The insurance is purchased, the bill of sale is typed up and ready for signature, the check is in my wallet, and Saturday I pick up the SuaMobile.
“And what, pray tell, is the SuaMobile?,” you ask.
Excellent question!
The SuaMobile is a 1979 Cadillac Sedan DeVille. This baby is red-and-white two-tone, with 127,000 miles on it, a 425 in[sup]3[/sup] engine under the hood. I’ve heard the model (accurately) described as “a tank with a super luxury interior.”
I’m buying it from the original owner (my great aunt), who was diligent (nay, obsessive) in maintaining it. And can prove it - she gave me the complete maintenance records for the car.
All I need now are the fuzzy dice and a “Keep on Trucking” bumper sticker, and I’ll be the grooviest honkey in Brooklyn.
Careful. There is some pretty stiff competition for that title - especially in Brooklyn. Us cats in Williamsburg just got it like that.
Where you gonna park that bitch? My mom is giving me her old car (94 Chrysler Concorde) in a month. While she is donating the car, it seemed like insurance and parking would be a pain to take on myself. So me and three close friends have decided to split the car and all related costs. We all live in Brooklyn (2 in WB; 2 in BS), and we figure it’ll be alot cheaper to park it in a garage out there. We are hoping for something close to a subway station (the L would be ideal) - preferably enclosed. If you know where I can find something like that, then drop that dope on a mutha fucka.
Also, since I will be sharing the roads in Brooklyn with you shortly, watch out. I am most definately one of the worst drivers I know. I’ve totaled a few cars and I haven’t driven in 7 years cause I got spooked (and they took my license). I’m sure I’m better now though . . .
The Car Talk guys spoke to a lady a while back who had been given an older Caddie by Daddy when her Accord died. She was feeling pangs of conscience because, as PC as her Accord was, “That Caddie is a sweet ride.” The guys suggested Cadillac take a page from Bose and let folks borrow one of their cars for a few days and, if they don’t bring it back, start sending them monthly bills. All people have to do is try them and moosh their butts around in a big, cushy seat and they will never go back to econoboxes.
Nice to know you’re getting a proper automobile, kid.
No zev, I still lay awake at night, wrestling with my conscience over EZPass, because I’m not going to use the car to commute. The SuaMobile is emphatically and exclusively a toy.
Zebra, I don’t think I’ll be able to drive all the NYDopers to the next ChiDope - the SuaMobile will only carry about 30 people.
Pictures? Pictures?! Let me get the freaking car first. Then we’ll think about pictures.
Hey with that kind of car you could sub-let the trunk as a studio apartment and (depending where you park it) could charge between 1200 - 1800 rent to someone.
Of course, I prefer cars that can actually negotiate a corner myself. But credit where credit’s due: that is one bad-ass lookin’ heap of American steel.
