Saturday, Feb 20, 2021 at 20:15
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Yair, G'day to you too Gazz.
My "turbo V8's" was really a throwaway expression intended to embrace all such vehicles.
The story about the Troopy is that my sons were getting worried about the 'Old Man' poking about the bush in his old rust-bucket that did not even have safety airbags. And maybe if I did get bogged I could
well incur a heart failure trying to dig her out. I considered upgrading to another 4WD off-roader but maybe the sons were right. Perhaps it was me, rather than the vehicle that was past it. I mean, the Troopy was 20 years old but I am now 88!
But not quite ready to explore the coffee shops and resorts, Roz and I decided on getting a motorhome!!! Yes, me who has scoffed at those big boxes rocking along the highways and lined up in free-
camp stopovers with Darby & Joan sitting under the awning sipping chardonnay. But an alternative presented itself. We coughed-up the moolah on a Mercedes Sprinter van. Not just any old courier van but a spanking new medium wheelbase with the V6 engine, 4WD (or at least AWD) upgraded
suspension, and all the fruit.
I will miss the Troopy and those remote desert
places it took us to. This new machine may not do Madigan's but we are still going to get off the blacktop, and in more comfort than the old Troopy. It has been a 5 month wait but it should land within the next few weeks then a month of fit-out. Most of the internals are sitting in my garage and I am getting very impatient.
"keep smiling"? ...... Mate I'm grinning from ear-to-ear. Those two sons can watch their inheritance diminish before their eyes!!!
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