Just bought my first car!!
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I am quite blessed in the wife department. She is quite frugal and actually helps me to stay in control. Very lucky guy i am. I will admit the Kids have cost quite a bit. But the house on my goodness the house. Also, I don't consider a person as being a thing so I really don't put value on that at least not monetarily. Perhaps emotionally.
To err is human to really elephant it up you need a computer
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Mine was a Lancia Beta HPE 2000. Three years old, and already melting away ... :sigh: Nice car when it was running, but a PITA to work on when it wasn't.
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1971 Plymouth Ruster Duster purchased in 1979 for US $100 ... I paid too much!
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Mmmm.... 1. Wife 2. Children 3. House 4. Boat 5. Car ;P
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welcome to the 2nd most expensive thing you will ever have. Hyundai builds reliable and SAFE vehicles. Not a bad choice for your first vehicle.
To err is human to really elephant it up you need a computer
3rd or 4th, I suspect. Wives can get very expensive (check out any divorcee), and kids cost an absolute fortune!
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I am quite blessed in the wife department. She is quite frugal and actually helps me to stay in control. Very lucky guy i am. I will admit the Kids have cost quite a bit. But the house on my goodness the house. Also, I don't consider a person as being a thing so I really don't put value on that at least not monetarily. Perhaps emotionally.
To err is human to really elephant it up you need a computer
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I wasn't exactly planning on buying any car until this morning since I'm still on my learner but fast forward a few hours and I have a Hyundai i30 in my parking. Not even sure if it's considered "perfect" for somebody's first car but who cares. It complements me and I'm just super excited to finally be part of the club :cool:
Congratulations, Mehreen! Drive it in good health! :rose: /ravi
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Ok, it would have made sense to click the joke icon. I don't care spending money for the family and that includes then finally also the house and the car and much more ...
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Mmmm.... 1. Wife 2. Children 3. House 4. Boat 5. Car ;P
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment "Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst "I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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1971 Plymouth Ruster Duster purchased in 1979 for US $100 ... I paid too much!
1977 Chevy Nova. Ten months later I totaled it and bought a 1978 Chevy Nova. Both New England rust buckets.
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1971 Plymouth Ruster Duster purchased in 1979 for US $100 ... I paid too much!
Craig Robbins wrote:
1971 Plymouth Duster
So weird that this is the exact "turd on wheels" I was referring to. My dad bought it from a neighbor for $300. When I eventually turned it in to get a new pickup truck they asked me how much I thought it was worth, I said 50 cents. They new I was not joking.
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I refuse to fish from a plane. :)
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment "Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst "I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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1971 Plymouth Ruster Duster purchased in 1979 for US $100 ... I paid too much!
My second was a Simca with a years MOT (UK safety test) which I bought for £10. And sold it back to the guy I bought it off of a year later when the MOT ran out for the same £10! Gawd, but that was a POS. Great for driving in London though, as nobody blocked it in as it was obvious that ramming their car out of the way wouldn't have added much to the existing dents, scratches, and broken bits ... :laugh:
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It's a hell of a lot better than my first car. My first car was a turd on wheels. Congrats!! :thumbsup:
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I wasn't exactly planning on buying any car until this morning since I'm still on my learner but fast forward a few hours and I have a Hyundai i30 in my parking. Not even sure if it's considered "perfect" for somebody's first car but who cares. It complements me and I'm just super excited to finally be part of the club :cool:
I took my first car - taken over from my mom, it was umpteeen years old - to the NAF (the Norwegian parallel to AAA in the US) workshop for the bi-annual safety test mandated by the EU. When I picked it up, the service man told me that he was truly impressed by the car: It was completely run down in every single aspect he had checked - and it was still running! If I spent money on removing all the rust, maybe the brakes would fail the following week. I could fix that, and next week the ages old battery might fail. And so on. So he told me that the best thing to do with that car was to take it behind the barn and shoot it.
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I wasn't exactly planning on buying any car until this morning since I'm still on my learner but fast forward a few hours and I have a Hyundai i30 in my parking. Not even sure if it's considered "perfect" for somebody's first car but who cares. It complements me and I'm just super excited to finally be part of the club :cool:
My dad gave me his car, a 1973 Ford Gran Torino station wagon. I could fit at least dozen people in there when going to the drive-in movie theater, it was $5 or $10 per car to get in. I had it while in college, at some point the radiator started leaking, thankfully it was during an almost record cold winter :laugh: and I could drive where I needed to go without the car overheating without a drop of antifreeze. Had to drive with the windows rolled down to keep the frost on the windows minimized. Towards the end of that winter the gas tank sprung a big leak... Got $25 from the auto wreckers, when they came and towed it away.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment "Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst "I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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I wasn't exactly planning on buying any car until this morning since I'm still on my learner but fast forward a few hours and I have a Hyundai i30 in my parking. Not even sure if it's considered "perfect" for somebody's first car but who cares. It complements me and I'm just super excited to finally be part of the club :cool:
Great, enjoy. The first anything is always memorable. Mine was 13 years old and that was a long, long, long, long time ago. Actually sold it for more than I paid ($75/$125). I am to the left of the pond so the car survived with the help of the Pep Boys. :)
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Nice, congrats! :D I don't much care for cars, but I make an exception for the Hyundai i10 (a friend of mine has one). That must be the ugliest car ever (well, save for the Fiat Multipla), but it's really good and dependable. Somehow, the way the i10 looks really triggers me (even more than the Multipla because the i10 looks like a regular car at first glance while the Multipla looks like a monster right away). The i20 and up look great though :thumbsup:
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Mine was a Lancia Beta HPE 2000. Three years old, and already melting away ... :sigh: Nice car when it was running, but a PITA to work on when it wasn't.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
1974 Audi 100LS - bought in 1980 for $1600 Normally aspirated 1.9L inline 4 cylinder (91hp) paired with a 3 speed automatic transmission. X| Crappy mileage, crappy ride, HORRIBLE performance. Fairly roomy backseat so it worked well as a "date" car in HS. Just sayin' ;)
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I refuse to fish from a plane. :)
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment "Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst "I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
