Week 28-30: We have been looking forward to this Xmas.
Our USA friends Jim and Linda arrive today and we were hoping that the car carrier from Darwin would get through all the QLD flooding and deliver our Xmas present!
Danny bought a roof basket from ebay for $100 and picked it up from a guy at Sandstone Point. It needed some adjustments, so Poustie managed to get it done on his day off from Moreton Island.
Hoorah! We picked up our 1996 Suzuki from CEVA at Acacia Ridge two days ago. We bought it from Larry, a semi-retired sparky in Cloncurry a couple of weeks ago. It was advertised on ebay, but we made an offer and bought it over the phone. He seemed like a genuine guy: the car was owned by his daughter, had no beach work and had only 176 000km.
The Suzi drove back from the Southside of Brisbane with no problems and Danny got stuck into it stra
ight away.
ight away. First he gave it a good cut and polish and pushed out a dent in the bonnet. Then he pulled out all the carpet and replaced it with the rubber matting that was in the back of the ute. This will m
ake it easy to literally hose out after going up the beach.
ake it easy to literally hose out after going up the beach.Danny then black-jacked underneath, took all the tyres off and sprayed with rustkill lanolin to protect all of it. Two days of work and she looks and sounds great. Thanks Danny.
Hope you'all have a wonderful Xmas and holiday season from Keith, Danny, Sammy, Indigo Velvet and the Suzi xx
