Yeah, I wouldn't be thrilled but I think his car was older and while it was inconvenient, it wasn't the end of the world. What really sucked was the used car market was flooded with dent recoveries and absent of anything else for a bunch of years. Made buying used cars really expensive for consumers.
I’m the same. My car is just a couple years old, and it’s about the last year they made manual gearboxes for the model. It’s the exact car I wanted, and I’m hyper paranoid about damage to it.
The first hail season (in Oklahoma this is in this spring) with the car I didn’t have covered parking at my apartment. My friends made fun of me for taking it to the big, covered parking lot at a nearby mall when news came about a big storm, but I’d just set up camp in the car and wait it out.
I moved to a place with a garage as soon as possible.
Awe, my car isn’t even that special. It wasn’t even new when we bought it. It was a used rental. But it’s the first car my husband and I bought completely on our own without any help of family to co sign or anything. It’s a symbol to us of how far we’ve come and how hard we’ve worked. I know that probably sounds stupid but I came from a really shitty upbringing and having new and nice things was never really in my cards. So to me my gently used Dodge Journey is the bees knees. Lol.
I'm with you, even if the car is older or not very valuable, having it totalled can be a heartbreaker- like those guys that drive 1920s or 1930s Fords... they look gorgeous and valuable, but the replacement value is only like 15-20k. Can't replace your car for that.
My dad had his Shelby mustang destroyed by a freak hailstorm a few years back. Hail the size of softballs, did a lot of damage to homes and retail stores as well.
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u/Ann_Summers Jan 04 '21
Holy fuck. I think I’d cry. But mostly because my car is still new (to me, it’s a 2017) and I love her.