The NEW BJ40!

Howard has another jeep! Amazingly when we went to exchange papers with the previous owner of the BJ40 (see previous page on this blog)it was discovered that the chassis number did not tie up with the paperwork. Although there had been no apparent problem when the jeep was sold 2 years previously it turns out that the transfer procedure has been tightened up. Thus the jeep we were trying to buy was unsaleable.

SO...the owner of 2 years ago, a garage owner, paid the previous owner the same sum we had negotiated for the jeep and then sold Howard another jeep from his garage. He will keep the current jeep for spares or possibly transfer the body onto another chassis which he DOES have the paperwork for! All this took a long time to sort out and in the meantime Howard has been happily driving the original jeep. On Saturday he finally got the new one and he is delighted with it - better equipped and more comfortable. So everyone wins.

Now we just need to go on the promised trip of a 30km drive along the beach. Last weekend when it was planned there was a small problem of a high tide to contend with. Watch this space...!