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The widow's Caddy...

A silver 2012 Cadillac sits in a driveway and wears its scars with a certain kind of quiet dignity.  Its best days are behind it, but it is not done yet. May we all age so gracefully.
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A silver 2012 Cadillac sits in a driveway and wears its scars with a certain kind of quiet dignity. Its best days are behind it, but it is not done yet. May we all age so gracefully.
For whatever reason we just keep getting the cars that people age out of driving. This is a 2012 Cadillac that a little old lady parked by feel and only scraped curbs on one side. It's... tired. We'll give it a spit polish, straighten it up, make it safe, and pass it along. It'll stay out of the junkyard and keep someone rolling. In a 2012 sort of comfort. There was an old Peter Egan article about fixing up an elderly relative's 1960 Caddy. This ain't that. We've nicknamed it Scruffy. Like the janitor from Futurama.
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frothywalrus 4 hours ago
My newest car is from 2008... mid 2010 cars fascinate me with their tech :)
1f2frfbf pro 4 hours ago
@frothywalrus My daily driver is from 1993. It all feels like the future to me. I'm like a wide-eyed child at things like CarPlay and AndroidAuto.
0y3ahSansAcut3 4 hours ago
A little Caddy convertible might be nice.
ang pro 3 hours ago
Parked by feel is a great turn of phrase.
m3moellering 3 hours ago
I just really want a car without a touchscreen. Both of ours are paid for and approaching their end times. So, we're juggling how to pay for upkeep versus having a car that has a touchscreen and still meets our needs.
roue 3 hours ago
I've been keeping an eye on https://www.slate.auto/ . I much prefer a simpler vehicle with less to break, easier to fix, reliable to packing in every feature under the sun. I'm not saying I want to go back to manual roll up windows, but seats where you pull a lever and slide to position them, doors you open and close by hand instead of pressing a button make a lot more sense to me.

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