I have a new Car!!!

[TheMightyFavog]

We went with the light blue '95 Oldsmobile Cutlass Ciera. After the deal was sealed theyt gave me a Leather baseball cap advertising the dealership, a travel mug, and took my picture with the car for their Wall of Fame. At first the radio, horn and power locks didn't work, but when I brought it back to the dealer, they just swapped out one of the fuses, charged me nothing, and apologized and now everything works! The AM/FM Cassete sound system isn't as good as the one in the old Tempo, but I plan on replacing it with a AM/FM CD player sometime down the road, I saw one in the Marinette Checker Auto store for about 65 bucks, and I know I can get my mechanic to install it for me for next to nothing.


Now comes the most important thing one has to do after bringing a new car home. The time has come to give her a name.

I've been thinking of a few:

Blue Meanie
Agnes (an Old-sounding name for an Oldsmoblie?)
Bobby-Sue (The first song to play on my favorite radio station after they replaced the fuse was Steve Miller Band's Take the Money and Run.
Aretha. (The song that played on the oldies station when we pulled into the dealership yesterday to look at the car was Aretha Frankiln's R-E-S-P-E-C-T
die Spaßenwagen (Yes, I know, you people who speak better German than I do, Wagen is masculine, but this car's a she, OK? I think, I'm entitled to use the feminie here.)
Katrin (I picked this one out especailly for the '96 Contour I wanted so Badly. It's named after one of the main characters in the video series for my German class.)
Eloise (Those of you who remember the game Interstate '76 know about this one)
Lana

I might have piccies when I get access to a digital camera next week when I go back to classes.

[LisaM]

1. Go with Aretha

You can nickname her "Reethie."

[GOPisEvil]

2. Congratulations.

You got your picture taken for buying a 9 year old Olds? Free gifts, too? Wow.

I bought a new Honda in 1992 and those fuckers didn't even clean the interior before I picked it up. The dash was all dusty.

[TheMightyFavog]

11. Well...

This guy's a big time dealer in northeast Wisconsin. He's very popular because he's one of the top pickup and SUV dealers in the State, he also deals in Corvettes and hard-to-find editions, as well. One of his trademarks is freebies with every sale, no matter what car they move.


BTW, if any of you out there are intested in a Dale Earnhardt Edition Chevy Monte Carlo (forgot the year) for around 20K, PM me, I'll tell you who to get a hold of there.

[pagerbear]

3. Mary Oldsmobile!

Seems obvious to me.

[GOPisEvil]

4. Lucille!

Aside from being my Grandmother's name...remember the song?

Come away with me Lucille in my brand new oldsmobile...it was Lucille, right? :dunce:

[pagerbear]

5. I was thinking song too

"In my merry Oldsmobile"

[GOPisEvil]

6. Oh, maybe you're right.

The song pre-dates me by a long way. :D

[pagerbear]

7. Are you calling me old?!

Harumph!

[GOPisEvil]

9. LOL...not at all.

The commercial pre-dates us both! By eons! :-)

[leftyandproud]

8. Do yourself a favor

You've just spent a few grand on a car...Take out another $500.00 from the bank and get you a kickass audio system. Make sure to get a CD player than puts out at least 50 watts to each speaker, and buy a pair of new ones for the front and back...A great CD player and two pairs of quality speakers should run you around $250...Then pick up a nice 200 watt amplifier and a 15 inch subwoofer for the trunk....You will NEVER go back..

[Butterflies]

10. Bobby-Sue fits a light blue Oldsmobile

congratulations on the car!

[TheMightyFavog]

12. Just got the dupe keys made.

I'll drill a hole through the heads of the keys, then stick them behind my back lisence plate.