Honey, the kids donated the Mercedes!

Here's a photo the kids sitting in the car we donated. I used to take them riding in this car just to give them an excursion.

We bought the car new in 1983, and truly loved the car.  After about 10 years, I started looking for a replacement, then took an additional 15 years to find a car I wanted enough to replace my sentimental and reliable Mercedes.  Over the past 3-4 years we have lived in an area without a great Mercedes repair shop, so I began contemplating what to do with the car.  Restore, just keep, sell, or donate.  About a year ago, I migrated to donation and looked for potential organizations.  I did indeed find the Cocker Spaniel Rescue of Maryland group had a car donation plan.  Of course, the cocker spaniel evoked an emotion sufficient from me to consider parting with my venerated car.  Alas, I had no significant connection to Maryland.  I searched places where we have truly enjoyed living.   The car and 4 of our cockers were from our time in Austin.  When I did not see a ready way to donate the car to your effort (this was a year ago), I just shelved the project since I could not come up with an equally cherishable idea.  I was very pleased when this month I revisited this project, finding you had developed your website, adding a car donation option.

So your efforts were rather helpful to me.  We currently live in Iowa so your efforts also spanned some distance!

Take care, and best wishes

Susan