Oh, this car.....so many years, so many memories. Troy and I spent lots of our dating/college years in this car. I loved that my boyfriend had such a nice car. He picked me up at my dorm countless times in that car. We filled that car with friends countless times. The night we got engaged we sat in that car and called our parents to tell them the news.
After we got married, that car came with us to Kansas City for our seminary days and was our "nice car." I brought an old car into our marriage and it was not as reliable as a Honda and started giving us a lot of problems. There was a period of time when Troy would drive me to my job in the Civic before he headed over to the seminary for the day and he would come pick me up at the end of the day and we would drive home together to our little apartment. Such sweet days. Over time we realized that I needed a new car to get me to and from work and so we made our first big purchase of married life.....a 1999 Honda Accord, which we still own and is sitting in our garage right now. After we bought the Accord I spent much less time in the Civic and exclusively drove the Accord.
Since our college and early married days I have rarely been in the Civic. But, my sweet husband has driven it everyday. And as the years passed that Honda Civic was reliable as can be. Outside of routine maintenance it was never in the shop. It was starting to show its age though....especially in losing its paint. But, the beautiful part of it was that my husband could not care less. And as much as I was growing to want to get rid of that car, I knew my husband's heart. We are a one income family who does not want to be in debt. Troy works so hard to take care of us and allow me to stay at home with our girls.....my dream come true. Because of that, it just isn't going to work for us to be driving fancy, new cars unless we want some really high car payments. So, drive the 1995 Honda Civic he did.....I would drive by our church almost everyday and there it was. He drove it to work, to the hospital to visit people, to the funeral home to officiate a funeral......where he went, it went. From the college days to adult life with two kids.
In recent months, we began to have discussions about getting a new car. We had two old cars with high miles and we knew we needed something else. I was hoping for a minivan :) Troy was not as excited about this but soon agreed that it would be a good thing for our family. Years with no car payments allowed us to save some money. And since we are Honda people, the search for a used Honda Odyssey began. It was kind of like finding a diamond in the rough but we finally did and it is now sitting in our garage beside our 1999 Honda Accord.
Last week Troy put his 1995 Honda Civic on Craig's List. I thought it was going to be really hard to sell, but because of Troy's love for this car he assured me that someone would want it. He was right.....it sold in less than 12 hours. Crazy. So, before Troy headed over to the Meijer parking lot to meet the guy who was going to buy it, we went to the garage and sat in it one last time.
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The '95 Civic and its last minutes in our driveway
Bless its heart
Getting ready to say goodbye
Goodbye 1995 Honda Civic, you have been good to us and given us many memories.
In a span of 12 hours, you found your old car a new owner; that was fast! Did you purchase a minivan, like what you wanted for your family after this? Or did you settle with another car of different kind?
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