Some news from the street view front. The kingdom of Lesotho in Africa can now be seen on Google. Quite honestly, its a bit depressing.Crude, tin shanties line sparsely driven roads in some truly impoverished conditions.Most of the vehicles I've seen so far have been cheaper pickups, 1980s and early 90s Toyota taxicabs, and very old, incomplete compacts, often on cinderblocks. There are only five or six thousand registered vehicles in this small country, but the actual number is probably quite a bit higher when you add up the cars that have sat abandoned for many years, stripped and overgrown.
In the midst of such poverty and despair, I found an actual classic,slowly dying in a virtually car-free neighborhood. A 1970s Cadillac,which no one can afford gas for.How such a car got there is anyones guess, and maybe the mystery is half the excitement of discovering it.
Due to the excessive thirst for fuel these cars were famous for, and total lack of availability for parts in this area,It's probable that this Cadillac will never return to the road, so long as it remains in tiny Lesotho.
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