It's finally a nice sunny day here in Auckland after 3 days of dark, cloudy skies. I woke up to hear the gulls making some noise, so I figured it was nice weather. Yesterday was interesting. I found an ad for a local car market, and figured I'd walk and check it out. Well, cars were either junk with bondo on them, or they were too expensive. I spoke with a man who was selling a station wagon (yes, they're still making them over here) He was selling it for $1600 NZ dollars seemed in good shape except for the broken mirror, cobwebs on the car, no working radio or interior lights. He told me this story about how he just had a reconditioned engine and transmission in the car. Well, call me not stupid, but
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