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Because I know you're a Rally fan.

How an Amateur Rally Fan Placed Third in the World Rally Championship's Rally Mexico Race, in a Car Bought off Craigslist for $500.00!!

OK, so admittedly it was a fixer-upper, and he put more than a little work into it. Still Mel Ne-chan, if you have an extra $500.00, I can have some weekends free to help.

Current Mood: ditzy

Some of you may have seen this bit of news, where the Florida legislature is trying to outlaw truck nutz.

Granted, I agree that dangling testicles from the back of a 4X4 or jacked-up-truck is the height of tackiness, if not a desperate display of machismo to compensate for a personal lack of stature (and well, you know that given the cars they owners are driving, that's probably a concern already). However, honestly, legislation is far from the best way to deal with this problem.

SOLUTION!

The best way to deal with truck nutz, is to wait until they park, then sneak behind the truck, take out a pair of shears, and *snip!*. Then you take some diluted ketchup, and splash it both on the dangling remnants, and the balls on the ground. For real fun, get some red licorice tubes, and push them in both parts.

Not that I say, carry a special "road kit" with me containing shears, ketchup and red licorice...why that would be impolite.

Current Mood: optimistic

Yesterday we bought:

2004 Mitsubishi Lancer ES
38,000 miles
Under Warranty.

We think we did very good.

Current Mood: grumpy

Registering my car today was fun- for a masochist.

For a start, the DMV lady was very thorough- and slow. I think all the rigmarole around the smogging of my car confused her, so I got to watch the clock move closer and closer to the end of lunch while she tried to figure out what the screen and forms were saying. Then there was a slight bit of confusion about payment, since we paid both by mail, and at the DMV office previously. I owed $800.00 dollars, no, I owed $3.00, no I owed $23.00, no...I was owed a $74.00 refund.

But finally, I did manage to escape just in time to get back to work. And I now have a nice red tag for my car, only several months late.

Now we can sell the damn thing.

Current Mood: frustrated

Well, we had a narrow escape this Sunday when we went car shopping.

We made the mistake of making eye contact with a dealer, and nearly ended up being bullied into buying a Dodge Neon. Damn, those guys were persistent- willing even to drive the car 60 miles to get title transferred, and the down payment made. If they had some big bruisers, I'm sure that they would have kept us from leaving until we signed or lives away. And the car was such an awful color, too.

We're going to be a bit more cautious next week, and not get roped into buying a car we don't want. We're also going to take a fake blood capsule for RXM to surreptitiously bite down upon; I think even a used car dealer will let us leave if one of us has bloody foam coming out of her mouth.

The good-sorta good- news is that we do qualify for financing, and we can get monthly payments below $200.00. The bad news is that based on 48 monthly payments of $198.00, I get a freaking ridiculous interest rate,one over 30%. I'm really hoping I miscalculated the interest rate.

Does anyone want to check my math there? Or should I just get a relative with excellent credit to co-sign?

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This story is for Sandpanther

Neuter those trucks!

So did we do good?

The registration go-around

Car shopping up and downs- and car loan question.

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