I'm Mike Rowe, and this is my truck.

[gridlore]

There's a wonderful Monty Python routine that has two of the pepperpot ladies sitting on a bench. One ask the other if she's been shopping. Then she asks what the other bought.

"A piston engine" is the reply.

Today, I bought a piston engine, along with the Ford Ranger it came wrapped in.



With the rebates and all, we got the payments down to a reasonable level (and can refinance next year.) It's a pretty basic truck, but comes with a bed liner.

kshandra, of course, has dibs on it for That Thing In The Desert.

The most shocking thing was seeing our credit scores. 700+ across the board. As the finance dude put it, it's good credit but not deep credit. So we keep making payments and keep building things up.

I bought a truck.

I need beer. Stat!

(More photos at my Flickr account)

Comments

[lisa-marli.livejournal.com]

Yeah New Truck!
But White? It's gonna need a major bath after that thing in the desert is done with it. Still White will reflect the sun better, so that will be useful.
And great credit scores. Amazing what happens when you work on it.

[kshandra]

Getting whatever car I take detailed when I get back is SOP. As long as I don't have to get into dafydd's old habit of "fixing what Burning Man broke" every year, it's all good. The playa dust got into the door mechanisms more than once for him, and we'd spend a week or two having to listen to the "open door" chime until he could get in to have it replaced....

(There's been an interesting bit of symmetry in all of this, actually - dafydd had a Ranger when he and I first started dating. I sent him a text message from the dealership yesterday that said "You followed in Doug's footsteps, now he's following in yours....")