Many of you will probably already recognize Ditto and his Instagram famous white Peugeot 504 more than you recognize me and my Bug. Pictures and videos of it has been widely posted on the 'gram, but boy did it look, sound, and perform better in real life.
In this weather, he thought it was a good idea to have his car washed prior to coffee, so I tagged along and had the Bug washed as well at one of the many car wash places along the infamous Jalan Antasari.
The 504, christened Simba, apparently was bought brand new back in 1980 by Ditto's father, and had gone through the 80s-90s bapak-bapak mods by his uncle such as large Jap rims, modern Jap wing mirrors, a full body rattle can paint job, you know, the works.
After the car wash, we headed straight to Seven Speed Coffee. Simba turned heads along the way, and even did some skids past gaul big bike sunmori guys having breakfast near the Hooters in Kemang just to throw shade, it's a darn shame I didn't get any footage on that.
The skids had been made possible because Ditto has had his high-comp two liter 504 motor cammed, timed (courtesy of the legendary Saerah workshop in Solo), fed by a Peugeot 604 dual carb, and delivered those hon hon hon ponies through a 5-speed Peugeot 505 tranny and most importantly, ran 505 GTi one-way LSD's out back.
Soon after we got to the cafe, Ibi from Rideclique joined us in his Mercedes station wagon, a great investment to say the least, now that all the "car guys" are frying prices of any long roof cars, well, through the roof.
Ditto and I share a mutual stance on not giving a shit about what "experienced seniors", usually in the form of the more elderly car club members, have to say about old cars. You know how they all force feed others to follow "proper" methods on styling cars, and how everything stuck on the car is supposed to be immaculate, original, and by the book? Yeah, no thanks, om, we don't drive our cars for a "good" cause, we drive them for a good time, you catch my drift.
Having looked at and sat in - very comfortably, no surprise in that - Simba throughout the whole morning, I noticed that, frankly, Simba wasn't in as good condition as all the photos on the 'gram shows. It had rust spots here and there, there was a hole in his floorpan, tattered up interior, and the list goes on, and I love and appreciate that.
It shows that Ditto drives his prized car the way it should be driven, all while maintaining it along the way, he even mentioned that he was planning a reminiscence road trip to Solo, where Simba had spent its early life in, and I am one hundred percent looking forward to that and other shennanigans Ditto and Simba goes through in the future.
