As someone who owns and maintains and older car in the face of 'why don't you just trade it' opinions from others, I also gain a lot of satisfaction in being ab

As someone who owns and maintains and older car in the face of 'why don't you just trade it' opinions from others, I also gain a lot of satisfaction in being able to be in tune with a vehicle, to understand when it is happy, when it is looking for service, to understand the history of the roads it's been on and history of the use it's had. A lot of people with a 'vehicle is an appliance' mindset would never understand that, but vehicles are like houses in that they create and are intrinsically involved with memories. Some happy, some sad, all baked into our lives. That's why many women have to apologise and say sorry to a car they are disposing from their lives, as if it's anything but a inanimate lump of metal, plastic, glass and rubber. They're not saying goodbye to the object, they are saying goodbye to the memories.