Jul 20

This is pretty much my dream car

Personal

I took a vote, and everyone who posts to this blog agreed…Its ok for me to post the occasional personal entry as long as it doesn’t get overdone. So…I wanted to mention that my dream car is up for sale on craigslist in Nashville (Link).

I admit it, I’m a cheap dreamer. I don’t aspire to the finer things in life like I should…I just want to be secure in life and have cool projects to work on. As far as cars go, I’ve always wanted these three vehicles - a DeLorean, a `57 Cadillac Ambulance, and a Baja Bug. DeLoreans are just cool, the Ambulance I want for the nerdiest of reasons, and the Baja Bug I want as a daily driver.

As fate would have it, there’s a Baja Bug for sale as I already mentioned. Here’s a list of reasons why I like it, followed by the reason I haven’t snatched it up yet.

1) Its affordable - For cars, $4000 isn’t really a lot of cash.

2) Its affordable to drive, Baja Bugs with stock engines get pretty good milage.

3) Its unique. You don’t see to many of them, and its almost required that you personalize your Baja in paint and bolt-ons. A vanilla Baja Bug paint job is unheard of.

4) It can offroad and out perform a jeep in almost every case, and for a fraction of the cost.

5) Its easy to repair and tinker with. Parts are cheap, and there’s so little that can go wrong that even very novice mechanics like myself can usually fix it. Air-cooled engines for the win.

6) This particular Baja needs a better Baja front end and suspension — I can totally do this, which would satisfy my need to tinker with after I got it. I’d also do some electrical work because I’m actually good at that, but that’s secondary (Don’t you think it would look cooler with a whip antenna?).

7) With a little love, they can go on living forever. Which is great because that’s what I intend to do (live forever )

Now for the reason I haven’t bought it…

I have truck that’s ok (even if it does guzzle gas ) and I have student loans that are more important than toys. I hate being responsible, but its very important that I get them paid off as quickly as possible. Besides, by the time they’re actually paid off the Chevy Volt will probably be on the market and I can buy a pure electric car anyway.

What’s coming up on MMcCann.com this week? I’ve got two entries scheduled. One is really long and about Product Requirements Documents (PRDs), the other is about taking the Risk Management stuff I learned from ROTC and applying it to civilian management/software development.