So Long AU lovers

[JC]

Well, as of Monday, I will no longer own an AU. As most know, the AU XR8 was sacrificed earlier this year to keep us afloat. With the missus back at work part time, things are better - in fact we bought an Exploder 2 weeks ago (back in a V8 - yeh baby!!). So this means I had to sell the EL, or the AU. Obviously, the more money we got for either car, the less our loan would be for the Exploder, so we started by advertising the AU wagon, with a view to not accepting anything less than $8k for it. If we couldn't get 8k, we figured it would be better to keep it and sell the EL for 4 or 5k instead.

Anyway, long story short, we advertised the wagon, and in the first week got an offer of $10k off the forums - I suggested a slightly higher price, and never heard back. Bird in the bush and all that, I was kicking myself. But it was not as bad as I thought, as 2 days later, my brother-in-law & sister said they were interested at around the same price ($10k), but while they were thinking about it and sorting it money, I got another offer for nearly $11k.

So the wagon goes to its new owner on Monday, and if he decides to baulk over the weekend, it goes to my sister and b-in-law. Either way, we are pretty happy that we got a good, fair price for the wagon. While it may be a Forte, it has more useful extras than a Fairmont - things like DVD player and roof mounted screen, HID lights, slotted rotors all round, sports system, 18" mags etc. We have always looked after the car, and the new owner is a bit of a car enthusiast (not solely Ford, mind you), so obviously recognises the great value our wagon represents. Plus with the XR front, it is a one of a kind in Canberra, and 1 of under 20 in Oz, as far as I know.

So...without meaning to bore you all to tears, it is time to say good bye to AU Falcons for the moment. Perhaps it is actually "Until we meet again" - I already have my eye on a dual fuel Forte for around $56k that I am interested in - just got to pull my finger out and sell the EL!


I will still be around the forums of course (a little bit), as I still love my AUs - I just won't have one to work on any more, until ZHodak comes over and brings has AU2 Fairmont, of course.

So long, and see you around! It's been fun, I've made some friends off the forum (and probably some unknown enemies too : ). I have learned heaps, and hope that I have also passed some of that learning back to everyone who visits AFF, and especially the AU Falcon forum.

JC