We Have This Jalopy
It’s been good to us, and we like it a lot.
But the transmission is going, and one day it’ll just go. But it hasn’t yet, and it’s hung in there far better than we thought it would. Enough to bring us new confidence. And hey, it’s been around so long that even though it was hardly a hot rod in it’s heyday, people are starting to think it’s cool now. Retro. Not necessarily young people, but people who have been around long enough to respect that it’s still on the road.
It’s got a lot of miles on it, and it looks it, but those are good, hard earned miles. It got us through a massive blizzard once, when we were way out in front of the plows and nearly everyone else was stranded. We have a lot of good memories involving this car.
Still, already, we often have to pop the hood and fiddle with things in order to get it started. But then it always starts. Each time though, fingers crossed.
It’s got almost no bells or whistles: only cruise control and air conditioning, both of which work only part of the time. It always has one tire or another that’s low. The roof leaks. But it has plush, slightly fuzzy seats of a kind we don’t think you find in cars anymore that feel good to sit down on. It also has seat belts that automatically lock in place.
