The Matt & Diane Page     |     home Cottage Pictures   |   Beaters   |   Victoria BC Pictures   |   New House   |   Our Landscaping Pictures   |   African Trip 2005   |   South American Trip 2007   |   Puerto Vallarta 2008   |   Egypt, Jordan and Israel (Nov.4~Nov24 2008)   |   Australia 2009   |   Bermuda June 2010   |   South East Asia 2011   |   PRC 2012   |   India 2014   |   Brazil 2014 Beaters Vancouver Island does not require a safety inspection when selling a vehicle.  With no salt on the roads in winter-time, the cars last a long time.  These two facts lead to to... well, you'll get the idea from the pics below. Heavy Metal Valid Plates?  You mean I need valid plates in Victoria?  Doh! (no sticker of any vintage) Help me ID this scary English Import.  Note the alloy wheels Red duct tape?  Where do I get some of that.....Volvo no less. '61 Chrysler.  Preeeety Scary.... Not really a beater, but a fine example of a long-lived Studebaker. What Vicroria's top realator drives- Not. Push button transmission on this Chyrsler Saratoga no less....  mid 1960's.  VERY rare. Local North Saanich Artist's car.  There's a Gumby on there somewhere...   But can it pull the trailer? Oceanographer's car at my place of work.  Scientists- what can you say? Found in Fairfield, one of Victoria's "better" neigborhoods. Awesome pickup truck at night... I always wanted an X1-9... just not one like this.... Wow.  Hyundai.  So far in so little time (Hyundai was the #1 rated car in Canada in 2005) Plymouth Impala.  Sneak in the whole neighborhood (in trunk) into the drive-in with this magnificent specimen. Honey, Where's my leisure suit and gold chain? Some kind of Mitsubishi / Chrysler sick joke...