The Car Thread

[Mr. Bloom]

And I learned my lesson. I learned to fix things on that car MYSELF.

Good for you ZenSo!

So, in 1986, Silver and a couple of women from work took AUTO MECHANICS

Although she bought all the stuff to change her own oil, she only did that once (and I think I just saw the filter wrench in the garage...20 years later)

But, where it served us well was when we bought a 1987 Mazda 626. It totally disarmed the saleman that:

• While Mr. Silver is sitting in the front seat playing with the stereo,
• Silver is under the hood talking with him about "rack and pinion" this and "fuel injected" that

I realized that we were on to something, so we decided (over HER objections) that SHE needed to negotiate the price!

Well, we knew this was good when she laid out a price...and the salesman said "SHOULDN'T I BE TALKING WITH YOUR HUSBAND?" and she said "Nope, this is the deal..."

To this day, I'm absolutely convinced that we got the car for less than invoice (because she got twice as much on our trade as it was worth...)

But, that was a different day...