Daren Todd
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I won't buy another vehicle unless it has heated seats, but I live where it's cold more than it's warm out. I can see them coming in handy in the south when it gets a blistering cold 65 deg out 
. My wife's car has them in the back seats too. In the summer I'll have the AC on and my wife will have her heated seat on because it's too cold .
My buddy has the AC leather seats in his F150 and they are nice when it's hot out.
. My wife's car has them in the back seats too. In the summer I'll have the AC on and my wife will have her heated seat on because it's too cold .My buddy has the AC leather seats in his F150 and they are nice when it's hot out.
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My wife's LHS has leather & heated seats, very nice on cold mornings, even out here. But heated seats in my F350 6.0L would be a waste; run the heater wide open in that bad boy & you can bake muffins in the cab.
Very nice Wrangler Unlimited. It's one of the few larger 4WD SUVs with a manual transmission option. Unfortunately, I find the interior rather cramped compared to my Ram 1500 crewcab - plus no diesel available.
I had a 2013 JK unlimited, 6 speed. It was a lot of fun but a change in jobs deemed it no longer practical. It wasn't comfortable enough for driving 40k+ miles per year. I traded it in 11 months after purchasing it brand new with 18k miles and I got everything I paid on it less $800 on trade. They hold their value so well that you almost can't go wrong.
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More on the used market that is shaping up to be a once in a lifetime event...
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-06-13/soaring-auto-loan-defaults-fitch-says-2015-may-be-worst-ever
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-06-13/soaring-auto-loan-defaults-fitch-says-2015-may-be-worst-ever
Daren Todd
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I'm a thinkin, that the price on one of them babies might be out of most of our price rangesGreat now find me a 1964 Plymouth Belvader2 door hard top with a 426 max wedge and 4 speed
Brother had a 62 Plymouth savoy with a 3 speed on the column and slant six for his first car. Would love to have gotten my hands on it. My first car was a 65 Belair, 2 speed auto, with a straight 6
70,000 original miles on it when I got it in 92. Should never have sold it First cars are always something that stays with us for ever, my first was 57 FORD FAIRLANE 2 DOOR HARD TOP, 292 3 speed,,, didnt take long to get a 390 and 4 way in it,, loved that car, the the 35 Plymouth coupe, another I wish I kept.
After the Nam a 70 Hemi Cuda, that some one figured they liked more than I did, the ins company gave me a real hassle over that one disappearing.
And then I got old, and had boring cars and truck ever since
After the Nam a 70 Hemi Cuda, that some one figured they liked more than I did, the ins company gave me a real hassle over that one disappearing.
And then I got old, and had boring cars and truck ever since
70 hemi cuda convertible went for $380,000 at auction a few years ago. That car belonged to a guy i met last year. Hes been following the car since he sold it 20 years ago. He has an amazing collection. He is to 60's mopars like wolfman is to kubotas.
Has done many beautiful restorations.
Has done many beautiful restorations.
Is he the guy that has a couple YOUTUBE videos on rebuilding a 440. I cant remember his name but I think he might be french just from the way he spoke. And yeah 6 weeks is not long enough to own a car like that,,, gawd I still would love to met that/those guys in a dark alley and explain that its not nice to steal something like that from a redneck who takes things like that very personal
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Saw a '66 Coronet 4-door hard top with bench seats and dog dish hub caps go for $600k at Barrett Jackson 10 or 12 years ago. Plain, plain, car. Don't believe it was a police or GM COPO-type car for MOPAR, just that's just how it was optioned.
Darn thing would have been re-purposed as a taxi 30 years ago, but it had a Hemi....and Hemi's were bringing huge $$ back then.
Daren Todd
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After 18 years, I managed to find a "new" used car for my wife. Only problem was, it was in another state.
Unlike smart people, like Daren, who actually drive a car before buying it, I could not find any car that met my pretty picky list of requirements. I basically wanted a two or three year-old car with no miles on it in mint shape. I have been searching within a 500 mile radius of Phoenix and nothing showed up. In desperation, I opened up the search to "unlimited miles" and a few popped up. After culling through those, what appeared to be the perfect car showed up in the very last page.
When I approached my wife about the car I found, she reacted like I was full-retard stupid. "NO WAY AM I BUYING A CAR FROM OUT OF STATE!" I offered to fly out and look at it. Then we realized that would no doubt take a few days, involving hotels and food as well as gas to drive it home. The complications seemed insurmountable.
Just to convince myself there was a problem with the car, I spent $40 on a CARFAX. I figured it would be easy to sleep after discovering the car had once been a submarine or a theft repossession, or an FBI seizure as a mobile crack lab. Nope. Car was clean as a CARFAX car can be. Now, I was out $40 and I still couldn't sleep.
A week later, I checked online to see if the car had sold and it was still there. I approached my normally sweet wife who had channeled a rabid raccoon when I brought up the idea only a week before. She was still pretty negative but, at least the flames stopped coming out of her ears.
The next day, I approached her again. She gave in and let me call the guy again to work out pricing. That took all of 3 minutes after which I asked him if he would be willing to take the car by the dealer for a pre-purchase inspection. He jumped at the offer and gave me the name of the service writer they always used.
To independently verify that this "service writer" wasn't his brother, I independently looked up the dealer online and called their direct number, asking for the service writer. The guy picked up and we talked about the owner and the car. He laughed and said the car always came in for service with white towels wrapped around the floormats.
Still laughing, he said he'd be glad to do the inspection but, he'd be stealing $170 from me because the car was in perfect shape. The owner was an oral surgeon (who we independently verified online) and she drove it 2.0 miles to work and 2.0 miles home five days a week. I told him an independent once-over would verify the VIN number and the fact that no kid had been doing lawn jobs in it recently. It passed the inspection as expected.
Now, I had to pony up some cash. I was going to send him earnest money but, after doing everything we wanted and more, I told him to send me his banking info and I would send him the full amount and immediately arrange for shipping. Actually, my wife had warmed up to the seller and it was her idea to consummate the deal and get the rig shipped ASAP. I think she was getting into this new car deal.
There is no real road map on how to do this independently. Some people use an escrow company but, that costs $$ and adds about a week to the process. I asked around and cash payments were common. My brother sold a race car a decade ago and I asked him how he did it. His answer: "The guy sent me $55,000 and I hauled the car from LA to the Oregon border where he met me at a truckstop. We rolled the car off my trailer and onto his trailer. Done." Except for the 28 hours of driving, I liked the plan.
One night while laying awake trying to figure out how to do this deal, I realized no matter how complicated I tried to make this, at one point, the seller would have a bunch of my money and the title and the car. That made me laugh. Buying car from out of state takes trust and thinking outside the box.
The money hit his account on Wed. On Friday, the Russian haulers backed their car hauler into his street and hauled the car away. Door to door shipping ran $970 and I couldn't have flown out and driven it back for that. The following Wednesday, the truck pulled up in front of my house and we had our "new" car.
It was better than I could have hoped for. The seller said it was "as new" and he was right. I found one teensy rock boo-boo on the roof and the lower rear bumper has a tiny tiny ding in the clear coat. That is it. And, the best part, its a 2015 with 5350 mi on it. It still smells like a new car inside.
And the best part, my wife LOVES the thing. She is so happy she let me change her mind.
The things we do for love.
Unlike smart people, like Daren, who actually drive a car before buying it, I could not find any car that met my pretty picky list of requirements. I basically wanted a two or three year-old car with no miles on it in mint shape. I have been searching within a 500 mile radius of Phoenix and nothing showed up. In desperation, I opened up the search to "unlimited miles" and a few popped up. After culling through those, what appeared to be the perfect car showed up in the very last page.
When I approached my wife about the car I found, she reacted like I was full-retard stupid. "NO WAY AM I BUYING A CAR FROM OUT OF STATE!" I offered to fly out and look at it. Then we realized that would no doubt take a few days, involving hotels and food as well as gas to drive it home. The complications seemed insurmountable.
Just to convince myself there was a problem with the car, I spent $40 on a CARFAX. I figured it would be easy to sleep after discovering the car had once been a submarine or a theft repossession, or an FBI seizure as a mobile crack lab. Nope. Car was clean as a CARFAX car can be. Now, I was out $40 and I still couldn't sleep.
A week later, I checked online to see if the car had sold and it was still there. I approached my normally sweet wife who had channeled a rabid raccoon when I brought up the idea only a week before. She was still pretty negative but, at least the flames stopped coming out of her ears.
The next day, I approached her again. She gave in and let me call the guy again to work out pricing. That took all of 3 minutes after which I asked him if he would be willing to take the car by the dealer for a pre-purchase inspection. He jumped at the offer and gave me the name of the service writer they always used.
To independently verify that this "service writer" wasn't his brother, I independently looked up the dealer online and called their direct number, asking for the service writer. The guy picked up and we talked about the owner and the car. He laughed and said the car always came in for service with white towels wrapped around the floormats.
Still laughing, he said he'd be glad to do the inspection but, he'd be stealing $170 from me because the car was in perfect shape. The owner was an oral surgeon (who we independently verified online) and she drove it 2.0 miles to work and 2.0 miles home five days a week. I told him an independent once-over would verify the VIN number and the fact that no kid had been doing lawn jobs in it recently. It passed the inspection as expected.
Now, I had to pony up some cash. I was going to send him earnest money but, after doing everything we wanted and more, I told him to send me his banking info and I would send him the full amount and immediately arrange for shipping. Actually, my wife had warmed up to the seller and it was her idea to consummate the deal and get the rig shipped ASAP. I think she was getting into this new car deal.
There is no real road map on how to do this independently. Some people use an escrow company but, that costs $$ and adds about a week to the process. I asked around and cash payments were common. My brother sold a race car a decade ago and I asked him how he did it. His answer: "The guy sent me $55,000 and I hauled the car from LA to the Oregon border where he met me at a truckstop. We rolled the car off my trailer and onto his trailer. Done." Except for the 28 hours of driving, I liked the plan.
One night while laying awake trying to figure out how to do this deal, I realized no matter how complicated I tried to make this, at one point, the seller would have a bunch of my money and the title and the car. That made me laugh. Buying car from out of state takes trust and thinking outside the box.
The money hit his account on Wed. On Friday, the Russian haulers backed their car hauler into his street and hauled the car away. Door to door shipping ran $970 and I couldn't have flown out and driven it back for that. The following Wednesday, the truck pulled up in front of my house and we had our "new" car.
It was better than I could have hoped for. The seller said it was "as new" and he was right. I found one teensy rock boo-boo on the roof and the lower rear bumper has a tiny tiny ding in the clear coat. That is it. And, the best part, its a 2015 with 5350 mi on it. It still smells like a new car inside.
And the best part, my wife LOVES the thing. She is so happy she let me change her mind.
The things we do for love.
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Daren - that's slick.
Just showed my wife your pictures. She remarked it's much more refined than the '79 CJ7 ragtop I had when we were dating! She remembered a time we went to dinner, temp was 15F or so, wind was HOWLING.
We sat next to the fireplace at the restaurant, because we were freezing!!
Everybody used to say the CJ heaters didn't work...fact is they worked great until 35 mph, then all the heat escaped out the soft top!
Just showed my wife your pictures. She remarked it's much more refined than the '79 CJ7 ragtop I had when we were dating! She remembered a time we went to dinner, temp was 15F or so, wind was HOWLING.
We sat next to the fireplace at the restaurant, because we were freezing!!
Everybody used to say the CJ heaters didn't work...fact is they worked great until 35 mph, then all the heat escaped out the soft top!
Skeets,, knew there was something about you I liked. '57 ford fairelane 500 was my first car also. Owned 3 of them before I was 20. Restored one after I got out of the Air Force.
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We're gonna order a soft top for it to use for 3 seasons. This way it's easy for my wife to drop the top when she wants. She threw her back out yesterday helping me put the hard top back on. Don't have the room in the garage or else I would order a lift for the top.
Come late fall, the hard top will go back on and the soft top will get stored till spring
I got mine from Michigan and the body wellll not much left of it,, I spent one whole summer scrounging parts,,, wish I still had the old gal, and several others but that was my first car,, then the 35, then the 70 hemi cuda, that I only owned for maybe all of 6 weeks, A bud has a 57 Fairlane 2 door hard top no posts with I think it was a H&M 460,, it was a beast