Out with the old, in with the older

The two Volvos ("Esther's car" and "Daddy's car", for some reason) are gone to the junk yard. The state was kind enough to buy them from us as they were, or were about to become, gross polluters. The ladies have asked about them on numerous occasions. I told them we could go see them at the Pick-N-Pull but they said it would be too scary. The ladies think I should go but that they would prefer to stay in the van ("Bea's car") in the parking lot.



Here is the new car ("Huckleberry's car"). It is a 1980 Mercedes 240D, as in Diesel. This beauty is a 4 speed manual and would finish a distant second in a race with a turtle. As it has proven itself through 418,000 miles (just short of the distance to the moon and back), we figured it was good for a few more. Perhaps you can imagine Esther and Bea, in different dresses of course, on their way to prom.