After having Ruby on the Samba for ONE DAY I sold
her to a young woman from Tulsa. I asked, what I felt was, an exorbitant price
and got very close to it. The fact that she is almost local, and is paying cash
appeals to me. I don't have to get payment from East Bejesus and arrange
shipping or pick up. She will come Friday pay me, and drive Ruby home. And, she
is also sooooo excited.
I have never sold a "classic" and I am
sad.
The woman wanted to know the odometer reading. I
wasn't near the car at the time, I said I didn't know, but on these old cars I
always assume that it would read a million. She asked if the odometer worked,
funny, I don't know. I believe, in my mind, that it is not so important to know
the miles on a car like her as it is the hours. Like on tractors.
She owned a 74 bus at one time, so maybe she knows
what to expect from old cars. She asked me what mechanical thing is soon to
break, and I thought, and the honest fact is, there is no reason, right now, to
think there is ANYTHING on the margin. I have to think that is rare in these old
cars.
Bye bye, Ruby.
