So the journey begins…
So I bought a car. An awesome car. After a very long drawn out process of car shopping, (which is HORRIBLY annoying with a mere $3000 budget) I came across a very simple and uninteresting Craigslist post titled “71 Squareback”. No price, no description, thats it. So I clicked on it and found a diamond in the rough. “Rough” being old Honda Civics with three different colored panels, and “project” cars that don’t have engines. So I called up the dude (good ol’ Steve) and found out that it was being sold for $2800 and he lives in Lakewood, which is near Long Beach…. yikes.
I went on a frantic phone call fit and found that two close friends were surprisingly available the next day. We met at Peets of course and headed out to check out this big fat maybe of a car.
When we showed up, I had a little moment of weird giddy kid joy seeing that the car was in MUCH better condition than the first Squareback I had checked out, AND it was an automatic transmission! Which is great for a lame guy like me who has never learned. So after a nice lengthly test drive, and a ridiculous amount of questions, AND meeting his pregnant wife AND his brother AND hangin out at their house for a little bit… I decided to buy it.
We had a blast coming back home even grubbing at The Cheesecake Factory in Thousand Oaks before our final leg back to Ventura. I’m so stoked that Frank and Liz joined me! So fun. It was a great day.
I’ve named my Squareback “Butler”, named for how he reminds me of a fancy old car that a house servant would take their masters back and fourth in back in the day. It had a short lived name of Albertus, which was the name of the street he used to live on. I wasn’t a fan too much.
So check in to this blog thing if you want to follow along with my first attempt at being any sort of mechanic, as Butler is already having some hick-ups here and there. He’s an old one, but a fixable one… I hope.
