.......................	Holden Report - Issue #5
	The Holden has been looking a little bit shabby this month. We took the vehicle down to Tony's Tire Service to fix a flat tire and came away only to lose a hub cap. Sam sent them a complaint form and we received a prompt reply. They are ordering us in a new hub cap so the Holden should be back in mint condition soon. The friendly folk down at Uptown Motors who last did our warrant put the new registration on the windscreen (for the new number plate) but we failed to realise that it expired only days later. The bill for the new rego sat in the glovebox for all of March taking the fine to beyond the 30-day grace period that the council gives you for re-registering a vehicle. We promptly went in (the day we were issued the ticket from a traffic warden) and cleared the problem up. Sam accidentally handed the new registration sticker in with the complaint and we subsequently drove away illegally! We went back down to the council to see them and found out that they also had the receipt for the new rego. We would have been well and truly up the creek without a paddle. No receipt...no rego...$200 fine. We await the results of Sam's friendly letter explaining the mishap. The trusty Holden oil light still comes on every sharp corner we take. The Holden gets its first $40 parking fine. Every now and then we give a dial-a-driver the honour of chauffering the band and the Holden home. Carl left after the gig, leaving Sam and Steve who both didn't have keys for the vehicle. A note was left at the venue for someone to put money on the parking meter the following morning but no one found it. The offending vehicle wasn't picked up until midday. Holden Fact No.5: When merging from 2 lanes to 1, Holdens always win. The Holden still manages to fit all the band gear, lights, merchandise and passengers in. Thanks to the new designer T-Shirt boxes we are able to transport them successfully to a performance but cannot see out the rear view mirror. Steve has finally fixed the drivers seat-belt which means you don't have to weigh in at 150kg to fit it. Carl still hasn't fixed the radio/tape player which was part of the deal. Holden Fact No.6: A part can fall off from under the Holden and it still goes. Holden Fact No.7: Holden's have 197 superfluous parts. Steve gets 'driver of the month' for squealing the tires on the road back from Makara after losing a game of golf. The Holden was the official Wainuiomata golf play-off vehicle this month. A challenge was issued by Tony (The Opera) against Neil (Kitty O Sheas) for the prize of having the band perform in their bar on April 10th. Neil won. Neil gets 'passenger of the month' for sleeping in until midday making Tony wait an hour and a half before the golf play-off. The Holden was nearly towed from the Queen's Wharf Retail Centre while we were performing. It had been sitting there for the good part of an hour when a disturbed fan alerted the band as to what was going on. Steve raced to the aid of the Holden, actually being towed from the park and managed to convince the driver to let us off...not without a $40 fee.
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