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Help me save my ghetto-a** motorhome please

$210 of $4,000 goal
Given by 5 generous donors in 4 weeks

Need help to get my house back as the price keeps climbing at about the same rate I'm earning the money for it.

Huntly, Waikato

Hello, I am the Jimbo. I live in the most ghetto-a** motorhome you will ever lay your eyes upon.

A little over two weeks ago I was driving back to Huntly from New Plymouth and going up the Awakina Gorge on State Highway 3, when my house truck started to tip over (I either had a pallet break or a strap snapped) I had a choice between fighting it and eventually rolling down into the gorge, into the river then dying... or hauling the wheel as hard as I could to the left and tipping her into a field access... I chose the latter. When the cops turned up they slapped a pink sticker on my house and called the tow trucks, and since its a van on a truck they called two tow trucks. After the tow trucks hauled her out and, as I had no money to pay them, they decided to take them back to their yard, in New Plymouth... this generated a $2500 tow bill which I cannot pay for a few weeks... so they are holding on to my vehicles until I have paid them... they are also charging me 15 dollars a day each for storage of both my vehicles.

I have lived in the van for over a decade but being on the truck was recent. It was fantastic! I just looked like a tow truck and I had a unique motor home that was my bedroom for over ten years anyway but now it had mobility and freedom with it.

I have a full time job but at the rate the price is going up I think I need help to pay it quick while it is still "cheap". I don't know how much the truck will cost to fix. but planning for the worst case scenario is best

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Tow fees and storage fee, repairs and certificate of fitness for my truck, repairs to van / to buy a box body for truck / to buy a new van... or maybe a boat

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Hope this helps
Hope this helps on 30 Mar 2025
$40
James (Jimbo) BROOKS (Dini)

Thank you my bro, every bit does help, chur bro

James (Jimbo) BROOKS (Dini)
Mary
Mary on 29 Mar 2025
Good luck buddy 🍀
$30
James (Jimbo) BROOKS (Dini)

Thank you Mary

James (Jimbo) BROOKS (Dini)
Chur my bro
Chur my bro on 29 Mar 2025
$20
James (Jimbo) BROOKS (Dini)

Thank you my bro

James (Jimbo) BROOKS (Dini)
Rugged
Rugged on 29 Mar 2025
$20
James (Jimbo) BROOKS (Dini)

Thank you my fellow antipodean

James (Jimbo) BROOKS (Dini)
James
James on 27 Mar 2025
$100
James (Jimbo) BROOKS (Dini)

Thank you very much my dude

James (Jimbo) BROOKS (Dini)

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This campaign started on 25 Mar 2025 and ended on 25 Apr 2025.