The Tank

There are many tanks on and around the island of Saipan.  Most of those were abandoned during the American invasion of World War II.  Yesterday, a new tank was introduced...the Elger Tank!  We bought a 1992 Toyota Landcruiser from a local family.  The car is in phenomenal shape, considering its age, and is worth a great deal more than what we paid for it according to the Blue Book value.  Originally, it was owned by a local resort, the Fiesta, and then purchased by this family a few years ago.  The son, a student at the local college and MHS graduate, babied and customized this car.  The first alteration was the steering wheel...

Because why wouldn't you want to drive a land yacht with a go-cart steering wheel?!  Let's see it in action...

We also have a customized windshield.  Karess (the son's and his girlfriend's name combined--a common island thing to do) is the first thing you see when looking at our car.  We've decided we're going to leave it and call it our new life motto. 

Customized tint and window stickers=the island's answer to airbrush

Some other noteworthy features of our new ride include seating capacity for seven full-sized adults, a whopping 10 miles to the gallon, a customized muffler to make sure you hear us coming, four-wheel drive all the time, an incredible sound system, and a wonderful sunroof!  The roads leading to our neighborhood definitely warrant this type of vehicle.  We don't feel the bumps at all anymore!  It's awesome!  We feel like we rented a safari vehicle for the day...except we own this and we live in Saipan.

We hope this is more incentive for you to come visit us.  We can handle loads of people at our house and in our ride, so come on down to Saipan!!!