For quite a while now, in fact, before we were married, we knew that we wanted to sell my little Saturn when paid off for a bigger more family friendly car. (You must be very cautious when using this term when newly married, as I will explain later.) So we paid it off, cleaned it up to spiffy condition, and stuck up posters all over campus. We wanted to start in and around people we know.
When a car in such good condition and mileage as my little Saturn and it is being sold, if I were someone else, I would want to know why it was being sold. So on the flier I added that we are just wanted to upgrade to family sized car. When I called Zach in for editing, and besides correcting and informing me of the difference between a 4 cylinder and a V4, he pointed that one phrase out immediately and warned me that I might get a lot of questions asked if that was there, but it was left.
The next day I went in to ask permission to hang up said signage. One of the questions asked by the deans in the Student Life Office, was the family factor. After a quick explanation and reassurance that I was not expecting, the sign was hung on the board and I took off to hang up the rest over campus.
Well, the next day I got a call of interest and on Saturday, we sold the car. The next two days after that there were a miniscule flood of calls of inquiry. We had no idea it would sell that fast, in fact, I didn't have the title from the bank back yet. Now we were in a great need for a new car. Thankfully, we had been looking the last two weeks as we knew we were going to put it up, though we had in mind a timeline of more like a month for the sale.
We looked at quite a few cars and came to really look for a Chevy Impala. I love the room in them and the trunk and Zach is all about the bowtie and the American equipment that he can work on . Now I must say that I did bring up a minivan for consideration a couple times since we are going to run the vehicle to the last miles since it will be going down to the farm with us and since we want start a family in the next year or two it could be very practical in 4 years or so. My dearest is so very strongly against a minivan as is against most men's ego. He even admitted it. We came to a compromise. We would look for a good sized family car and run it to the ground. When it comes to when three kids or so are overcrowding the car, then he will just have to suck it up and be a man and give in to the practicality of a minivan.
With all this established, we kept looking. We finally found one we really liked on the Monday after the sale of the old. The whole time while looking around, we just didn't feel good about any of the cars and we were going to stay in our range and still get a good car. I kept praying and praying. The car we chose was a private sale and it is a very sharp looking silver 03 Chevy Impala V6 with only 52,000 miles on it.
I am very excited about it and since most men and women differ on the features of the car to be excited about, I will share my favorites.
- I love the power locks and windows and the little keychain control that I use with ferver each time,
- I love the huge backseat room, which also has the markings of the past backseat passengers' carseats,
- I love the absolutely gianormous trunk, which also pops open with the push of a remote button,
- I love the fact that is has a lot of oomph as I merge onto the interstate (which I was finally able to do 2 weeks after we bought since I got sick the day after we bought it),
- I love that the doors automatically lock when you shift into gear,
- and finally, I love that it has a front bench seat so I can still sit next to my honey on longer trips in a not too uncomfortable position.
Those are some of my favorite features and most of them are not the same as Zach's, though he does like the V6 power from my little 4 cylinder and the bench seat. Of course!
We are so very thankful for the car and have used it so much already and have even taken it down to the farm to introduce it to the gravel roads and back country roads.
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