Monday, March 30, 2009

Pick Up? Or Truck?

Annie, Patty and I bought a truck! Well Dad calls it a pick up..... Anyways.
On Friday evening we drove to Johnson City to our grandparents house. The girls stayed the night there while the boys and Mom and Dad went to a hotel. The next morning we got up, had a big breakfast and then got ready and drove to Austin to see the Lippizanner Stallions.
The Lippizanners were really neat to watch!
Before we had gone to Austin we had been talking to my grandpa about it and he said he was looking for someone to buy it. We joked about buying it but we weren't really serious. Then on the way to Austin we talked more about buying it. We decided to make him an offer for $1500. We would take it home that night and he wouldn't have to worry about insurance, registration, Inspection(which needs to be done), Or fixing the speedometer and a couple other little things he was going to do before he sold it. He said he would have to think about it. We went back to their house to look at it a little more and talk over it some more. Then Annie, Patty and Dad went to fill it up with diesel and they met us at the restaurant. We talked about it some more and then wrote a $1500 check. YAY!!!
Its a 1991 Dodge Turbo Diesel Flat bed Stick shift pickup truck. It has AC and heating but they only work moderately well. No radio or CD player, (we might get one) My dad and Annie and Patty who have driven standards before said that this one is pretty easy to drive and hard to kill. I learned to drive it yesterday. It needs a little fixing up, the speedometer doesn't work, the front end needs allignment, and it just needs a good tune up. But all in all its a good pick up and we are very excited about it.

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