Friday, June 3, 2022

Mustang #2

I've been after a second Mustang for the past week or two now, since my first one's not currently running, and Sean and I realized it'd be much more convenient to have a second vehicle working (besides our Saturn Vue) as both a backup and so we can each go out without worrying about stranding the other. Welp, we got her today! 🐎 We found her through Facebook Marketplace, being sold for $2.2k from a private seller across town, but Sean offered $1.8k, and the seller was happy with that.

This one's just a 2003 V6 coupe with some scratches and minor flaws as well as nearly 200k miles and a broken AC, but she's gorgeous, she runs great, so clean, black leather interior, and no way she wasn't coming home with us for $1,800. Besides, look how sweet she is, keeping my old GT convertible company in the driveway. 😍 

Thursday, June 2, 2022

Near-New, PIU Prex Machine: $1k?!

Pump day, woo woo! ↙️↖️⏹↗️↘️  Sean and I just rented a 10' U-Haul for ~$63 total, including the gas we spent driving it, today and picked up a near-pristine PIU Prex machine, complete with pops and other features you just don't come across often at all, in North Las Vegas! Sean had found the cab listed for sale on OfferUp for >$4k, I believe it was, last week and talked the sellers down to $1k. Apparently, it'd been their son's machine, but he was grown up and living in Texas now, and they were clearing out to move out that way as well. It turns out they'd bought the cab directly from Andamiro back in the day and had been its only owners. In fact, the coin counter was only at 37, and the marquee and parts of the trim still had the film covering on from the factory! Wow. Anyway, we really didn't *need* a second PIU cab, but no one else was buying it, and for that price, we couldn't pass! Besides, there's probably no better arm day than one that ends with a new dance machine. 😁💪

And damn, it's been a whirlwind of a past week (yet again)! I feel like it's gone too fast to even quite remember *where* it's gone, but between the NKOTB concert, starting therapy (via zoom, second session was this morning), getting a COVID-19 booster, having a yard sale (several hundred $ profit 🤷‍♀️🥳 + donated a fuckton of the scraps), and whatever else we've done, it's been wild. Can't complain!