As we said Good Bye to the Pacifica, we knew that she was a good car and it was time.
We all agreed that this was one of the best cars that we’ve had – and let me tell you that we did have a lot of cars these past 30+ years.
See this is the first (and probably will be the only) car that we had special ordered back on 5/12/2005. And it came at a perfect time. We hardly had the car a month and took it on a family trip up for a week touring Michigan and the surrounding states up north. It was the beginning of a great relationship.
Now if you don’t believe that your car is in a relationship with you, well I beg to argue.
Our cars not only take our kids back and forth to their school practices, they are ready to haul them to the early school classes, vacations, it also would go to and from the airports for family vacations or pick someone up that needed a ride. It hauled tons of friends of our kids for overnight birthday parties, was always filled with some type of band instrument, went to a lot of college performances, was expected to go through a snow storm from Chicago when all plows were pulled off the road, made it through one of the worst ice storms when our parents were with us going to Pella for a concert, headed to and from work … and that’s just some of the things!
So when it’s time to put her ‘down’ it’s never a good thing. Even though last summer we were really excited when it turned 200,000 on 5/7/2015 almost 10 years to the day that we bought her, 
we knew this summer when the transmission was slipping we had to do something. Now if it was up to me, I would like to have her repaired, but then we’d have a car with 261,889 miles that I’m guessing probably needed more work.
And when we were leaving the junk yard and they were going to use the fork lift to move it to the strip down area – I just couldn’t look back . What a good car and we’ll miss her. 