主题：【原创】买车记 (一) -- 夏翁

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In the summer of 1989 I was looking for an economical car to travel the 50 miles one way to work daily. I accidently found this year old 1988 Chevy Sprint. It was a very small looking car and all I could see was the gas mileage sticker claiming 50 miles to the gallon. That was the thing that grabbed me. I test drove the car and was surprised at the pickup and cruising ability for such a little car. The car was only a year old and 22,000 miles. The price was $4250. After having my mechanic check out the car, I purchased it immediately. When I went to get the title in my name, the lady at the title office asked me if the current title was right. It said the car only had 3 cylinders. I told her that couldn't possibly be right, so she changed it to read 4 cylinders. Of course I found out later that it does indeed have only three. After driving this car for over a year and being very pleased with it, my wife found an almost identical car at a used car lot the next summer for only $1600. We bought that car for her and we became a two Sprint family. The cars are very easy to work on, but being truly a foreign car, we found the costs of replacement parts to be very, very expensive. One example was $140 for a small vaccuum pump that would have been only about $15 on an American car. We decided to buy another used car that was advertised in the Sunday paper for only $350, to use for parts. We drove the 50 miles to Omaha to check it out and found it in fair condition. It was good enough to drive home, so we took it. Over the next two years, we bought 5 more cars, expecting to use them for parts, but ended up able to drive them all home. We live on a farm, so some of these cars have been stored in the barn, or other out-buildings. When I had major trouble with my main, first vehicle. I went out and started one of the "parts" cars and after only puting $200 into it for exhaust, ended up driving it for two years. We now have a total of 8 (eight) Chevy Sprints. All 1988 models so all the parts are interchangable. I guess we will be a Chevy Sprint family for a long time.