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Gemme · 03-22-2012, 04:30 PM

I've had old lady cars and I've loved them deeply.

Case in point:

I had a 1991 Buick Skylark. Sadie, but I called her Baby more often. Gray with a red pinstripe. Huge trunk. I moved several times in her and got more in her in each load than my friend with an F150. Driver's side window motor went wonky and when we cracked it open, we saw that there'd been an electrical fire in there. Some research brought to my attention that that was a known defect and there had been some recalls. Whooopsie. She went to that great racetrack in the sky (she was waaaaay faster than she appeared....or maybe it was my lead foot....) after having the transmission blow. It was my fault. I couldn't get a new one at the time so I just became verrrry careful at choosing what parking lots I went into, as reverse no longer worked. And then I lost a couple gears. And then forward started getting sluggish.

And then she died. Amen.

I'm going to miss my current car too when she goes to the great racetrack in the sky in about 15ish years from now *crosses fingers*. Ella Blue is a sweet lil thang. People scoff at my Neon, but she goes where I want her to and she keeps me out trouble, no matter HOW many times people try to hit me (and it's a LOT here in Austin....stupid drivers).

She's been with me when I drove from FL to WA over a span of 5 days with a partner, a cat, and two dogs plus our immediate gear, as well as keeping me safe and sane when I drove from WA down here to Austin in less than 37 hours (4 of which were sleeping and 2 of them shaved years off of my life because I could not see the road in front of me at 3am in split pea soup thick fog) all by myself. We saw many, many beatiful things like daybreak in Montana and herds and herds of semi-wild cattle somewhere up there. It was an awesome trip and I'll remember her always for that, if nothing else.

She does, however, have a trigger hair check engine light because of some stupid non-fatal sensor. If I had a dollar for every time I've gone into an AutoZone......

03-22-2012, 04:30 PM	#6
Gemme Practically Lives Here How Do You Identify?: Queer Stone Femme Girl of the Unicorn Variety Preferred Pronoun?: She, as in 'She's a GEM' Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: The roads are narrow here Posts: 36,631 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 182,498 Thanked 107,972 Times in 25,664 Posts Rep Power: 21474888	I've had old lady cars and I've loved them deeply. Case in point: I had a 1991 Buick Skylark. Sadie, but I called her Baby more often. Gray with a red pinstripe. Huge trunk. I moved several times in her and got more in her in each load than my friend with an F150. Driver's side window motor went wonky and when we cracked it open, we saw that there'd been an electrical fire in there. Some research brought to my attention that that was a known defect and there had been some recalls. Whooopsie. She went to that great racetrack in the sky (she was waaaaay faster than she appeared....or maybe it was my lead foot....) after having the transmission blow. It was my fault. I couldn't get a new one at the time so I just became verrrry careful at choosing what parking lots I went into, as reverse no longer worked. And then I lost a couple gears. And then forward started getting sluggish. And then she died. Amen. I'm going to miss my current car too when she goes to the great racetrack in the sky in about 15ish years from now crosses fingers. Ella Blue is a sweet lil thang. People scoff at my Neon, but she goes where I want her to and she keeps me out trouble, no matter HOW many times people try to hit me (and it's a LOT here in Austin....stupid drivers). She's been with me when I drove from FL to WA over a span of 5 days with a partner, a cat, and two dogs plus our immediate gear, as well as keeping me safe and sane when I drove from WA down here to Austin in less than 37 hours (4 of which were sleeping and 2 of them shaved years off of my life because I could not see the road in front of me at 3am in split pea soup thick fog) all by myself. We saw many, many beatiful things like daybreak in Montana and herds and herds of semi-wild cattle somewhere up there. It was an awesome trip and I'll remember her always for that, if nothing else. She does, however, have a trigger hair check engine light because of some stupid non-fatal sensor. If I had a dollar for every time I've gone into an AutoZone...... __________________ Gemme's Journal I'm misunderestimated.