OUR TEN-YEAR ODYSSEY SEARCHING FOR A DAILY DRIVER, part 4

We sold our 1995 Buick Century in August, 2013 for $1,200 and bought this 1995 Mercury Grand Marquis for $1,400. It was not the first Mercury that I owned. As a teenager, I owned '39 and '46 Mercury coups and a '51 that I called my pregnant turtle.

In December, 2013, a woman ran a stop street with a blinking red light, totaling both vehicles.

The insurance paid us $3,734 and we bought a 2003 Grand Marquis for $2,750.