Comments on: The Yodler’s Lament http://www.nerdseyeview.com/blog/2005/06/17/the-yodlers-lament/ a camera, a passport, a ukulele Sat, 11 Feb 2012 16:00:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Bon Voyage, Theodore - Nerd’s Eye View http://www.nerdseyeview.com/blog/2005/06/17/the-yodlers-lament/comment-page-1/#comment-39899 Bon Voyage, Theodore - Nerd’s Eye View Tue, 15 May 2007 01:24:01 +0000 http://www.nerdseyeview.com/blog/?p=42#comment-39899 [...] The Yodler’s Lament [...] [...] The Yodler’s Lament [...]

]]> By: ML http://www.nerdseyeview.com/blog/2005/06/17/the-yodlers-lament/comment-page-1/#comment-34865 ML Sun, 01 Apr 2007 05:21:34 +0000 http://www.nerdseyeview.com/blog/?p=42#comment-34865 just let my 81 tercel hatchback be towed away to the wrecking yard after almost thirteen years and two hundred and eighty thousand miles. end of an era in a sense. the car had been back and forth across the country at least a few times. coast to coast. learned all about tercels and 3AC engines in the process. replaced the head gasket in just about the middle of nowhere north carolina. it made it back to california and then died for a few months until a new engine was put it. went for another 85k until it reached 379k or so and then the transmission went followed by an overheat in some part due to a busted temp gauge. time to let goldy as she was named go. still she sat in the neighborhood for two years or so until i found the inner strength to let her go and say goodbye this day. she was a great car. blessed be. this last august i came across an 87 tercel wagon 4x4 and for a time had two tercels. the wagon is even better then the hatchback. toyota should have continued to produce them. they are fabulous cars. great to read your story and more tercel writings would certainly be appreciated. :) just let my 81 tercel hatchback be towed away to the wrecking yard after almost thirteen years and two hundred and eighty thousand miles. end of an era in a sense. the car had been back and forth across the country at least a few times. coast to coast. learned all about tercels and 3AC engines in the process. replaced the head gasket in just about the middle of nowhere north carolina. it made it back to california and then died for a few months until a new engine was put it. went for another 85k until it reached 379k or so and then the transmission went followed by an overheat in some part due to a busted temp gauge.

time to let goldy as she was named go. still she sat in the neighborhood for two years or so until i found the inner strength to let her go and say goodbye this day.

she was a great car.

blessed be. this last august i came across an 87 tercel wagon 4×4 and for a time had two tercels. the wagon is even better then the hatchback. toyota should have continued to produce them. they are fabulous cars.
great to read your story and more tercel writings would certainly be appreciated. :)

]]> By: Nerd’s Eye View » Blog Archive » Fish Wednesday, Broken Things Edition http://www.nerdseyeview.com/blog/2005/06/17/the-yodlers-lament/comment-page-1/#comment-24161 Nerd’s Eye View » Blog Archive » Fish Wednesday, Broken Things Edition Thu, 21 Dec 2006 03:32:02 +0000 http://www.nerdseyeview.com/blog/?p=42#comment-24161 [...] Perhaps you do not know about my car. It is a 1985 Toyota Tercel Wagon. At the time, Toyota called it the deluxe model, which is a hilarious thing as this car has no power windows, no power steering, no power locks, the defroster has two settings, full and off…well, let’s just say that this car is free from features and in some places, paint. It’s kind of a hippie car and indeed, has served remarkably well on three long haul hippie odysseys, one to British Columbia and out to Calgary, one to the great national parks of the Rockies, and one along the spectacular Highway 1 Pacific Ocean/Yosemite route. When the Tercel first joined us, it got a whopping 44 miles to the gallon on the freeway. I thought it was a mistake in my math (I went to art school) until it continued to get 44 miles to the gallon for another several years. [...] [...] Perhaps you do not know about my car. It is a 1985 Toyota Tercel Wagon. At the time, Toyota called it the deluxe model, which is a hilarious thing as this car has no power windows, no power steering, no power locks, the defroster has two settings, full and off…well, let’s just say that this car is free from features and in some places, paint. It’s kind of a hippie car and indeed, has served remarkably well on three long haul hippie odysseys, one to British Columbia and out to Calgary, one to the great national parks of the Rockies, and one along the spectacular Highway 1 Pacific Ocean/Yosemite route. When the Tercel first joined us, it got a whopping 44 miles to the gallon on the freeway. I thought it was a mistake in my math (I went to art school) until it continued to get 44 miles to the gallon for another several years. [...]

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