car

My car is for sale

Jacob Redding — Sun, 08 Apr 2007 16:49:19 +0000

I have been living in NYC for almost two years now and I have not once desired my vehicle. My parents insisted that I keep my car and store it at their place in Florida. The reasoning was that I would (a) move away from the city and need my car again, (b) move to Florida and need the car, (c) use the car when I visited the family down in Florida. None of these really happened so the car has been sitting mostly idle, down in Florida, for the past year and a half.

The car is in awesome condition and I am sad to let it go. I am the only owner of the car and I purchased it with 17 miles on it. It now has over 100,000, all of which I put on the car. Purchased in Oregon is has traveled all over Oregon, Washington and California. It also brought through 12+ states on my move from Oregon to New York and then another 6 states (more?) down to Florida. This car has passed through almost half the United States (and most of Western Canada)!!

I babied the engine, took care of the interior and I have never had a single problem with the car with the minor exception of a stablization rod bolted that broke (crazy simple fix). I have massive oil change records, tune up records, etc. too..

I am sad to see it go but alas it must as I prepare for the next phase in my life.

The car's info:

Make: Plymouth
Model: Neon
Year: 2000
Type: 5 speed Manual Transmission
Current Miles: 101,000 + (approximate)
Miles at purchase: 17 (I put on 10 of those with the test drive)
# of owners: 1
# of doors: 4
# of dents: 1 nickel sized dent near rear passenger side door
# of engine problems: 0
Price Paid: $10,500
Current Value: $3,500
Selling Price: Make an Offer!
Car features:

Power steering
Tilt wheel
Manual windows
Manual locks
No A/C

Yup no air conditioning. I lived in Oregon and didn't need it.
It is about 700-1,500 to put A/C in the car

Minor upgrades:

Security alarm
New Stereo::Clarion CD, MP3 + Aux input (iPod, Zune, laptop, etc.)
Roof Rack (with bicycle trays)

What it needs

New Tires: I drove cross country with this car and it is now in need of new tires!
Love: I loved this car (still do) and I want someone else to really love it too

Cross Country DriveFast car

A few final notes:
The car is currently near Tampa, Florida so it will either need to be picked up OR if you're in a freakin' cool location and willing to pay the price I'll drive it to you! (seriously). I'm looking to sell this car by August, 2007.

My car is done!!!

Jacob Redding — Thu, 05 Feb 2004 07:30:00 +0000

My car is DONE!! After two weeks my car is finally done

I picked my car up from Blue Ribbon Auto Body on Thursday the 29th (see a previous blog). After I picked it up I drove over to Stereo King to get a purchase a new CD deck and to have them fix my car alarm. I am just glad that everything is done! My new cd Deck is awesome!

It is a clarion deck with MP3 and WMA capabilities. It also recognizes CD-R and CD-RWs!! The other cool thing about it is an auxilary input. On the back of the deck are two RCA inputs (left/right) into which I have plugged an eight foot RCA to 1/8" cable. Now if anyone of my passengers has an I-pod, jukebox, creative zen or laptop I can just plug it straight into the car stereo!! I'm digging it. I haven't used the feature yet but I still dig it.

Dude, I found my car.

Jacob Redding — Thu, 29 Jan 2004 08:00:00 +0000

Blue Ribbon autobody finally completed the work on my car and I was able to pick it up from the shop today. My car was at Blue Ribbon autobody for twelve days. Yes I just said twelve as in 10+2, 9+3 or ((45/3) + (-15/5)). How much work can a body shop do in twelve days you may ask. Well if you could look at my invoice you would see that they can replace two windows. Yup two whole windows, Amazing!!! For you math geeks that is 1 rear driver's side window plus 1 windshield. Holy Schnikeys, how do they do such fast work!!!

To be fair though, it was not Blue Ribbon's fault. Read a former blog to get the run down on my insurance problems. In short though, my Insurance SUCKS!!

Oh, I did get a really really really cool CD deck out of the deal. I'll post some information about it in a few days, once I take a picture of it in my car.