To the Next Owner of my Car

The goal is to, within the next few days, sell my car and buy a new one.  I don't know how much we will get for Ricky because the check engine light is on, but it's worth a shot.    To the person who buys Ricky, here are some things you should know.     I got him as a birthday/graduation/college gift from my sweet Daddy when I turned 18. He came home with us on November 14, 2009.  He was spotless.     

  You may notice a lot of scratches on him the day you buy him (unless someone touches up his paint), but there's a story behind them all.  The back left side of the bumper is where I hit my sister's parked car in the driveway.  The scuffs on the lip of the trunk are where I had to load and unload a refrigerator from my dorm room.  The dent in the hood (that you can only see if the sun shines on it juuuuust right) is from where a friend thought he was Bo Duke and dented instead of slid across my hood.  The ding in the front passenger door is from where I was T-boned by a bird.    I know, I know, the paint on the handles and hubcaps are peeling badly.  Thank Suzuki for that one; it pretty much came like that.  The weather stripping in the back doesn't stay in the door frame... thank them for that, too.   I know, I know... the hood bounces a little when you get up to 70mph.  It has done that since day 1; you'll be fine, I promise.    Let me tell you about my first wreck since you'll see it on the Car Fax anyway.  I had just gotten my nails done for prom... I was heading to work. Someone slammed on his brakes, so I slammed into him.  It was never deemed my fault, and I didn't get a terrible ticket for it, but it left Ricky in the shop for 2.5 months.  Something else you shoul know... parts are rare, so if you wreck him again, you may have to wait forever to find them.    I don't care how many times you reset the clock, it's going to move itself forward.  It's missing a few miliseconds.    The stain in the driver's seat is a result of laughing so hard I spilled the sweet tea I had in my hand.  You may never see that, depending on what the dealer does to help you out.    Ricky has had three gas caps, has a brand new timing belt, and has had his oil changed every 3,000 miles.  He has a brand new (literally 2 weeks old) battery, and floor mats that my Nana bought for him. .. sorry about the hole in the driver's side one...   Ricky loves to travel, so you'll have to take him often. He gets close to 30 miles per gallon, so you can drive for days on one tank.  He knows the way from Cookeville to Murfreesboro (back to Cookeville then to Nashville) like it's written on the dash... and it's because he did it every Thursday-Sunday for the year I lived in Cookeville.  He knows where all the cops hide on 24E headed to Murfreesboro.  He has been to Gatlinburg twice; Chattanooga twice; Paducah, Kentucky six times; Savannah, Georgia; and on a few work trips to random cities in Tennessee.     Ricky has been the site of many many late night heart-to-hearts, has soaked up tears from when life got hard, and the tears from laughing so hard with my best friends.    He's a good little car. He has hiccups every now and then, but love him and he will love you back.  

 #tbt - 2009