Did anyone every tell you that vehicles can sometimes be a literal "money pit"? Well, it is true....
Long ago when I was fresh out of high school and a mere young punk I managed to save up a dollars worth of $ to purchase a 1966 Mustang convertible with a 6-cylinder engine. The exterior was totally black, with specialized chrome-plated side pipes, and chrome rims, and big wide tires on the back end — all jacked up fancy like a roaring beast muscle car betting on first place — that is, until you glanced under the hood and realize it had a very old well-used oil-leaking junkyard acquired V-6 engine that could barely handle normal driving range functionality.
Well, I think I may have owned it for all of about nine months, and the continuous stream of maintenance issues and $$$ costs hit me financially again and again — from a constant stream of vehicle repairs that ranged from minor mechanical engine problems, to carburetor issues, to brakes issues, to something else — you know — car things that just kept going wonky on an old well used auto.
Eventually at the end of that summer I finally reach the utter low point where my lowly first career choice income could not match the steep near constant vehicle maintenance costs — none of my frustrated youthful finagling's linked to that Mustang car equaled a positive sign of anything, so later at the end of that summer I took the well used car to the nearest used car dealer and sold it "As Is", to let someone else be consumed by the burden of maintenance factors that surrounded that vehicle.
Done — gone. Nowadays, being well situated in a reasonable residential zone in a small town with a plethora of nearby stores to suit all my wants and needs, I am convinced that bicycles are a much better mode of transportation for locale commuting purposes.
