In January 2018, I stumbled across an advert on Carsales.com.au for a neat looking 1977 Datsun 180B station wagon. I showed the advert to my wife and jokingly asked if I could buy it. To my amazement, she didn’t bat an eyelid and said I could. The wagon was located in Emerald, Queensland. I contacted the owner and after a few weeks of thinking and negotiation, we we settled on a price and the wagon was placed on a transporter down to Canberra.
That was the beginning of the journey. A week later the car arrived in Canberra, in mid February 2018 and I collected it from the depot.