Pretty cool to see a car you thought was done for still kicking two years later. Looks like they are getting good use out of it too...there appears to be four passengers. Maybe it found its way into the hands of someone with a spare trans or something.
My parents had a 1990 Taurus they bought new. It burned up the first trans around 1996, then the second one went in late 1997. My dad was done with it at that point. The car decided it wouldn't go any more not even one block from the Ford dealer, and got traded in on a 1998 Contour. I figured it was going to the junkyard as it was a Taurus with a bad trans and over 100K on it, but about 7 years later I saw it in a parking lot, not looking much different from when it was traded in. Ironically the parking lot it was in was next to the Ford dealer it had been traded in to 7 years earlier with a totally dead trans. I recognized the car because it came from a very small, rural dealer that didn't sell too many loaded red Tauruses, and it still had the original dealer badge on the trunk lid.