RIP Black Betty.
Born in Mazda land circa 1999. Zoom Zoom
Died: February 10, 2010
On Wednesday Raegan and I were at The Cooks babysitting Addison and Channing. We recieved our check that day so when we were done at 5pm we went down the street to Chase Bank to deposit our check. We had only been in the car for 5 minutes and thats when it happened. We were sitting at a red light and as soon as we hit the gas to go, Betty decided to take her life. I was in the middle of an intersection at rush hour with a crying baby in the back seat. Luckily a guy stopped and pushed me to the side of the road and we waited for Ryan to get up to us in Noblesville, as he had just left work. Raegan was warm and toasty in her carseat finally sleeping as I froze sitting there waiting for my husband to save the day. He finally got there and I thought that the engine had just died so we tried to jump Betty but she still wouldn't start. We had her towed to Car-X. A mechanic took a look at her the next day and said she blew her head gasket causing anti-freeze to go all over the engine, killing her. He said best case it would be about $1400 to fix her. But more likely we would need to rebuild the engine which would be more in the $4000 range. As much as I love Betty and as good as she was to me over the last 7 years, she just wasn't worth that. We posted her on Craigslist on February 17 for $2000 and we sold her to a mechanic named Jeff 2 days later on the 19th for $1400. We didn't think we would get more than $1000 for her so we were pleased with Jeff's offer. It is now time to start looking for my mommy SUV!
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