Millenium Falcon

The next day, we went shopping for a car. There was one place that was recommended as a garage, and that was Travellers Autobarn. They were looking for quite a bit more than we had planned to pay though, about 3.5k. There was a buy back scheme where they would guarantee to take it back from you but we felt that was already added to the price so we headed back to the hostel to have a look at the notice board instead.

As we were reading through the notice board, we saw a Ford (Millenium) Falcon advertised for 2.2k with its NCT equivalent done in July. As we were looking at it, a voice came over our shoulder saying we should buy it cos its a great car. Needless to say, it was the two gorls that were selling it. They had originally put the wrong phone number on the ad and so had come back to change it. We put it all down to fate and went round to take the car for a test drive. The car was running smoothly enough for one that was 16 years old. It was a 3.9 litre estate. It had electric windows, mirrors, air con and it was an automatic. There was a little graphic of some girls face on the side of it too but we didnt care to be honest. We bargained them down to 1.8k and agreed the sale.

We couldnt get all the money out in one day so we agreed to pick the car up the next day. we had to pay to register it (like taxing it) and then that was it, we were away down the coast. Our first stop was going to be Mission Beach.