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> MP>My other "car" is a 1993 Dodge Dakota.  It is nice to drive in part
because
>   >it has no "modern goodies" to speak of.  The radio doesn't even work.  :D

> Until recently I was usually buying cars just rebuilt that were older
> and I'd only keep them for 3 or 4 years. As long as a car looks and
> runs okay I don't worry too much how new it is. These days it's a lot
> harder to tell how old a car in in any case. Not like things were back
> in the 50's and 60's..   B)

I never had a thing for new cars, either, until the price of older ones
went up so much ~15 years ago.  After a bad experience buying a used one, I
startred to figure that if I am going to spend that much money on
one that doesn't come with any warranty, I might as well buy a new one.

That said, the first brand new one was a lease.  The next one was also.  On
the second one, when the lease was near up, I saw that new cars the same age
were selling for about $10k more than the contracted "resale to me" value on
the lease contract.  So, knowing all of its history, I bought that car
 "used."  ;)

So I guess I still have not bought new.  :D

> A local Wreckers had a thing for Neons and were always fixing those
> up to sell. I bought two Neons from them. They had better than
> average warranties on them and, if the car needed work after the
> warranty period, they often did it ridiculously cheap. If it wasn't
> complex work, only charging me not much more than minimum wage rates
> since their apprentice could do it and that's all he was being paid..

My sister had a Neon back in the late 1990s.  IIRC, she liked it.  I rode
in it a few times and it was not a bad car.

Mike


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