{"id":4540,"date":"2009-08-03T16:12:08","date_gmt":"2009-08-03T16:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hunterwimmer.com\/redneckmodern\/2009\/08\/03\/cash-for-champs-goodbye-old-friend\/"},"modified":"2009-08-03T16:12:08","modified_gmt":"2009-08-03T16:12:08","slug":"cash-for-champs-goodbye-old-friend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hunterwimmer.com\/redneckmodern\/2009\/08\/03\/cash-for-champs-goodbye-old-friend\/","title":{"rendered":"Cash for Champs \/ Goodbye, Old Friend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, we traded in our namesake truck under the Cash for Clunkers program. <\/p>\n<p>As a clarification (and tribute), &quot;Truck&quot; was most certainly not a clunker, but instead a reliable friend for the past few years. I&#039;m literally crying as I type this&#8230; yeah, weird.<\/p>\n<p>But the AC was shot, the airbag was questionable, the horn didn&#039;t work and it smelled like old men &#8212; a few of them. So, it was time to let our faithful companion enjoy a second life as a toaster or a recycled countertop&#8230; so, who knows, hopefully we&#039;ll get a bit of him back one day in the form of another consumer product.<\/p>\n<p>And, through the program, we got more than twice what we would have in resale (and not felt guilty about selling a potential hazard to someone else)&#8230; and combined with current Ford rebates, the new truck was over 25% off of the sticker (closer to half-price, really&#8230; but then you add sales tax and fees and&#8230;).<\/p>\n<p>So, thanks and goodbye, old friend. You&#039;ll be remembered fondly and keep your rightful place in the banner above (and in our hearts)&#8230; you started every time (even when we didn&#039;t want to start, sometimes), you helped out neighbors and friends (and helped to turn neighbors into friends) and helped us through the most difficult two years of our life&#8230; thanks for that.<\/p>\n<p>And, Bret&#8230; no, you can&#039;t borrow this one for a run to the dump.<\/p>\n<p>Sniff (and Sob)&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/redneckmodern\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/09\/6a00d8345166b769e201157257c256970b-popup\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IMG_0152\" class=\"at-xid-6a00d8345166b769e201157257c256970b \" src=\"\/redneckmodern\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/09\/6a00d8345166b769e201157257c256970b-100wi.jpg\" style=\"width: 100px\" \/><\/a>&#160;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><a href=\"\/redneckmodern\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/09\/6a00d8345166b769e2011571637752970c-popup\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IMG_0151\" class=\"at-xid-6a00d8345166b769e2011571637752970c \" src=\"\/redneckmodern\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/09\/6a00d8345166b769e2011571637752970c-100wi.jpg\" style=\"width: 100px\" \/><\/a> <\/span> <a href=\"\/redneckmodern\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/09\/6a00d8345166b769e201157257c29a970b-popup\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IMG_0155\" class=\"at-xid-6a00d8345166b769e201157257c29a970b \" src=\"\/redneckmodern\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/09\/6a00d8345166b769e201157257c29a970b-100wi.jpg\" style=\"width: 100px\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, we traded in our namesake truck under the Cash for Clunkers program. 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But the AC was shot, the airbag was questionable, the horn [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-this-modern-life"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Cash for Champs \/ Goodbye, Old Friend - Red Neck Modern<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/hunterwimmer.com\/redneckmodern\/2009\/08\/03\/cash-for-champs-goodbye-old-friend\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Cash for Champs \/ Goodbye, Old Friend - Red Neck Modern\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Today, we traded in our namesake truck under the Cash for Clunkers program. 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