There is a modern day dungeon...
There is a modern day dungeon in Sydney. One street back from the sleaze, glitz and noise of Darlinghurst Avenue, Kings Cross, one can take a lift down three floors to a concrete crypt-like space with barred windows and spartan benches and tables. International inmates will spend anything from a few days to a few weeks cooped up here. This is the Kings Cross Car Market.The car market houses a transient collection of the elderly and infirm of Australia’s campervans and station wagons, all for sale, and attended by a varied assortment of foreign owners. This museum group of Ford Falcons, Holden Kingswoods, VW Kombis and the like, once here have entered a vicious circle. They will pass through a string of backpacker owners, often changing hands at the car market. Between sales, they will be driven relentlessly around the continent until they finally expire.Each day from nine in the morning,...
