-6* this morning

 

Looking at getting a new snow blower...I think my other one is getting tired

 

I'll take your old one, I'll use it to blow leaves.

 

I figure I'll be over it by springtime......

 

Doesn't happen often but even I was pulling for the Vikings. Can't stand Seattle.

 

Should end up in mid 60s this afternoon. Hopefully we can open the shop doors. Love getting some fresh air in doors. Well as fresh as you can get next to a highway and an airport

 

Thinking about getting rid of the cavalier, I found a 2002 Lincoln LS V6 with the standard Transmission. I just got done looking at it and it was very clean. 1 owner, 85k miles. She only wants 2500obo, i figure i can sell the cavalier for atleast 1500 (which is what i paid for it almost 2 years ago). I'm thinking it should be a good car, After all Lincolns are known to be pretty solid.

 

Do it

 

Still cold...+5* now

 

I love those early LS's -- I remember when they were brand new a dealer had one on display in the terminal of Love Field and I would always walk by the thing and wish I could afford one!

However, I'm not sure I'd swap the Cavalier for it just because I would hate to lose a vehicle that was cheap to insure, economical to run, easy to maintain, and was in the perfect "sweet-spot" between being reliable yet long-enough-in-the-tooth that you didn't care what happened to it when you drove it!

If I traded my Cavalier for the car you are talking about I'd be right back to having another vehicle that I didn't want to drive if the weather was bad or if I thought I might pick up a door ding in the parking lot.....

 

I'm sorta thinking the same thing, I will just have to set my mind that it's not going to be pampered and drove like the cavalier.

I've been doing some research and seems like the V6 Standard transmission is the way to go, the automatic's look to have issues. This car almost looks like it just rolled off the show room floor, all I spoted in a couple door dings. Interior is spotless, leather is still nice and soft carpets clean etc.

The ol cavalier is about to hit 170k and she's still running great, just trying to think if its time to get away from it while its still running good and not take a big hit if something happens mechanically.

She's a older lady and didn't seem In a hurry to sell, I found it in the thrifty nickle and I don't think many people look at that anymore I'm going to sleep on it and figure it out tomorrow

 

Seems odd that an older woman would have ordered the standard transmission.....

 

She probably wasn't as old in 2002

 

Jim was still in his late 80s in 2002