My One Dollar Cars

This the second car I bought for a dollar.  The first one was a 1991 Chevy Suburban. That was the car we drove for a 3 week trip to the east coast. The one that had 5 green duffel bags piled on top as we drove through Washington D.C. after 9/11; where you couldn’t drive within 1/2 mile of The Whitehouse, and you could see chain link fences everywhere around the Capitol; and the Tidal Basin was disgusting with litter floating in it.

We were driving the one dollar Suburban through Smokey Mountain National Park when we were stopped by a Park Ranger. Before he let us go, he apologized:  “Whenever we see a vehicle like this one, we suspect it of transporting drugs.”

The new one dollar car is a Toyota Camry. All white. With “Detroit Cammo” on it. The auto shoulder harnesses are annoying. The driver side doesn’t work, and the passenger side does. So I keep forgetting the passenger side works, and I get clotheslined all the time.

I love the new one dollar car. One oil change, and we were on our way. I think we put about 4000 miles on the car already.

The best thing about a one dollar car is that you can eat in it while commuting. You can’t do that in our family  Suburban.

I just wish the air conditioner worked.

Natural Airconditioning

Did I mention that it’s 52 degrees in the Fairy Caves? My wife says that I have the best job in the world. When it’s going to be 95 degrees outside, I will get to wander through an airconditioned wonderland with a group of tourists. When it was snowing chicken feathers the other day, we got to walk inside where it was “warm” and “dry”.