We took the opportunity to seek out Darwin’s only old VW specialist MBN
Automotive with the car not starting a couple of times we thought it best to
get it checked out. We discussed our issues with the owner; Myron and we left
Boris with him to look him over. We decided to catch the bus to Darwin’s CBD to
have a look around. The bus was air-conditioned, had a radio playing throughout
and there were an array of very interesting characters.
We walked along the streets checking out the shops and sights and
received a call from Myron saying that we needed an exchange starter motor and
a relay to stop the “hot start issue”, a couple of new tyres and a CV boot
replaced but it didn’t stop there as we had asked for a service including the
Auto transmission.
Deciding to bus it to Casuarina we thought we’d check out the shopping
centre which was a quite a good size. On the return to collect the Kombi the
was this comical fellow who claimed to be Richmond’s number one paid supporter
and telling everybody on the bus that, “if you never ever go, you’ll never ever
know”, mmm I remember that being the Northern Territory’s tourist slogan not
the AFL’s. Oh well it was good for a laugh (internally that is).
After paying for Boris’s repairs we went back to the caravan park and
had some good ole home-style Bev cooking and took off again for a scenic night
drive around the CBD. Pulling to the side of the road to close the water over
there was this almighty roar not once but four times as the RAAF let four of
it’s F18’s take off and looking back we were level with the beginning of the
runway, what a sound! After our drive we called it a day.
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