car thread

[Conspicuously Absent]

Here we have the kind of vehicles that are valid candidates to be: "Icono-wagons"

 

[dorian gray]

sell your current car, use the money from what you get as a downpayment on a new MX5 ... and then the $10k you were ready to blow anyway is good for monthly loan payments for at least 2 years ...

btw, i already thought of that and it sounded so boring compared to driving a turbocharged monster. but in all honesty, i dont give a crap. i like talking about cars but theyre really a pain in the ass to own.

 

[dorian gray]

hahaha ive seriously considered buying an E-250 like the one in the third pic. i was gonna keep all my sports and biking shit in it. the wife said, "absolutely not"

 

[lurch70]

car ownership does not have to be an expensive hobby ...

 

[dorian gray]

hahaha? wha? isnt that contradictory?

 

[lurch70]

it's really all relative ...

for example, here in NY even though the transportation system is good ... I can still cover a lot more ground daily by driving. In my line of business, it is saving sometimes 2 hours a day not wasting time commuting on subways/buses ... 2 hours is lost money in time I could be spending working ... times 30 days ... that's 60 hours of work ... which alone more than pays for a great car every month.

i think weird

 

[dorian gray]

i see your point. i do that all the time. ill watch a crappy movie and think, "man, i coulda been at work making x amount of money" then i laugh and realize work is the last place id want to be....ever. for me, driving an average of 5000 miles a year, i would be much better off getting up early and walking the three miles to work and selling my car outright.

 

[lurch70]

oh no leisure time is leisure time ... i just hate wasting time going to and from clients .. when I could be doing other things .. .like working on getting more clients.

my off time ... well, i never second guess myself on that

 

[Conspicuously Absent]

I'm with lurch, I hate squandering time on transit.

 

[dorian gray]

haha, we have completely different careers. i uderstand where youre coming from though. id do the same thing.

 

[dorian gray]

I'm with lurch, I hate squandering time on transit.

eh? ive always admired your use of mass transit.

 

[Conspicuously Absent]

yeah, but I'd rather be in your boat and be close enough to work to walk/ride my bike. Spending 2 1/2 hours of my day sitting on a bus sucks, it also screws me out of a ton of about 3-3.5 hours of sleep a day (depending upon traffic). That much sleep would put me just below the 'minimum reccomended' for people my age.

 

[dorian gray]

i usually work only three miles away but sometimes i work up to 25-30 miles away. if im on call, i have to be ready to drive to a hospital 2 counties away if the need arises. unfortunately, with this job, i have to own a car.