The end to the Subaru saga?

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I finally was able to call the Sacramento office of the California State office of Motor Vehicles. I planned to call last week but our phones were out. There was no land line service, and I didn't want to use up my minutes on my cell phone for calling about the remains of my car. Bill called about the land line and as mysteriously as it quit it started working again. That was Tuesday afternoon. It was too late to call and Wednesday I worked so it left yesterday to call about the car. I called the toll free number and the recorded voice on the other end told me it was a 45 minute wait to talk to a live human being but I could leave my phone number and not lose my place in line so I could continue with whatever I wanted to work on while I waited for them to call back...which I did. I went back to watching the Lone Ranger and working on bears. And 50 minutes later the phone rang and it was Motor Vehicles calling back. I actually was connected with a LIVE human being who was courteous and helpful!!! I explained the situation that my Subaru station wagon was sitting in four pieces in my contractors front yard waiting to go to the recycling yard and has been since April. His wife is a bit upset because it isn't exactly a pretty decoration for in the yard and it won't hold dirt to plant flowers in. It's a burned out framework of what was once a wonderful car. The woman checked the computer and explained to me that it had been declared as salvaged last October. And I told her that none of the salvage yards would take it without the paperwork-form 488. By that time I had her laughing like crazy with my off the wall comments. Especially about making the car an art piece in the contractor's front yard. She finally explained to me that all we needed to do is provide the recycling yard with the license number of the car and they could check their computer and find that the car was registered for salvage...I explained that there were no plates left on the car to which she answered that shouldn't matter since the car was so badly burned that there was no way that it could be used illegally for anything other than maybe a door stop on a really big door. So, hopefully the saga has ended and the Subaru can go to its final resting spot, to be recycled into another vehicle or cans or something like that. I miss the car as it was a great friend that ran its heart out for me. I hope to find another one like it one day so I can go on more adventures with it, and maybe even use it to do bear shows to sell my teddy bears. Here's hoping!