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luscious_purple) wrote2011-04-28 09:40 pm
luscious_purple) wrote2011-04-28 09:40 pm
15 Years. 149,956 Miles.
Happy Purchase Anniversary to You!
Happy Purchase Anniversary to You!
Happy 15th Anniversary, Patty's Pretty Purple Pontiac!
Happy Purchase Anniversary to You!
It was 15 years ago today that I sent my 1985 Mercury Marquis Brougham off to retirement and purchased my then-brand-new Sunfire. I had looked at the Dodge Neon, but I didn't like driving it as much as the Sunfire. (In fact, the second Neon I test-drove had really loose steering -- I thought something was wrong with it.) I had a $400 credit coming to me from GM because I was still a grad student, even though I had a full-time job by then, so I used the money to pick out a car that already had a $400 after-market sunroof installed -- and just happened to have an exterior paint job called Deep Purple Metallic. While I was inside signing all the paperwork, the detailers cleaned it up and put a little gold stripe down the side.
I remember driving it to the neighborhood where I now live because one woman at my church (then the DRE) was throwing a baby shower for the woman who later became our DRE (and is now the DRE of the Columbia UU church). I got there late and announced that I had just bought a new car, and my friends wanted to go out and see it and ooh and ahh.
Now, 15 years later and 10 years after I paid off the car loan, the Sunfire has a few dings and needs some minor maintenance, but it still gets me from point A to point B. Today, when the boy toy and I were on our way home from the Amish market in Laurel, I took him down Route 450 in New Carrollton, past the old Disclave hotel, to show him where I met my purple baby. Darcars bought out the old Bob Banning dealership (where a friend of my then-housemates worked -- that's why I bought the car there), but the building still stands.
Happy Purchase Anniversary to You!
Happy 15th Anniversary, Patty's Pretty Purple Pontiac!
Happy Purchase Anniversary to You!
It was 15 years ago today that I sent my 1985 Mercury Marquis Brougham off to retirement and purchased my then-brand-new Sunfire. I had looked at the Dodge Neon, but I didn't like driving it as much as the Sunfire. (In fact, the second Neon I test-drove had really loose steering -- I thought something was wrong with it.) I had a $400 credit coming to me from GM because I was still a grad student, even though I had a full-time job by then, so I used the money to pick out a car that already had a $400 after-market sunroof installed -- and just happened to have an exterior paint job called Deep Purple Metallic. While I was inside signing all the paperwork, the detailers cleaned it up and put a little gold stripe down the side.
I remember driving it to the neighborhood where I now live because one woman at my church (then the DRE) was throwing a baby shower for the woman who later became our DRE (and is now the DRE of the Columbia UU church). I got there late and announced that I had just bought a new car, and my friends wanted to go out and see it and ooh and ahh.
Now, 15 years later and 10 years after I paid off the car loan, the Sunfire has a few dings and needs some minor maintenance, but it still gets me from point A to point B. Today, when the boy toy and I were on our way home from the Amish market in Laurel, I took him down Route 450 in New Carrollton, past the old Disclave hotel, to show him where I met my purple baby. Darcars bought out the old Bob Banning dealership (where a friend of my then-housemates worked -- that's why I bought the car there), but the building still stands.