Goodbye old friend…

Posted on August 14, 2019 by Clint

So as you may have heard, Dawn got into a car accident recently. She’s okay, but when all was said and done there was still a sad casualty…

Alas, our convention car–Ghostbuster decals and all–is no more. The damage inflicted was enough to bend part of the frame, and when that happens an old car like it was just doesn’t have the raw blue book value for the insurance company to not write it off as a total loss. Sentiment and coolness aren’t factored in.

Dawn got the car in 2008, so it’s been with us since the beginning as far as our comics and exhibiting career goes. It was a rarity, a station wagon with ample cargo space in an era where that had mostly gone out of style. A car that was still running after nearly 22 years of operation and 200,000 miles on the odometer, most recently ferrying us back and forth to another fully loaded San Diego Comic Con.

So if you don’t mind, raise a glass of whatever beverage is your preference in honor of a long and distinguished career of automotive service. Hopefully we can find a worthy successor to its memory.

3 thoughts on “Goodbye old friend…”

  1. ConcordBob

    Yeah, this year we said goodbye to our minivan of 22 years. Field trips with school, family vacations, camping, soccer, etc etc. Lots of good times.

  2. Lawrence Townsend

    If the insurance company has not yet taken it, and the sentiment and coolness factors are enough to make up for the hassle/cost of the repairs, you may be able to get the insurance company to “sell” it back to you for what they expect to get for salvage.

    Here is a link that I found for information on the process in CA: https://www.psblaw.com/2018/08/16/how-do-i-report-totaled-car-to-dmv/

  3. Clint

    Yeah we looked into all that, honestly the repair cost alone was… well, let’s just say we could see why they declared it totaled. Then you add on all the extra paperwork and legwork of a salvage (and later reinstating that salvage) and we sadly came to the conclusion it was time to retire the old girl. She’ll run and play in a junkyard upstate, maybe.

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