Tracking Down Your Old Car

It's been almost two years since I traded in my old car, and I frequently wonder where it is. I can't imagine what kind of person would ever want to buy that thing. I tried typing the VIN into Google, but I never get any search results. Anyways, one day I stumbled across this website that's completely focused on finding your old cars. As it turns out, this site isn't very useful. I look up my old car, and it said it was "last sighted" in my hometown. I'm assuming no one ever bought my car, and it ended up in a junk yard or something.

The whole point of posting this has nothing to do with my old car. At this point, I really couldn't care less about it. To further prove how useless this website is, I entered the VIN of my new car. This is the picture it gave me:

According to this, the previous owner of my car lived a few hundred miles of the coast of Nigeria. However, when I moused over the green dot, it said, "somewhere in Florida." I suppose this is a little more logical. Actually, I vaguely recall reading that the car was previously registered in Florida on the CarFax sheet I got from the dealer. I just thought I would share this. Please take a moment to admire the geographic accuracy of this map. 

If you want to find out where your old car is or where your current car was, you can try this website. It's called checkmyride.com. By the way, I blocked out my VIN and the name of the town where my car is currently registered because I don't want the internet to know where I live and what kind of car I have.  

Things I Thought Were Extinct 

Did you ever see a commercial for something and think, "I can't believe they still make those." Well here's a list of things I thought you couldn't buy anymore/companies that went out of business/organisms that were extinct: 

1. Mitsubishi Galant 

This car has looked exactly the same since the 2004 model year. It's shocking that you can buy a brand new car in 2013 that looks just like something from 2004.

One of these cars is a 2004, the other can be purchased brand new right now. Can you tell the difference? The grill is the only significant change. The headlights and everything else pretty much look the same. In case you're still wondering, the red one is almost ten years old, and the silver one is the current model.

2. Blockbuster Stores

I saw one not too long ago, so that dispels any myth that they're completely gone.

3. Kmart (aka Lame Mart or K-Fart)

I just saw a commercial for their new layaway program. 

4. Mavis Beacon Typing Program

I'm sure most people remember being forced to use this software at some point in their life. The rule was you have to play Mavis Beacon for 20 minutes before playing Oregon Trail. Anyways, you can still buy the software on Amazon.com.

I'm just curious as to why there are three different actresses portraying Mavis. What happens to them? 

5. The Coelacanth

I can't begin to tell you how relieved I was to hear that some scientists found one of these things swimming around Indonesia in the late 1990s. I thought they were gone forever.

According to Wikipedia, the Coelacanth cannot be eaten because its flesh exudes an oil that makes it taste foul. How would anyone ever know that if only one or two have been seen in the last hundred years? 

6. Pepsi Blue

This stuff actually is extinct. You'll never, ever have another taste of it in your life.