After realizing.....after admitting that I was spending way too much money to insure a vehicle I rarely drove and needed engine work (re-sleeved....or a new, smaller, lighter, and yet more powerful engine) to be a great vehicle again, I sold Old Blue.

I have a friend at work who wanted a car for his grandson. Something he wouldn't race around and get in trouble speeding with. Boy, did I have the perfect vehicle for him. So the good news is that Old Blue is going to be a daily driver again. And the grandfather is actually excited they have a car to work on together. Plus, I left some of the HAM radio stuff in for their use (Grandfather is a HAM and a SARA--search and rescue AZ--member).

Basically I sold them $400 of accessories, and threw in the vehicle for free. They get a Thule roof rack, tube rocker protectors, some other stuff.

I always wanted to take a vehicle of such personality to Moab one time, but no such luck. Her last trip to the Grand Canyon, climbing the hills on I-17 between Phoenix and Tucson, was probably pushing my luck. A lot of 4th gear and still running in the slow lane with the RV's.

The grandson wanted all the stickers (there's more than you see in the picture below), but no such luck. I did let him keep all the reflective tape.

On top of insurance cost for a vehicle I rarely drive, was the cost of a larger storage unit. Being in the military, I deploy and move around a lot, and rather than ship stuff back and forth from home, I dump my 'living necessities' everything in storage in Phoenix. I can now rent a much smaller space, for much less cost.

(Note: Renting a large storage unit was cheaper than a small one plus an open car spot. Go figure. Kept Blue out of the sun.)

I still have the Rodeo and the motorcycle with me. But it was a real sad time to drive it from Phoenix to Tucson, knowing it was the last time. The odometer turned over 183k on the way. Without all the current safety gear and modern electronics, without all the interior plastic (Amigo had sheet metal walls), the space in the front cab dashboard is much more open! And I love the push-button instrument cluster design that takes a lot of the garbage off the steering wheel/column (lights, wipers) and puts it on the dash as push-buttons.

You go Blue!

Note: You can't see all the yellow reflective tape on the skid plate and A-arms in this picture, but you did when it was rolling towards you.

Sad to hear, Wayne -- but cool that you found someone who will value it!

The 'relationship' we have with these mostly inanimate mechanical things is tough to quantify -- I'm less attached to my Amigo than I am attached to all of the memories that it reminds me of, and it's ability to transport me to new ones. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/kewl.gif" alt="" />

Randii

Old Blue passed inspection with flying colors; a tribute to the oversized catalytic converter. She's officially a low emissions vehicle.

I completed the sale by transferring the title and registration at DMV.

I was listening to a news program that said if you sell your car, be sure to get a legal bill of sale to protect yourself if any tickets or insurance issues come up as selling your vehicle doesn't mean you can't be sued if you don't have this bill of sale.

I found the website they mentioned: http://www.dmv.org/bill-of-sale.php
While it drives a lot of adds for auto insurance, it did provide me with the Arizona DOT Bill Of Sale for private vehicle form.

If anyone has any experience/knowledge, from the website it appears this is just a form that's required until the vehicle is properly retitled/registered. A confirmation (or horror story) would be nice.

Thanks.

Don't know anything about Arizona, but when I was living in NC, I had an old Celica that I sold to a guy for a few hundred bucks. For the next year plus, I kept getting notices from the local impound lot that my car was there, and that I needed to come pick it up. After about the 5th time, I almost went down and bailed it out myself to keep it, but apparently they believed me that I had sold it and someone came to claim it with the title. I don't know that a bill of sale would have proven more useful, but it's definitely not a bad idea if it's easy to come by.

James