04/05/2003 Archived Entry: "Keeper's car"

Carmax actually offered me $14,800 for the Mustang, which is pretty damned good. That offer is valid for seven more days. Right now, the car is in the posession of a small dealership in downtown Houston who have agreed to attempt to sell it on consignment for me, with a target price of $15,800. They get the car until Friday; if they've not sold it by then, I get to have it back and I take it to Carmax for the $14.8k.

While pulling into Carmax, I noticed that they had a 2001 Corvette on the lot. As the guy was filling out the paperwork for the appraisal on the Mustang, I asked--halfway joking--if it would be possible to take the Corvette for a test drive. Rather than shaking his head, the Carmax guy actually grinned and said that he'd been looking for an excuse to take the Corvette out.

Woohoo! I got to spend the next fifteen minutes in the belly of a 350bhp monster. The Carmax guy pulled us out of the lot, then set the tone for the test drive by flooring the beast and kicking us around a few corners. When he pulled over and said it was my turn, he had an ear-to-ear grin. After driving down a short stretch of feeder road and back on a small bit of local streets, my grin matched his. Though the beast had an automatic transmission, it was fun beyond imagination to drop the hammer and fling her through the twisties. Ooooooh yeah. Definitely the highlight of the day.

So, we'll see how the Mustang selling adventure turns out. And poor me--now that I'm flitting around in my brother's Accord, my total number of cylinders has been cut in half. Even though the Accord has VTEC, I feel the loss so sharply!

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