Flashback Friday

We've been through many different vehicles in our marriage just like we've moved a million times! Over the years we've made some good and bad decisions when it comes to vehicle purchases. Call me weird, but for some reason I like to take pictures of our vehicles at some point during our ownership of them. This Flashback Friday post is dedicated to our many vehicles. There is a surprise at the end of this post as well so keep reading!!!

When we got married I had this Dodge Neon. Dave hated it from day one so he was always trying to convince me to get rid of it. After replacing the head gasket I decided it was time to part ways. (This pictures is from when Dave got it stuck in a snowbank)

The girl who bought our Neon essentially traded us this Honda for it. She gave us cash for most of the Neon, but also gave us her Honda as a trade-in. We both absolutely LOVED this car, but it was old and started having problems after a while.

Dan, one of Dave's brothers, gave us this Ford Tempo for FREE. They were moving from Vermont to Alaska and didn't want to worry about getting it up to Alaska. We just had to get it from Vermont to Kansas and it was ours. This car was AWESOME! It finally died when it had almost 300,000 miles on it!!!

After the Honda died we got this Kia Sportage. We were in need of two cars so we had this and the Tempo. The Sportage was one of the worst decisions we ever made as far as car purchases go. It never worked quite right and spent lots of time in the shop (good thing it still had a warranty). We finally traded it in and had a lot of negative equity on it unfortunately...bad decision!!!

We got this Toyota Carolla when we traded in the Sportage. We had a HUGE car payment on this because of the negative equity on the Sportage. This car was fantastic! We had this one for the longest amount of time before we decided to sell it. I put a ton of miles on it working for the American Cancer Society in Kansas and Colorado. We sold it last fall because we got sick of making such a huge monthly payment.

After the Tempo finally croaked at 300,000 miles Dave decided he wanted a truck for his next vehicle. He got a Ford Ranger. I never really liked this vehicle and actually never got a real picture of it. This is a picture I found on-line of one that looks similar except the Ranger we had was blue. We were a one vehicle family for quite a while (the Corolla only) before we made this next purchase.

Two summers ago we bought this Toyota pickup. This was another bad decision we made on vehicle purchases. Only after owning it for about a month it started having problems. We put a lot of money into this truck! We finally decided to get rid of it when we realized this month that it would cost almost $1300 to have it tagged this year. In Utah older vehicles have to be inspected every year for safety and emissions. It didn't pass this week and our mechanic said it would be about a $1300 fix. YUCK!!

So, we traded it in and got our newest vehicle....

We bought this 2004 Chevy Tahoe on Wednesday. We couldn't be more excited! We wanted a vehicle that could tow our pop-up trailer easier, but could also fit a car seat. I'm not looking forward to having car payments again, but it will be nice to have a dependable vehicle since we only have one. I hope this turns out to be a good decision!