From a strawberry patch in Somerset to a post office in New South Wales, an ecstatic Tim Goodwin is reunited with his customised Matchbox Ford Capri

Peak Hill, Australia is a long way from Wellington in Somerset in the south-west of England. Further still to Doncaster in the UK. But that is the journey made by a pink Matchbox Ford Capri, originally bought by a little boy a long time ago.

That little boy is now 58-year-old Tim Goodwin, who along with his wife, Cathy, runs the Peak Hill post office in the town of about 1,000 people, in central NSW.

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