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Posted on: May 03, 2009, 10:32:29 pm
Posted by: caskur™
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simple I have a two year old car with a 1.6 engine. By technical reality it is going to be far more efficiant and less poluting than your 24 year old bomb. Most people may have had 5 or so cars in the time that you have had your one, but I can almost guarantee (go on do the arithmatic) that they have spent less overal less on thier cars than you maintaining one.
its no coincidence that countires like sinapour ban cars more than a cretsin age from thier roads
When you marry a handy man, everything gets maintained, hence, there are no costs. or rather minimal costs....no one can work on YOUR new car as it has to go to specialists....so you lose money there....no one really needs a car in Singa-poor do they? the average Joe Blow doesn't have one and the public transport system probably caters to the need....the fact is, I don't waste money on cars, like buying them and then sending them to repairs shops....when you buy a car as soon as you drive it out the door, it loses 5,000 dollars or so...5,000 dollars buys a **** load of petrol the way I use a car....I respect material possessions. .....My grandfather traded his two Mercedes Benz for it.....I inherited it AND MOST IMPORTANTLY, looked after it like it was gold..which over it's lifetime was worth its weight in gold to me. If I won 22 million in lotto tomorrow, I'll still drive my commodore until it dies on me and only then will I get a new car....probably two new cars...to me, a car is to get from point A to point B as safely as I can drive it.....you see, cars aren't my **** extension...they are a means to an end only....I make money in safe investments...clueless...I make it, I don't waste it showing off!!! |
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Posted on: May 03, 2009, 10:29:50 pm
Posted by: caskur™
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I use $40 a month petrol....I know how to drive it and how to make good use of the tracks I travel and organize shopping and bill paying and visiting accordingly! The truck runs on LPG gas...  I've had my 1981 Commodor station wagon since 1985....
I know how to keep a car looked after...
can others say the same?...I doubt it..
thats because you cant afford to upgrade to even a 5 year old car for under $10K I've had my 1981 Commodor station wagon since 1985....
I know how to keep a car looked after...
can others say the same?...I doubt it..
thats because you cant afford to upgrade to even a 5 year old car for under $10K No, because I put a red motor in it and have a husband who is a spray painter.... I inherited it off my grandfather when it was 4 yrs old.... any other personal questions you need to know about my life....bank balance, income tax statements....what type of dunny paper I like to use? hmmm? Sooner or later I am going to HAVE to get a new car....
it will run on LPG gas or be electric depending on how much I can afford when the time comes..
it won't be black though....it will be white.  Caskur, while a Prius is twice the price of a petrol equivalent (eg:- a Toyota Corolla), I can't see a big demand for them in 2015 or 2020
I am trying to look for a price...I want to know what I am dealing with.... what has put me off getting a new car is they are computerized and most of the people I know, work on old cars...which everyone knows are fairly easy to spot problems and then repair them...that is one problem,....the other problem is theft and public jealousy you've got a new car....hence, you're more likely to be vandalized and have your car keyed... I do NOT believe in advertising how much money you have with showy cars for those reasons...machanically, my car goes [for now] and costs virtually nothing to run....the 186 holden red motors cannot be bettered....they're one of the greatest motors known to mankind...lol...mine was put in from a Kingswood [ back in 1989 ish and bloody thing is still going strong]....replacing the crapy blue motor which came with the new commodors.... Anyway...I have to think about a new car like I have previously said....I don't plan on ever using public transport and having other people's lice jump on me...  |
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Posted on: March 27, 2009, 02:25:01 pm
Posted by: Outlawed
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WTF?
Nw I cant buy that.
I live in a Land Locked Country, so frm where do I get SEA WATER ? ? ?
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Posted on: March 25, 2009, 09:06:16 am
Posted by: Godfather
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WTF?
Nw I cant buy that.
I live in a Land Locked Country, so frm where do I get SEA WATER ? ? ?
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Posted on: March 24, 2009, 09:35:01 am
Posted by: Outlawed
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Anyone got a spare 5 million pounds?
Then you can drive a new GH car that runs on sea water.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgWTU54SJbs
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Posted on: March 04, 2009, 10:00:47 am
Posted by: caskur
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Yes, one of my favorite cartoons, The Jetsons.
GF makes a good point.
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Posted on: March 03, 2009, 06:16:54 pm
Posted by: bella
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Posted on: March 03, 2009, 12:50:10 pm
Posted by: Godfather
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Ppl dropping frm the sky.................................. After accidents.
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Posted on: March 03, 2009, 10:33:10 am
Posted by: Damion Hellstrom
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I'm really looking forward to when they come out with flying cars.
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Posted on: March 02, 2009, 01:07:43 pm
Posted by: caskur™
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Don't feel bad for giving your kids cars.
I've had 3 and I paid for none of them. I am delaying getting a 4th for the simple reason, I have 7,000 to go on the home and when that is paid for, I'll get the 4th car.
The point is, I looked after the 3 cars I was given with appreciation. My younger siblings have been given cars that they didn't look after and even the siblings that bought their own, wrecked them.
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Posted on: March 01, 2009, 04:48:33 pm
Posted by: arete
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Yah mine looked like hell but I didn't care, it was FREEDOM.
My best friend's dad bought her a vintage mustang that was burgundy
and BEAUTIFUL when she was 16 & she laughed her ass off at
my car when I drove up to school in that Plymouth Fury. LOL
My parents would never buy any of us a car, we had to work for it
and buy it ourselves or we didn't get one. I hated it then but I'm so
glad now. I wish I would have done the same thing for my kids but
it's so hard to not want to provide that for them. I remember working
my ass off and going to school to save enough money to buy that 500 dollar
car. Not only did we have to buy our own but we also had to buy our OWN
insurance policy. My parents would not put any of us kids on their insurance,
another steadfast rule of the household.
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Posted on: March 01, 2009, 01:24:21 pm
Posted by: caskur™
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I don't care what anyone says....your first car is your first love no matter what it looks like because it represents TRUE FREEEEEEEDOOOOOOMMMMM...
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Posted on: March 01, 2009, 01:16:05 pm
Posted by: bella
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my fist car was a plymouth horizon. i swear it had only one cylinder! how i got a tickkie for going 78mph in a 55 beats the hell out of me it had only an am radio w/ 1 speaker-that wouldn't do. whomever was seated in the front seat had to hold my BIG boom box  on their lap which was powered by the ciggie lighter. it was the boogie mobile
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Posted on: March 01, 2009, 09:03:28 am
Posted by: caskur™
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This is what the net says but there is actually more to it than this very brief explanation...
Adolf Hitler and Volkswagen
http://www.hitler.org/artifacts/volkswagen/and since the site is clearly marked "all rights reserved" I shall not post it up.....
Sitting at a restaurant table in Munich in the summer of 1932, Hitler designed the prototype for what would become the immensely successful Beetle design for Volkswagen (literally, the "car of the people"). In an era where only the most economic elite possessed cars, Hitler believed that all people should be able to own a car and additionally thought that a smart design could allow for reliability, enjoyment, and vacation travel. The name given to the car in 1938 was Kraft durch Freude (KdF-Wagen, literally "strength through joy car").
Hitler gave his design to the head of Daimler-Benz, Jakob Werlin, and stressed its importance. "Take it with you and speak with people who understand more about it than I do. But don't forget it. I want to hear from you soon, about the technical details." what they did say was that Hitler conned the workers in putting money towards the making of these cars and it was a fortune for the workers too......but when it came time to give the people cars they paid for, the army confiscated them and used them to get around in.
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Posted on: March 01, 2009, 08:54:34 am
Posted by: caskur™
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Do you know the history of beetles? We call them V-dubs. One of my puppy owners had a white one made into a convertable in 1990's....but do you know how they came to be?
I'll see if I can google it. I cannot be bothered typing it all out.
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Posted on: March 01, 2009, 02:32:36 am
Posted by: caskur
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My first car was a beetle.
Everyone drove them in the 70s.
I still wished I had one.
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Posted on: February 28, 2009, 08:23:37 pm
Posted by: caskur™
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I tried to post this last night but kept losing my internet connection. My apologies….”Confessions of a Hitch Hiker”…..good thing I remembered the authors surname…..”Reid”….anyway, GREAT read, and funny as hell.  |
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Posted on: February 28, 2009, 03:29:00 pm
Posted by: arete
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LMMFAO
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Posted on: February 28, 2009, 02:01:06 pm
Posted by: caskur™
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I used to hitch hike when I was 14 and 15.....at 14, I read a book called "Adventures of a Hitch Hiker, 5 times....loved the story....
I was lucky but it only takes 1 nut in two hundred good rides and you're history....I got picked up by taxi drivers, and once by a slow learners bus full of aging slow learner, men.....and I was dropped off at the beach in front of all my surfie friends...LOLEMBARRASSING... 
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Posted on: February 28, 2009, 01:56:02 pm
Posted by: arete
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Oh that is so cool. I picked up a hitchiker once.
My mother used to pick them up all the time but
they were mostly my brother's friends & people
she had seen around the neighborhood. You don't
see people hitchin rides like they used to back in
the 70's.
I've never hitchiked, that was fading out quickly by the
time I was approaching my teens.
I have a cousin that is my brother's age and she and her
girlfriend used to hitchike. They took a ride from a man
once & when they got in the car they realized things were
not right. They jumped out at some point and they were running
from him along the road, my cousin went into the woods while her
friend was running alongside, the man ran her over with his car
and killed her. My cousin said she tried to grab her but before she
could pull her into the woods further it was too late.
That was enough to scare me away from it.
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Posted on: February 28, 2009, 01:46:57 pm
Posted by: caskur™
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I was thinking of getting something like this for my next car...Retail Price: $18,990.00  site for bigger pictures...last 3 cars.
http://dvg.rtrk.com.au/?scid=11067&kw=32634:17346Its nice in burgundy. BUT…..not a good safety colour. I guess I’ll have to buy a white car….I’m a safety girl....this one is over 20,000.
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Posted on: February 28, 2009, 01:32:14 pm
Posted by: caskur™
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My first car my boyfriend Philip bought me...for 100 dollars without a motor [had a perfect body] in 1977 and he put a 50 dollar re-conned motor in it....I loved that car...an "Austin Lancer" 1959 model. I had it for 3, nearly 4 years....it had a crank feature so if the battery ran flat, I could crank it....no ****....I put it on the net before,...I found a picture of one on an Australian Stamp....my car was gun metal grey...not a two toned like this one. I thought I was hotshit driving this car everywhere....I took out the front seat passenger's side and Kane used to sleep there when he was a baby.....one long trip in it one time, saw me burning oil all over the place and I picked up a hitch hiker [top guy] and he looked after my car and me all the way to Dongara [5.5 hr drive north of Perth] until I got to my destiny....lol, I wouldn't pick a hitch hiker up now though....I liked it for the hood ornament... my second car was a Ford Cortina....and my last car was/is a Holden Commodore....your equivalent company is GMH, I think....Kurt's had two cars when we married, one was a V8 GT Ford Sedan and the other was a Ford Station Wagon....V8 also.
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Posted on: February 28, 2009, 12:25:32 pm
Posted by: caskur™
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My grandfather had two mercedes...when both were broken down at the same time on a long journey from the country, and there was all the rigmarole over towing it....he traded them in and bought a new Holden Commodore station wagon....then he died and I inherited it and I still have it....it was 4 yrs old when I got it.
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Posted on: February 28, 2009, 12:19:57 pm
Posted by: arete
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As long as it's comfy and smooth with good A/C & great heat, I'm good.
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This is my car history-----My very first car was a Plymouth Fury with
crushed velvet blue seats. LOL...I bought it from my sister's boyfriend
for 500 bucks when I turned 16. I sold that car to a friend at work for 500 bucks
and bought my parents Nova. I sold the Nova to another friend I worked with
& bought my best friend's chevy camaro (that was my favorite car of all time).
I traded my camaro in on a brand new T-bird (1987) but I bought it in the beginning
of 88---even though it was my first brand new car I still liked the camaro better. I traded
the t-bird in on a Isuzu Rodeo (new). I totalled the Rodeo & bought a chevy cavalier, gave
the chevy to my daughter when she turned 16 & bought a Nissan Armada which is
what I drive now. I've had it for 4 years & I love it. The kids can watch movies
on long trips & it's fully loaded with the back up cam & navigation system. Gas hog though.
We just bought a Nissan Versa too but no one really drives it yet. My son will be turning
15 in March & that's what he will be learning in & he will get that car when he turns 16.
My man drives an F-150 & my daughter just traded that cavalier in on a kia.
Oh & I also had a new motor cycle a few years ago ... it was a white honda shadow
& it was a blast. Nothing like that feeling of riding! I loved it.
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Posted on: February 28, 2009, 12:02:34 pm
Posted by: bella
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most likely the same one i am driving right now. i am a pretty low key type of person & well that's just me. i had some work done on my previous vehicle a while back & my bff lent me one of her cars. it was a bmw suv. it drove alright but had way WAAAY too many bells & whistles on the dashboard! i looked at it & her & said, "just tell me how to turn the tunes on!"
BUT.....& i mean big BUT! as some of you know i was in a bit of an accident a little over a month ago(first one in decades) & the car (freakin' truck) i hit from behind sustained little not no damage(one of the brackets on the tail lights was dented & a scratch on the tire cover) & my van was TOTALED-front end demolished practically to windshield.
said car was a mercedes truck & starts & $119,000(g55 amg)  & come to think of it-it was made of SUPER ALL steel & my dodge was made of plastic & cheap steel!
no, i did not get another dodge but i didn't have the cash on hand for the mercedes either. as i think about it, if i were to win the mega millions on tuesday(it's up to over $210 mil now, i'd swallow my pride for safety & get a mercedes.
not that BIG of a model though!
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