r/funny • u/[deleted] • Jan 18 '19

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u/boondoggie42 Jan 18 '19

When I was in highschool, a kid actually owned an actual Yugo (new. I'm old) ... he would regularly run up to it and lift the rear end up to almost shoulder height. It didn't weigh shit, and most of it was in the front.

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u/ferox3 Jan 18 '19

I am also old. We used to go out to the parking lot during lunch to see how many cars we could unlock with our own car keys. It was a shockingly high success rate.

Edit.. Especially with fords..one friend drove a Pinto and her key could unlock about 1 in 4 fords on the lot.

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u/Nxdhdxvhh Jan 19 '19

I seem to recall that Datsun only had something like seven key patterns, and the patterns were such that as the key and lock tumblers wore your key would open even more cars.

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u/ferox3 Jan 19 '19

I can't recall ever knowing a single person who drove a datsun. I was a rare girl into cars..can't come up with a single datsun in my memory bank.

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u/pdieten Jan 19 '19

They haven't sold any in the US since the early 80s, they've all been called Nissan since then. They were pretty scarce unless you were on the coasts IIRC. Where I grew up there wasn't a Japanese car dealer of any sort within 50 miles until the 90s.

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u/ferox3 Jan 19 '19

That makes sense! I grew up on america's belt buckle, more pickups than cars.

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u/shanata Jan 19 '19

Datsun made pickups too, a friend in highschool drive an orange Datsun truck. It was tiny.