RIP Galant....a Tribute to Nick's First Car

Nick has had his Mitsubishi Galant since high school.  He has a love/hate relationship with it.  It was a pretty sweet car back in the day, with its sunroof and all.  It's seen a few miles since then, and been through a few of Nick's ex-girlfriends (thanks for the dents, ladies!).  It holds some fond dating memories (ok making out in the car, hehe!) and then it transitioned to a married car.  Although we have made several repairs, Nick lovingly (?) referred to it as the "Gay-lant".  Please excuse the language. 

The Galant saw lots of snow thanks to Spokane's record breaking snowfall of '08.  Can you spot the car?  Let's just say it was a few weeks before we got around to digging this out. 

 It had over 200k miles when the spedometer broke.  Nick bought an old dash cluster on ebay and replaced it himself.  The odometer now read 60k, thank you very much. :)

We were skeptical if it would make the 30 hour drive to Milwaukee for dental school with all of the miles it already had on it.  We were happily surprised that we made it with no problems!

Then one summer day, Nick was on his way to school.  His car kicked out of gear and he made his way to the shoulder.  The car would start but not go into gear.  Transmission shot!  Seeing that it would cost more to fix it than the car was worth, we said our tearful goodbyes.  Good news is we were still able to sell it quickly and find a good replacement car. 

Lots of memories.  You will be missed Galant!