I understand. I bought my car in 96 when my son was in diapers. Now, he's 6'2" and will have a learner's permit in a few weeks. I'm thinking of taking him for practice driving "coincidentally" on the same street where the previous owner lives. He really sensed that I cared about the car as much as he did when he sold it to me. If he saw it 12 years later, with another 120K on it, in even better condition (and it was nice when I bought it), I KNOW I would get a big smile out of him. Funny how that spirituality thing works, even with engineering types such as myself. Robert Persig did a pretty sweet job of getting his head around it.

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'82 300SD - 361K mi - "Blue"

"Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement."

listen, look, .........and duck.