The car stays.

Thanks for the responses to my post about the car. I had some good responses here and elsewhere, and almost all said that the small cost of continued car ownership is probably worth it. Also, as my wife pointed out, if her car had to be in the shop for a week, that's a year's worth of "savings" from having only one car blow in a week.

So I will be keeping the car. Of course, if something happens to it that requires repairs, all bets are off and it will go to the salvage yard!