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October 17, 2016
Well done, thou good and faithful servant:
Bought it for my new bride after the car she brought to the marriage was stolen from our driveway in a ‘safe’ Atlanta suburb by roaming ‘youths’ Our son was born a year later and in the childseat he almost choked to death on a gummy worm; my screaming wife carried his tiny blue body into the house and I shook him frantically by the ankles for dear life.
When God ordained that a humid urban vibrantly enriched multicult hellhole didn’t suit a young family and in His wisdom moved us to the dry rural whitetopia of northern California, this car rode atop the furniture in the back of a United Van Lines truck.
For the past 5 years it served as a spare car, then learning car for my son, then my son’s car, then spare car again when he left for school, and finally as a learning car for my daughter, plastered with yellow STUDENT DRIVER magnets. But it’s hard for my daughter to steer, and we’re at the stage where random hoses & gaskets burst from sheer age. The handling feels unsafe. Suspension noises I can’t identify.
Yesterday on the spur of the moment, discombobulated by rain (what’s that?), I traded the old guy in. And now I’m the only man left in the house, surrounded by women in Priuses. HappyAcres
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Posted by: Jewel at October 17, 2016 6:00 PM
Well, well, well.
Next Sunday, the 23rd of Oct, it will have been exactly 26 years since I bought my 1991 Chevy S10, 2dr, 2wd, 5 sp stickshift, robins egg blue truck. Yep, a 1991 and I bought it in 1990.
It had just rolled off the truck that morning and had (point) .7 miles and now it has about 175,000.
I don't get in that truck. I put it on.
Here's the best part, I paid $8,888.88 for it under a special promotion they had at the dealer.
There was a 60 month loan on it for $237.51 per month, so it has been *free* for a long time now.
Until a couple months ago it had been my only driver during that period.
The minimal insurance is about $500/year and it still gets about 20 mpg and runs excellent.
I have no complaints about it. All in all it has been the best purchase I have ever made. I'll keep it til I die. It's the least I can do for such a loyal friend.
Posted by: ghostsniper at October 17, 2016 6:25 PM
I just traded in my 98 CR-V with 330,000 miles.
It was a good car. And the drawer under the passenger seat was a stroke of brilliance
Posted by: Whitney at October 19, 2016 4:45 PM