Nothing to brag about.....

I bought my dream truck in 2010... I said I would ride it till the wheels feel off.... they have not.. yet.

Still a good running, good looking truck. My wife tried to get me one of those Roush 4x4's a few years ago. Hell no... the best thing about my truck is that it's paid for!

And.. while it's pretty... I have taken it hunting,use on the farm, hell... a bull serviced a cow by pinning her against the side of it one time back in 2013...

Took her through the creek the other day... no problems.... now why would I want to spend the equivalent of a daughters Bachelor's degree on a new one....

Im like 5 or 6 payments shy of paying off my jeep. Cannot wait. Jeep Life doesn't end after 4-5 years to be traded in for some damn minivan, Jeep Life STARTS when the bank doesn't own it anymore, ha. Cant wait to off road and not have to worry about denting the door, using it at the range to practice vehicle-born engagement drills....ahhhh.
 
Meh, dont kill yourself over it. Its not like your buying short-lived disposable items of little intrinsic value for the kids--much unlike my wife (handbags and such)--but life experiences she will be fond of and talk about for decades.

I can't wait to get a mountain or remote property here to start building that 'retreat' my kids can inherit one day and grow up having. Some of the best memories I had as a childhood were going up to my friends family weekend house in the Poconos of PA. Snowboarding, fires, shooting guns, mountain saloon style burger bars, music on the freezing snow covered porch, getting drunk off his dads liquor while they were passed out....Honestly it was some of the best times of my life (and probably fueled my mountain fetish). The point is, you are not just buying some disposable Paw Patrol figurine, you're buying your kids lasting memories. Ya sound like a great dad mate.

You sound if you may be qualified for a free West Jefferson fire pit weekend. We will need to discuss this. :D
 
You sound if you may be qualified for a free West Jefferson fire pit weekend. We will need to discuss this. :D

Fire pit weekend is free...I assume the catch is you charge $100/hr to pimp out your CZs in the 'Champagne Lodge'? lol. Count me in.
 
Fire pit weekend is free...I assume the catch is you charge $100/hr to pimp out your CZs in the 'Champagne Lodge'? lol. Count me in.

No. I make guests run the chainsaw or haul wood to the fire pit. People older, fatter or more pathetic than me typically get invited exactly once. :p
Unless they are old or family. Then rules are flexible.
 
Somewhere there's a salesman that saw him coming. I have a buddy that drives too much truck, and just when it seems he's getting ahead, here he comes with another new one. "It's a $60,000 truck but they took $10,000 off!". Meanwhile, he's 55 years old and probably has a net worth of nothing. A sales manager at Hendrick Toyota in Apex told me that 80% of his customers got up that morning not knowing they would be driving a new car home that afternoon. I cannot imagine making such a major purchase with so little forethought.
 
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No. I make guests run the chainsaw or haul wood to the fire pit. People older, fatter or more pathetic than me typically get invited exactly once. :p
Unless they are old or family. Then rules are flexible.

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Not crazy figures if it was a 4 door diesel 4wd f250, bet you would be very lucky to find a brand new one in for 50-55k and more likely to be in the 60k range. Diesel is a hefty adder price wise. Crazy yes for a truck but the new tahoes and suburbans are just as bad that people are running around in. Its really crazy to finace rims for one.
 
What happened to throwing a piece of sheet metal on your truck floorboard because it's rusted out?
I just want a CHEAP piece of junk truck that I can use to take garbage bags to the local dump and bring a stack of 2x4 from home depot.
 
Trucks are outrageously expensive. I bought my '07 Nissan Frontier new & love it. Crew cab, 6 spd manual. Goes like stink & runs & drives like new with 115K on the clock. But I screwed up & bought a 2wd, never realizing I'd end up actually needing 4wd one day.

I'm seriously thinking about a new truck this summer & looking at maybe a new F-150. A "super cab" 4x4 XL with V8 with FX4 & towing package stickers for $42K, while the same as a crew cab XLT hits $48K. What's a fair-ish street price?

I'd love a full size truck again, but woof. A Toyota Tacoma TRD-Offroad crew cab stickers at almost $39K & quoted $35.5K from a semi local dealer & includes a ton of tech not even available on the Ford & is decked out to a "XLT+" type trim level. Unless Ford is steeply discounting the F-150s, it just doesn't make sense.
 
When was the last time you checked? As of last summer, wholesale was at the top of that. But to be viable we needed 4x4 and crew cab. Thatā€™s where the wholesale sky rocketed. Dealers are having a hard time moving standard cabs.


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While it lasts, 2019 brand new on the lot for $32,900. I wish my wife's Tahoe was paid off, I might buy this one. 0% financing available.

https://www.dukeauto.com/VehicleDet...rd_Box_4_Wheel_Drive_WT-Suffolk-VA/3538134813

Or get it in red!

https://www.dukeauto.com/VehicleDet...ox_4_Wheel_Drive_Custom-Suffolk-VA/3553920383
 
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What people spend on their own belongings rarely concerns me. Personally, that much for a vehicle is silly unless it is required for his vocation in some way. But again, his money, his choices.

When I worked for Ralph Lauren years ago we sold an alligator skin portfolio...all this thing did was hold a standard notepad. It cost $10,000. I sat near the specialty products guy and asked him how many of those we move and he responded that they sold quite a few of them. There are a lot of millionaires out there who make 100-200K per month, and to them dropping 10k on an accessory isn't really a big deal, and in fact expected in certain circles as a status symbol. No different than one of us spending more money on a custom holster rather than grabbing one off the shelf.

So, yeah, Ill sit back and say "that's a stupid amount of money to spend on a vehicle", there are probably some who think its stupid to own more than 1 caliber of firearm or have more than 1 home defense firearm.
 
Not crazy figures if it was a 4 door diesel 4wd f250, bet you would be very lucky to find a brand new one in for 50-55k

I just priced a gas F-250 on Ford's website for $44K MSRP. I am enjoying truck shopping.


Diesel is a hefty adder price wise


In the HD trucks it's around $10K. For the mileage improvement to pay for the difference you need to drive 600K miles*.


I just want a CHEAP piece of junk truck

They made tons of those in the '90s. But the Cash For Clunkers program crushed them all up.




*Based on 15 MPG gasoline and 19 MPG diesel
 
60,000 truck on a 60 month could easily be $850 a month.

More than that, the cheapest it could possibly be would be $1K a month if you had 0%. Would just go up from there depending on what kind of rate you could qualify for.
 
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If you're making monthly payments on rims, you're spending WAY too much on your vehicle.

On a side note...I just put tires on the kids' 2007 Edge. Our youngest daughter ran over something that punched a decent hole in one tire and my FIL plugged it. I had been wanting to wait a bit later in the year before getting tires for the vehicle, but with this and the amount of tread left the last time I looked, I was thinking paycheck after next.

Went out and checked the tires...and the tread was a bit less than I expected. Gritted my teeth, pulled out the Firestone card, and told our youngest "let's go get you some new tires".

On the way there, my wife calls me.


WIFE: Where did you guys go?

ME: We're headed to Firestone to get tires for the Edge.

WIFE: I thought you were going to wait until paycheck after the next?

ME: That's what I thought, until I checked the tires and discovered how much thread they don't have.

WIFE: Oh, so now you're an expert on tires?

ME: *triggered* (Hangs up phone.)

*Phone rings*

ME: Hello.

WIFE: What did you hang up the phone for?

ME: Are you done calling me stupid?

WIFE: I didn't call you stupid!

ME: You're about to get hung up on again.


I love my wife...but she sure has a way of getting under my skin at times.

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Haha - I just looked on Ford's website and the "starting price" for different F250 models runs from $34K to $84K.

Eighty-four THOUSAND dollars for a flippin pickup truck.
 
Haha - I just looked on Ford's website and the "starting price" for different F250 models runs from $34K to $84K.

Eighty-four THOUSAND dollars for a flippin pickup truck.
But the 84k ainā€™t just yo daddyā€™s pick up truck...
 
Just a thought for those that are shopping trucks and are willing to get creative to save a buck- truck prices vary around the country. A truck thats 60K in NC might be 5-8K less in a state that isnt as in tune with truck culture.

When I travel I take a look at the local ads and it seems "street price" for vehicles varies depending on the demand. A plane ticket and drive a thousand miles to save 5 grand isnt a bad deal.
 
. A plane ticket and drive a thousand miles to save 5 grand isnt a bad deal.
RS flew to Philly to get her last Corvette. It came from Elkland Chevy in the northern most part of Penn. The next closest town was in N.Y. They brought it to her in an enclosed trailer and let her back it off . She drove it home and stayed in Vir for a night's rest. It was $10,000 cheaper than locally. When I made the deal on Monday he had 43 New Corvettes in stock. By Friday he had 29. He said he had several trucks coming Monday to replenish stock.
 
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Its a big feeding cycle. You need dewy-eyed buyers to pony up the big bucks to buy vehicles with bling wheels they cant afford so that Banks and Manufacturers make their profit targets and satisfy the stockholders and those of all of the suppliers in the Auto industry, who then spend their money on other stuff they also don't need so that other industries and their stockholders are happy. Then the stockholders, 401k and pension plan investors get some profit bucks that they also spend someplace , spreading the peanut butter even further with small businesses everywhere. Politicians then tax the crap out of all of this so they can in turn spend it on stupid contracts that pump that money back into yet other pockets.

One man's ceiling is another mans floor, so we need big spenders out there to feed all the little fish in the ocean.

Every time I see someone recklessly throwing down large coin on consumer goods I have two reactions: Not no way, no how I'd personally do that, and Thank You for Shopping.

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RS flew to Philly to get her last Corvette. It came from Elkland Chevy in the northern most part of Penn. The next closest town was in N.Y. They brought it to her in an enclosed trailer and let her back it off . She drove it home and stayed in Vir for a night's rest. It was $10,000 cheaper than locally. When I made the deal on Monday he had 43 New Corvettes in stock. By Friday he had 29. He said he had several trucks coming Monday to replenish stock.
Just checked Elklands site. ZERO Corvettes in stock ZERO!!! Waiting on that New Whore In Town!!!!
 
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