I wish I could say Parkland, Washington is a garden spot, but it’s pretty darn hideous, at least the parts of it I’ve seen. This old Camper Special F250 was down there, and while probably a fair value at $1200, it’s definitely not the truck I’ve been looking for. I can keep sitting on my hands. That’s two old cars in two days I’ve looked at and not purchased, that’s got to be some sort of record.

Yeah, so I’ve had my 1990 F150 back for…two months. And already I’m ready to part with it. It runs fine, it’s in good condition…but it’s boring. And life is too short for boring cars. Isn’t it?

I’m looking at this ’68 Ford F100 today, which is definitely not as boring. And it has a 428 in it. That’s really not boring.

Another MGB. I bought this car in Issaquah shortly after I got rid of the Healey 100-Six. I’m trying desperately to remember how much I paid, but it was probably about $1500. It was bright red, with a halfway decent paint job, but had essentially no interior and a lot of blow-by from the engine.
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Ah, the joys of a free car. Once I had the head down to the machine shop, it turns out it was cracked in not one or two, but three places. So it had to be sent out for welding…which is almost done. My friend Jeff, who is to British cars what the iceberg was to the Titanic, was going to buy this from me when I’m done with it, but he has since bought an MGB.

This means I’ll either keep the car (???) or sell it once it’s sorted out. Actually, I can see three choices:

1. Keep it, and wonder every day why I need both an aged XJ6 and a 100,000 mile Land Rover and a pickup truck (maybe selling the Land Rover instead?);
2. Sell it, and perhaps break some weird “I gave you this car so it would go to a good home and now look what you’re doing” trust that perhaps accompanies a “free” car;

or

3. Trade it, keeping my eyes peeled for some derelict old car I’d like to have, whose owner may look at a decent XJ6 as a “reasonable” exchange (hey, I didn’t claim they’d be smart).

The eye-rolling is almost non-stop around here these days.