They found my car- about 3 miles from my house… It was wrecked, but not too bad. It was wrecked enough to deploy both front airbags, so it is considred to be totaled by my insurance company [i kept full coverage after i finisged paying it off- thank god].
I went to the salvage yard where the car was and took a look at my car; it was very dis-heartening to see someting that I had spent so much time in taking care of and keeping nice just treated like shit; the rear seats were all torn up- aparently someone trying to find if i had any stereo equipment in the back; there was cigarette ash and tobacco all over the car; the console and steering column were all torn up…
Sigh…
On the other hand, it may be a mixed blessing that everything happened as it did; there were a few problems with the car that I needed to have looked at and they may have been bad- A/C was intermittent, ABS light was on, transmission shifted kind of funny at 20-25mph, there was a slow oil leak- etc…
Maybe this will give me a chance to start over with a new vehicle [probably a Honda] with less chances of things about to go boom… and maybe have some new gizmos to play with… :o)