Sold a Car

My friends returned to Korea and decided to sell the car that was no longer needed.
Since there were also shares in the car belonging to the friends who had gone back to Korea, they had to sell the car and also take care of their friends’ shares.

The car wasn’t easy to sell because it was quite old and had a high mileage.
In Australia, it was also necessary to renew the vehicle registration (Regor, called Greenslip) regularly and attach the documentation to the front windshield of the car, as part of the government’s policy to ensure the validity of the registration and the regular maintenance of vehicles.

However, if the period for the vehicle registration was short, it was difficult to sell the car secondhand.
While it would have been better to renew the registration before selling the car, it would have involved a lot of costs and preparations, so I wanted to sell the car without renewing it.
But this made potential buyers hesitant to make a purchase due to the short registration period.

Even though a month had passed since returning from the farm, the car still didn’t sell well.
Some people came to see the car, but the short registration period was still an issue.

I decided to lower the price a bit more and eventually met a new owner who was willing to buy the car.
Before saying goodbye to the car that had helped us throughout our time in Australia, decided to give it a proper cleaning as a token of appreciation.

In Australia, there were many car washes where people could clean cars by hands, and it was one of the common tasks that Koreans on working holiday visas did.
Since many of these car washes were run by Korean owners, it was easy for Koreans to find work there.
However, compared to other jobs in Australia, the pay was relatively low.

As they sat in the office and watched the car being cleaned, they couldn’t help feeling sad and bittersweet.

Farewell, my car.

Sep. 30. 2009