In case you didn’t hear by now, the poor Cougar is on it’s last legs. I can’t really complain; It has lasted us about 4 years with very minimal investment. And it’s by no means dead… it’s just become a liability that we can no longer ignore (i.e. while fixing part A, part B might break in the process, only to find out that it was really part C all along). The smarter thing to do at this point is to have a reliable car, and work on getting the Cougar back to new slowly when we have time and money.

So where does that leave us? Shopping for a new car on a tight budget and short timeline. Not a good combination.
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