Another G60!Author: jawapro
Date: Wed 23/07/2014 07:09 PM
Ok - so I bought another G60, but it’s not going to live in my parent’s paddock, this one is living on my desk!
It’s an awesome little model of an awesome car - but there’s a bit of a tale that goes with it too.
For a long time I’ve said if I ever saw a model of a normal G60, I’d buy it in a flash. The only model available has been of the FirePatrol (a G60 firetruck from Japan). Now although I admit there is coolness in being a firetruck, I just don’t like the look of the Fire Patrol - it doesn’t look like a G60 to me. (
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fb/Fire-patrol.jpg)
So when someone sent me a link to a US ebay auction for a model G60, I was stoked.
Except the auction had ended before I saw it.
So I started hunting around the net, and discovered that the models came from Colombia (which has a lot of G60s) and was part of a special release celebrating the cars of Colombia. Most of the sites were in Spanish.
But at last I found a seller on Ali Express who had 20 of them for sale. For a decent price too.
I’ve never used Ali Express before, and I didn’t entirely trust it. So instead of giving it my credit card details, I figured I should get a prepaid Visa card so the worst case is that they get the money I’d put on that.
So the next morning I stop at the post office and get myself a prepaid Visa. I log on to Ali Express and plan to buy a couple - but the seller has sold out!
Doh, in 12 hours he went from 20 to none.
So I hit the G60 forums and find (of course) that I’m not the one person hunting these down. But they’re a friendly bunch, and post whenever they find an ebay seller who has stock.
"Hey, this guy’s got some" they posted. Unfourtuantly that was during the night down here, so I didn’t seen it until the morning, by which time they’d all gone.
The next time someone posted "Here’s some more, but Jawa’s probably asleep". The good news is, I wasn’t!
So I jumped on ebay and snavelled one. Not exactly cheap anymore (I’ve bought a full-sized G60 for double the price) but at least I had it.
It turned up in the mail today, in a box saying it was a Chevy - but that doesn’t matter. The model itself knows what it is - nice Nissan Patrol badges all over it.
So the model has joined the others on my monitor stand at work. It might not look like it’s got pride of place, but it’s certainly the one I’m most proud of - and the hardest to obtain.
Looking at that photo, I should probably dust...
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