And so against my wishes, I am back in the ranks of minivan mom. My 1998 Honda Odyssey wagon (which had four hinged doors, drove like a car, and got AMAZING gas mileage) was declared totalled two weeks ago and I was kind of forced into finding something quickly. The insurance company treated me right and gave me even more than I spent on my Honda, which is nice, but 6000 doesnt buy all that much and unfortunately, there are a severe lack of 1998 Honda Odysseys around. I have owned two minivans in the past, a Nissan Quest and a Mercury Villager (which are incidentally the same vehicle), neither of which I liked and both of which got mediocre gas mileage. I told myself I would never have one again but with three children, we are sadly limited. Our only other options were those giant SUV's w/ a third row seat, most of which were out of our price range or rediculously inefficient fuel-wise.
I looked on every internet site, including ebay, and finally settled on this 1998 Toyota Sienna which was in Knoxville. It's fully loaded, obscenely heavy, and drives like a dream but I miss my Honda. We drove to Knoxville last night to pick it up and for once I had no buyers remorse since I had called and tied them down to a price over the phone before I made the trip. I haggle much better over the phone...heh heh.
In other news, we have all been down w/ the 'crud' lately and are very slow about recovering. Even Victor has a stuffy nose which makes it difficult for him to eat and he sounds like a little snuffling piglet most of the time. It's cute, but sad.
We have tons of company scheduled to arrive Thursday, in rotation, so I'm sure another entry will be in order by next week. We aren't used to having company so it's a big deal for us.
Toodeloo!
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Well, my parents, a few months after purchasing our swingin' already stand out like a sore thumb silvery, bullet 91' Toyota Previa, went and had a ginormous racing stripe put down the side. It is (no joke)purple, pink, red, and silver, like, a foot wide, and starts really super fat towards the front of the van and tapers down to a smaller point towards the end. Now THAT is classy. ;)
I'm glad you are back in the realm of wheels. :)
oh...my...lord, coffee just came out of my nose! That is hilarious! The idea of your dad and mom driving such a concoction is beyond exhilarating!
Where in the hood did they get that job done? :)
-sigh- I'm afraid to say that certain family members who do striping and what not were the guilty suspects. Driving that thing around town is so demeaning. It has this great Grrgggrrgghhgggghhh thing the breaks do when it stops....and....you have to rev it a million times before it will start. And I'm pretty sure it has 7 million miles on it now. But they straight up refuse to get rid of the dumb thing so they can use the high quality ride for none other than....service calls for the shop. Nice!
Course, I will give it to them that they were just rolling out of the 80's when they had the stripe done so I GUESS that's a little more understandable. lol
OH! I mis-read your first comment and thought they had JUST bought the Previa and decided to have the stripe done just recently. That is indeed entirely a different thing. But still funny.
Mine is white w/ silver on the bottom but the previous owner put a gold pinstripe along the side which makes no sense to me. Jonathan is going to remove it. I joked w/ him that he should do a really great pinstriping design on the hood...a tiki head or something...hahah.
Ooh! The Toyota Previa is the coolest setof wheels ever. In fact I remember as a teenager I would actually opt out of going anywhere rather than having to drive that thing. And that was 8 years ago! It's only gotten better. Ha.
I am glad you found something else though.
OOOOOOH! A ginormous tiki head rolling through town on your hood would be utterly hilarious!
I just bought my first tank of gas...50.00. Ouch!
You're well on your way to becoming a 'soccer mom' with a van like that. Bwahahahaha!
Sorry.
Yeah right, when Beckham reads a book...
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