I'm Sad

I keep coming back in this forum and I don't have a firebird anymore. I had to get rid of my baby last Spring. Her name was Chasey and she was a white 1991 T/A. She was my life, I loved her, and I gave her anything she wanted or needed. She had been totalled twice, I fixed her out of pocket. Any problem she had, I fixed, and trust me, there were plenty. I'd have to estimate that I put almost $15,000 of work into her, between maintenance and problems she had. But I loved her and was determined to keep her going.
In January 2002 I failed emissions. She needed all kinds of work, but I was willing to put the money into her, and I did. The total costs for everything was around $4000. I put it on credit so I didn't have to really worry about it. I waited so long for all the work that my license was close to being suspended. In Spring of 2003 emissions testing was up again for her. I thought I'd pass with flying colors since it was just over a year prior I had all the work done.
A few days before I went to get the test done, something horrible and disgusting happened.
I woke up and went outside to see my baby... her windows were shattered and there was glass all over. I looked inside and the entire dash was ripped out and my CD player and sound system was snagged. My girl had been violated!! It didn't feel the same driving her, she was sad. It was Spring time and raining like crazy so I had a flood in my backseat and it really smelled.
I took her to get emissions testing a few days later, and to my surprise, she failed again. And not just a little failure, the tests showed her being insanely toxic. I still hadn't paid off the work I put on my credit card, I was so sad.
I had to make the incredibly hard decision to finally let her go.

I never had a car payment before so I wanted to stick with something cheap. I now drive a 1998 Chevy Cavalier Z24 convertible... I freakin hate it and I want my firebird back. I loved that car so much. But now I have to hang in the Cavalier forum.

Just wanted to share my sad story.
RIP CHASEY

Dena

that IS a sad story. i, like most firebird-lovers, am attached to my car also.

i hate to hear about your car. that is terrible.

p.s. you can still hang out in the firebird forum :biggrin:

"I put almost $15,000 of work into her"....u really should have just bought a new one, i bought my TA for 14, 500 a 98 with 41,000 miles

yeah but im sure it wasnt all at once and not planned...I bet if they would have ok, 15 G's to fix her...lol then id hope she would have, But I am truley sorry to hear that. R.I.P.

Damn, That hella sucks. I love my Bird, I seeing your story I know you do too. But Damn, I never leave my kar outside in the kold. I ended up kicking my moms T-bird outside to put my kar to sleep in the garage. Damn fu*kers out there might mess around with your kar and you don't know until tomorrow. Sorry for what happened with yours though, sucks ass. Maybe you'll find Chasey again some day.

The work wasn't all at once, I'm not THAT crazy. It was always a few to several hundred here and there. (On rare occasions it was in the thousands)I always justified it by saying it was still cheaper than a monthly car payment. I had my car totalled with about $4500 worth of damage. The insurance company gave me a check for $2700 (the blue book on her minus $500 deductible), and it was up to me to get her fixed. What's $1800 compared to a monthly car payment, plus I loved that car and didn't want to get rid of it. (Even with $15000, I still like the old body style - late 80s early 90s, and they're not so easy to find in good condition)

Now I've got a baby on the way - in 5 months - so I can't justify buying one just to have when there's so much else that we need for the baby.
Maybe a few years down the road I can get one. But Chasey will always be in my heart and always be my favorite.

I think we should all have a moment of silence in reverence of the bird.


ALRIGHT, though it is hard, and trust me, i know, let's move on with a smile. :0) I do feel you though, i had my 96 Accord V6 stolen from right out in front of my house. And when they found it two days later, it was stripped of 3 years of love and affection i had put in to her. They took everything from my entire interior, to all my lights, and all my engine mod's. A part of me died that day. ;)