About six years ago when we first moved back to the US from England we bought this little Ford Escort for less than two grand. It has been a really good car and has served us well. It has had very few major problems and has gotten very good gas mileage. Recently it reached 200,000 miles and failed a smog test. We heard about the program here in California that pays $1000 to retire older, polluting cars. We looked at the current value of the car, the cost to get it fixed so that it would pass the smog test, all the other repairs that the car needed and the guilt I would feel selling an unsafe (bad breaks and cracked bumpers and bald tires) and slightly scary car to some poor student. So we decided to retire the car. Des was very sad to see it go. It has been his car and I think he is a little embarrassed to be driving a Buick (my Bonnema gave us a Buick to use that is much safer and has much lower mileage) but I think he will learn to love those nice soft seats and the enormous trunk.
We let the boys play in the car after Des had cleaned it out.
Here we are waiting for the people to come and take the car.
Goodbye Car!
2 comments:
That car got such great mileage, the Buick not so much...weep weep
What a sad day! Rob was always envious of the good deal you got on that one...
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