Poor old speedy has reached it's retirement and has been traded in for a Subaru Forrester X. For those of you who never had the pleasure, Speedy is a dark blue, 5sp manual, 5 litre, VR series II SS commodore. Such a fun car to drive, but unfortunately, starting to need a bit of work. 
We pick up our new car (as yet un-named) on Tuesday! We got it in silver/black as shown above. It has heaps of safety features which sold me on it, (although I haven't driven it yet as when it appeared here yesterday I was all wet and dirty from gardening). Damian has driven it of course, and loved it immediately. We got a good price for speedy (the low Ks really helped) and although we would have got more privately, we are in a really closed market in Cairns and the demand for V8s while petrol prices are so high, is minimal. It also was due for some fairly full on engine work, windscreen and tyres so we sold it at a good time.
Here is one they prepared earlier.........
We are heading for a weekend in Port in a couple of weeks so it will be a good chance to play with all the cool stuff in it and test it out over a decent distance. Kylin hasn't seen it yet so it'll be cool to see his reaction, he will have more visibility in this car too. We will all miss the sound of speedy, it really was a lush car - but it's going to be sooo much fun in the new one, it's very exciting!!
We pick up our new car (as yet un-named) on Tuesday! We got it in silver/black as shown above. It has heaps of safety features which sold me on it, (although I haven't driven it yet as when it appeared here yesterday I was all wet and dirty from gardening). Damian has driven it of course, and loved it immediately. We got a good price for speedy (the low Ks really helped) and although we would have got more privately, we are in a really closed market in Cairns and the demand for V8s while petrol prices are so high, is minimal. It also was due for some fairly full on engine work, windscreen and tyres so we sold it at a good time.
Here is one they prepared earlier.........
We are heading for a weekend in Port in a couple of weeks so it will be a good chance to play with all the cool stuff in it and test it out over a decent distance. Kylin hasn't seen it yet so it'll be cool to see his reaction, he will have more visibility in this car too. We will all miss the sound of speedy, it really was a lush car - but it's going to be sooo much fun in the new one, it's very exciting!! 
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