Well, this post brought lots of old memories back
we used have the sky-blue ss80 (std) from 1985-1994. It was a celebration at home when our number came through lottary..Dad shelled out total of close to 60K (including the seat covers and stereo etc). I drove that car a lot as a kid..car never let us down even once during the 90K kms we covered, including lots of long trips in unruly and non-existant so called "roads" of north india, rural as well as urban..
The only thing which needed replacement from time to time was the silencer or "
dholki", as the mechanics used to refer to it. I used to like it when the silencer worn out and the front metal section would melt and come out..the car used to grawl and pickup used to becore better
Interesting thing which I remeber is the usage of the hatch to add to seating space...so many times i used to notice the rear glass open and 2-3 children sitting inside...
it was emotional for the faimly to sell it off, but amazing part was, we sold the car for 90K !!!