The Marine View Driver: Cruising with the 1992 Ford Tempo - The Waterland Blog (blog)
You may recall that I once owned a 1979 LTD —the one that had broken down in the middle of a trip to a Mariners game with my boss. Yes, I was left stranded with a broken-down supersized car, and my boss got himself bailed out of the situation via a friend. Since I was left stranded with my previously running car, I decided I’d had enough, too. After all, one of my employees had been hounding me for some time about getting a new car. You need to look the part and get something you can be proud of. ”. He might as well have been the little devil on my shoulder whispering into my ear. It’s just that, even though I was the boss, I was still allergic to car payments. But I sure was getting tired of pushing and towing my car off of streets and into repair shops, and that ill-fated trip to the M’s game was the last straw. So I had my little devil pick me up and I literally left my LTD at the Goodwill Warehouse parking lot on Fourth Ave. The devil took me up to Bill Pierre Ford in Little old Lake City, and I bought a brand new Ford Tempo. It was the first time I’d ever bought a car that was built the same year I bought it. The overall trip took a while so I got home pretty late. I naturally had to call and tell my wife I’d bought a car this fine day. That morning I went to work in a 1979 LTD and I came home in a 1992 Ford Tempo. Source: waterlandblog.com
