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Well the Ghia is finally in Australia, it arrived last Monday and after a little confusion about how to get it through customs and quarantine I picked it up from the shipping company on Tuesday (more about that in the 'Importing a classic car into Australia' thread).

I hired a car trailer and loaded it up - with a little help from a fork lift to lift the front of the trailer - the car is pretty low and wouldn't roll over the top of the ramps managed to get it on - well that is until the rear wheels reached the trailer when it decided it wanted to flip on it's end (the engine is in the rear, remember) so the shipping guys stood on the front of the trailer and all was good.

Unloading it was pretty much the reverse procedure - albeit a little less scary as I knew what to expect.

The journey was pretty unieventful and it is now sitting happily at my works factory where it will be stored / worked on until I buy a house here.

There was only one minor mishap - the rear wheels were rubbing on the arches and the journey (on bumpy roads) has caused a small amount of damage to the lip of the wheel arch where the car was bouncing (there's currently no shocks fitted to the car) I'll sort this out in due course.

My next job is to take the interior down to a local trimmers and get a quote for recovering the seats and redoing the door cards, hopefully I will get a chance to do this over the next couple of weeks.