Yesterday we went off to Perth together with Nick and Michelle, we had a shopping list that looked something like this:
1. Foam glue
2. Expoy
3. Clamps
4. Car
We got the foam glue, epoxy and clamps in one pit stop. All of this is to try and fix my wrecked board (don’t have money to go and just buy a new one, and I’m pretty picky with my boards …).
After that we stopped at this one car place that I had picked up on the internet at carsguide.com.au. We where originally going to look at the “1983 Toyota Hiace” for about 2000 dollars (around 10 000 NOK). But that car was looking horrible, and was allready sold to a german backpacking couple.
But on the side of the Toyota was this beatyfull “Yellow submarine”, it was a “Ford Falcon 3.9″ from what year I have no idea. But it’s a mega station wagon, with plenty of room in the back for a madrass and all the gear. The windshield was cracked and the windows did not work as they should, but the engine looked to be in prime condition. After a test drive, we bargained abit and got them to replace the windshield and fix the door windows. The final price … 1400 bucks (around 7000 NOK).
So, off we drove, happy with getting a new car that looked nice. After some good navigation from Guro we got out of town and onto the freeway. Suddenly I noticed that the water was getting way over the “Normal”-level, and stopped. I was right, the water was boiling, all theese lamps where starting to flash red. Oh, shit …. we hit up the GPS and found the nearest gas station. Rolled up there, filled the car up with gas and filled up the water-level on the car with 6 liters of water. That did the trick, the car was now running fine and no red lights. We just had to little water in the radiator I guess.
Now the time was 6:30 p.m and it was suppose to get dark at around 7:30 p.m. You don’t wanna drive the way up to Lancelin in the dark cause of the kangeroos. But we went for it, and sure enought we made it back just before dusk.
We decided to give the car a name, so we gave it the international name “Freddy” and the Norwegian “Bjarne Freddy”. Hopefully he will take good care of us and we will take good care of him.
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