Dad called this morning. Apparently around 5 am today, somebody broke into my old Proton Porsche Saga and try to steal it. Now what I don’t understand is that why would anyone wanna steal a 1988 Magma Proton Porsche Saga? My car is old but it’s equipped with the most sophisticated defense system ever known to car thieves. Nope… it’s not the immobilizer and nope… it’s not the alarm. In fact, the car isn’t armed with any alarm system. Haaaa… curious lehhhh, why they didn’t get away with the car?

Well, it’s because my car had an ‘engine by-pass’ and it takes hell a lot of time to start it, especially in the morning! LOL!

This Proton Porsche Saga belongs to my dad. Then I took over from him and this car really served us well. In fact, it saved my live a few times. I had a lot good memories with it. I learn to drive with it. I’ve also driven it without license, ran over many red-lights (tuan polis, maaf ya, tak sengaja!) and a few times over road dividers, ran over A CAT….yes, once only and and oh ya, I knocked down a lady before too! IT’S NOT MY FAULT! She was indecisive and hesitated to cross the road right in-front of me! She was fine and stood up immediately and smiled. It was really funny though how it happened.

The car clocked 450,124 KM about 5 years ago and I was still driving with around clocking an average 5000 KM a month.

I was still driving my Proton Porsche Saga when most my friends changed to Wira, Satria, Civic and etc. Well, it didn’t bother me that much, even though it’s old and not so cool looking, I still picked up a few chicks with this car

Back in 2003, I almost got rob while sleeping in my car. Some of you may have read this email that had been circulating around the internet. A few ‘guys’ rounded my neighbourhood in a car and caught me sleeping inside the car (oh, I was parked right in front of my own house). They tried to open my door but luckily it was locked. Since they can’t open it, they start smashing my side windows with parangs instead. Luckily my car had window tints on it. It hold the window from being smashed through (I think it was 3-4 blows) giving me enough time to start my car and escaped. I was very lucky again because on the same day, I had my car repaired for a faulty fuel filter. It couldn’t start! And the incident happened the same night after I picked up my car from the workshop. It was the fastest take off I’ve ever tried, starting the engine, engaging first gear with my left foot on the clutch, all at one go and zoom… off I go! I took off like a mad man while blowing my car horn all the way. I didn’t even got the chance to straighten my seat back to position. What a close call.

After that, I pimped the car a few times, did up the sound system again, but then it got stolen ($*&$&^#&^%*(&^#^%). About a few years back, I had another accident and I took that opportunity to repaint it again. I also put in a new set of Enkei alloy rims and it really looked good, well at least to me it is. Sadly, 2 years later I knocked a despatch clerk on a bike, head on! After that, it never performed as good anymore.

I got myself a better car now but we’re still keeping my trusty old Proton Porsche ‘Besi Karat’ Saga. Although it may not be at it’s top performance now but this car have served us well. We’re keeping it as a spare car. no point selling it as it won’t fetch much anyways.

This car really lived up to it’s registration number, 1654. In cantonese, it sounds like ‘yat lou mm sei’ which meant ‘it won’t die’ or ‘it will never die’. PROTON BOLEH!

Too bad we don’t have PIMP MY RIDE or OVER HAULIN’ here in Malaysia. Else I would have get it pimped up really nice.