Its been a busy few months I must say. We (thats Terry, my husband and I) are now the proud owners of a Toyota Landcruiser BJ40, whom we have named Dirty Gerty!
Gerty is Terry's dream vehicle. We have been walking around Kota Kinabalu for months just waiting for the right car to come along. Then one day, we hired a car (a tiny Kancil!) as we had a friend coming to stay, and thought we would go out for a drive and see if we could find any BJ40's. We were driving up the old Penampang road from Kinarut when we saw Gerty coming towards us. "That's gorgeous", said Terry, "and it's for sale!" I cried noticing the sign in the back window!! Almost killing ourselves and a few Malaysians, Terry screached the Kancil hard right, floored the pedal and caught up with the BJ40 and followed it as it pulled intoa driveway, just before the Tanaki turnoff.
To cut a long story short, the owners were Martin and Janet who worked for the WWF in Sandakan but were moving to Martins homeland, Australia and they needed a quick sale. Terry had already fallen in love and when Martin told us the price he wanted, there was no way Terry could walk away!
Our plan is to make her worthy of entering the Borneo 4x4 Safari this coming November! We have already bought and added a PTO winch to her and are working on getting a roll cage fitted inside.
So watch this space for progress on Dirty Gerty over the coming weeks. Or join the "Dirty Gerty the BJ40" group on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=103335828692
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