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<blockquote data-quote="AlongCameJones" data-source="post: 3693460" data-attributes="member: 47875"><p>At that time I had to have a <strong>brand-new car</strong> (I had inherited a good chunk of change) so I thus, like an idiot, chose a new red 1992 Corvette, which would turn out to be serious case of buyer's remorse. The body, paint and interior left much to be desired, it shook like a paint mixer with the hard top removed as the frame had no beef and the engine was allergic to getting wet with the garden hose. I would end up dumping the thing 4 years later at an $11K loss. At that time, a new loaded Toyota 4x4 SR5 truck would have been a much better spend. I considered buying a new Harley-Davidson Big Twin, but stores were plumb out of them in 1992! The car I had before the Vette was a 1988 Firebird Formula 5.0. I basically lost $5.5K on that trading it in on the new Vette since I bought it a year and half before for $10.5K on financing. It had some junky qualities too. The new Toyota 4x4 truck would have been the wisest thing I could have bought new in 1992. Big Three was pretty much garbage for the most part by the time the Slick Willie got in the White House. I don't think a new SR5 truck would have gone more than $17K OTD then loaded to the hilt. Still 11K cheaper than the stupid plastic Chevrolet. I just bought vehicles on emotion then and not common sense. In the army and in my 20's, I just had a hankering for fast/fast-looking cars at that time. And I was a senseless a shill to "buy American". In the back of my mind, I knew GM and Ford and Chrysler were overpriced crap. Young guys in the service would drive Hondas, BMW's, Volkswagens, Nissans and Toyotas and would criticize me for being a loyalist for Detroit junk. A young man in the army had an Honda Accord that he claimed he had to do nothing mechanically to ever but I digress. That '92 Corvette LT1, not the ZR1, actually retailed for $38K then but I got a $10K GM rebate. The car was made so bad that GM had to virtually make no profit on it.</p><p></p><p>I could not have that new Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme back in 1985 at minimum-wage job. I did get a new silver Oldsmobile Cutlass Calais in 1990. I felt then I had to get an Oldsmobile something being that my former dream Cutlass Supreme was out of production. I did not like the body style on the new front-drive "Cutlass Supreme" then and the 1990 Cutlass Calais coupe was Olds' cheapest model then as it was priced $10.5K so I could actually qualify to finance it through GMAC. I was in the service then and finally had the income level to finance it. Good sensible little 4-banger with factory a/c but I had to trade it in on a 3-year-old Firebird 5.0 a year later. I wanted a racier automobile. I was just crazed with emotions. For a couple years in the late 1980's I dreamed of a new Harley Big Twin. My emotions swung from cars to bikes. By the time I actually had money for a new Harley the dealerships were sold out of them. I would have to have had some cage on the side for everyday driving if I had bought a new motorcycle as a toy.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="AlongCameJones, post: 3693460, member: 47875"] At that time I had to have a [B]brand-new car[/B] (I had inherited a good chunk of change) so I thus, like an idiot, chose a new red 1992 Corvette, which would turn out to be serious case of buyer's remorse. The body, paint and interior left much to be desired, it shook like a paint mixer with the hard top removed as the frame had no beef and the engine was allergic to getting wet with the garden hose. I would end up dumping the thing 4 years later at an $11K loss. At that time, a new loaded Toyota 4x4 SR5 truck would have been a much better spend. I considered buying a new Harley-Davidson Big Twin, but stores were plumb out of them in 1992! The car I had before the Vette was a 1988 Firebird Formula 5.0. I basically lost $5.5K on that trading it in on the new Vette since I bought it a year and half before for $10.5K on financing. It had some junky qualities too. The new Toyota 4x4 truck would have been the wisest thing I could have bought new in 1992. Big Three was pretty much garbage for the most part by the time the Slick Willie got in the White House. I don't think a new SR5 truck would have gone more than $17K OTD then loaded to the hilt. Still 11K cheaper than the stupid plastic Chevrolet. I just bought vehicles on emotion then and not common sense. In the army and in my 20's, I just had a hankering for fast/fast-looking cars at that time. And I was a senseless a shill to "buy American". In the back of my mind, I knew GM and Ford and Chrysler were overpriced crap. Young guys in the service would drive Hondas, BMW's, Volkswagens, Nissans and Toyotas and would criticize me for being a loyalist for Detroit junk. A young man in the army had an Honda Accord that he claimed he had to do nothing mechanically to ever but I digress. That '92 Corvette LT1, not the ZR1, actually retailed for $38K then but I got a $10K GM rebate. The car was made so bad that GM had to virtually make no profit on it. I could not have that new Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme back in 1985 at minimum-wage job. I did get a new silver Oldsmobile Cutlass Calais in 1990. I felt then I had to get an Oldsmobile something being that my former dream Cutlass Supreme was out of production. I did not like the body style on the new front-drive "Cutlass Supreme" then and the 1990 Cutlass Calais coupe was Olds' cheapest model then as it was priced $10.5K so I could actually qualify to finance it through GMAC. I was in the service then and finally had the income level to finance it. Good sensible little 4-banger with factory a/c but I had to trade it in on a 3-year-old Firebird 5.0 a year later. I wanted a racier automobile. I was just crazed with emotions. For a couple years in the late 1980's I dreamed of a new Harley Big Twin. My emotions swung from cars to bikes. By the time I actually had money for a new Harley the dealerships were sold out of them. I would have to have had some cage on the side for everyday driving if I had bought a new motorcycle as a toy. [/QUOTE]
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