Shitbox's Days Numbered?

So i've been debating for a while now on getting my grandpas old car and getting rid of the shitbox i call my 1998 cavalier that has skin cancer all over it (paint is rubbing off). I will say that I am the ONLY one of my friends who has his original car from when he was 16 and well...my car has seen better days BUT it still runs and I was planning on running it straight into the ground. My car just surpased 150,000 miles.

My Grandpa had unfortunatly passed away this past August and my Grandma cannot drive anymore and is looking to get rid of the car. My mom would really like the keep the car in the family for sentimental reasons and out of all the relatives I'm really the only one that could really has a use of the car, seeing as my older cousins have nicer cars and my other ones are too young. The car is a 1998 Chevrolet Lumina. It has just a little over 100, 000 miles on it and is in great condition because my Grandpa always took car of his vehicles and it was a garage kept car so the body is great, ten times better outside that my shitbox.

So my mom asks me one day if I would like to take the car seeing as mine is breaking down every couple months. However she texted me the question knowing that I interned ALL summer and knows that at the time I literally had $30 to my name and then told me it would be $2,000. I texted her back saying i have no money (obviously).  She then said that she buy it and that I would just slowly pay them back, which to me is a mystery in itself because idk where they are getting the money from...but at the same time it was my mom's dad's car and it has a lot of sentimental value to her. My grandma could also use the money from selling it otherwise i would have gotten it for free.

I already still owe my parents about $1000 still from my last car (and past repairs) and money i kept borrowing over the summer. My decision is I don't know if I really want to tag on another couple grand of debt for a car im not sure if want, but at the same time its an amazing deal and i know i could potentially get  lot of life out of that car and not worry about car payments when i get out of college. But it is a stereotypically "old person's car"

This car will also be a lot of help in the spring when I am driving to Terre Haute IN for my intership at WTHI, because that drive two or three times a week would surely kill my cavalier.

I think after writing this blog I have made a decision to take the offer cuz i prettymuch just wrote the pros and cons and the pros outway the cons by a long shot and im just gonna get the lumina.

- 1998 Crapalier Owner