Car dealers of Brisbane, breathe a sigh of relief. I will no longer be knocking down your doors, peering through car windows in your yard, demanding test drives and asking you to 'sharpen your pencil' a bit more so the car I'm looking at is closer to my price range.
Yes, I finally have a vehicle - meet the lovely Nina Barina, a 1995, 123000kms on the clock, 4 door, manual, air con, hatchback Holden Barina. Now for the English among us, a Holden is an Aussie car, owned by General Motors - so its like a Vauxhall or something. Only nicer.
I meet Nina in the Trading Post, the Aussie version of Loot, which comes out every Thursday or Saturday or something. I was at the point of being so sick of looking at cars that I was tempted to just stab my pen at the newspaper and just pick one, it was so bad. But we took one last stab at it, rang around a few people in the Trading Post (got a lot of dropkicks in there too - but then, you would know that if you'd seen "The Castle" - lot of people were "dreamin'" about how much they'd get for their mechanical bombs!).
But fortunately it was there that we found Nina, went and had a look - and then enroute to Grandpa Moore's ash service, we put in an offer which was accepted subject to some terms and conditions, and now, she's all mine.
What do you think? Zippy little thing, eh?
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