# I've got my beater car back! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 15, 2005, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-got-my-beater-car-back/312686 "2005-07-15T18:25:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2005, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-got-my-beater-car-back/312686/1 "2005-07-15T18:25:36Z")
To make a long story short, my car has been sick and my SO & I have been carpooling. My car’s been off the road for about a month now. All well and good, we’ve been making do - but today I finally got my car fixed! Whodathunk I’d ever miss my old crappy beater car. My SO drives a much newer car than me, but I found myself missing my own car, which was set to my height, had all the right radio stations programmed, and was just comfortable. Not the height of luxury - but we were friends. And no more carpooling! He works east, I work south - it was pretty awkward. Not to mention getting up at 6:30! YAY! ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2005, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-got-my-beater-car-back/312686/2 "2005-07-15T20:30:23Z")
Man, I miss driving a beater. I used to have a job delivering auto parts, and the boss there had a theory: _Ten $300 cars will last longer than one $3,000 car_. I lived by those same rules for many, many years. From '86 though '97 it was one long string of hoopties after another. Never paid more than $300, never put more than $100 into any repairs, and never had one die for at least a year. Not bad at all. Sure, I had to put up the occasional stranding or exploding engine block, but hey…they were all adventures. Alas, maturity crept in. Got married, and got a job with a 100 mile round-trip commute. Not the kind of thing that a hoo-ride is good for. My back seat is still nothing by soda cans, though.