With the totalling of my car, we’re down a vehicle and although the at fault driver’s insurance paid for a rental for me it was due back on Friday. Not that Allstate could be decent enough to give us any notice of that. The guys at Enterprise were nice enough to call Bucky Friday afternoon and ask us if we knew, but of course it was in Dallas with me and I didn’t get home with it until after they closed. We took it up Saturday morning and the guy at Enterprise said not to worry about it, which was very cool of him, but again left us a car short.

Having talked it over off and on last week we decided I would take over driving the Dodge behemoth and Bucky would get something else because I didn’t want to add another car payment to the family budget and another vehicle otherwise in our pricerange for me would be a piece of shit that would drive me nuts and likely waste money and Bucky’s time on repairs, while it wouldn’t be too hard to find something reliable enough for Bucky to use as a daily driver but cool enough for him to tinker on as a toy.

I should also mention that the day after my wreck Bucky was at work and had the edge of a ditch crumble under him, dropped about a foot and a half and landed with his knee locked and tore a ligament in it, so he’s on workman’s comp, at home and going crazy with boredom and scheduled for arthroscopic surgery on Monday.

Needless to say he was able to find the time to scour Craigslist. He was about to get a project truck when the tree fell but of course with that and everything else since, it never happened. Well he’s got one now, and she’s a doozy (in a good way lol). ‘63 Chevy longbed fleetside. He’s absolutely thrilled and I can’t argue. Not only is she in beautiful shape other than some oxidization on the paint and some minor wear and tear that is more than expected considering that she’s 45 years old. Currently no heater or AC, the driver’s window only rolls down 2 inches, there’s a couple pieces of trim missing and a few other things but nothing important.  Several in fact are just the kind of thing that will give Bucky something to tinker with that keeps him from losing his marbles this week without being overly strenuous on his knee right now. And the guy who had her just put in a brand new engine and transmission so she’s perfect for a daily driver. There’s all of 6000 miles on them. All that and the guy let that truck go for $2900 apparently because his wife was making him. Something I will never understand.

We’ll probably trade in the Dodge on something more fuel efficient for me soon, but I gotta figure out what I’m looking for.