Delivery (Collection, actually)

A week ago Cheryl from Birkin phoned me to say my car was ready for collection. Today myself and Rita left Mokopane at 12:30am in my bakkie to collect the chassis and bits from the factory in Pinetown. 800km!!!!

Thankfully the road was quiet, apart from a huge shunt near Howick where a lorry tipped its load of Outspan oranges (export quality nogal) all over the road. By some cruel twist of fate this event coincided with the passing of a convoy of taxis full of Orlando Pirates supporters for the game in Durban later that day. Nett result was hundreds of vuvuzela brandishing scavengers gathering up oranges as fast as they could and blocking both sides of the highway. Eish!!

Anyway the cops arrived and restored order and we proceeded past Howick through Pietermaritzburg following a trail of orange peels all the way to Pinetown.

On arrival at the factory at 08h45 we were greeted by Dhersan the factory manager who helped us load up the chassis and the multitude of boxes. Here's how it looked at the factory.

And it was straight back to Mokopane. We were knackered when we got back at 5pm, but I unloaded as much as I could and left the chassis in the loadbed. We'll sort that out tomorrow.