Thursday, December 11, 2003
SEXY LXI:
We got the car! It turns out to be an almond (tan) sparkle finish with a close to the same color top--the standard beige. He has black trim, and is actually now an LXI and not a Touring model. So, we played with calling him Al (almond) but he quickly became LEXI.
It performs; but we knew it would. The Sebring is a well designed and de-bugged model. The engineeering is superb and the drive is solid, easy-handling, and has a bit of the neck snap to the startoffs. It has a tight steering radius and can do the job on corners.
We are happy; and he just fit into our Fifties garage--about 6 inches longer than Woody or the Jeep.
AIRY:
Another SoCal thing to like. Back East buying a car is FROUGHT. You need runners for the insurance, you need runners for plates, you gotta watch the details in the transaction and all. Out here there is nothing like it. The plates will come along when they come along. In the meantime there is a paper stuck to the windshield.
The insurance (if you already have a policy) is a phone in. "We got a car"; "What's the VIN?".That is it. Bang.
In its way, this is anxiety producing for me as I am a little distrustful of things that are too easy or too airy. But it all worked.
PLATES:
I made a deal with John to have no rainbows, stickers, or other paraphenalia on the car. He agreed but then asked for a special plate.
We can have a panopy of special backgrounds: whales, Tahoe, 9-11, kids, or PALMS on a beach. If you take the palms option and have a thick plate holder you don't see the water and it looks just like the desert.
We will have PALMS.
Then, in the usual negotiation demand creep, he said he wanted a vanity number.
OK, I said with some degree of confidence that it would not work (they are very hard to get as they have to be unique and CA never retires a vanity plate so there are decades of plate-names gone).
First try: JONERL works.
And we have a plate with palms and our own letters.
Are you zoned out yet on this? It will soon be over. The car will be on the road and it will be on to the next thing.
Zzzzzzzzzzz.
We got the car! It turns out to be an almond (tan) sparkle finish with a close to the same color top--the standard beige. He has black trim, and is actually now an LXI and not a Touring model. So, we played with calling him Al (almond) but he quickly became LEXI.
It performs; but we knew it would. The Sebring is a well designed and de-bugged model. The engineeering is superb and the drive is solid, easy-handling, and has a bit of the neck snap to the startoffs. It has a tight steering radius and can do the job on corners.
We are happy; and he just fit into our Fifties garage--about 6 inches longer than Woody or the Jeep.
AIRY:
Another SoCal thing to like. Back East buying a car is FROUGHT. You need runners for the insurance, you need runners for plates, you gotta watch the details in the transaction and all. Out here there is nothing like it. The plates will come along when they come along. In the meantime there is a paper stuck to the windshield.
The insurance (if you already have a policy) is a phone in. "We got a car"; "What's the VIN?".That is it. Bang.
In its way, this is anxiety producing for me as I am a little distrustful of things that are too easy or too airy. But it all worked.
PLATES:
I made a deal with John to have no rainbows, stickers, or other paraphenalia on the car. He agreed but then asked for a special plate.
We can have a panopy of special backgrounds: whales, Tahoe, 9-11, kids, or PALMS on a beach. If you take the palms option and have a thick plate holder you don't see the water and it looks just like the desert.
We will have PALMS.
Then, in the usual negotiation demand creep, he said he wanted a vanity number.
OK, I said with some degree of confidence that it would not work (they are very hard to get as they have to be unique and CA never retires a vanity plate so there are decades of plate-names gone).
First try: JONERL works.
And we have a plate with palms and our own letters.
Are you zoned out yet on this? It will soon be over. The car will be on the road and it will be on to the next thing.
Zzzzzzzzzzz.
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