Little6pack
Active Member
- Joined
- Jun 2, 2002
Clunkers, are like old dogs & have their advantages.
For one, you don't have to wash clunkers. If you own a nice car and never wash it, people think you're a slob. If you own a beast like mine and don't wash it, no one can tell the difference. Rust looks an awful lot like dirt from a distance.
Also, when you own a new car, you worry about every little thing. Asphalt patch, for instance.
Where I live our roads consist mostly of asphalt patch these days, the original roads having freeze-thawed away years ago. When workers fill holes with the stuff, they don't tamp it down. That's too much trouble. They let cars do the tamping, so naturally the tar sprays up and sticks to everything look at it as free spackling.
When you drive a clunker, nothing bothers you -- patch, potholes, mall parking lots, rock dings, hail, drivers with new cars stay away from you. Anything that happens merely adds character.
In my clunker I can thumb my nose at jerk drivers. Take, for instance, the guy who races past hundreds of cars lined up to squeeze through a construction zone then tries to shoulder his way in ahead of you.
If you own a nice car -- one that's equal to or better than his vehicle -- you have to let him in or risk damage. If you own a car like mine, you have the advantage. You can let him in if you want, or you can ignore him and let him wait.
I usually choose the latter. I have the crummiest vehicle. If he tries to shoulder his way in, he knows he's the one who's going to regret it most.
What's he gonna, scrape my paint, dent my fender?
Can anyone else add to this list?
For one, you don't have to wash clunkers. If you own a nice car and never wash it, people think you're a slob. If you own a beast like mine and don't wash it, no one can tell the difference. Rust looks an awful lot like dirt from a distance.
Also, when you own a new car, you worry about every little thing. Asphalt patch, for instance.
Where I live our roads consist mostly of asphalt patch these days, the original roads having freeze-thawed away years ago. When workers fill holes with the stuff, they don't tamp it down. That's too much trouble. They let cars do the tamping, so naturally the tar sprays up and sticks to everything look at it as free spackling.
When you drive a clunker, nothing bothers you -- patch, potholes, mall parking lots, rock dings, hail, drivers with new cars stay away from you. Anything that happens merely adds character.
In my clunker I can thumb my nose at jerk drivers. Take, for instance, the guy who races past hundreds of cars lined up to squeeze through a construction zone then tries to shoulder his way in ahead of you.
If you own a nice car -- one that's equal to or better than his vehicle -- you have to let him in or risk damage. If you own a car like mine, you have the advantage. You can let him in if you want, or you can ignore him and let him wait.
I usually choose the latter. I have the crummiest vehicle. If he tries to shoulder his way in, he knows he's the one who's going to regret it most.
What's he gonna, scrape my paint, dent my fender?
Can anyone else add to this list?
