We’ve gotten our checks from State Farm and from Toyota (refunding the balance of our extended warranty), so I guess the story of the old Prius is officially over at this point.

We’re on the waitlist for a new Prius at six dealers so far (only one of which has actually charged our credit card for the deposit). The next batch of cars is due in this weekend — I’m hoping that one of the dealers will get the color/equipment combination we want, because I’m tired of driving rentals, not to mention paying for them!

The current rental, by the way, is a Chevy Classic — it is completely innocuous and personality-free. This puts it enormously far ahead of the Chevy Cavalier that I rented for the first part of this process, but I wouldn’t want to own one anyway. Sorry, Rick.

State Farm called yesterday to tell us how much they’d give us for the totalled Prius; the number was quite reasonable, but we’ll still be well short of the price of a new Prius. I was pleasantly surprised that they also will repay us for the unused registration and for the sales tax on the car (well, for the amount they cover) — I hadn’t thought of that at all.

So now we’re on the waitlist at three dealerships so far, and I should call some others over the weekend, on the extremely limited chance that there’ll be a blue BC available locally.