09 Mar 2011
Posted by Dave under Dave's Thoughts,Family
To the moon…
Well not quite, but my delightfully shabby old Mazda truck rolled over 333,333 km on the way into work yesterday morning. That’s about 90% of the distance to moon (at apogee). We bought the truck in 1998 with 170,000 km on it so I guess we can only claim about 45% of the earth-to-moon distance for ourselves.
The truck is a 1993 (pre-Ford) Mazda B2600i 4×4 extended cab. It has been a really great vehicle despite it’s thirst for fuel and propensity to leak oil on my garage floor. We have used it, and used it well, for landscaping, house moves, dump runs and hauling motorbikes. It’s been subjected to the type of over-loading that Jed Clampett might cringe at, but hasn’t let us down. Maybe it’ll even survive Steven learning to drive it – he’s old enough to get his learner’s licence this June!