After
running down an errant couch on I-25, the wife and I decided the time was nigh to purchase a new automobile. We first called our credit union to get pre-approved for a loan and were pleased to learn they offered their customers a free
auto broker service. This was exactly what I wanted to hear as
car salesman rank in character somewhere between
necrophiliacs and
Rent-A-Center employees to me. The wife and I were referred to a genial gentleman named Gordon. He called to inform of us of an auto inventory showcase they were having the next day at
Bandimere Speedway and invited us to come down and test drive whatever he had. So we did. He introduced himself and then became scarce and the wife and I spent the rest of the morning speeding new and used whips around the hills near
Morrison, Colorado. We fell in love with the
2008 Toyota RAV4, both for the V6 engine and the stellar Consumer Reports ratings (thanks EZ). After discussing the features we were looking for in an automobile with Gordon, he informed us that he would scour the
Denver metro area for what we wanted. The next day he called to inform us that he procured a
2008 flint-colored, be-moonroofed
Toyota RAV4 and that he was driving it up to the crib to let us take it for a spin. We loved the damn thing (of course) and two days and fifteen minutes of paperwork later, the wife and I had us a new ride.
The
Ghost of War made her final voyage yesterday (a youngster in
Castle Rock bought her for $500) first to
Santiagos for a sack of
breakfast burritos and than to the office. She was a steady machine that gave me scant trouble in ten years of hard driving (I work a clutch like a Mexican field hand works a burro). Godspeed,
Ghost of War. May all your future rides be down the smoothest of couch-free roads.
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