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Brand New Used Car

"Now, the neighbors come from near and far
As we pull up in our brand new used car"
-Bruce Springsteen
"Used Cars"

Well, the search is over.
I am the proud owner of a new used car.
After scouring craigslist, cars.com and carsoup.com, I discovered a little gem up in Forest Lake that looked like a winner.
It has a little rust on it, but only 110,000 miles (which isn't bad for a 1989 model) so I took it for a test drive. It drove fine, seemed tight and didn't smoke, sputter or catch fire, so I put some money down on it.
A few days later I picked it up, paying with a stack of 20 dollar bills.
This new rig of mine ran great on the highway, but once I got it on the Mean Streets I could hear some noise from the front end. A CV joint maybe? Shit, I don't know.
But what I do know is that a car of this vintage will surely be draining my pocketbook in the future. Hopefully this will occur later rather than sooner. Actually, it's a pretty good car considering what I paid for it.

One great thing about my new ride is that it gets AM radio.
Now, this may sound like a minor detail, but my last three cars didn't get AM radio and as a fan of talk radio, this really bummed me out.
But now I can catch the ass end of Don Shelby's show at the begining of my shift and this sure does my heart good.

Alright people, I'm off to wipe down the dashboard and try to figure out what the Hell I've gotten myself into.

Posted by The Pizza Man at December 19, 2006 8:55 PM

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