To be so attached to my car?

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My car has broken down on he way home tonight. The garage are towing it and looking at it to tell me what's wrong, but it's not looking or sounding good.
I love that bloody car. I've had it 10 years from new and it was a bargain as it was ex-display so (at the time) it was a very high spec. It's just a standard make/model, not a flashy car, not fast, not big, but I've named it and loved it and had it serviced constantly and kept it clean.

I don't want a new car. I want my car. AIBU? Can I perhaps do a Lorelei Gilmore and buy a new engine and put it in my old car and keep it for another 10 years or will I look totally bonkers?

10 years is not much for a car to have a catastrophic breakdown. Are you sure it cannot be fixed?
For the record we have three cars, one is 7 years old, one is 10 and one is 29 years old!

Yanbu, I love my car(s) too. I say cars because I haven't been able to bear to part with my first one - I bought it new in 2003 and I love it, despite the fact it's now not very reliable and I had to buy a newer car to commute 4 hours a day in as my little old one kept breaking. I hate being so sentimental about it but that's me! Even my newer one - have had it 5 years now - I dread having to ever part with! I hope the garage manage to fix your lovely car!