I woke up before Mo again an went downstairs to have a cup of tea and search for a car. This time i moved my attention from private sales to businesses.
Several options seemed interesting. I zoomed in to the Sydney area, and at some point realized the best way to visit these place was to rent a car an drive there.
Once Mo got up, I suggested we would rent a car and find our transport an home for this trip. I booked a car through my regular car rental agent and we could pick it up at noon from a Hertz car rental about half an hour from where we stayed.
It seemed there was a bus connection that way, so we walked to the bus stop and caught the first bus to the rental place. There we found the booking did not come through. Luckily they did have a car available, though for about double the rate we booked online.
About 40 minutes later we pulled into a car sales area. A few dozen plots with cars of all brands and age. After a bit of searching we found the first place I had on my list, to find out the car I found online was already sold. He did have a much tweaked Mazda pickup, but that was not the first choice. We moved around the yard, and the neighbor asked what we where looking for. He had a Volkswagon pickup. It looked nice, but there where plenty of other cars to look at. Long story short, at some point we saw a Landcruiser 120 series, which ticked most of the boxes. We arranged a test drive and where convinced.
While doing the paperwork we where offered a drink, but the choices where limited. Mo took a Pepsi and I ended up with a Corona after learning you can have 1 standard unit.
An hour later we where the proud owners of a 2007 Toyota LandCruiser 120 GLX 4.0 l V6 with an automatic 5 speed.
Only one issue, we came here by rental car. So we parked the LandCruiser outside of the sales yard and headed back. I would come pick it up later.
On the way back I did not feel very well and at home we made some dinner, which I ate half before turning in early. The LandCruiser would have to wait.
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