On special occasions like our 40th wedding anniversary we like to go and buy something special. Who would ever think it to be a new vehicle. We would. The home we live in now we purchased on on Mother’s Day. The last home on McRae Pl we purchased on Butch’s birthday. So yes we have a habit of doing this.
Butch drove our Ranger 20 years. Still only 125,000 miles on it and runs like the day we bought it. He always confessed he wanted a bigger truck some day.
As usual we went that day to look at vehicles not necessarily buy one. We test drove a couple of SUV’s thinking maybe we wouldn’t get another truck.
There was a Nissan Frontier sitting up in the corner of the Lot. Butch said I don’t want black it will be to hot in summer. I noticed though that it only had 15,000 miles on it. Well after driving a few vehicles I said to salesman we want to drive the Frontier.
Butch has always been the quiet one. We talked as we drove it what he thought about it. So we got back to dealership and I said we will take it.
Even though the Frontier isn’t the bigger truck it’s bigger then the ranger. So he got his big truck. Still learning things about it as he drives it.
Dealership offered 2500.00 for trade in. Forget it. All these years later certainly worth more then that otherwise we would have just given it away ourselves. We talked about keeping it and parking it up north by the kids. However they wanted to buy it. We would how ever have given it to them. We raised them right though she said we can pay we have money. So just like our riding lawnmower I have visiting right.
Our ranger has been around so long the memories are many. We drove to Florida with it one summer and Dallas another summer. We visited KCM with the ranger. The ranger has been around for the last three homes. I still remember when Kim was somewhere under five and we were going to trade in our ford super cab the only vehicle she knew. She cried when we left it there and said why daddy. The ranger is sentimental to both of us. Butch said update Chevy next year. We will see.
