Hi,

 

I'm going to sound a little bit sad here, but what the hell...

 

Does anyone else wave at other Yeti's when driving around... and get disappointed when none of them wave back?

 

We had an hours drive yesterday from Sutton to the Surrey Hills near Guildford and came up with a new game: guess the colour of the next Yeti.

 

We came across 12 en-route, I got two right, the wife got one.

 

Any other Yeti games?

 

A

I will wave to you!

Back in the day, as they say, most owners spotted other Yetis as there were so few around.  The so-called Yeti Grin was common and the wave of companionship was almost automatic.  My feeling is that there are now so many Yetis in second, third or whatever ownership that the novelty is long gone.  My first Yeti (2012) was only the second in the area and the sighting of another was a once-a-month event.  Now there are at least six that we frequently see locally, and as many again that we see now and then.  Yesterday we had to go out of our usual territory and in a twenty miles or so we saw a dozen Yetis. 

 

I still raise the hand of friendship but it's a long, long time since it was returned.  If you'd put the model and colour of your Yeti in your profile I promise to watch out for you when I'm around Sutton 🙂 .

 

 

I did that initially (I used to drive Series III Landies and there it was compulsory) but up here in the Highlands every other person has a Yeti so it doesn't seem to be a thing :-(

Good heavens no...!  Especially if it's one of the low-rent models or even worse, one of the pre-facelift ones.....

Nay, nay, never....

 

Edited 28 August, 20205 yr by Schtum

Maybe if I owned one of these and saw another coming the other way it's possible i might raise the forefinger an inch or so .... but, to another Yeti,  no, I'm afraid not. Far too common a sight.

 

And, to be honest, the thought of playing such games as "guesss the colour of the next Yeti" does sound a tiny bit childish.  But then, at 69, I'm not a child, so maybe that's not entirely unexpected.

 

(as it happens I did spot an example of the car pictured below on the road in Essex about 20 years ago and confess it took me a while to identify it. I suspect I might not see another in the time I have left)

 

 

 

 

Oh c'mon, Stan!  69 is still middle-aged nowadays! 

 

Anyway, I give up - what the heck IS that Frankenstein? 🥴

 

2 hours ago, oldstan said:

Maybe if I owned one of these and saw another coming the other way it's possible i might raise the forefinger an inch or so .... but, to another Yeti,  no, I'm afraid not. Far too common a sight.

 

And, to be honest, the thought of playing such games as "guesss the colour of the next Yeti" does sound a tiny bit childish.  But then, at 69, I'm not a child, so maybe that's not entirely unexpected.

 

(as it happens I did spot an example of the car pictured below on the road in Essex about 20 years ago and confess it took me a while to identify it. I suspect I might not see another in the time I have left)

 

 

 

 

 

Nah!! At 60 I declared I would start to grow old disgracefully, and if that includes playing silly games then let's go for it!!

And the first thing I did was got my ear pierced.

Well,  the front end looks rather like an Austin Atlantic,  except the headlights are in the wrong place;  but that three-wheeler rear end has me beat.

Edited 29 August, 20205 yr by Zarniwoop

In the late 70s when we had a S100 then later the Estelle most other Skoda drivers waved at one another, and it didn't seem sad.😀

 

I refuse to be drawn into the irrefutable inadvisability of having one's ear(s) pierced at the age of 60 with the inevitable consequence of adorning one's lughole(s) with items of debatably distatsteful and, possibly, cheap jewellery.  🤯

 

Re. my age ... no, I fear I'm well and truly on the home straight. Any semblence of middle agedness is well and truly gone and (due to advancing senility) forgotten. The amazing thing is I don't actually look like your average 69 year old, with most of my hair still extant and not all of it grey  ... however my mental advancement into the territory of "miserable old bugger" is fully developed. Admittedly it still needs a bit more perfecting and refining but I consider my argumentative, negative and disapproving disposition to be coming on nicely. 😡

 

Oh, and the make of the car .... I would put my hand on heart and say I was 99.9% certain I saw a Tatra 87 that day all those years ago.  Hence me saying it's highly unlikely I'll ever see another.  Had I not been going the opposite direction and had it been possible to have a closer look then I would surely have done so. I think the expression goes something like   "as rare as rocking horse s***t".

So,  a Tatra 87.....since that dates from before WW2 Austin obviously copied the front end for the Austin Atlantic.......even as far as the oddly split windscreen.  (And I realise now it only looks like 3-wheeler)

Point taken re. the Austin Atlantic - I vaguely recall that when I got home after seeing the Tatra I was drawn to thinking the same - but - the back half of the Tatra is totally unforgettable ... once seen, never to be mistaken for the Austin.

 

I can clearly remember exactly remember where I saw it - it was in Loughton High Road in Essex and was heading away from Woodford, towards Epping and I kept wondering who would have been driving such a car, for it really, really is a rare thing to spot on the public road. It was silver. How I wish I could have looked around it and, perhaps, gained an insight as to who the owner might have been. It surely must have been a gentleman of substance coz they're worth a fortune.

 

 

 

I'm intrigued.  So I Googled, as one does, and found that Bonham's sold one in 2012: 

 

quote

Lot 424

1941 Tatra T87 Aerodynamic Saloon

Chassis no. 49870 Engine no. 12786345

 

Sold for US$ 280,000 (£ 210,247) inc. premium

unquote

 

Interesting to see it's date - 1941;  early in WW2.   And anyone who remembers the Austin Atlantic is definitely showing signs of antiquity!  I admit, warily, that I still have my Dinky version (a much battered pink!)...🤫

 

2 hours ago, oldstan said:

I refuse to be drawn into the irrefutable inadvisability of having one's ear(s) pierced at the age of 60 with the inevitable consequence of adorning one's lughole(s) with items of debatably distatsteful and, possibly, cheap jewellery.  🤯

 

Re. my age ... no, I fear I'm well and truly on the home straight. Any semblence of middle agedness is well and truly gone and (due to advancing senility) forgotten. The amazing thing is I don't actually look like your average 69 year old, with most of my hair still extant and not all of it grey  ... however my mental advancement into the territory of "miserable old bugger" is fully developed. Admittedly it still needs a bit more perfecting and refining but I consider my argumentative, negative and disapproving disposition to be coming on nicely. 😡

gold 

Oh, and the make of the car .... I would put my hand on heart and say I was 99.9% certain I saw a Tatra 87 that day all those years ago.  Hence me saying it's highly unlikely I'll ever see another.  Had I not been going the opposite direction and had it been possible to have a closer look then I would surely have done so. I think the expression goes something like   "as rare as rocking horse s***t".

 

Cheap jewellery!!!!! Cheeky beggar!! Currently adorned with a 18c gold Welsh dragon and all the others are similar, plus a 24c teddy bear that was my mothers.

And not a Tatra 87, but the (ex?) Technical Rep for the Skoda Owners Club of GB, who was living near Abergavenny, had 2 later rear engine Tatras, along with other "strange" Eastern European stuff

On 27/08/2020 at 23:29, AndyTij said:

Does anyone else wave at other Yeti's when driving around... and get disappointed when none of them wave back?

 

I live in Edinburgh.  If I waved at every Yeti I saw on the road round here I'd probably get done for not maintaining proper control of my vehicle.  Seriously, they're everywhere.  (SWMBO reckons it's because Edinburghers are grippy as anything and are taught from an early age to recognise good value when they see it.)