Sorry for the short week of strips, folks. Real Life intervened, presenting me with a broken down car. It's a 2003 Ford Windstar with over 150K miles on it with an air conditioning system that decided to seize up and explode. Since a good deal of that system runs off of a serpentine belt that runs the power steering and power brakes, among other systems, we're talking around $2200 or so to fix. It's been a good run, but it's time for my minivan to meet its maker, metaphorically speaking. Realistically speaking, it's maker is probably a crew of assembly-line workers in Canada or Mexico, but it's just not feasible to gather them all together. That, and I would get a lot of strange looks and restraining orders. :)
Take care,
~Rob
We are gathered here today to witness the passing of Robs’ minivan. It served him well through rain, sleet, heat and snow. Know full well it may be at the end of its traveling life, but it can be recycled and find new life as a hybrid and bring the gift of swift travel to a new generation of drivers. Windstar, you shall be missed.
Amen. It sucks to lose a car that has been with you through thick and thin. I had a Nissan Sentra that died (she threw a rod) this past November and it was tough giving her up. She was a good little car; ten years old when I got her and had her for another ten years.
My current dame is a G6 2006 with computer gremlins, but I loved my Oldsmobile Cutlass Ciera from 1987 that had a v6. Yes that is a v6 in car that normally came with v4, and a special edition that was race tuned. It let a few tires behind, broke the engine mounts several times, and eventual blew the transmission in 2006.
Yours was better than mine. It caught on fire after blowing the head gasket.