A Monday Pop Quiz: Does anybody know what is in this picture?

Well, it is a transmission (kudo's to you if you knew that!!!). Why do I have a picture of a transmission on my blog, you ask? Because we think Jim's transmission is dying in his truck. We were driving around on Saturday and he would press the gas, his engine would rev but we wouldn't move :0. It kept doing this the entire way home! What is with older cars breaking down? My mom and Courtney recently purchased new cars because their older cars were breaking down. Hopefully there will be good (and cheap) news once we finally get it to a mechanic. Jim can ride his bike to work so we have an alternative while we get the truck looked at. Wish us luck!

UPDATE!! Well the mechanic could not find any problems with the transmission. He said he drove it around and couldn't duplicate the problem. From what I have been told, the transmission isn't something you can just open up and look at and close. Once you open it you have to fix it or at least replace the parts that you opened. So I think we are going to trade in his truck and buy a new one. At least now his truck is working so we should get a fair trade in price.