Tuesday, May 23, 2006

Our car is our castle


Yesterday we bought a very good looking old VW kombi van to travel around Australia. We both had the dream to drive and own a VW van for a long time. And now we can live our dream. We bought the kombi from a Finnish couple who are travelling to Asia in one week. So we could get it for a fair price. We will let it check before we start travelling and hopefully the inside is as good as the body. The kombi has central locking with remote control and the locking pins (the pins which move up and down when you open and close the car doors) are silver skulls.
Dirk was driving the kombi over the Harbour Bridge (you have to pay three dollars toll fee) and we both enjoyed that exciting first ride. Dirk was a little bit nervous because it was raining and it was the first ride but he did really good (except for finding the reverse gear).
The kombi has the same age as Silke, and Dirk says that you know the condition then:-)!
We now have to go to the Australian state Victoria to change the registration of the kombi to our name because the kombi is registered there.
We are no looking for a name for the kombi. We already got some ideas from Olli and Francesca. If you have an idea for a name please write a comment!

3 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

cool vehicle!
no gender discussions: it's a big beetle brother, definitely male!

talking about nice cars... i sold the little sister by ebay :-(

have fun cruisin' around!

11:30 PM

 
Blogger jsub said...

ihr seht beide sehr erholt aus, muss ich ja mal sagen, sowohl silke mit neuer frisur (good on you! well done!), also auch dirk im neuen auto ...

1:15 PM

 
Blogger jsub said...

oh ja, der rückwärtsgang ist lästig. außerdem stellt man (am anfang und wenn es mal hektisch wird) immer die scheibenwischer an, wenn man blinken will ...

silver skulls? ;-)

1:18 PM

 

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