I like new stuff and old. Similar to Bart I guess. I've had a boat while living in North Dallas Tx. All the folks i knew had brand new Baja's, Chaparrels, Moomba(sp) etc. with payments. I decided to find a good older boat that might need some cleaning etc. Found a nice older '83 sea ray. Paid a few grand, spent 2 weekends cleaning etc. and had a fine boat that floated and ran around just as good as any other bow-rider. Maybe not as fast a my friends 502 powered baja but I owned mine.:fing32:
I just fixed a '64 LB mower that was ready for scrap, it runs/mows like new now after a few bucks fixing and tinkering.
My'90 VW jetta is at the paint shop right now getting spruced up. Most laugh at me for putting money into such an old car with 218K on the clock, but it's a heck of alot cheaper than a new one, not to mention it's a diesel that get's 46-48mpg. I could go on and on but it'll get boring.
I do think high quality stuff is still available from homes to cars, tractors, lawn mowers etc. Just like years ago there were levels of quality and folks paid accordingly like today. It's not fair to compare a GT to an LT etc. (any year) as we all know. Are some built and were built better than others, of course and it'll always be that way.
Just my thoughts.
MU
I just fixed a '64 LB mower that was ready for scrap, it runs/mows like new now after a few bucks fixing and tinkering.
My'90 VW jetta is at the paint shop right now getting spruced up. Most laugh at me for putting money into such an old car with 218K on the clock, but it's a heck of alot cheaper than a new one, not to mention it's a diesel that get's 46-48mpg. I could go on and on but it'll get boring.
I do think high quality stuff is still available from homes to cars, tractors, lawn mowers etc. Just like years ago there were levels of quality and folks paid accordingly like today. It's not fair to compare a GT to an LT etc. (any year) as we all know. Are some built and were built better than others, of course and it'll always be that way.
Just my thoughts.
MU
