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Author Topic: Paint My Truck!!!!! Please??? Richard Greco Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1180 From: Plant City, FL Registered: Nov 2003 posted 01-24-2005 11:26 PM                     Ok, I don't have a picture as it is 12:30 in the morning here, but my truck really needs help. I use it daily to drive 17 miles one way to work. I am saving for a transmission service to be done on it and don't have the funds to pay for a paint job. It is a RUST bucket. I washed it yesterday and all that looks different are the windows. I have put so far over 3000.00 into it, including purchase price. So my wonderful, amazing friends at the bestest website in the world. I put out a plea, just 100 of you wonderful, beautiful people send me 5.00 and I'll have a new paint job I really think it will help me finally get what I haven't gotten in a LONG time.... Did I mention you all look wonderful in your member pics. If you won't send me money, we can all just bash how bad my truck looks when I get a pic on tomorrow. It is a '91 S-10 Blazer 4DR White & Rust color BTW If you help, I'll star in Phil's new movie!!! Wait.....It won't be with fat chicks right Phil?  |  IP: Logged Mike Olpin Chop Chop! Posts: 1852 From: Dallas, TX Registered: Jan 2002 posted 01-24-2005 11:44 PM                     Dump it. Buy a reliable automobile. By the time you put all the money into it, you will have spent enough to buy a few reliable cars. Trust me. I know. I put well over 8 grand into my old nissan. It had a major break down AGAIN, and so I went out and bought a brand new '04 loaded for 9,999. (After end of year factory rebate)  |  IP: Logged Mike Heenan Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1896 From: Scottsdale, AZ, USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 01-24-2005 11:54 PM                     Since it's Phil, something tells me there won't be chicks in it at all...  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 01-25-2005 01:02 AM                        If you think a $500 paint job is going to get you laid, the chicks in Florida must REALLY be desperate.  |  IP: Logged Allison Parsons Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 630 From: East Peoria, IL Registered: Oct 2004 posted 01-25-2005 01:05 AM                        Richard, I had a 1988 Saab up till about a year ago when I decided just to get a new car. When I sold it it had 300,000 miles on it and was still running strong with hardly no rust and minor problems. I miss that damn car Moral of this story: ummmm.... yeah, you should just get a new car/truck. Stop letting it nickel and dimein' you. All that money could go to a down payment and a pimp mobile  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 01-25-2005 01:20 AM                        There are barely 100 active members on the forum, much less ones who even know who you are. How about we all pool our money together and have Richard's truck towed away to an undisclosed location during the middle of the night just for asking something like this!  |  IP: Logged Nate Lehrke Master Film Handler Posts: 396 From: Denver, CO Registered: Oct 2002 posted 01-25-2005 01:55 AM                     Put me in for a ten spot with Joe's idea!  |  IP: Logged William Hooper Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1879 From: Mobile, AL USA Registered: Jun 99 posted 01-25-2005 06:52 AM                        Is there some way you can set that up with PayPal?  |  IP: Logged Scott Norwood Film God Posts: 8146 From: Boston, MA. USA (1774.21 miles northeast of Dallas) Registered: Jun 99 posted 01-25-2005 07:43 AM                        Never buy a brand-new car. The value will drop by about 10% the minute you drive it off the lot. Get a good low-mileage used car (possibly with a warranty). You'll either save money or be able to get a better car than you would otherwise be able to afford. If the cosmetics are good, it should be no less effective at picking up chicks. (Not like I should talk...I have always had station wagons. Maybe that's the problem...)  |  IP: Logged Cory Isemann Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 500 From: White Plains, MD, USA Registered: Jun 2004 posted 01-25-2005 10:03 AM                        Richard, Why don't you post a picture of it, and we'll all get a chance to "paint" it and then post our work? There's gotta be some good Paintshoppers here on F-T.  |  IP: Logged Thomas Procyk Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1842 From: Royal Palm Beach, FL, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 01-25-2005 10:38 AM                     quote: Scott Norwood Never buy a brand-new car. The value will drop by about 10% the minute you drive it off the lot. Really?!?! God damn! And here I was going to buy a NEW car and drive it across the street to the other dealer and sell it, but if it's gonna drop 10% of its value, then I dunno... I doubt more than 10% of the population, if that, buys a new car specifically for resale. Old cars or classic cars, yes, but I have never heard someone say, "Well, I WAS going to get a new car, but the fact that it loses value..." And the first trip to the grocery store where it encounters a cart drops it 5%, and that mudpuddle on the way home... 3%... Sorry, but that claim always irritated me when I was buying a car back in 2000. Anyone know how much % a USED car drops when you drive it off the lot? If you buy a car somewhere else and drive it ON to the lot, does it GAIN 10%? How does this work, and why should it influence a decision in buying a car? Transportation should not be an investment. It's a utility. =TMP=  |  IP: Logged Chris Hipp Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1462 From: Mesquite, Tx (east of Dallas) Registered: Jul 2003 posted 01-25-2005 05:31 PM                     Cars do increase in value when you drive them onto the lot. If I were to sell my 95 f150, I would lucky if I could get 3,000-3,500 for it. A dealer could easily sell it for $6,000. People are actually stupid enough to think that a car is worth more when you buy it from a dealer.  |  IP: Logged Adam Wilbert Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 590 From: Bellingham, WA, USA Registered: Mar 2002 posted 01-25-2005 05:37 PM                        Right on, Tom. I bought a brand new car last year, and I felt at least 10% better about my decision than if I had bought another used car. The new car smell is worth 10% of the price alone, as is the ability to be able to say "look at my new car" without having to disclaimer it as "well, its used, but new to me". When my girlfriend and I moved into our brand new (newly built that is) apartment, she said "at least I know who's butt has been on the toilet here"  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 01-25-2005 05:43 PM                        quote: Scott Norwood Never buy a brand-new car. The value will drop by about 10% the minute you drive it off the lot. When I bought my new car, it had 12 miles on it. That means someone else before me took it for a test drive. Why was it not discounted 10% when that person took it for a test drive? And then another 10% when I took it for a test drive? Both times the car went off the lot. Nope, I still had to pay $17,000 for it (would have been more if I wanted automatic transmission, but I saved lots of cash by learning how to drive a stick).  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 01-25-2005 05:50 PM                        No Joe, that's different. That test drive is what you pay for with the $600 "local charge" or "dealer prep" or whatever bullshit name they call it in your locality.  |  IP: Logged

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