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<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\nBack in February I needed to be in Melbourne for an IBM meeting and some customer catchups, I had also purchased some retro computer equipment and asked the seller if they would mind holding it until I could pickup in person, intending to drive to Melbourne for the IBM events and do the computer pickup in the same trip.<\/p>\n
Well that was all fine until it started to rain, a lot. Southern New South Wales and northern Victoria were becoming totally flooded with highway closures and other potential hazards imminent. There was no way I wanted to expose my precious 25 year old classic sports car to these potential risks. So… at the very last minute I made the decision to hire something from the local Hertz shop, a fateful decision too.<\/p>\n
They gave me a current model Ford Falcon G6E – I didn’t know what that was, and the guy on the desk, expressing incredulity, said “don’t worry, you’ll love it”. Little did he know how right he was to prove to be.<\/p>\n
So to cut a potentially long story short, I drove Fords flagship luxury sedan from Canberra to Melbourne and back, and promptly decided I was buying one – almost a completely spur of the moment decision. A few weeks earlier we had been very close to purchasing an investment property and our finances just could not quite stretch to make it happen – so partly in response the attitude was “If I can’t have a house, then dammit I’ll have a bloody nice car instead.” That sentiment, and a few other more sensible considerations, made it so that we recently purchased the singularly nicest and newest vehicle either Robbi or I have ever owned – the Ford Falcon G6E.<\/p>\n
Now, to explain the first premise of this post, about our adorable leaders butt, after buying the said vehicle second hand (2 1\/2 years old) from a dealer, we examined the log book to discover that the cars previous life had been as a Government fleet car – and as an executive class vehicle, though it’s a long shot, it is not without the possibility that sometime in our family sedans history it has been used to transport the Prime Minister of Australia… \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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