Dutch, thanks for the outside the box reply šŸ˜Ž

Iā€™m fortunate in that we have a couple of excellent mechanics in our school auto shops who keep my stuff running for the price of parts. I could drop in a salvage motor in the 270,000 mile Corolla for under $2,000 and drive it until retirement and beyond, as it is it still only burns a quart of oil in 3,000 miles.

Because I can bicycle to work I only put in 10 - 15,000 highway miles a year.

I do have a more immediate use for a newer/cooler/funner vehicle tho; my son and especially my little granddaughter. This next purchase would also be the vacation/camping vehicle.

Anyhoo.... as I get older seven years from now is feeling more and more like the present. Passes in a blur.

"...if the gentlemen of Virginia shall send us a dozen of their sons, we would take great care in their education, instruct them in all we know, and make men of them." Canasatego 1744