Good story about a friend's Subaru Brat

[G.R. Aydelotte]

As I was considering buying an 05 OBW for my wife, I asked a friend of
mine who had owned several Subarus where he bought his. During the
conversation, he answered my question about his old 83 Brat by telling
me this story: he was going down a country road near his house in TN
and came upon a woman walking about who had parked in the road. He
swerved to miss her vehicle and got off the road causing the underside
of the Brat to catch on something. This caused the Brat to start
rolling 2-3 times. It came to rest with the engine still running, so
he shuts it off and climbs out to hear the woman cussing at him. He
returns the same and proceeds to push the Brat back onto its wheels
and drives it home. He later continued driving it until he noticed
that the side window, which had been cocked up at an odd angle, was
once again back in place. He realized that the car body was probably
bending, so he parked it in the fence row before, as he said,it breaks
apart leaving my a$$ hanging out going down the road). This car has
probably over 300k miles. He wife also drove a 95 Legacy to 280k
miles. He said it still runs, but the tranny seems to be going. She
now drives a Forester. I'm beginning to like the feeling of soon
owning a car that inspires almost a community feeling of loyalty. And,
it's an interesting car to boot.It seems that if you do your home work
and look beyond the skin deep attributes of Subarus at the
engineering/safety,etc., they are an obvious good choice.

Gregg

 

[Hallraker]

As I was considering buying an 05 OBW for my wife, I asked a friend of
mine who had owned several Subarus where he bought his. During the
conversation, he answered my question about his old 83 Brat by telling
me this story: he was going down a country road near his house in TN
and came upon a woman walking about who had parked in the road. He
swerved to miss her vehicle and got off the road causing the underside
of the Brat to catch on something. This caused the Brat to start
rolling 2-3 times. It came to rest with the engine still running, so
he shuts it off and climbs out to hear the woman cussing at him. He
returns the same and proceeds to push the Brat back onto its wheels
and drives it home. He later continued driving it until he noticed
that the side window, which had been cocked up at an odd angle, was
once again back in place. He realized that the car body was probably
bending, so he parked it in the fence row before, as he said,it breaks
apart leaving my a$$ hanging out going down the road). This car has
probably over 300k miles. He wife also drove a 95 Legacy to 280k
miles. He said it still runs, but the tranny seems to be going. She
now drives a Forester. I'm beginning to like the feeling of soon
owning a car that inspires almost a community feeling of loyalty. And,
it's an interesting car to boot.It seems that if you do your home work
and look beyond the skin deep attributes of Subarus at the
engineering/safety,etc., they are an obvious good choice.

The side window thing is pretty funny, maybe the car was healing itself.

Just kidding, but that's what one of my friends said about my '95 Legacy.
One of my other friends jumped onto the roof during a drunken bachelor party
(FYI, we had a designated driver for the night) and severely dented the top
of the tailgate with his knee. That was last summer, and the dent has been
slowly working its way out.

Subies are going mainstream, which means they are losing some of the
weirdness that made them so endearing years ago, but at least they aren't
completely boring like a lot of other cars these days. You've still got the
longitudinally mounted boxer engines, a configuration found only in Subies
and Porsches.

-Matt