The photo is our 'old Trusty' 1994 Marquis taken on December 30, 2006, ready for Paul and I to drive to Spokane with my Toyota truck in tow. It has been a good car. Yesterday we picked up our 'new' car, a 1987 Ford Tempo with just 60K miles on it. What a blessing--it was a gift from a Life Center family, and had belonged to her mom who had passed away last February. Thank you Edmistons and God! I had taken our Marquis into the shop for a checkover before our Portland trip, and just got news that it needs over $1000 of repairs to the front end. It has been a good car, but Jeanette is not fond of it because 1) it's too big and hard to park, 2) gas mileage, 3) rear wheel drive not good in the snow, and 4) it's getting long of tooth.
The new car is actually longer of tooth, but it seems really solid because of the low mileage, and it has front wheel drive! Should be easy to park, too, and get good gas mileage compared to the Marquis.
