Yep, no doubt about that. That's one of the issues I have, we could just buy another car and forego any of the hassles. Of course with many a secondhand car you're buying potentially a whole new bunch of hassles :)
As much as I am a revhead I know that a car is not much more than a financial arrangement.
I'm pretty much the same. If something is not working, can't be easily saved, and is going to cost more than a new(-ish) one, then piff the old one. And with any other car, I'd have no reluctance at all in doing it. But 20 odd years of driving it around, the links it has with my droving past and my dad, make it much harder for me to want to let go of it.
Which is partially why on this score I'm tending to give 75% of the decision over to Sharon. Not because I want her to take the blame, but because while she likes the car also, she doesn't have the undying love that I have so she can view things a little more rationally.
I have decided that, well, if we decide to keep it, I'd just better kick the business into overdrive and start bringing in as much extra cash as possible.
The annoying thing is that if I'd been able to start the job I was going to start last year (the stroke stopped me), most of this would have been dealt with well before now because I was wanting to get work done to the car anyway, I just couldn't justify the cash when I couldn't earn any.
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Re: What do you want? and how much do you want to spend?
Date: 2007-08-21 01:22 am (UTC)Yep, no doubt about that. That's one of the issues I have, we could just buy another car and forego any of the hassles. Of course with many a secondhand car you're buying potentially a whole new bunch of hassles :)
As much as I am a revhead I know that a car is not much more than a financial arrangement.
I'm pretty much the same. If something is not working, can't be easily saved, and is going to cost more than a new(-ish) one, then piff the old one. And with any other car, I'd have no reluctance at all in doing it. But 20 odd years of driving it around, the links it has with my droving past and my dad, make it much harder for me to want to let go of it.
Which is partially why on this score I'm tending to give 75% of the decision over to Sharon. Not because I want her to take the blame, but because while she likes the car also, she doesn't have the undying love that I have so she can view things a little more rationally.
I have decided that, well, if we decide to keep it, I'd just better kick the business into overdrive and start bringing in as much extra cash as possible.
The annoying thing is that if I'd been able to start the job I was going to start last year (the stroke stopped me), most of this would have been dealt with well before now because I was wanting to get work done to the car anyway, I just couldn't justify the cash when I couldn't earn any.