the burdensome benz

Our Mercedes Benz was born in 1976, and shortly thereafter purchased by a Hawaiian senator living here on Oahu, who promptly gutted the interior and re-upholstered it with genuine lambs' wool, then repainted the exterior a two-tone teal and silver. Evidently this is something said senator does with all his vehicles. Wouldn't you?




The senator then gave the car to an auction where it was purchased by some random guy in my "Mormonism and World Religions" class, who sold vehicles under the business name of DaKine Automotive (fitting, eh). We purchased the car in Spring 2006. We were originally intending on returning to the Mainland that Dec. and wanted to take the car with us, restore it, and keep it as our "Hawaii" car (Casey's a car guy. Some people buy surfboards - we bought a cheap car, which had just reached it's "antique" age, might I add.) I drove it to class when I was uber pregnant (with Addi), then Casey drove it to work and back when we bought the Element (after Addi was born).


When we realized we were staying quite longer we decided we should sell the car. Evidently it's not much of a collector's item because it uses unleaded fuel instead of diesel ... who knew? At the time it hadn't been driven for about 6 mos. It would still turn over but seemed to be having some fuel pump problems and wouldn't actually go anywhere. Rather than repair, we figured we'd just sell it cheap.




As luck would have it, some friends needed a car, and we needed our driveway space. So we gave them the car for the price of repairs. They repaired and repaired and repaired. All the while, unbeknownst to us or them the vehicle was being cited with parking tickets, non-renewed registration tickets, BYU-H security notices, etc. etc. We started getting letters in the mail about monies owed and court dates missed. Huh? Of course, the car still isn't fulfilling it's full potential ... it starts but doesn't go ... so yesterday we towed it back to our driveway. Sad friends. Sad us. Wasted moola. Wasted time.




Anybody want a car for the cost of repairs?

just kidding.