Head over Heart

[SM1DY]

What makes you buy your new (or new to you) car?

Are you bored, have you had a career change, did your missus sit on a public toilet seat and get pregnant thus needing more space? I haven't been in the market for quite some time and I've forgotten how personal and emotional the process can be. It feels very reminiscent of getting a new family pet - obviously you don't upgrade those every couple of years, that's a life decision.

To my mind, I feel that if you can easily discard your car after a couple years you didn't make the right choice when you bought it. Essentially, you plucked up and bought the wrong car.

I've had my Falcon for just over 7 years, I've often thought about swapping it out for a newer, brighter, tighter model - but never pulled the trigger. I fear that it is a case of 'The Devil you know' and the courage isn't there.

In 'The Coon' I like the way when I plant the throttle it pushes me into the brass end of the car, it hums a song that no 4 banger diesel can replicate, how the rear kicks out on drizzly days, the shunt it gives me when it grips up just plucking go's...

Simply put, it feels like a relationship that she has refused to end, she's intoxicating, she make decisions for me that seem right but feels oh so wrong.

Is it a love of the car, or a fear to move on?