Honoring My Father By Swapping A $100 SUV - Yahoo Autos (blog)
Like a lot of surprises in life, this all started with some spare cash floating around in my pocket and a few too many drinks. Browsing had turned into shopping, and pretty soon I was looking with rose-colored glasses at a bunch of old government cars that had either been seized, smashed up, or mothballed. A lot of room for the imagination about the Explorer’s true condition turned into one dangerous thought, “There is something nice about this one. I’m not much for SUVs, but the terms and restrictions for the sale made it look like an easy score. You can blame this restriction on our country’s sordid emissions issues which make a lot of these older cars virtually unsellable to the public in certain metropolitan areas. I made my bid, watched a dinosaur from the movie “Jurassic Park” rip apart one of those Explorers on YouTube, and went to bed. I had to read that three times to internalize the fact that I now owned a 20-year-old SUV with no keys. The good news turned out to be far more plentiful: The Explorer had no rust thanks to the temperate Atlanta climate. The entire interior was clean enough for it to almost look like new, and it had only 93,463 original miles. What to do. . As a long-time auctioneer and car dealer, the answer to this question was always easy: Fix it, sell it and buy something else. But this time I wanted to do something different. Source: www.yahoo.com
