Back in the 70's I bought an MG Midget. It was new and I paid too much fir it, but it was a really cool car. It was fast, cornered like an expensive sports car and economical on the gas bill. It was the most fun I ever had driving.
Pax et Bonum, John A.E., n/OEF > -----Original Message----- > From: Steven Montgomery [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, November 08, 2003 1:05 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [ZION] Thrift! > > > At 11:30 AM 11/8/2003, you wrote: > >Steven Montgomery wrote: > >>Well, the other day I traded it for an almost brand new EZ3-Trike (A 21 > >>speed recumbent trike which can go faster than a mountain bike. My kids > >>can't ride a regular bike so we were looking for various types > of trikes > >>that they could ride) worth $750.00. Which means that after using the > >>pickup for more than eight years we sold it for only $50.00 > less than we > >>what we bought it for. How's that for thrift? Anyone else have similar > >>"thrift" stories to tell? > > > >In 1975 I bought a 1964 Oldsmobile Cutlass for a hundred dollars. Fours > >years and 40,000 miles later I sold it for 30 dollars to a junk > >man. During that 4 years I did all the work on it myself. The > only time > >I ever took it to a mechanic was for a smog inspection > certificate. --JWR > > Another time (Somewhere between 1992 and 1995) I bought a used > Datsun B-210 > (I don't remember the year) for $350.00. After driving it for five years, > with absolutely no maintenance on it except new tires and a new > battery, I > gave it away to a kid in the neighborhood. I figured that if the original > amount was spread out over those five years I spent less than $6.00 a > month. What's more, every year my taxes and insurance was much lower than > if I owned a new car. Unless one can really afford a new car I don't see > the benefit to owning one. > > > > -- > Steven Montgomery > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > "But where some say is the king of America? IŽll tell you Friend, > he reigns > above, and doth not make havoc of mankind like the royal brute of Great > Britain. Yet that we may not appear to be defective even in > earthly honors, > let a day be solemnly set apart for proclaiming the charter; let it be > brought forth placed on the divine law, the Word of God; let a crown be > placed thereon, by which the world may know, that so far as we approve of > monarchy, that in America the law is king. For as in absolute governments > the king is law, so in free countries the law ought to be King; and there > ought to be no other." (Thomas Paine, _Common Sense_) > > ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// > //////////// > /// ZION LIST CHARTER: Please read it at /// > /// http://www.zionsbest.com/charter.html /// > ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// > /////////// > > ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// /// ZION LIST CHARTER: Please read it at /// /// http://www.zionsbest.com/charter.html /// ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// --^---------------------------------------------------------------- This email was sent to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?aaP9AU.bWix1n.YXJjaGl2 Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] TOPICA - Start your own email discussion group. FREE! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/create/index2.html --^----------------------------------------------------------------
