If you are a car guy, you dream about finding stuff like this

http://blog.timesunion.com/classicca...nebraska/1823/

Included is a 1978 Corvette with 5 miles
A 1959 Chevy with 5 miles

On 8/16/2013 10:29 PM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:

If you are a car guy, you dream about finding stuff like this

http://blog.timesunion.com/classicca...nebraska/1823/

Included is a 1978 Corvette with 5 miles
A 1959 Chevy with 5 miles


A Chevy Vega station wagon with 17 miles on it. Yea! That's what I need. ^_^

TDD

I expect a big selling point with the 1959 Chevy is that it doesn't have seat belts, thereby helping it's owner to save money on seat belt fines for years and years to come.

The Daring Dufas wrote in
:

On 8/16/2013 10:29 PM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:

If you are a car guy, you dream about finding stuff like this

http://blog.timesunion.com/classicca...ction-to-be-au
ctioned-lambrecht-chevy-dealership-pierce-nebraska/1823/

Included is a 1978 Corvette with 5 miles
A 1959 Chevy with 5 miles


A Chevy Vega station wagon with 17 miles on it. Yea! That's what I
need. ^_^

TDD


17 miles? I didn't think they lasted that long.

On Sat, 17 Aug 2013 11:01:34 +0000 (UTC), Red Green
wrote:



A Chevy Vega station wagon with 17 miles on it. Yea! That's what I
need. ^_^

TDD


17 miles? I didn't think they lasted that long.

It had an aluminum block engine. My brother had one and he moved
across the country. I drove it from Philadelphia to San Diego over
about 4 days. It was never the same after that, sustained 75 mph.
Used a lot of oil and he sold it soon afterwards.

On Sat, 17 Aug 2013 08:09:34 -0400, Ed Pawlowski wrote:

On Sat, 17 Aug 2013 11:01:34 +0000 (UTC), Red Green
wrote:



A Chevy Vega station wagon with 17 miles on it. Yea! That's what I
need. ^_^

TDD


17 miles? I didn't think they lasted that long.

It had an aluminum block engine. My brother had one and he moved
across the country. I drove it from Philadelphia to San Diego over
about 4 days. It was never the same after that, sustained 75 mph.
Used a lot of oil and he sold it soon afterwards.
And a few actually hit 100,000 miles. Just do not EVER overheat one.

On 8/17/2013 7:09 AM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
On Sat, 17 Aug 2013 11:01:34 +0000 (UTC), Red Green
wrote:



A Chevy Vega station wagon with 17 miles on it. Yea! That's what I
need. ^_^

TDD


17 miles? I didn't think they lasted that long.

It had an aluminum block engine. My brother had one and he moved
across the country. I drove it from Philadelphia to San Diego over
about 4 days. It was never the same after that, sustained 75 mph.
Used a lot of oil and he sold it soon afterwards.


I believe Chevy later came out with a warranty kit to install steel
cylinder liners as the only way to fix those engines or some aftermarket
manufacturer did it. I just remember that it was an experiment by GM to
have an aluminum block engine with pistons in an aluminum bore without
steel liners. It had to do with a high silicon content aluminum and the
cylinder bores etched to expose the silicon
for the piston rings to slide up and down on. Then there was "The Iron
Duke" 4 cylinder engine which was basically the same engine but made of
traditional castings and it was a very good engine. This is all from my
memory but I think I got it right or very close to what happened. ^_^

TDD

On 8/16/13 10:29 PM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:

If you are a car guy, you dream about finding stuff like this

http://blog.timesunion.com/classicca...nebraska/1823/

Included is a 1978 Corvette with 5 miles
A 1959 Chevy with 5 miles


Over $27 million for this car: http://tinyurl.com/lsmhlm5

I wish I would've known about this auction. My gallon jug of change
is almost full.

On 8/18/2013 8:58 PM, Dean Hoffman wrote:
On 8/16/13 10:29 PM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:

If you are a car guy, you dream about finding stuff like this

http://blog.timesunion.com/classicca...nebraska/1823/


Included is a 1978 Corvette with 5 miles
A 1959 Chevy with 5 miles


Over $27 million for this car: http://tinyurl.com/lsmhlm5

I wish I would've known about this auction. My gallon jug of change
is almost full.

Most of us cannot comprehend having that much to spend on a toy let
alone actually doing it.

On 8/18/13 8:43 PM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
On 8/18/2013 8:58 PM, Dean Hoffman wrote:
On 8/16/13 10:29 PM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:

If you are a car guy, you dream about finding stuff like this

http://blog.timesunion.com/classicca...nebraska/1823/


y
Included is a 1978 Corvette with 5 miles
A 1959 Chevy with 5 miles


Over $27 million for this car: http://tinyurl.com/lsmhlm5

I wish I would've known about this auction. My gallon jug of change
is almost full.

Most of us cannot comprehend having that much to spend on a toy let
alone actually doing it.

I don't understand a lot of people's reasoning about money. I
was in a motorcycle shop one day and overheard a couple talking to a
salesman. They were talking about financing one. Huh?
Motorcycles in Nebraska a a luxury. One won't come out ahead using
one as a commuter vs. a car. I understand borrowing for a house or to
make major improvements to one's property. But borrowing money for a
toy makes no sense to me.

On Mon, 19 Aug 2013 21:09:08 -0500, Dean Hoffman
" wrote:

On 8/18/13 8:43 PM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
On 8/18/2013 8:58 PM, Dean Hoffman wrote:
On 8/16/13 10:29 PM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:

If you are a car guy, you dream about finding stuff like this

http://blog.timesunion.com/classicca...nebraska/1823/


y
Included is a 1978 Corvette with 5 miles
A 1959 Chevy with 5 miles


Over $27 million for this car: http://tinyurl.com/lsmhlm5

I wish I would've known about this auction. My gallon jug of change
is almost full.

Most of us cannot comprehend having that much to spend on a toy let
alone actually doing it.

I don't understand a lot of people's reasoning about money. I
was in a motorcycle shop one day and overheard a couple talking to a
salesman. They were talking about financing one. Huh?
Motorcycles in Nebraska a a luxury. One won't come out ahead using
one as a commuter vs. a car. I understand borrowing for a house or to
make major improvements to one's property. But borrowing money for a
toy makes no sense to me.

I don;'t get it either. In my whole life I have borrowed money once
for a used car, borrowed to go to college, and borrowed to buy my
house. Everything else, cash or go without.

On Mon, 19 Aug 2013 22:39:29 -0700, Ashton Crusher
wrote in Re OT car
auction:

I don't understand a lot of people's reasoning about money. I
was in a motorcycle shop one day and overheard a couple talking to a
salesman. They were talking about financing one. Huh?
Motorcycles in Nebraska a a luxury. One won't come out ahead using
one as a commuter vs. a car. I understand borrowing for a house or to
make major improvements to one's property. But borrowing money for a
toy makes no sense to me.

I don;'t get it either. In my whole life I have borrowed money once
for a used car, borrowed to go to college, and borrowed to buy my
house. Everything else, cash or go without.

Look at advertising. It's about addicting people to become
materialistic consumers in order to enrich the owners of the
production chain and (incidentally) keep employment up. IOW, it's
about making and keeping people wage-slaves.
--
Web based forums are like subscribing to 10 different newspapers
and having to visit 10 different news stands to pickup each one.
Email list-server groups and USENET are like having all of those
newspapers delivered to your door every morning.

On Mon, 19 Aug 2013 22:39:29 -0700, Ashton Crusher
wrote:

I don;'t get it either. In my whole life I have borrowed money once
for a used car, borrowed to go to college, and borrowed to buy my
house. Everything else, cash or go without.

I had too borrow monney to buy a box of condums las week cuz my whore
wood not do sex without proteckshun. i borrowd 50 dollas and buy big box
a condums. Aftar we got drunk we ****t all nite an used up hole box of
um.

On 8/19/2013 10:09 PM, Dean Hoffman wrote:

I don't understand a lot of people's reasoning about money. I
was in a motorcycle shop one day and overheard a couple talking to a
salesman. They were talking about financing one. Huh?
Motorcycles in Nebraska a a luxury. One won't come out ahead using
one as a commuter vs. a car. I understand borrowing for a house or to
make major improvements to one's property. But borrowing money for a
toy makes no sense to me.


Seems that our economy is dependent on such things. I wonder how many
people either have or can even save up enough to make a purchase like
that. If you had to pay cash, sales would plummet. Hopefully, with a
tangible asset they can at least stay ahead of the depreciation.

How about the people that take a home equity loan so they can take a
fancy vacation? A woman at work wanted to take cash out of her 401k to
buy a big screen TV. I guess that is more important than retiring some
day.

Few people have any money management ability it seems. A conversation
came up at work recently. My shipper just bought a house and he is
going to need a new car soon. After closing on the house, he said he has
$4000 to put down. We have 20 employees. Of the 20, only four of us
have that much money in the bank. Everyone has it in the 401k that they
cannot touch, but for savings, some have less than $100.

Ed Pawlowski wrote:
On 8/19/2013 10:09 PM, Dean Hoffman wrote:

I don't understand a lot of people's reasoning about money. I
was in a motorcycle shop one day and overheard a couple talking to a
salesman. They were talking about financing one. Huh?
Motorcycles in Nebraska a a luxury. One won't come out ahead using
one as a commuter vs. a car. I understand borrowing for a house or to
make major improvements to one's property. But borrowing money for a
toy makes no sense to me.


Seems that our economy is dependent on such things. I wonder how many
people either have or can even save up enough to make a purchase like
that. If you had to pay cash, sales would plummet. Hopefully, with a
tangible asset they can at least stay ahead of the depreciation.

How about the people that take a home equity loan so they can take a
fancy vacation? A woman at work wanted to take cash out of her 401k
to buy a big screen TV. I guess that is more important than retiring
some day.
I blame the increasing cost of cars on credit. I guess to many
purchasers, $29,000 doesn't seem that much more unrealistic than $21,000.


Few people have any money management ability it seems. A conversation
came up at work recently. My shipper just bought a house and he is
going to need a new car soon. After closing on the house, he said he
has $4000 to put down. We have 20 employees. Of the 20, only four of
us have that much money in the bank. Everyone has it in the 401k that
they cannot touch, but for savings, some have less than $100.

On 8/19/2013 7:09 PM, Dean Hoffman wrote:
On 8/18/13 8:43 PM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
On 8/18/2013 8:58 PM, Dean Hoffman wrote:
On 8/16/13 10:29 PM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:

If you are a car guy, you dream about finding stuff like this

http://blog.timesunion.com/classicca...nebraska/1823/



y
Included is a 1978 Corvette with 5 miles
A 1959 Chevy with 5 miles


Over $27 million for this car: http://tinyurl.com/lsmhlm5

I wish I would've known about this auction. My gallon jug of change
is almost full.

Most of us cannot comprehend having that much to spend on a toy let
alone actually doing it.

I don't understand a lot of people's reasoning about money. I
was in a motorcycle shop one day and overheard a couple talking to a
salesman. They were talking about financing one. Huh?
Motorcycles in Nebraska a a luxury. One won't come out ahead using
one as a commuter vs. a car. I understand borrowing for a house or to
make major improvements to one's property. But borrowing money for a
toy makes no sense to me.

instant gratification as opposed to delayed gratification

chaniarts wrote:
On 8/19/2013 7:09 PM, Dean Hoffman wrote:
On 8/18/13 8:43 PM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
On 8/18/2013 8:58 PM, Dean Hoffman wrote:
On 8/16/13 10:29 PM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:

If you are a car guy, you dream about finding stuff like this

http://blog.timesunion.com/classicca...nebraska/1823/




y
Included is a 1978 Corvette with 5 miles
A 1959 Chevy with 5 miles


Over $27 million for this car: http://tinyurl.com/lsmhlm5

I wish I would've known about this auction. My gallon jug of
change
is almost full.

Most of us cannot comprehend having that much to spend on a toy let
alone actually doing it.

I don't understand a lot of people's reasoning about money. I
was in a motorcycle shop one day and overheard a couple talking to a
salesman. They were talking about financing one. Huh?
Motorcycles in Nebraska a a luxury. One won't come out ahead using
one as a commuter vs. a car. I understand borrowing for a house or to
make major improvements to one's property. But borrowing money for a
toy makes no sense to me.

instant gratification as opposed to delayed gratification

Probably lots of people die with money in the bank and are/were none the
less happier because of it. In
fact, I think they were probably happier because of it.

On 8/18/13 8:43 PM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
On 8/18/2013 8:58 PM, Dean Hoffman wrote:
On 8/16/13 10:29 PM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:

If you are a car guy, you dream about finding stuff like this

http://blog.timesunion.com/classicca...nebraska/1823/



Included is a 1978 Corvette with 5 miles
A 1959 Chevy with 5 miles


Over $27 million for this car: http://tinyurl.com/lsmhlm5

I wish I would've known about this auction. My gallon jug of change
is almost full.

Most of us cannot comprehend having that much to spend on a toy let
alone actually doing it.

The owner probably didn't either when he was a ten year old in an
orphanage. Story he http://tinyurl.com/k3ksroe
(PJ Media, Lifestyle section)

On 8/22/2013 8:56 PM, Dean Hoffman wrote:
On 8/18/13 8:43 PM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
On 8/18/2013 8:58 PM, Dean Hoffman wrote:
On 8/16/13 10:29 PM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:

If you are a car guy, you dream about finding stuff like this

http://blog.timesunion.com/classicca...nebraska/1823/




Included is a 1978 Corvette with 5 miles
A 1959 Chevy with 5 miles


Over $27 million for this car: http://tinyurl.com/lsmhlm5

I wish I would've known about this auction. My gallon jug of change
is almost full.

Most of us cannot comprehend having that much to spend on a toy let
alone actually doing it.

The owner probably didn't either when he was a ten year old in an
orphanage. Story he http://tinyurl.com/k3ksroe
(PJ Media, Lifestyle section)


What an amazing guy Mr. Smith was. I've found through life that the
people who are truly altruistic and charitable are often those who grew
up with nothing. Eddie Smith taught his children how to give back to a
world that's been good to them and has left a wonderful legacy. Gosh,
the country needs more people like Eddie Smith. ^_^

TDD

On 8/23/2013 5:58 AM, The Daring Dufas wrote:

What an amazing guy Mr. Smith was. I've found through life that the
people who are truly altruistic and charitable are often those who grew
up with nothing. Eddie Smith taught his children how to give back to a
world that's been good to them and has left a wonderful legacy. Gosh,
the country needs more people like Eddie Smith. ^_^

TDD


The middle and lower classes seem to despise the wealthier portion of
society. While there may be good reason in some cases, Eddie Smith is
to be admired. Everything he has, he earned. He uses what he earned to
help others. Wish I could have met him.

On 8/23/13 4:58 AM, The Daring Dufas wrote:
On 8/22/2013 8:56 PM, Dean Hoffman wrote:
On 8/18/13 8:43 PM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:


Most of us cannot comprehend having that much to spend on a toy let
alone actually doing it.

The owner probably didn't either when he was a ten year old in an
orphanage. Story he http://tinyurl.com/k3ksroe
(PJ Media, Lifestyle section)


What an amazing guy Mr. Smith was. I've found through life that the
people who are truly altruistic and charitable are often those who grew
up with nothing. Eddie Smith taught his children how to give back to a
world that's been good to them and has left a wonderful legacy. Gosh,
the country needs more people like Eddie Smith. ^_^

TDD


There is a Dr. Ben Carson who also puts us mere mortals to shame.
His mom is quite a lady. She had only something like a 3rd grade
education yet made Ben and his brother write book reports for her.
She could barely read them.
Dr. Carson is/was a hot shot surgeon. His brother is/was a manager
at Honeywell. Dr. Carson gave a speech at the National Prayer
Breakfast. http://tinyurl.com/mfzcksl
(Youtube about 28 minutes.)

On Thu, 22 Aug 2013 20:56:30 -0500, Dean Hoffman
" wrote:

On 8/18/13 8:43 PM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
On 8/18/2013 8:58 PM, Dean Hoffman wrote:
On 8/16/13 10:29 PM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:

If you are a car guy, you dream about finding stuff like this

http://blog.timesunion.com/classicca...nebraska/1823/



Included is a 1978 Corvette with 5 miles
A 1959 Chevy with 5 miles


Over $27 million for this car: http://tinyurl.com/lsmhlm5

I wish I would've known about this auction. My gallon jug of change
is almost full.

Most of us cannot comprehend having that much to spend on a toy let
alone actually doing it.

The owner probably didn't either when he was a ten year old in an
orphanage. Story he http://tinyurl.com/k3ksroe
(PJ Media, Lifestyle section)

Wow, a great story. I admire people like that.