Around The World In 80 Waves

My top priority is now selling the bug and I have advertised it locally towards that end.

As well as using a traditional for sale sign (with a Spanish twist) I have posted the details on a couple of forums and a car sales website on the internet, which has already generated some interest in my little car.

A local pilot, coincidentally also called Robert, was very keen on the car and wanted to see it straight away becuase he thought it would be great for his wife.

We met in a MacDonalds car park and he was quite impressed with it. However the little green surf machine was obviously not impressed that I was trying to sell it and refused to start as soon as the other Robert wanted to take it for a test drive. I was clear that it was a flat battery and he was kind enough to call the Panamanian version of Batteries-R-Us for me and they came out quickly to sort it. Sadly this required a replacement battery because cells in the old one had given up the ghost, and it would seem that my regular use of the air con since being in the city had been the straw that broke that particular camel’s back.

Despite all this Panamanian Robert is still interested but for both his sake and mine we have agreed it is necessary for me to undertake the importation of the car into the country.

I am the registered keeper of the vehicle and it will make life easier for me to undertake the process, and then we may just have to come to a compromise over the cost of having done so if he is still in the market for another car when it is completed. I have a few interested parties though so am not hanging all my hopes on him just yet.