i we going to convoy down with others from the north of us ,, but at our meet-up point the guys from up north rolled in and said they just got a text from a dude that stopped for gas and couldn't get his car started again ( dead battery)  .. So since it was broke down closest to my house i sent my son with the caravan and went back,,,,, so no  convoy from me ,, but i stole one.





The weather was kinda iffy both days so the car count was down but here's what i got.. Pictures are mostly from Sunday as Saturday is so overwhelming


















Bad pic but this was a Mazda rotory powered car



This guy was trying to sell this truck he bought off a old couple that garaged it it's whole life.








L24 power


Guyster mobile .. i believe he won 1st in b210 on sunday




These are owned by the same dude (pictured) that drove that extended cab 521 in the pictures with the capital buildings in it








Motorcycle carbs and a turbo














V8 truck that looked fresh off the Road Warrior movie set.















Raw metal clear coated

[bananahamuck]

Saturday night is a hoot because your meeting up with so many people you only get to interact with online.














All these cars were for sale





























Musical interloood ,, if you will


























This was taken when we went to breakfast Sunday morning ,, pretty cool




Then we went home

[Al Ramone]

just all kinds of awesome there! prob more Datsuns at that one meet then we've got left over here! lol


what's going on with that short wheel base 620 pickup? any more details?

[bananahamuck]

Yeah it sure gets your Datsun juices flowing if your in a funk on your build.
You know that shortened truck was there all day both days and never saw anyone ever that looked like they owned it,, but that show is very fluid , as you can see the same cars parked in different places in quite a few pictures. So it is sometimes really hard to figure out who owns what.

The car club ( Datsuns Northwest) that puts this on, lets cars come and go as they please all day for camping supplies and what-not.. Example when i got there i drove through to the camping area , parked my car then went and had my son drive a couple of us out and search for lunch.

FYI
There is a major international airport within 45 minutes of this event and i had a raggedy old tent an a extra Datsun  that didn't even go. Probably could have come up with more if needed.

[bananahamuck]

We took a family road trip this last weekend , we all took our own vehicles as i finally sold this goofy 1968 BMW 2002 and had a few extra dollars to burn, on a family only run to the Yakama Nation Indian reservation East of the mountains.  The Cascades run full length north to south here so while we have lots and lots of trees and vegetation, 150 miles to the east ,, it is like a Clint Eastwood western because weather is blocked so it is sunny and about 100 degrees F most of the summer.

It was a little over 450 mostly freeway miles round trip with a little less than 100 total miles in mountain pass, windy, steep cliff turns then about 40 miles running through valley cut by a meandering river, so we got some good driving under our belts.

Here are some pics

Saw this at the gas station when we left about 5 miles from our house. notice the trees and such



This is when i finally found a turn out we could all park on as my camera had fell into the vortex of lost things,, and needed to find it.



Wife took this one















We stayed at the Yakama Nation RV park , they have teepees as you can see,, that have concrete floors instead of dirt to keep clean but otherwise pretty realistic.   Notice opening at top , ( would have been originally to let smoke out like chimney), that shows you how much it rains there.

We are baby sitting my dads little dog as he went to back to Oklahoma for a few weeks. So he went with us.




Middle son in his 85 Toyota










Sky looks like that because there is three huge wild fires still burning to the north of there ( more than a million acres right now) All the clouds you see in these pictures ,, aren't clouds,, it is smoke.



Although it is kinda ironic, as neither these indigenous peoples, or our tribes ever used Teepees as a type of housing. But we shall over look that for the sake of the story.

Last pics my wife took from the Dodge minivan/blocker car,, as we rolled out .




Having very hot weather and the fact all the major rivers are dammed ( so they have lots of water if they pump it)  they grow lots of fruits and vegetables like a giant green house.

There are hundreds of these giant fruit stands ,, all over.




th' th' th' that's all Ethel.