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Sayonara, my Sweet

July 7th, 2008

Is it appropriate to mourn one’s vehicle? After months of foot-dragging and avoidance I finally sold my Audi TT this morning to a nice, recently-retired couple from the center of the state.

As they live a couple of hundred miles away, they had not laid eyes on the car itself, nor met us. Yet they were willing to commit to the decision based on my avowals of the TT’s condition.

They drove into Portland this morning, a special trip to pick up the car. When I met them at the bank, the gentleman was already there, waving a receipt.

“I already paid [the loan] off for you,” he was saying, before he even shook my hand. That is a beautiful trust. Some might say it’s foolish–to pay six (err) five figures off without having met the selling party nor even having seen or examined the merchandise–but I find it sweet and uplifting. It meshed well with my own commercial desires. I wish them the best and feel personally accountable that the car behave as well as I know it can.

Godspeed.

My Audi TT

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6 Responses to “Sayonara, my Sweet”

  1. brett Says:
    July 7th, 2008 at 4:42 pm

    Six figures? Really?

  2. Lyza Gardner Says:
    July 7th, 2008 at 4:44 pm

    Durrr. Updated. I cannot count.

  3. Aileen Says:
    July 7th, 2008 at 4:44 pm

    I can definitely relate to your experience. Sad to be giving up a dream car, happy that is going to good people, wistful whenever you see another of its ilk zoom by.

  4. autumn Says:
    July 7th, 2008 at 11:45 pm

    Condolences. I cried, er, sobbed when I was finally forced to sell datsy. Good on ye.

  5. Matt Says:
    July 9th, 2008 at 6:41 am

    I tend to spend 3 figures on rust-buckets which may or may not make it from the sellers house to mine. Therefore I very rarely feel the need to mourn the loss of a car which has just fallen to pieces on the motorway leaving me standing in the rain for an hour waiting for an RAC truck to arrive.

  6. Jimh Says:
    July 10th, 2008 at 8:33 pm

    I did the same thing recently, I sold my BMW 750il that I had for the last ten years, basically since I moved here (sniff). Anyway, I used the vflyer site you turned us onto back when you were selling your house. It generated all the html/css for craigslist which is pretty sweet. It sold surprisingly fast too, especially for a V12 given today’s fuel prices. 11 city, 17 highway. (not proud of that either). Thanks for the vflyer tip. http://jimh999.vflyer.com/4/index.html

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Rapid-Fire Thoughts: 1

December 7th, 2007

I like the stereo in my car. It’s a good one, but there are two sad
things:

1) No one ever really gets to hear it but me. I’m too nice to turn my
tunes way up when someone else is in the car.
2) It seems to be optimally balanced for classic rock. Not that I
don’t like classic rock, but it’s not my true love.

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Not a Gas Hog, Apparently

November 27th, 2007

Tonight I got gas for the first time since early September. It’s been
so long I actually forgot which side of the car my gas tank is on and
where the release lever is for the gas door. Seriously. That’s kind of
sad, no?

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One Response to “Not a Gas Hog, Apparently”

  1. tODD Says:
    November 28th, 2007 at 12:27 am

    I am told by those who drive cars more than I (or you) do that winter is an especially good time to keep your car’s gas tank pretty darn full, for reasons whose full explanation escapes me right now. Still, props on the low usage.

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