Vietnam 1
If you're expecting a travelogue here, you're in the wrong place. Although a few peculiarities of this country may be mentioned, the main focus is very much on automotive technology. Our search for special features in other
countries has once again paid off.
Yes, it's thanks to YouTube, where you can find videos showing how to operate automotive technology, although Asia is now a little closer to us than Africa. It is the sincerity and pride that we encounter there that inspires
us.
We are in the area around the Gulf of Tonkin, in the poorer north of the country, which is important to know, in a tropical monsoon climate. The main character is a young woman who has clearly received a solid education in
automotive technology.
We can only judge this by the way she works. Whereas we often find serious errors in basic knowledge among German-speaking YouTubers, this is not the case here, always in relation to the area in which one feels
confident.
However, there is not much speaking, but rather determined work, accompanied by really good camera work. The young woman runs a workshop, if you can call the space, which is significantly larger than a garage, by that
name.
She has no employees, and the person operating the camera remains anonymous. You can sense her presence when, after a vehicle has been recovered, not only that vehicle but also the one you came in has to be
transported to the workshop.
The young woman not only repairs and maintains vehicles and all kinds of mechanical and electrical devices, but also occasionally buys damaged vehicles from the roadside or even from the nearby river
and rebuilds them.
These are the truly exciting cases, one of which we have selected for you. The woman herself has a moped and a three-wheeled cargo cart with bicycle-like steering, a large box, and astonishing pulling power thanks to
rear-wheel drive and deep-tread tires.
Because it has no battery, it has to be started like an old petrol mower every time, which the woman manages to do at least every second attempt. The film, which is divided into several episodes, usually fades in
on the object of desire.
In this case, it's an abandoned pickup truck with a box body and a badly dented roof on the passenger side. Vehicles requiring extensive bodywork are not really the
domain of the young woman. We'll see how you get yourself out of this one.
She looks at the interior, steering, and drive, and very soon the owner, almost always a man, is handed a certain amount of money. In return, she receives the papers, sometimes
only as a transfer between two cell phones.
The purchase is now complete, and the license plates remain on the vehicle and do not change with the owner. There she stands, with her moped and a vehicle that first needs to be brought from the fields onto the road.
We would be at a loss with only these instruments.
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