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My Dad told me a story from a trip he took to Europe with a friend after they both graduated from undergrad, in the early 1960s. His friend had an aunt who ran a convent in Guernsey and she had resisted the nazis during the occupation. This had earned her a lot of appreciation in the nearby parts of France so when they were trying to figure out buying a car to see Europe in, she sent them to a friend in France who had a car dealership. The car dealer showed them some choices and told them the most reliable would be the 1932 Peugot, so they bought that for $50 and drove it all over. It did need some maintenance, which is unsurprising for a 30 year old car. At one point they were stuck at the side of the road in Vienna with a leaking radiator hose and someone came by and asked if they would like help. When they said yes, he went into a bakery, came out with a baguette and some tape. He opened up the baguette and wrapped it around the hose so the soft side was pressed against the hose and then he wrapped tape around the whole thing. He added water and then offered to replace the hose at his machine shop a mile away, I was unfamiliar with what a 1932 Peugot might look like but if this page is accurate, then that was a petty cool way to travel around https://peugeotfrance.blogspot.com/2017/09/peugeot-301-193236.html They later sold the car for $30 in Belgium because that was the easiest country to sell a car in at the time in terms of paperwork required and finished out the trip by hitchhiking.