Gump was $120. I got 60k miles on her, spent $2k, drove 6 years. He'll of a lot better investment than some cars. Will get at least that much as scrap, and have sold enough parts off her to cover a few tanks of fuel.
Sent from my iPad On Aug 24, 2011, at 14:39, Curt Raymond <curtlud...@yahoo.com> wrote: > And because you can work on your own car and know how to judge a $1,000 car. > For value my $400 240D has been hard to beat. I figured when it finally died > I had about $2500 in it and I'd driven it 25,000 miles. I'm slowly getting > some of that investment back (didn't have to buy a new exhaust for the '78 > for instance and the scrap weight when it finally leaves) so it was quite > economical to have around. Looked like hell and required work every week but > quite economical. > > -Curt > > Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2011 13:11:11 -0500 > From: Fmiser <fmi...@gmail.com> > To: Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > Subject: Re: [MBZ] $1000 car > Message-ID: <20110824131111.f020d5c9.fmi...@gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII > >> Rolf wrote: > >> Ripped from benzworld : >> >> 1000 Dollar Car Lyrics >> The Bottle Rockets >> >> Thousand dollar car it ain't worth nothin' >> Thousand dollar car it ain't worth shit. >> Might as well take your $1000, >> and set fire to it. > > I find that <$1000 cars can be a real bargain - but only because > I don't mind driving a beater. > > -- Philip > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
