Wheels of generosity do local disadvantaged a good turn
Yahye Ali from Hand Brake Turn receives the car from Tom Rozsa, Branch Manager of Hydraulink Laverton. A man whose day job with Hydraulink Australia is keeping the wheels of industry turning, recently turned his mechanical knowledge to good use by donating his spare car to disadvantaged people in his locality. Tom Rozsa, Branch Sales Manager in Laverton for the Australasian Hydraulink Group, knew the veteran Mitsubishi Magna he had bought near-new for his wife could be given to a more worthwhile cause than simply being sent to the wreckers, even though it was just sitting in his driveway. “All three of our daughters learned to drive in that car after my wife was finished with it, so the vehicle was kept in good condition. But it was a bit of a boomerang, because when each of the kids got on their feet and bought their own cars, it kept being handed back to me. I thought it would be a waste to take it to a wrecking yard, so I was pleased when a friend of mine told me about Concern Australia’s Hand Brake Turn programme,” said Tom. This partly Government funded organisation aims to help turn around the lives of people who need a helping hand. It takes on young kids who have left school and want to try their hand at mechanical repairs. If a car is donated beyond repair, they use it to pull apart to find out how they work. Social recycling – fix and re-use “Or, in the case of a car in good condition, they restore it to roadworthy. Once done, it is re-registered and then sold to a disadvantaged family or a single parent at the same cost it took to bring it back to spec,” said Tom, who has been involved […]