This guy has money
- Thread starter Neurorelay
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winnar.
Anyone can say what they want on a message board too.
PS: here are pictures of my two vipers...
http://mywebpages.comcast.net/acemcmac/viper_wall.jpg
One is euro and the other is american. :roll:
HamburgerBoy
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Seriously. What makes him so much more special than anyone else on the internet?
My McLaren F1 > your Vipers.
$5k to spend on computer hardware is hardly "money" in the sense that you're describing. Welcome to every middle class American's new flat screen TV. Or a 6th of thier new boat. Or some fraction of whatever other expensive toy they own.
Nothing like having money and being foolish enough to spend it on stuff that won't be worth much in a year. Computer stuff is the worst investment ever and a drug that keeps people like this always wasting money to keep up and stay on top.
Says the guy with 4 different cars in his sig. Cars are awesome investments, especialy "restomod" projects that you dump money into and still end up worth the same amount that you you paid for it when you're done.
You think? Restomod 66 Fastbacks are selling for $40K plus.....and when done and I will have less than $12K in it including the car. They keep going up in value too. I don't know any computer equipment that does that.
I didn't say most people could build them for that.....but I can. Depends on how you get your parts. I do lots of work for friends, stuff I enjoy doing as a hobby and would do anyway yet they "pay" me with parts. My entire drivetrain in this car was free including the brand new alumium heads (which I made a great deal on by buying a car for some of it's parts and selling it in pieces for more than I paid for it yet keeping the heads and whatnot). I have tonse of high dollar specialty parts I have accumulated through this bartering technique....and I am having fun helping friends I would help anyway.
This car when done would actually go for more than $40K anyway but I don't want to sell a one of a kind care with custom made one off parts, I want to enjoy it, but I could make a hefty profit on this one for sure.
So if I do $20k worth of work for someone, and he gives me a $20k car as compensation, did I just get a free car?
I say no, you apparently say yes.
Regardless, you said "I want to enjoy it" about the car - you're not trying to make money on it. Neither is the guy with the expensive computer. He bought it cause he enjoys it, not cause he can make money off of it.
I say no, you apparently say yes.
Regardless, you said "I want to enjoy it" about the car - you're not trying to make money on it. Neither is the guy with the expensive computer. He bought it cause he enjoys it, not cause he can make money off of it.
The difference is my cars will appreciate and the computer will not. They are going up all the time now. I could sell my fastback shell with no fancy parts at all and just provide a bunch of stock stuff for almost $10K now.....they have gotten insanely priced due to rarity. I paid $2K for it. And I could get the $10K with it being in pieces.
Yeah, some classic cars appreciate in value. Usually at about the rate of inflation. There are plenty of better investments than cars, even rare classic cars. They require maintenance, they're easy to steal or crash, etc.
I'm betting the reason you have the cars is more the fact that you enjoy the cars then the fact that they make good investments.
I'm betting the reason you have the cars is more the fact that you enjoy the cars then the fact that they make good investments.
Sure I enjoy them but the fact that they appreciate in value doesn't hurt. My Shelby is worth more than some people's houses. That is a much better investment than most of the things I know. One just like mine sold for $167K a month ago. It's paint job was not that great in my opinion. Less than a $5K investment into mine would make mine a better car. I bought the car 20 years ago for $10K. Seems like a damned good investment to me. It is irrelevant that it is a hobby because it is nice ot know that if I wanted to sell it I would be making a hefty profit for something I have also enjoyed for that long of a period.
Show me a computer part that can return that kind of investment....not just monetarily but give you pleasure for 20 years. Most computer stuff is outdated in 6 months. I like computers, don't get me wrong, but I never buy the latest or the greates because it is simply throwing money away so you can brag about haveing the fastest thing around....for 3 months, if that.
Originally posted by: dr150
His hard drive space is SMALL.
I guess he doesn't download pRon.
The kind of nudie stuff you get for free would take forever to fill up a huge hard drive and if you need that much you have other issues.
And if you had dropped that $10k into Microsoft stock 20 years ago, it'd be worth $600k today. Cars aren't the greatest investments. A lot of people might say that owning a bunch of old muscle cars is just a way to "brag about haveing the fastest thing around". Yeah, it's for more than three months, but the concept's really not all that different.
Yes, computer parts are worse investments than jsut about anything, but cars aren't exactly thew greatest investments either. People buy both because they get enjoyment out of them.
I don't see the problem with some guy buying stuff that won't return money when he's done with it. That's like saying that vacations are lousy investments. Sure, but that's not the point of a vacation.
Twenty years ago investing $10K into MS would have been a risk, the Shelby wasn't...hindsight is always 20/20. I always knew I would never loose money on the deal and would enjoy it the whole time I owned it. I never said classic cars were the greatest investment but ANYTHING is a better investment than computer parts, moneywise that is. None of my cars are the fastest around, or even that fast anyway. There is always someone faster and the investment to stay in that position is insane (kinda like a new computer, huh?). Nothing wrong with enjoying computers, I do, I just refuse to continually waste the kind of money it takes to be an early adopter.....I will put that money into things I know will give a greater all around return in both enjoyment and potential value appreciation.
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