My car has turned 9 years old this month. I've never had one this long, yet on a daily basis, I'm still in awe of its excellence. It just goes and goes. It drives like new everyday, it gets me through every kind of weather, and through every situation, and it's almost never given me any sort of problem. I put snows on it, and it's my winter car. In warmer weather, the top is down. It can carry our bikes. It's taken our family of four on long excursions.
I wasn't planning to have this car for 9 years, but in order to build a house, I needed it to keep running, and have no payments. And I'd still like to keep it. I'm happy to keep rowing through its 6 manual gears, and clutch on each one. I can't imagine how many gearshifts I've made in 35 years of commuting with manual transmissions.
Let's all toast: the car of Scotch & Cigar!
