Sequel to the car episode

Few of my friends asked me after reading my blog, 'What happened to your car? Did you find it ?'. So I thought of writing a sequel to this episode.

As some of the Bollywood movies have, after intermission there is a twist to the movie. Something similar happened with this too. After about six weeks of my missing car, one afternoon I got a call from Bellevue cops in my office. They asked me to come down to a place close to where I live and identify a vehicle. I was happy that they found my car, and at the same time there was anxiety about what will be its condition.

By that time I had already bought my second car Mazda 626. So I called up my wife and we drove to this place. There was one cop waiting for us. We identified our car. Hurray, our car was found. There was joy on our faces. Then he showed some of the stuff lying in the car, which wasn't ours. He took finger prints of few places so that the thief could be indentified. The car was a mess from inside. Luckily he had not trashed the car, as most of the thieves who are also drug addicts do. We drove it back home that evening.

We had two cars for couple of weeks. I used to drive the black altima to work where as my wife preferred driving the red mazda. But not for long as we decided to sell the altima. If you want to get tips on how to sell the car in two days, may be I can give you few.....Once our ad was posted on Seattle Craig list, we received more than 30 calls in a day and half of them visiting to check the car. Seattle is apparently a hotter market for used cars as compared to Bay area. If you have a good condition used Japanese car, there is no dearth of buyers. We both had spend weekends when searching for a car during this course, getting some funny experiences looking fora car. Seattle Craig list offers the best possible ads, and one has to be quick in responding if there's a good car for sale in the market. So to cut the long story short, our car got sold in a jiffy when three buyers landed up at the same time.

So this is how I landed up buying my third car in US. Mitsubishi, then Nissan and now a Mazda.