39. Cars in my life

We bought a Toyota Cerres for touring the South Island After Pearl's convocation at the end of 1999. After that it was left in Christchurch for Pearl and Eugene to share at Uni. When Pearl finished her studies, Eugene inherited the Cerres in Christchurch. He used that for going to work. He also has an old Toyota Trueno AE86 which he stripped down and rebuilt with a roll cage inside.

When Steven and Serena returned from the states in September 2004 they came to stay with us until they sorted out their priorities. They were driving a rented car and wished to buy a cheap second hand car for temporary use. I took them to Turner’s auction to get a feel of the market trend for second hand cars in NZ. After seeing a nice car sold for $1750, they gave up the idea of bidding for the 1.5L Honda Civic at a reserved price of $5000. They have test driven the car earlier in the day and initially wanted to bid a maximum of $6,300 for it. The Civic was not from a car yard which has folded. It was imported by Turner’s directly from Japan just for this auction! It has never been registered in NZ.