Now I know that ain't nothing new and shiny to many - but for a guy who was raised back in the day when a car hit a 100K miles - he started to look for a place to run it off the road to one of those 500 acre auto junkyards... this is a pretty big deal. Shucks, I don't even have a shed full of spare parts or grease stains on the driveway.... Who would have thought!
Actually, it is in such fine shape, I'm not even thinking of trading in, trading up, trading down, or trading at all. I bought it as a 'program' purchase 13 years ago when some feller finished his 36 month lease on it and turned it back to the dealer to start over again. Coincidentally, I dropped by that dealer's lot the next day, wanting to trade my almost new - but disliked and underpowered Chevy custom van for a more comfortable ride.... Told the salesman I wanted, low, powerful, and a hole in the roof,
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| 15 years young.... |
He walked me over to this pristine Oldsmobile (remember them?) silver Aurora, leather bucket seats, stereo, 4L, Eight cylinder engine that didn't require an appointment to enter a freeway on-ramp, Still doesn't!!
Don't get me wrong, in my years I have purchased my share of new cars, Chevy's, Buicks, Cadillacs. I've owned Jags in the UK, Nissans in Japan, and my share of 54 Chevies in many countries. but this little beauty outshines them all! No, she doesn't have a name..... I ain't one of those guys who put human names on vehicles... Well -- I've called a few losing cars some ugly names in years gone by, I reckon. I remember one brand new white & red leather spiffy looking 1981 Cadillac Seville 8-6-4 in particular.. I ran out of four letter words and repair money -- Whee doggies, I spent more time in a loaner rice-burner than I did in that Caddie!
Biggest problem I've had with this proud beauty? Keeping it under 90 MPH on our Texas freeways!
Nicest part about this car? After making the last of thirty-six $320 payments to the Credit Union back in 2004, I opened a new savings account and started making $300 payments toward my next car. Now - there being no next car.... guess what? Even with the nation's economy in the toilet, and interest rates on savings dead flat... that little old automovehicle savings account has grown plumb purty!
Of course this was when 'W' was still POTUS and gasoline was half as much as it is now -- but I don't feel any pain!
If I hadn't arranged on being cremated some day, I might ask to be buried in this darlin', but one of my sons already has his eye on it! And it would be a shame not to run that odometer around one more time!!
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