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Car Forum / Australian Car Forums / 4x4 Cars (Australian group) / December 2006Son got a great Hilux
Well our Hilux is a 1999 3lt diesal, our pride and joy with only 130000kms on the clock, well looked after, most concievalbe extras. Son started saying he wanted to buy it off us, offered us $18000 and we laughed. Much better to keep such a terrific vehicle than sell it and start looking all over again. GUESS WHAT? He comes home last week in his "new car" It is a 1999 Hilux 3lt diesal with only 70000 on the clock. EVERY extra! stripes up the sides, winch, radios, CD player, you name it the little sh.ts car has got it! LOL. Hubby is green with envy - although ours is in top condition this one is showroom stuff. Previous one owner worked in PNG so each week he would drive it 150kms to Cairns, garage it overnight, a guy coming down from PNG would drive it 150kms home, and garage it for a week then drive it down and swap keys with the owner. The blardy car has done all these 100kms runs for its entire life - a bargain at $17000.We know the owner so we know the car and know that it has been treated like a baby. Little sh.t got lucky. Kathy. > Well our Hilux is a 1999 3lt diesal, our pride and joy with only 130000kms > on the clock, well looked after, most concievalbe extras. Son started [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > got lucky. > Kathy. As the new Safety Officer at Kagarra, I'll ask the road train drivers very nicely to watch out for it, and not run it off the road. I'll be in Mt Garnett doing my induction stuff in Feb. Is that far away from you? We are in Tolga - not that far. Congrats on Kagarra Zinc - hell of a lot of locals work up there. Next April I am doing a 1400km push bike ride from Moura up past those damn trucks - so tell em to look out for me then! LOL We are thinking of doing a 4 day circuit over Xmas if the wet holds off. Have you been through Mt Fox? We thought we would go down through Gunnawarra, Minnamooka, (as far as I have been before on that road) then through Valley of Laggoons and across to Fox - home via Ingham. Take the camper, and generally do some fishing and just relax. Have a great Christmas Barnsey - good to hear you are going to Mt Garnet - tis not a bad place. I used to go out there and take the guys lead levels every few months, but these days they do it onsite. Shucks, I loved going out there to get away from the usual fare. The trucks have a very good reputation of although being big and lots of them on the road they are always courteous. Kathy > We are in Tolga - not that far. > Congrats on Kagarra Zinc - hell of a lot of locals work up there. Next April [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > them on the road they are always courteous. > Kathy I thought this was a 4X4 newsgroup not a 2X1 :-) Gerrit HUH? Who said anything about a 2 x1??? LOL Unless you mean my pushie? >HUH? >Who said anything about a 2 x1??? LOL Unless you mean my pushie? I assumed he was referring to the bloody big trucks... Cheers, Phred.  SignatureppnerkDELETE@THISyahoo.com.INVALID > We are in Tolga - not that far. > Congrats on Kagarra Zinc - hell of a lot of locals work up there. Next > April I am doing a 1400km push bike ride from Moura up past those damn > trucks - so tell em to look out for me then! LOL > We are thinking of doing a 4 day circuit over Xmas if the wet holds off. > Have you been through Mt Fox? Yes, quite a few times. The road is quite remote though if you're coming in from the west. Pretty rough last time I travelled it, but nothing a 4wd cant handle. You just need to take it slow. 100Ks can take a few hours. The volcano, although quite a long walk, is pretty amazing. We thought we would go down through > Gunnawarra, Minnamooka, (as far as I have been before on that road) then > through Valley of Lagoons and across to Fox - home via Ingham. I've never been to the Valley of the Lagoons. A bloke at work goes there often, (in a 2wd ) and loves it. > Take the camper, and generally do some fishing and just relax. Sounds great. > Have a great Christmas Barnsey - good to hear you are going to Mt Garnet - > tis not a bad place. I'll be at Surveyor mostly. Mt Garnet for the induction etc. > I used to go out there and take the guys lead levels every few months, but > these days they do it onsite. Shucks, I loved going out there to get away > from the usual fare. Are you a nurse too? > The trucks have a very good reputation of although being big and lots of > them on the road they are always courteous. > Kathy >> We are in Tolga - not that far. >> Congrats on Kagarra Zinc - hell of a lot of locals work up there. Next [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] >handle. You just need to take it slow. 100Ks can take a few hours. The >volcano, although quite a long walk, is pretty amazing. I haven't been on that road since about 2000, but at that time I think it would have been quite passable in a Holden ute for example. (We were in a LC wagon I admit, but I don't recall any serious hazards.) I'm curious about that "quite a long walk" of yours, Barnsey. IIRC, we basically drove to the bottom of the cone and it was then just a matter of walking up it. (But maybe that "up it" bit is what you were referring to? Definitely, *up*. :-) Cheers, Phred. SignatureppnerkDELETE@THISyahoo.com.INVALID |
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