All good things must come to an end.
And so it was, on a cold night in April 2001, that the old Jetta decided to have a blow-out, perform a few unscheduled off-road and mid-air acrobatic manoeuvres before coming to rest against a tree with its wheels in the air — not long after having notched up 400,000km on the clock.
My fiancée escaped with little more than a shock, thank goodness.
The sound system’s components were salvaged and packed away, to possibly be re-used on the other side of the planet.
