I've owned my car for 14 years. I have never seriously considered parting with it... until now.
The car doesn't need a ton of work to be driveable. It looks decent as it is. I have pretty much everything I want for it either on the car, or in the basement.
However, I don't know if there's a place for it in my life right now. I'm going back to school in the Fall, and I'll be full time there for a year or more. As long as I'm doing school, I'll have to continue working my current job... which requires me to keep the Fit. Between the Fit and the CTS-V, my insurance is plenty high already (doesn't help that my record isn't the greatest anymore... regular NJ insurance rates are absurdly high when your record is clean!) I simply can't afford to insure 3 cars, and the CB7 is quite clearly the "third car".
So right now, I'm left with a car that doesn't currently run, that will require both time and money to make road-worthy... only to be left sitting until I can afford to put it on the road again.
It might finally be time to part with it. I told myself not too long ago that I would get it running, drive it, see if I still loved it, and then make my decision... but that scenario is a long way off. I'm beginning to think that makes little sense.
Now, the biggest question is whether or not the car is worth fixing to sell it, or if I should just sell it as-is, and hope the next owner does what I've failed to do over the last 8 years.
The car doesn't need a ton of work to be driveable. It looks decent as it is. I have pretty much everything I want for it either on the car, or in the basement.
However, I don't know if there's a place for it in my life right now. I'm going back to school in the Fall, and I'll be full time there for a year or more. As long as I'm doing school, I'll have to continue working my current job... which requires me to keep the Fit. Between the Fit and the CTS-V, my insurance is plenty high already (doesn't help that my record isn't the greatest anymore... regular NJ insurance rates are absurdly high when your record is clean!) I simply can't afford to insure 3 cars, and the CB7 is quite clearly the "third car".
So right now, I'm left with a car that doesn't currently run, that will require both time and money to make road-worthy... only to be left sitting until I can afford to put it on the road again.
It might finally be time to part with it. I told myself not too long ago that I would get it running, drive it, see if I still loved it, and then make my decision... but that scenario is a long way off. I'm beginning to think that makes little sense.
Now, the biggest question is whether or not the car is worth fixing to sell it, or if I should just sell it as-is, and hope the next owner does what I've failed to do over the last 8 years.
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