I looked at my odo yesterday and noticed I had already racked up 1056 miles on her.
Boy, time go by fast when your having fun. Then I started crunching some numbers.
I took delivery of the car last Jan 10. That's appx 468 days. Granted it took me 11 month's to complete (I ask you;are they ever really finished?) and register but that still comes out to appx 2.25 miles per day. What am I griping about. Hell, that's probably twice the national average. I should shut up. And yes, it has been towed (toad) twice. But the second time didn't count. That one was my fault. It was the dreaded hot start issue which I was too green to recognize.
Going a little further, I found that the operating costs (investment/milage) was only about $4.92 per mile, if you leave out gas & oil. That's not bad compared to a cab.
Considering that I probably put a 1000 hr's into getting her road worthy and that the average walking speed is 3 mph I could have walked twice as far as I've driven her.
But all was not in vain. There is a silver lining. If I sold her, I stand to make about 45 cents per hour
for my efforts. But this is still a damned site cheaper than flying off for that $100 hamburger. I think I'll keep her.
