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#24300 of 25623 Re: ultimate wallet suicide [Mr_Shiftright] by fintail

Apr 18, 2012 (6:53 pm)

Replying to: Mr_Shiftright (Apr 18, 2012 8:52 am)
After you're up to about a 25K total investment to get everything right, then you are gifted with a ~10 year old questionably maintained victorian gothic mansion on wheels, with early iDrive to keep everything going. Sounds good, no?

#24301 of 25623 Re: ultimate wallet suicide [fintail] by Mr_Shiftright HOST

Apr 18, 2012 (6:54 pm)

Replying to: fintail (Apr 18, 2012 6:53 pm)
To say nothing of a depreciation rate approximating an asteroid hitting the earth.

#24302 of 25623 Midget by stickguy

Apr 18, 2012 (8:11 pm)

assuming it really has had the needed work done, is this a decent price for one of these?
 
http://southjersey.craigslist.org/cto/2965697176.html

#24303 of 25623 Re: ultimate wallet suicide [stickguy] by lemko

Apr 19, 2012 (6:55 am)

Replying to: stickguy (Apr 17, 2012 7:54 pm)
YEESH!!! What reckless and self-destructive masochist would take on this one? Even the roundel on the hood looks messed-up. One's finances would be violently prison-raped after bringing this one up to spec! Pretty POISON!

#24304 of 25623 Re: ultimate wallet suicide [lemko] by andre1969

Apr 19, 2012 (7:25 am)

Replying to: lemko (Apr 19, 2012 6:55 am)
YEESH!!! What reckless and self-destructive masochist would take on this one? Even the roundel on the hood looks messed-up.
 
I can think of a use for that BMW. Remember the old "Football" variation on demolition derbies, where they'd have all the contestants divide up into teams, and then throw something small out in the middle, like a VW Beetle or Renault or whatever, to be the "football"?
 
Maybe they could do a variant on that, using old retired school buses as the "football players", and that BMW as the football!

#24305 of 25623 Re: Midget [stickguy] by qbrozen

Apr 19, 2012 (7:39 am)

Replying to: stickguy (Apr 18, 2012 8:11 pm)
show quality ones are like $9k... so if it needs no paint/bodywork/rustwork, probably an OK price. A questionable purchase nonetheless.

#24306 of 25623 Re: Midget [stickguy] by Mr_Shiftright HOST

Apr 19, 2012 (12:07 pm)

Replying to: stickguy (Apr 18, 2012 8:11 pm)
strong price but not unreasonable if it's really sharp top bottom and inside. Actually a fun little car and you can fix them by shopping at Home Depot's plumbing department (lliterally---they have manual shut-off valves for the heater that looks like a garden spigot).

#24307 of 25623 it makes no sense... by explorerx4

Apr 19, 2012 (6:34 pm)

but I have always wanted to get one of these
 
what the heck, they are only asking about 900 bucks more than this

#24308 of 25623 Re: it makes no sense... [explorerx4] by stickguy

Apr 19, 2012 (7:27 pm)

Replying to: explorerx4 (Apr 19, 2012 6:34 pm)
I kind of like that SVO too. If the mechanicals are good, doesn't seem like a bad price. Not like there are many good ones floating around.

#24309 of 25623 Re: it makes no sense... [explorerx4] by qbrozen

Apr 20, 2012 (6:37 am)

Replying to: explorerx4 (Apr 19, 2012 6:34 pm)
Oh, sure. I mean, its obvious by the condition underhood that the odometer hasn't rolled over at least once.

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