May 6, 2008--A list of all the vehicles Erick has ever owned.

We picked up our van yesterday, which was also Abby's birthday. She gets to pick her seat first, since it was her special day. We had a little party for her, and she got a doggie in a doggie carrier and a kite, and on Thursday we're going to take her and one of her friends to McDonalds after co-op.

This morning Erick and I sat down and made a list of all the vehicles we've ever owned. We're up to twenty-nine now, if we've counted right. We've spent enough money on buying used vehicles over the years that we could have owned some really nice ones by now. <sigh>

Here's the list we came up with. The first three he owned before he even had his driver's license.

$100--Chevy Citation, ’82, red and rust
$50--’84 Renault Alliance, red
$100--’72 Ford pick-up, blue
$0--Tan Dodge D50 with wooden homemade bed, ’82 or ‘84 (This had an unique feature--the passenger side door didn't close right. We nearly lost our chaperone a few times when we were out courting.)
$500--’79 gold Chevy pickup
$100 plus trade--’79 White Caprice (This is the car we had when we got married)
$1000--’87 Chevy S10, 2 tone gray
$0--Blue Chevette, ‘88 (This is the car we had when Jay was born)
$1000--Gray Ford Tempo, ’87 (first loan)
$500--’76 Chevy Crew Cab, red
$3000--’87 Oldsmobile, Delta 88, blue (second loan) We gave this one to Erick's sister after she helped us for six weeks when Erick was in the hospital.
$100--plus trade (he traded the red Chevy Crew Cab--one of the worst deals we ever made!) 78 Ford F100, sea green
$0--Brown Chevy Van, ’87 (we never actually drove this one--Dad gave it to us, but we never came and got it so he gave it to someone else.)
$50--Red Dodge with no engine, ’84 or ‘85 (Erick tried and tried to fix it but finally gave up.)
$0--Pontiac Parnesian? (We fixed it up and gave it to a single mother who needed a car.)
$500--Ford Ranger, ’84, black
$800--Burgandy Chevy Van that we got in Decatar, ‘87
$500--Tan Dodge Van from Erick's parents, ‘86. (I'm not sure if we actually paid them for it, though. I think we finally just gave it back to them because we couldn't come up with the $500.)
$1000--White Jeep Wagoneer, 4X4, ’79, (The back window kept falling out. He bought this when he had his newspaper route.)
$0--’77 Ford F150 Extended Cab, Long bed, bad blue and black paint job.
$0--Brown ’75 Ford Crew Cab. This was given to us by a friend, but he couldn't find the title. Erick parked it down by his Mom and Dad's house before we moved to Missouri, and Erick’s family eventually got tired of having it around and got rid of it.
$8500--’98 gold Ford Windstar. Third and biggest loan. Sold it for way too little. First vehicle we bought when we moved to Missouri. We wished we would have kept it. It was nice.
$1200--’87 Mazda 323, gold, dependable until the wheel fell off.
$2200--’87 Suburban, blue. This is what we bought for the family when we sold the Winstar.
$1000--'88 Ford Ranger. Red. This was his grandpa's truck.
$500--’89 Pontiac Safari Station Wagon, rust in abundance.
$1000--’94 blue Buick Skylark. Died the day we moved.
$0--Blue ’84 Ford Van, given to us by a homeschool family.
$1650--Mecury Grand Marquis, white, ‘92
$800--Dodge Ram B150, white, ‘94

So that's our the sordid history of our vehicle ownership. I've always said that I'm sure glad Erick doesn't go through women the way he goes through vehicles!