It's not the best picture of my car, but it's a start at introducing my latest to the world at large...or at least to my blogs fans. (Ignore all the shiny things that look like dents, they are reflections).
We needed a car for my son. Flipping 3 people and 2 cars was getting old, very fast. Even though I normally take the train to work, my work has a tendency to become overwhelming without warning and next thing I know, I am driving to work and the kid has no car. So, after the trip to NY, I decided to keep my eyes open for a good deal. As I mentioned the other day, I paid off my home loan. Cool...but I still owed quite a bit on my car and due to that fact, I could not really contemplate buying another and adding a car payment on top of an existing one. I did not want to wait several more years before getting one...so I got creative. I happened to drive by my dealer last Saturday and they had a huge used car sale. All their used cars out front and a band playing, to boot (folk rap...it was interesting to listen to, thanks for asking). Well, I like music and I LOVE a good deal, so I shopped.
In the bunch of cars that were way too expensive for my blood, I found a car that is 6 months older than my newest one and it had only 3 thousand miles more on it. It is a 4 door coupe...those back doors are tiny and open opposite regular doors, but they make it possible to get in and out of the back seats. It's red...fire engine red and it's got a stick shift. Due to the stick, it looks like it will be mine. My son can barely drive a car, none the less, a stick. But I will eventually teach him how. The price was 6 thousand dollars less, then I paid for my car initially.
So I now have 2 cars that are almost the same age...a young age and not a whole lot of miles on them. Even Hubby's Saturn (which is our oldest car, at almost a decade old) has less then 100 thousand miles on it. We are lucky like that.
I picked up a loan at my credit union, that will pay off both cars and it will cost me all of $45 a month more then I am currently paying. It's a 5 year loan, too. Nothing too extreme, in the way of how many years to pay it off.
I am so impressed that I made this deal happen, that I keep pinching myself.
Now if I can just get my stick groove back on... :-)
yay car
ReplyDeleteYay, Angel!!! Good for you! And not to worry, you'll get your stick groove back in no time -- it took me all of about 2 minutes when I switched back to a stick (which is what I learned to drive on and drove exclusively for years) after years of an automatic tranny. Especially in that fire-engine red cutie, you're gonna llloooooooovvvvvve getting back on the stick.
ReplyDeleteYou go, grrrl!
Hey Killer...it's cool! :-)
ReplyDeletePiglet, I finally took it out for a little spin on the back roads of Santa Clarita. It's nice... ;-)