Adios, Auto, for real this time!

[ironphoenix]

So the old car is finally gone, with a happy ending to the whole story.

Yesterday, a bunch of folks (thanks again!) helped shove the Volvo out of the garage; today, I got Tow Truck Guy to pick it up at last; he didn't show up yesterday. The original deal with $WRECKER_1 was that I would get $50 for it, but while Tow Truck Guy was hooking up, Random Guy saw us and said that his buddy $WRECKER_2 would want to take it, and could beat $WRECKER_1's offer; Tow Truck Guy was skeptical, citing his expenses, but I smelled a deal, so we waited for $WRECKER_2 to arrive. Sadly, $WRECKER_1 is closed Sundays, so he couldn't counteroffer, but $WRECKER_2 offered $100 to me and I asked for $50 more for Tow Truck Guy to cover his expenses (he'd had to come here twice, etc., etc.), so everybody came out ahead except $WRECKER_1, who made the mistake of lowballing his bid!

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[http://users.livejournal.com/niall_/]

Trying to save money too much ends up making no money. :)

On this subject, my mother is trying to find a taker for her very-rusted 1990 Honda Civic, though it still runs; it's just not safetied, and geting it to that level costs too much for what she can afford. Do you know if a wrecker like #2 takes those for working parts as well? She was wondering if maybe a mechanic school might exist that could use it as a hands-on project, but we have no idea if and where such thing might be locally.

[ironphoenix.livejournal.com]

That is old, yeah. I'll let you know privately who $WRECKER_2 is.