Ok that’s not as random as it sounds. I’ve been working with a broker for this purchase - Dave Sutch of mycarguy-sf.com. He was searching and searching for the truck I wanted for a few weeks. This was after my months and months of research and driving other vehicles. This one won out with the right combo of features for me. I really love this truck. It’s a Nissan Titan LE 4×4 CrewCab and it has pretty much every feature available from the factory, and then some. I love the color. It’s called Red Brawn. I’m not sure the pictures really do it justice. I’ll take some more shots tomorrow and some shots of the interior too. The shot(s) below I took really really quickly because it was about 105 out there and I had been traveling all day and despite my pleasure at buying the new truck and looking forward to the road trip home, and despite enjoying the Texas sized hospitality - I was about ready to burst into flames and then kill somebody and then burst into flames again. But I had to take a picture of my new friend Buddy Wood. And the truck at the Dealer. Buddy’s been with Nissan for like 35 years. Insanity.

I know what you’re thinking now though. Texas! Get back to the Texas part! So here’s the deal. Finding this truck was a difficult process basically because I’m off my nutt and am so damn particular about what I wanted (also for some other reasons ;). Dave Sutch definitely earned his fee with this job and then some! And then some more! I really apprciate the job he did for me on this one. He really went above and beyond. Thanks Dave! Anyway, we couldn’t find the truck on the west coast, we had a false positive in Denver, and finally we found the truck in Dallas. That’s the short version. There was much checking and double checking and further checking and a couple of false alarms. I think Dave and I were both ready to pull our hair out.

Also there was some bidness about the factory cash, my financing expiring, and the 2007’s coming out that really made it worth my while to take this deal. I got an unbelievably great deal. I’ll tell you about it offline if you want to know. But I would have paid thousands more if I had ordered it.

So while the truck wasn’t exactly the truck I originally wanted, it’s nearly so. The only difference was the interior color and when I saw my new truck, I was hard pressed to remember why I wanted the other interior. I’m super happy. My new truck has kind of a two tone gray on gray leather interior that really looks great. I don’t know why I was so fixated on the interior color. I think I over thought it, or it didn’t look good on the trucks I saw when I was test driving. Maybe the color combos didn’t work as well on those trucks. Dunno.

So right now I’m staying at the Weston near the Dallas/Ft Worth airport. I had intended to get started back today, but after my flight out this morning, and after spending nearly four hours at the dealership, I was nearly willing to trade the truck I just bought for a long hot shower and some pink bunny slippers. Ok, just the bunny slippers. (Hmm, that doesn’t even make sense). So I’m here in Dallas and I’m wasted and I’m heading to bed to get up at the crack of dawn and head home. By the way, it’s about 1700 miles. So I’ll probably do 1690 miles tomorrow and 10 on Sunday.

I’ll blog more about this tomorrow if I can find some wifi.



More pictures here.

P.S. The only bummer about this adventure is that I had to embark on it alone. B. couldn’t make it. I wish she was here!