On 03/22/2010 04:20 PM, Stan Hardegree -> Ed Hulett wrote:
 SH>> My car has 180K miles on it. If I am careful about scheduled
 SH> maintenance,
 SH>> and I am, I should get a half million miles out the engine.

 EH>> My 55 Chevy (my first car) had roughly 300K miles on it and was on it's
 EH>> second engine. It had different color driver's door and trunk lid.

 SH> You still have your first car?? That is cool. And a great car it is - a
 SH> classic.

Sadly, I had to let it go. I wish I still had it.

 EH>> My current car (my 12th) is a 94 Dodge Intrepid and has 110K and the
 EH>> engine is still strong. I maintain it very well.

 SH> I have never counted up the cars I have owned. I just did. 10. In that
 SH> number are a 67 GTO, a 64 Corvette and a 77 442. I currently drive a BMW
 SH> 535i. I am now and have always been a car nut.

I've had just over a dozen. A good friend of mine has almost every car he
ever owned still, the number is currently just under 20 vehicles -- 2 57
Chevs (1 Belair Sport Sedan 1 150), 3 Cameros (2 67 and 1 68), several
Chevelles and El Caminos (64 and 65), a few other sundry vehicles here and
there and then his Cadilac crossover and his wife's Chevy pickup top it
off.

I have always been a car nut since I can remember. When I was a toddler, I
would sit in my peddle car to watch cartoons on TV.

 EH>> I have never owned a brand new vehicle. Several of my friends, being
 SH> car
 EH>> enthusiasts, own several cars from the 50s and 60s as well as newer
 EH>> cars, none of which are "junk" as Otto claims.

 SH> Cars from the 50 and 60s are classics now, some fetching big money. Late
 SH> 60s and early 70s MOPAR muscle are out of sight with Hemi Cudas and Road
 SH> Runners bringing in $100K or more. I was watching the Mecum auction
 SH> recently and a plain jane 70 Road Runner, OD green with bottle cap hub caps
 SH> and no frills interior, fetched a quarter million dollars.

I bought my 55 in 1967 before I even had a license. I paid a grand total of
$200 for it. The same car in the same condition today would bring in $5K to
$6. Every year, I watch the Barret Jackson auction on Speed TV and marvel
at how a car my father bought in 1969 - a Chevelle SS 396 - for $2700 now
brings bids rapidly nearing $100K.

BTW, I drove that Chevelle SS to get my license. I drove my dad's 1971
Camero Z28 on senior day in high school. Surprisingly, no one wanted to
race me that day.

 SH>> This summer, I will drop a bucket of money getting hail damage fixed
 SH> from
 SH>> two years ago. To lessen the bill, I have bought a hood and trunk
 SH> deck from
 SH>> a parts car (damn the luck, the parts car was a different color).

 EH>> Don't you hate when that happens?

 SH> Get this. Since I sent the original message this morning, I went to a local
 SH> body shop (a new place) and he said he would get the dents out and paint
 SH> the
 SH> car (color coats and a clear coat) for $1,000. That price includes some
 SH> trim damaged in the hail storm. "This summer" has been
moved up to "this
 SH> week" in case the place goes out of business before I can get there.

Not a bad deal at all.

Ed

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