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[piece-itpete]

Weeeeeellllll John my luck hasn't been very good lately, but it was my own fault. I probably could've found a clean old Crown Vic (if any of them weren't c4c'd) but no, I had to get all fancy with the Town Car. Again though it was my fault, and here it is almost 3 years later and I'm still driving it.

A friend had a 91 Bonneville, it was a GREAT car. I'd drive the 6000 for sure.

I can see why some folks buy new cars and if you get lucky like Rob can be good to you. Heck my dad doesn't even change his own oil anymore.

That said if I had to pay 10-15-20k or more on a car I'd probably choke

The old Civics the 'kids' drive are amazing. Hey I complimented Mr Honda Seriously, they buy them looking ragged out with 300k miles and drive them forever, good on gas, fun to drive.

Pete

[bobabode]

Originally Posted by piece-itpete

Weeeeeellllll John my luck hasn't been very good lately, but it was my own fault. I probably could've found a clean old Crown Vic (if any of them weren't c4c'd) but no, I had to get all fancy with the Town Car. Again though it was my fault, and here it is almost 3 years later and I'm still driving it.

A friend had a 91 Bonneville, it was a GREAT car. I'd drive the 6000 for sure.

I can see why some folks buy new cars and if you get lucky like Rob can be good to you. Heck my dad doesn't even change his own oil anymore.

That said if I had to pay 10-15-20k or more on a car I'd probably choke

The old Civics the 'kids' drive are amazing. Hey I complimented Mr Honda Seriously, they buy them looking ragged out with 300k miles and drive them forever, good on gas, fun to drive.

Pete

Geez Louise! Weren't you out test driving a new Jaguar recently? Maybe you were just jerking some car salesman around? Do you smoke a pipe?

[icenine]

Originally Posted by piece-itpete

Weeeeeellllll John my luck hasn't been very good lately, but it was my own fault. I probably could've found a clean old Crown Vic (if any of them weren't c4c'd) but no, I had to get all fancy with the Town Car. Again though it was my fault, and here it is almost 3 years later and I'm still driving it.

A friend had a 91 Bonneville, it was a GREAT car. I'd drive the 6000 for sure.

I can see why some folks buy new cars and if you get lucky like Rob can be good to you. Heck my dad doesn't even change his own oil anymore.

That said if I had to pay 10-15-20k or more on a car I'd probably choke

The old Civics the 'kids' drive are amazing. Hey I complimented Mr Honda Seriously, they buy them looking ragged out with 300k miles and drive them forever, good on gas, fun to drive.

Pete

My Honda civic went to 289,000 and I most likely could have had it fixed when it broke down in 2009 but I got tired of dealing with it...
somecame to my house and bought it for $500 NOT Running....
so much for there being a used car at $1000 shortage...

my Honda CRV was bought off a used car lot no bargaining for $13k in 2006 with 70k on it...it is parked outside right now with 231,000 on it.

Pete any empirical evidence of car under 1000k shortage based on fact not you subjective experience?

[Boreas]

Originally Posted by piece-itpete

Weeeeeellllll John my luck hasn't been very good lately, but it was my own fault. I probably could've found a clean old Crown Vic (if any of them weren't c4c'd)

Pete, you either don't know or are choosing to ignore the fact that one of the objectives of Cash For Clunkers was to get gross polluters off the road. You know, $1,000 cars?

If these trade-in clunkers had been put back on the market they would have either continued to be gross polluters or, because of the repairs to them for emissions, etc., they wouldn't have been $1,000 cars any more.

A friend had a 91 Bonneville, it was a GREAT car. I'd drive the 6000 for sure.

The Pontiac 6000 was basically a Chevrolet Celebrity. That ain't no Bonneville!

John