Event Bulgaria Fest - Task complete

[andy18s]

Since posting a video teaser on YouTube about our plans, I've been warned by several people that Bulgarian cars can come complete with outstanding vignette debts, sometimes really big ones. Oh, and yet more warnings that Bulgarian cars are all ruined, and expensive. How exciting.

When you get to the Notaries office the seller has to declare all bills/fines ect have been paid,and he has the legal right to sell it in the 1st place..

Got anything in mind Ian?

Oh,thus popped up today if you're planning on visiting

[Guest Hooli]

Good to hear it's being restored

[dollywobbler]

Nothing in particular Andy, though I've just discovered the Google Translate app thanks to Mighty Car Mods - actual live translations via your phone's camera! Now that is bloody useful. "What's this I'm signing?"

[andy18s]

how have you managed without Google translate so far?

If you use Chrome to open the BG pages/ads then it'll translate automatically

[dollywobbler]

how have you managed without Google translate so far?

If you use Chrome to open the BG pages/ads then it'll translate automatically

 

Oh I've used Google translate plenty so far, just wasn't aware the app did live translations of whatever is in front of you. It's incredible.

[andy18s]

Ah...it does make for some fantastically funny moments though

The last was asking for window putty...turned out putty means the female "lady garden" out here

[catsinthewelder]

That is a fantastic tool that I didn't know was on my phone.

 

It also flicks between 'anti lock braking system' and 'willy system' when tried on a test ad. This shouldn't happen on any ads we are looking at properly.

[dollywobbler]

I have begun the search for a car. The white Oltcit has been followed up on via a contact in Bucharest, but the seller is an elderly chap who just says 'come and have a look and if you like it, I'll MOT it.' Not really what I'd hoped for, because I want something good to go. I have a few contacts in Sofia now, though none are too hot on car buying. The search continues...

[rantingYoof]

The idea of doing what you're all doing scares me silly, but I cannot wait to watch the resulting video, which will be in five-figure views within a couple of days, I reckon.

[Yoss]

Nothing in particular Andy, though I've just discovered the Google Translate app thanks to Mighty Car Mods - actual live translations via your phone's camera! Now that is bloody useful. "What's this I'm signing?"

 

So Babel fish are finally real. Almost. Tis a shame Douglas Adams isn't here to see all this. Smart phones are essentially the Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy. Need to know something? Just look it up on your phone.

[andy18s]

Late 70's Bluebird?

Diesel for extra misery too!

[dollywobbler]

Has been cropping up on my searches. I think I'm only interested in Eastern Bloc chod though. The practicalities of Two Smokes are making them seem less ideal, so Romania is big on my searches at the moment. I really do fancy a Dacia 1310.

 

I quite like these later facelift ones. It looks like they've tried to make a Renault 12 look like a Mk2 Capri.

 

That one is £570, is described as being without rust, and has only covered 15,000kms! I actually prefer the slightly earlier plastic front, but I'm not sure how fussy we can be. My latest Romanian contact has warned me away from 1325 hatchbacks, as they're all rotten apparently. Shame. I doubt there's one in the UK.

[Six-cylinder]

Has been cropping up on my searches. I think I'm only interested in Eastern Bloc chod though. The practicalities of Two Smokes are making them seem less ideal, so Romania is big on my searches at the moment. I really do fancy a Dacia 1310.

 

I quite like these later facelift ones. It looks like they've tried to make a Renault 12 look like a Mk2 Capri.

 

That one is £570, is described as being without rust, and has only covered 15,000kms! I actually prefer the slightly earlier plastic front, but I'm not sure how fussy we can be. My latest Romanian contact has warned me away from 1325 hatchbacks, as they're all rotten apparently. Shame. I doubt there's one in the UK.

 

After the 2 door the Estate would be my next choice.

[dollywobbler]

Dacia Novas are quite interesting, and have the benefit of not being a Vauxhall. £322

[Craig the Princess]

Didn't have any problems driving in Romania DW. Though parking seems to be more physical than visual in many cases.

[dollywobbler]

Well, nothing is certain about this trip, and there are still no firm plans, but my eye is definitely being drawn to Romania. I can even make sense of the language a bit!

[oldcars]

Dacia Novas are quite interesting, and have the benefit of not being a Vauxhall. £322

That is brilliant, please get one.

[dollywobbler]

Too new for my insurance sadly.

[dollywobbler]

It appears I'm quite close to a deal on a Dacia 1310 estate. That was a bit unexpected! The chap is winning me over because it has a BLUE interior, with blue tinted glass! Super-cool. However, the rear washer doesn't work, so it's not all good news. He's after about a grand. I shall sleep on this. 

 

While a part of me wants the blind panic of trying to find a car once we land, I can't help thinking that identifying a car beforehand makes life an awful lot easier.

[egg]

Indeed, you can save your energies for the long drive home that way!

[dollywobbler]

What a world we live in. I've just had a video tour of the underside. Looks mint! There's wax leaking out of the doors. 

[busmansholiday]

What a world we live in. I've just had a video tour of the underside. Looks mint! There's wax leaking out of the doors.

You sure it's just 'wax' ?

[dollywobbler]

Yes. Mostly.

[Yoss]

I'll have this one please.

 

I've spent several happy hours before going down Dacia 1300 internet rabbit holes and they really deserve their own thread. There's more bizarre ones than this out there.

[The Moog]

Is that a Romania or Bulgarian car?

[Yoss]

Romanian. Yes I realise we're straying across borders here.

[Guest Hooli]

I'll have this one please.

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I've spent several happy hours before going down Dacia 1300 internet rabbit holes and they really deserve their own thread. There's more bizarre ones than this out there.

 

That is fantasically shite, I'd love to see a traffic cop's reaction as it rolled up the M20 from Dover.

[Noel Tidybeard]

renner 12 estates are fo winnars

[dollywobbler]

Is that a Romania or Bulgarian car?

 

I'm all about Romania at the moment.

[hairnet]

im gonna be doing summat similar but 13000 miles away and with two less wheels

 

madder than you lot

 

at least they mostly nearly speak english