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Welcome to the forum, Mike. Hopefully you'll find someone who wants to trade his plane for your car. I too have a roadster, a 2007 Miata, with a removable hard top. I also owned a 1980 C-152 from 2001 until 2017 when I had to give up flying.

A 200-nm trip is certainly doable in a 150 or 152, you can do it non-stop on a full tank in less than 3 hrs. You can also fly it to FL, although that will take longer. I flew my 152 from Topeka, KS to Pensacola, FL in 2012, and it took 2 days at a leisure pace. Going up to the mountains in the TX heat, having a 150/150 will definitely help.

It's interesting that most 152s have higher airframe time than 150s. When Cessna was still producing them, the flight school used to replace their 150s every 5 years or so. Once sold to private owners, they don't get flown as much and the airframe time accumulated at a much slower rate. On the other hand, after Cessna stopped making the 152s in 1985, the flight schools couldn't find a suitable replacement and hang on to their 152s for as long as they can. My 152 used to be owned by a local flight school and had a little over 10,000 hrs TTAF when I bought it. I put on another 1000 hrs by the time I sold it.

Don't let the high airframe time scare you. Planes used by flight schools have to be inspected every 100 hrs. A plane owned by a reputable flight school is pretty reliable because the school certainly doesn't want to be sued if a student crashed due to a poorly maintained plane.

Good luck with your hunt for an airplane.