Hot Rods 65,000.00 What would you buy?

Well, a $65,000 vehicle will cost you about $80.000 after 5 years of financing...and what do you get for that 80K ?... a 5 year old vehicle that has depreciated down to about $25.000. HOW STUPID can you get? Yet million of people do it...morons

 

Be thankful they do......otherwise there wouldn’t be any five year old pickups to buy for $25,000.........

Ray

 

Never thought of it THAT way

 

Can believe this thread is still here. buy a Toyota pickup for daily. Even a 10 year old one. Use the rest to buy a nice running vintage car. Then sell the project you will never get to.

 

I already have all I want..... I'd take that 65 grand and save it for retirement.....

 

Finish my car, enjoy it and have enough left towards my pension?

 

I hemmed and hawed on a stock that was tanking a few years ago. It dropped to below two dollars a share, a few months later the company was taken over and the price soared. I could of bought 30 of those trucks(I wouldn't have bought one) or retired earlier on the 50 thousand I was going to throw at it. Oh well, lesson learned.

 

A 25 year old red head , and an attorney . I already get the deepest feelings one of us will be in need of one shortly .

 

A nice '47 Hudson pickup, and a low mileage Chevy ssr for a daily driver...

 

I believe that is a good answer.

Ben

 

I buy more tools, then use what was left to buy some kind of 50's or early 60's Chevrolet wagon or Suburban or build a vintage ramp truck. to tow my vintage stock car project to the track.

 

In 72 I made $160/week which equals $8320/year my new 72 Nova cost $3000. about a third of what I made. Now in 2019 that 65K trunk would eat up all I make in a year so I don't think I'll be spending that kind of money on anything.

Pat

 

50K off my mortgage,15K in the bank

 

Even if I had the money I could never bring myself to spend that much money that will lose most of it's value in 10-15 years

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Finish my '40 coupe, have someone sell off my other projects/drivers (I hate dealing with selling stuff), get a nice 15 year old truck for errands, get some concrete work done around the property, and bank the rest. Maybe do one other project or get the T-bucket I've wanted since I was a teenager.

EDIT: for OP, I'm going to say what new vehicle I'd even consider if that is where the money must be spent, AND it had to be a single vehicle, not a cheap truck and a commuter....
Purple Hellcat Challenger stick shift. NOT HAMB friendly, but that's my choice for new. 61K list price at build a dodge.

 

Dreamy Question...Easy Answer..

 

A shop full of tools and a '36 Ford 3W project...

 

Not sure really, I worked so damned hard to save a little in my retirement that I've become a cheap sob, I'd like a 32 five window already done, like to buy back some age credits, but apparently you can't do that, repaint my 36.....

 

$65,000? Pay off the house, repair & upgrade the house, maybe finish a project, hire someone to wire it.

Bob

 

...I'd sure buy more than just one new pickup...besides, none of em look good to me, not like the older ones do.

 

I've done the brand new vehicle thing 5 times in my life, and I have regretted it 5 times. Novelty wears off in about 3 months, but the payments don't wear off for 3 years. And nowadays, they want you to take out a 7 year mortgage to buy one. Never ever again. Never.
I drive a 63 F100, winter and summer. If it rusts, I'll fix it. I have other projects that I wouldn't drive in winter, but this truck was new once, and nobody worried about driving it in winter then. I love my truck, and I know I get far more compliments and thumbs up than anyone driving their "one ton, quad cab, duramax dually diesel". Oh, and I forgot to add the statement we always use. "Loaded with leather". So lame that so many of us have been caught up in that in the past. No more for me. The wife needs to drive something decent, and that right now is our last new vehicle, a 2006 Saturn Vue with 310,000 kms on it.

 

Save it. No need for any more cars for my self. Have $$ stashed for next project if I decide to do another one. At 76 I have more than enough for us to live on and no bills, mortgage or any other debt. Have actually started selling off some collectibles, etc. and banked that money as well. As for new vehicles I want something big and reliable for my wife to drive. She gets a new one about every 15 years and pays cash.-current one is a 19 Denali-last one was a 95 Impala SS.

 

Ur looking at the wrong F-150. I spent in the mid 40’s and had enough to buy a nice cruiser.

 

Raising my kids I drove rusty old beaters and did what I could to keep them on the road.

Now I’m done with that.
I bought that pretty blue 2018 F150 with the 5 litre and put a Borla S type exhaust on it.

Lariat trim, its a beautiful truck and I expect it will last longer than a similar truck with a steel body.
And it’s not financed.

 

$65,000 I would build a new bigger shop and maybe buy some new equipment for the shop.

 

I'm on my fifth and last one also..... 3 of those I still have.. I plan on selling 2 of those..

 

So, tell us about the blue color. What's it going on?

I have NO interest in a new f150 or a new anything.

Phil

 

Late 50's f-100, then put the remaining $55,000 towards the kids university tuition.

 

Buy As many project cars and parts as I could until the money ran out. Take pictures of the stuff while filling the building then lock it up tight.
Spend the next few years posting pics on social media sites and watch the whiny posts about hoarders.
Wait a few years the go back inside and blow a few buckets of genuine barn dust on everything then hold a well advertised auction .

 

A 52 Chevy coupe that I have had for 20 years, It is a few projects down the list. 60's drag car inspired, think Stone, Woods and Cook in a Chevy. lol I would never spend that on a new truck either. Bought my last new one in 96 and drove it for 20 years. Got the 2014 in 2015 and hope it last that long. I would be 80 by that time! Lou in post #46 understood the question , If you where a person who actually had 65,000.00 to piss away on a car or truck {NOT ME!!} what would it be? lol Some of you guys take shit way to seriously Larry