{"id":312,"date":"2009-06-05T18:35:08","date_gmt":"2009-06-05T23:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/?p=312"},"modified":"2016-02-06T21:51:56","modified_gmt":"2016-02-07T02:51:56","slug":"kurts-new-car-pt-cruiser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/kurts-new-car-pt-cruiser\/","title":{"rendered":"Kurt&#8217;s New Car:  PT Cruiser"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been keeping my eyes open for a few months now looking to replace my work vehicle (an old Ranger pickup) with something that I could haul the whole family in &#8230; or at least myself and the boys.\u00a0 The Ranger still runs okay and still looks okay, but when school starts in the Fall I plan on taking both boys to school in the morning before I go to work and the Ranger only holds one driver and one passenger.<\/p>\n<p>I considered the extended cab small pickups for a while but I quickly realized that those little jump seats just aren&#8217;t very safe in crashes.\u00a0 So I started looking at small cars and mini-SUV style cars.\u00a0 I wasn&#8217;t looking specifically for a PT Cruiser, but this one popped up on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.craigslist.com\" target=\"_blank\">Craigslist <\/a>(free online classified ads) and the price was right so I bought it.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a 2005 base model dark blue Chrysler PT Cruiser 5 speed manual transmission with under 50,000 miles.\u00a0 It&#8217;s in really good shape and it&#8217;s a very nice looking car too!\u00a0 I&#8217;m very excited!\u00a0 <em>[Click the photo for a larger version.]<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/01-daddysnewcar.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-314\" title=\"01-daddysnewcar\" src=\"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/01-daddysnewcar-400x300.jpg\" alt=\"01-daddysnewcar\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/01-daddysnewcar-400x300.jpg 400w, http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/01-daddysnewcar-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/01-daddysnewcar.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Midlife crisis?\u00a0 Possibly.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Cool looking car?\u00a0 Definitely!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Cool looking, but also a very practical car?\u00a0 Absolutely!!!!!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">So, does anyone want to buy my old Ranger pickup truck?\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Kurt<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been keeping my eyes open for a few months now looking to replace my work vehicle (an old Ranger pickup) with something that I could haul the whole family in &#8230; or at least myself and the boys.\u00a0 The Ranger still runs okay and still looks okay, but when school starts in the Fall [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[107,112],"tags":[327,328],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2407,"href":"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312\/revisions\/2407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}