Turning the page
A chapter of my vehicle life has finally come to a close. I sold the truck yesterday. I have to say that I will miss the utility funcitionality of it as well as its ability to continuously take the abuse that I haphazardly doled out over its life. In the end, the bluebook value was at 2800 and, due to some MINOR mechanical issues, I sold it for 2000. Some people thought it should have sold for less, but it still ran great, it just had some blemishes.
That truck took some beatings, ranging from hitting our mailbox and scratching the hood in college to a straight front ending that lifted the back end off the ground. That one needed some body stretching and fender work. I also straight up backed into a neighbors daughters car on a rainy night and screwed up the latch system on the tailgate (her back end of the car was in my driveway…..which I did not see in the dark rain heading to 3rd shift work). Then I sideswiped my own parents vehicle…..which is now mine…..for a fender ding. I think that’s about it.
Now, that truck took the most beating out of all the vehicles I have driven, but if you ask Doug, he can tell you about the most exciting trips my vehicles have taken!
January 25th, 2009 at 5:29 am
Ah, the ol’ truck will be missed.
As it happens, my brother may be temporarily switching over to driving a truck because his workhorse, a 1999 Grand Am with almost 200,000 miles on it got totaled earlier this week. So at least you got to decide when to retire the ol’ beast.
January 25th, 2009 at 7:23 am
I remember when you got the truck.
What kind of car did you drive before it?
January 25th, 2009 at 11:08 am
I believe he drove the fabulous Audi, which was bought by Jarrod. That fantastic car refused to be stolen no matter how many times Jarrod left the doors unlocked, the windows down, and the keys on the seat. On the bright side, when it refused to run, it did great work in keeping the grass company in the front yard of our house.
January 27th, 2009 at 12:01 pm
J-Rod got $5000 in trade in value when he bought his next vehicle. I remember thinking Brad ripped him off when he asked for $1000 for the Audi.
My fondest memory of the truck was while riding to Greenville to play a two man show for a local frat club in it, Brad and I rocked out to some ‘Slow Ride.’ It was piss pouring rain and we were hydroplaning like crazy. That was one hell of a show, too.
To this day when I hear ‘Slow Ride’ I think about our 2-man show shenanigans . . . best way to pay for Mountain weekend ever.
January 30th, 2009 at 7:01 am
keys locked in the van at taco bell with the engine running…thats all i have to say