well it finally happened, good ole JYM at last reached 100,000 miles. that's a pretty damn remarkable car. it's a 1990 honda accord and my grandfather bought it new (those are his initials, not my nick-name or my car's name, as many people thing... in fact, we never even call it "jym" like "jim," we always spell it out "J-Y-M"). it was living on maui for about 12 years in hot & dry kahului, but my uncle kept it spotless and kept the inside uphosltery oiled and everything, so when i got the car in like 2001 or 2002 in college, it was immaculate!
over the past eight years i've tried to keep it just as clean... of course i do take it to the beach a lot so that's kind of difficult, but man, once you have a clean car, it's so motivating to try and keep it clean. so man i'm washing, waxing, rain-x-ing, and armor-all-ing that car all the damn time. i'm completely in love with waxing that car though, man when you see the rain beading off that windshield so that you don't even have to put on the wipers, that's an awesome thing.
this car has been through an awful lot over these years. it wasn't driven very much in the beginning (my grandma pretty much only went from home to church to ah fook's supermarket so when i got it, it only had like 31,000 miles), but i put on a whole crap-load of miles when i was commuting everyday to UH during grad school. still, it took awhile to get to 100,000 miles. of course, now it's got a new battery and new transmission and all new tires and a whole bunch of other work done on it so it was an investment definately, but one that i don't want to give up anytime soon. as much as new cars are pretty great, this old car is awesome! i hope it holds up just as long as it can, and i will stick by until the bitter end!
well it finally happened, good ole JYM at last reached 100,000 miles. that's a pretty damn remarkable car. it's a 1990 honda accord and my grandfather bought it new (those are his initials, not my nick-name or my car's name, as many people thing... in fact, we never even call it "jym" like "jim," we always spell it out "J-Y-M"). it was living on maui for about 12 years in hot & dry kahului, but my uncle kept it spotless and kept the inside uphosltery oiled and everything, so when i got the car in like 2001 or 2002 in college, it was immaculate!
over the past eight years i've tried to keep it just as clean... of course i do take it to the beach a lot so that's kind of difficult, but man, once you have a clean car, it's so motivating to try and keep it clean. so man i'm washing, waxing, rain-x-ing, and armor-all-ing that car all the damn time. i'm completely in love with waxing that car though, man when you see the rain beading off that windshield so that you don't even have to put on the wipers, that's an awesome thing.
this car has been through an awful lot over these years. it wasn't driven very much in the beginning (my grandma pretty much only went from home to church to ah fook's supermarket so when i got it, it only had like 31,000 miles), but i put on a whole crap-load of miles when i was commuting everyday to UH during grad school. still, it took awhile to get to 100,000 miles. of course, now it's got a new battery and new transmission and all new tires and a whole bunch of other work done on it so it was an investment definately, but one that i don't want to give up anytime soon. as much as new cars are pretty great, this old car is awesome! i hope it holds up just as long as it can, and i will stick by until the bitter end!
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