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ON TO GREATER THINGS

We consummated a deal on Woody today. Our 1984 Chrysler Town and Country Le Baron Mark Cross Edition convertible, now belongs to someone else.

A hobbyist.

Someone who will probably restore the car.

We couldn't move and keep the car. There is only one garage space and one street or drive space. No room for a third.

As it is, we are thinking about becoming a SoCal anomaly and having only one car.

We got about 2/3 of what we paid for him 13 years ago.

Not bad.

It is bitter sweet. Bitter to lose an old friend. Sweet to know he will have a good home.

Sweet to have the car insurance bill cut by a third. Well, a quarter.

I am the one who was driving him, mostly to Meetings and short rides here and there. He has stayed at 110,000 miles through three visits for lube.

In a way that is not good for him either. Inactivity. Short hauls.

I will miss him.

We totally had help on this from a friend who is deep into the car world and has done a lot of sales. He knows the ropes and some people.

As it happens, this was completely by chance, an encounter at the smog place where a guy asked about the car. Bang. It was sold.

That is the way we bought it. Off the lot of a gas station at the corner of Indian Avenue and Ramon Road. A major intersection. A friend of the gas station guy was parking it there to draw a buyer.

It drew John.

As The Woods came, so The Woods went.

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