I think you and my husband

[Ohiogal]

Must be twin sons from a different mother. At the age of 72 he has owned more beater cars than I could ever recall, most of them before he was 30 years old, and I’ve heard “the story” about each one of them. One of the most amusing was the one about the VW Beetle that left him sitting on the ground in the driveway once when the floorboards rotted. He once bought a ‘56 Chevy for $65. Sold it in ‘65 for $75 because it burned oil so badly. Right now he still uses an ‘88 Chevy truck to haul his boat. That is it’s sole purpose, it hauls his boat. It’s a manual transmission. The air conditioning doesn’t work any more, it has hand crank windows, it’s noisy, the am-fm radio is awful, the moon roof leaks, it’s terrible on gas, and IMO the seats are really uncomfortable. But it runs and that’s all he cares about, because he just uses it to pull his boat. With the occasional trip to Home Depot for something big, or branches from a storm. He loves it.

Oh, yeah, he curses modern cars because they’re so full of technology a home mechanic can’t work on them any more. Takes all the fun out of owning a vehicle, he says.