[Vwdiesel] WTB: Cheap car/Project

[Stephen Kraus]

I REALLY need to buy a towing dolly or trailer...I keep buying projects

BTW, I am moving into a new place with a BIG 2 car garage...

On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 12:04 AM, <LBaird119 at aol.com> wrote:

> In a message dated 1/14/2011 10:01:16 PM Pacific Standard Time,
> davevw at yahoo.com writes:
>
> > My plan is to buy vehicles that need a bit of work, a thorough cleaning
> > and general fixing up and sell them for a bit of profit while driving
> them
> > in the mean time.
> >
>
>   Ha, ha!  I had such a goal at one time.  Problem is I bought cars I know.
>  I
> KNOW cars that I like and thus read, study, etc.  Buy a good car, that I
> know
> and like, cheap and...  I still have all of them other than the 1980
> Subaru, and
> my wife's' 1975 Monte Carlo (454/TH400, would like to have kept that but
> couldn't
> afford to drive or rebuild) and 1996 Caravan.
>
> >
> > Hopefully I can drive it to Manhattan, Kansas (think close to the middle
> > of the state) but I am pretty adventurous, resourceful, and I have AAA
> and
> > flexible work schedule.  If it isn't driveable or close to driveable then
> it
> > should probably be fairly close to Manhattan.  (I have an old Explorer
> and
> > can rent or borrow a tow dolly.)
> >
> >
>
>   Sounds like you'd better consider BUYING a tow dolly.  I always liked the
> U-haul
> car trailers.  They tow like they aren't even there and I guess they DO
> sell them
> from time to time.
>  I think most of us would take deals like that Cabrio, if we found them!
> As slow
> as work is, if the economy was just a bit better I'd strongly consider
> doing such
> a thing.  The other problem is that almost every car I ever bought has gone
> down
> in value immediately after I bought it, regardless of what the market trend
> had
> been (ie my Porsches).  Sure shoulda unloaded a couple of the VW diesels
> two
> years ago when the prices went stupid...
>     Loren
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