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Author Topic: Bought another car yesterday Paul G. Thompson The Weenie Man Posts: 4718 From: Mount Vernon WA USA Registered: Nov 2000 posted 08-13-2003 01:05 AM                     I only paid 800 bucks for it. It is a Ford Escort. I like cheap cars that are in excellent condition. As you look at the top picture, you'll notice my Chevrolet Bread Box is the ONLY POS with the hood raised. The rest are Ford products that are "ready to roll." Josh and I rode that "Bread Box" to Texas...that is the most uncomfortable pile of crap to ride and drive I ever had. I hate that thing. In addition to being a gas hog, it does not have enough power to pull a sick prostitute off a commode. All my Ford products have plenty of power. Even that little red Mercury Topaz in the picture. That thing will pull that hill in Vantage, WA at 80mph without losing ground. Anyway, here are two pictures of my 800 dollar special.... I might get the most dubious award thread on Film-Tech for posting this, but oh, well...what the hell...just something to plug up Brad's server. Now to make this thread more dubious, I knocked over a 16-oz can of Busch Beer and most of it went into the keyboard. The computer immediately figured something was wrong and signed me off from AOL and promptly shut itself down. Beer makes an excellent conductor. Windows 2000 Pro must have built this function in. Cool. However, I don't consider this a computer crash. I guess I'll have to buy a new keyboard tomorrow and throw the mouse pad away. I had to borrow my other keyboard from my other machine to finish the edit of this thread. <glug glug>  |  IP: Logged Dan Lyons Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 698 From: Seal Beach, CA Registered: Sep 2002 posted 08-13-2003 03:07 AM                     Paul, I hate to think what your insurance and registration bills look like with all those vehicles of yours! If you lived here in CA you'd have to sell your house to pay for those. Danny  |  IP: Logged Phil Hill I love my cootie bug Posts: 7595 From: Hollywood, CA USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 08-13-2003 03:16 AM                  Or if you're young & cute.... you can pay with your body. Since I'm neither, I pay about $12,000 a year here in L.A. (J/K!) It's not all that bad ...for full coverage, on 2 vehicles, 1998 Corvette and 1996 Explorer Sport, I pay about $800 a year. Ummm.... for auto insurance that is...the vehicles are paid for... >>> Phil  |  IP: Logged Chris Hipp Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1462 From: Mesquite, Tx (east of Dallas) Registered: Jul 2003 posted 08-13-2003 03:18 AM                     That must be nice. For my F150 I pay about $150 a month for liability.  |  IP: Logged Paul Mayer Oh get out of it Melvin, before it pulls you under! Posts: 3836 From: Albuquerque, NM Registered: Feb 2000 posted 08-13-2003 12:16 PM                        Paul, don't throw that mouse pad away! Surely someone out there could use a beer-scented mouse pad.  |  IP: Logged Ron Lacheur Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 650 From: British Columbia, Canada Registered: Feb 2002 posted 08-13-2003 01:20 PM                     Holy crap Phil, a Corvette and a SUV only costs you $800 a year? That would be like $5,000 here in BC.  |  IP: Logged Paul G. Thompson The Weenie Man Posts: 4718 From: Mount Vernon WA USA Registered: Nov 2000 posted 08-13-2003 01:23 PM                     Danny, it is about 1400 bucks a year. I put the breadbox in suspense, so it is covered in event of fire and theft only. I do not plan on driving that thing anymore. Should I decide to drive it for one reason or another, I can pull it out of suspense and liability will be based on how many days I drive it. But to qualify for that, it has to be in suspense for a minimum of 30 days. I hate it that beast and will dump it as soon as I can. Registration runs 38 bucks per year per car and about 48 bucks per vehicle on the breadbox and truck. That's not too bad. What really frosts me is insurance is so damn high but yet I have a clean driving record. I only got fwapped with one speeding ticket in the last 15 years and that was 4 years ago.  |  IP: Logged William Leland III Master Film Handler Posts: 336 From: Charleston, SC, Registered: Aug 2002 posted 08-13-2003 03:20 PM                        quote: you'll notice my Chevrolet Bread Box is the ONLY POS with the hood raised. Paul, where is the Chevy? I don't see any car with it's hood up? Also is the "bread box" the red car in the back ground?  |  IP: Logged Phil Hill I love my cootie bug Posts: 7595 From: Hollywood, CA USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 08-13-2003 03:24 PM                  Ron, I'm the only driver in a "2-car family"...thus the expensive liability insurance is much less since only one vehicle would be at that risk at a time. No tickets or DUIs ...less than 15k miles on each per year. Having Alarms, LoJack, $1000 deductable, etc and having a Homeowner's policy all with the same company (Allstate) gives me an excellent rate. >>> Phil  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 08-13-2003 06:25 PM                        You'll be able to drive that Escort for the rest of your days, Paul...those are great cars.  |  IP: Logged Paul G. Thompson The Weenie Man Posts: 4718 From: Mount Vernon WA USA Registered: Nov 2000 posted 08-13-2003 08:38 PM                     William, The Chevrolet is that green thing in the background. However, the picture is small and you might not be able st see the short schnozola on it. The Chevrolet is the bread box because it looks like one.  |  IP: Logged Rick Long Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 759 From: Toronto, Ontario, Canada Registered: Nov 1999 posted 08-13-2003 10:03 PM                     OK so there see? I'm not the only one who ever spilt a beer into the keyboard. Mind you, the first night I came home after that, I found it in an alley passing a bottle in a paper bag around to other scruffy keyboards. I put it on a 12-key program and it recovered. Seriously tho, what I did was to remove the cover and place it in a bath of water for about six hours, then dried it out with a hair dryer. I am using it now, some several years later. Cept on Thursday nights. It goes to the meetings that night.  |  IP: Logged Per Hauberg Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 883 From: Malling, Denmark Registered: Jul 2000 posted 08-14-2003 04:50 AM                        800 $ for a car, looking that good - and if it was not as good as it looks, I guess, You had not bought it. That sound just wild ! This must mean, that You do not pay any kind of tax buy purchasing a car over there. 800 bucks = 6.000 danish kroner - and now You watch this clip from local newspaper today: Ford Escort 1,6 Algarve st.car 5d Sort 1997 134.001 84.900 Fehr & Co. vintage km's kroner Ford Escort 1,6i CLX st.car 5d Blåmetal 1995 215.000 44.900 Ford Escort 1,6i Toscany 5d Blå metal 1998 102.000 74.990 1,8 D Express Vojens Blå 105000 59 900 1999 1,6i 16V CLX Brønshøj Hvid 145000 59 900 1999 1,8 D Express Taastrup Hvid 55000 62 900 1999 1,8 D Express Taastrup Hvid 54000 62 900 2000 1,6 XR3i Silkeborg Sort 138000 64 800 1988 1,6i CLX København Rød 130000 64 800 1997 1,6i Algarve st Frederikss Hvid 196000 64 800 1997 1,6i CLX Ejby Gul 95000 69 800 1996 1,8 Express Van Næstved Hvid 19500 69 800 2000 1,8i Tourer st, Fredericia Rød 113000 69 900 1996 1,6i CLX st,car Birkerød Blå 143000 69 900 1996 ----------------------------------------------------------- even my old volvo (in Denmark, You've got only one car each !) is still worth a bit: Volvo 945 classic Aarhus Grå 260000 199 900 1996 This one is one year younger than mine, but mine has only 140000 kms on the clock -------------------------------------------- and now the going gets tough: Jaguar Daimler 3,6 Silkeborg Blå 190000 199 900 1987 Jaguar Daimler 4,0 Silkeborg Grøn 58000 529 900 1996 Mercedes S320 3,2 CDI au Rødovre Sort 260000 749 800 2000 Mercedes 5,0500 Daugård Sort 49000 1 149 900 1999 Mercedes 320 Vejle Sølv 13000 1 199 900 2002 Mercedes 500 Vejle Sølv 28000 1 299 900 2000 Mercedes 400 CDI Vejle Grøn 43000 1 369 900 2000 Mercedes 500 Vejle Sølv 52000 1 399 900 2002 Mercedes 320 CDI Mundelstru - 18000 1 498 000 2002 1,5 million DKR for a car to ride You from here to there and just 50 DKR for a ticket to my cinema Paul - make Your auto collection bigger - go to Denmark and make the deal of a lifetime - I'll buy the beer Oh, -and here comes the insurance bill on the Volvo - One year Total coverage without owners risk (whatever You call that) DKR 9.927,- - 1300 bucks. happy new year p.  |  IP: Logged Mike Rendall Film Handler Posts: 78 From: Southampton, Hampshire, UK Registered: Nov 2002 posted 08-14-2003 08:25 AM                     I thought the UK was bad for cars, My 1990 BMW 318 costs only £214 fully comprehensive to insure, and my Suzuki GSF600 bike only £400 fully comprehensive. Maybe that makes up for the more expensive fuel we have to pay.  |  IP: Logged Leo Enticknap Film God Posts: 7474 From: Loma Linda, CA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 08-14-2003 11:31 AM                        My 1991 Fiat Tempra 1.6 costs me £305 per year for only third party, fire and theft (given that the car is to all intents and purposes worthless, I can't see any point in insuring it fully comp), and that's with 7 years' no claims. The figure has been rising for the last four years. I'm told that the premiums keep going up to pay for the accidents caused by people who were uninsured. If that's true then IMHO there's something very wrong here, if you ask me...  |  IP: Logged

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