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Originally Posted by JST
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My mom had a slightly used one for about a year in the mid-80s. She and my dad loved it. Then we took a family road trip to upstate NY, Toronto, and then broke down before we got to Montreal and my dad and I walked a few miles to the next town, found a phone and somehow arranged a tow to Montreal.
And then it took three days for the problem to be diagnosed,
And then it took 12 days for the parts to arrive at the shop.
And then it took three more days for the repairs to be completed.
All while the four of us lived in a smallish dual queen bed hotel room until my mom and I flew home at the two week mark.
Three months later, a parking valet drove it into a wall, totaling it. Happiest day of my dad's automotive life to that point. The insurance payment a couple weeks later was for about $4k more than my dad paid for it almost a year earlier and that became his happiest automotive day.