New Truck

Roger's car died. The transmission has been giving him troubles, and he was planning on trading in his car soon, but the transmission just gave out on a busy state road on his way home from work last week. He was lucky enough that a work friend of his was behind him and stopped to give him a ride back to the house where he called a tow truck.

A few days later, we were on our way to the car dealerships and he started the car and it was running! So he figured he'd try to drive it to the dealer instead of having it towed. I followed him and every time he stopped he stalled. Finally he wasn't able to get it moving for several minutes (while I'm cursing that I'm going to have to help him push it out of the road). He got it moving and pulled into Sam's Club, where we left it and drove to the dealer in my car. We didn't call for a tow because we felt that showing up with a towed car would make us look desperate.

At the Ford dealer we had picked out a truck the day before... a 2008 Ranger. As we pulled into the lot someone was pulling out to test drive it!! So, we didn't get the Ranger. We test drove two 2006 Ford F150s, and settled on the one that was more expensive but had far less miles. It's a manual, and I can't drive a manual, but Rog said he'd teach me.

They bought the neon SIGHT UNSEEN for $1500, even after we told them that they would need to have it towed. We brought lots of pictures, but we never thought we'd get that much, especially without them even inspecting the car.

Here's the Ford: