From Patty to Dora

Am I the only person that doesnt really name their car? Sure I call my car lots of names; the race car, red speed wagon (all jokes on hows its so not fast) but I usually use those names very rarely in joking form. I always knew Zach named his cars (gretta the jetta, patty the caddy) but im finding A LOT of people name their cars. Even my family members do. My dads old maxima now driven by a family member has always been called Goldie. My grandmothers old chevy lumina, also now driven by a diffrent family member, Is respectivly called Hilda, my grandmothers name. At least those names make since though. We have a friend whose explorer is called Esmerelda. Esmerelda? Seriously? I dont get it.

Well we have a new addition to the family. We finally regretably got rid of the Patty the Caddy. We were so sad to see her go, more Zach for obvious reason than I. But she was a good car. She was fast, pretty, and a nice luxury. Zach looked good driving her, but I think Zach looks good driving anything :-) Something Im not going to miss? The car payments and it ALWAYS BREAKING. Good ol Patty has been towed 2 times in the past year. She would decide to just stop working while driving down the road, and just some lovely things like that.

So what is Zach driving now? Meet Dora!

This is Dora, Dora the Explora. Shes a lovely 1994 Tan Ford Explorer/Exploder with 54,000 miles. Yes that is the correct mileage. The car was owned by my grandfather and didnt get driven very much. Its a little funny because this was actually my first car. Granted I only drove it for a few months before convincing my lovely father I needed to be driving a 1999 white tiburon"tibby". HEY! I have had a car with a "real name" So after I quit driving the explorer, my dad drove it for a long while. When my dad FINALLY got a new car a few years back, they sold it to my brother. Between my dad and brother that car has been beautifully taken care of and maintained. Its had to have some "tune ups" per say but is in over all pretty descent shape for a 17 year old car (wow!) Granted the speakers are blown and is moody when it comes to playing music out of all the blown speakers at the same time, and one of the door locks has a mind of its own. But its has a new head unit for music that has an aux. port (yay zach can finally listen to the ipod and rhapsody in the car!) Zach got the car up to 80mph lastnight! Granted he said it was like being on the back of a wild beast or untamed animal (80 may or may not be "pushing" it) But all in all Dora is a good car and does the job needed. Zach has had a good since of humor about it all and keeping an open mind. I really appreciate him being so open to this. My car was too new and we were upside down on it to sell my car instead. This little switch-a-roo with the cars will be saving us so much money per month/year. Thats what we are so excited about. (kind of goes hand in hand with the class im taking, Dave Ramsey FPU) Insurance alone is saving us around $75/month, and that just grazes the surface of savings.

One more plus to Dora? She can hall bigger and badder things than my mazda or the caddy could(watch out garage sales and Home Depot!!)