Originally Posted by BlueSunoco (Post 2396686)

Some guy I see driving around town, has a mint condition Saturn I have no idea what year the thing is. He takes really good care of it it is always show ready. Two door kinda semi fastback looking thing.
AND, that little thing really stands out in a crowd. People walk right past the new Mustangs, Vettes, forever seemingly endless Challengers, whatever, paying little to no attention to them, and always motate over to see that little car. He just grins from ear to ear:)

Originally Posted by 91A-77B (Post 2396770)

Survived colon cancer. Survived prostate cancer. Survived the passing of my dear wife. Without my Flatties, any one of those events would have put me down. Now, at 84 I'm about to launch my 37 Tudor with B&M blown 46 Merc 284 cid, and heading 1700 miles to the Atlantic Nationals in Moncton, NB Canada. Its wonderful being a male...we never grow up!

Originally Posted by Lawrie (Post 2396827)

You have done well,
I too survived the passing of my dear wife .
My old cars sure help to stay out of the loony bin.
Im off out to the hotrod show with our blown flathead dragster next weekend , then a day or so later I,m off out to a very small locality in western Queensland called Boulia in the 33 and caravan (1950klms each way) for the camel races.
will post on the way.
Lawrie

Originally Posted by 34fordy (Post 2396687)

Probably not choices slowforty. It came in your DNA and runs through your veins, just like the rest of us! LOL

Originally Posted by BlueSunoco (Post 2396926)

Neat story GB!


Man, you wound up about as far away as you can GET, from Massachusetts!

Originally Posted by Flathead Fever (Post 2395843)

I loved cars so I became a mechanic. I worked on cars every day, every hour and every minute. I collected around 15 cars so I would have something to do when I retired. Built a 2500 sf garage with 30' car port, put a hoist in When I retired I had back surgery, then a stroke. Now I just lay around and don't do much of anything. All those cars are sitting out in the garage, a '66 Shelby, '70 Boss 302 Mustang, '32 3-window. '32 5-window, real '32 roadster flathead highboy was my dad's, '32 Brookville roadster on an original flathead chassis, stock '29 Roadster, '29 Bonneville Boss 302 powered roadster. '33 pickup, '34 pickup, two '64 Falcons, 1915 Mack truck, 1923 Mack truck,'34 1 1/2-ton Ford truck and a few more. I must have at least 20 flathead motors out there. lots of speed equipment, I was buying it when it was cheap. I can do the work including the paint, I have one of my stalls converted into a paint booth. I just don't feel well enough to go out and do anything. My advice, don't wait until you retire to work on projects because you just don't know what shape you'll be in. Plus, I have three little grandkids to play with now. I could go out to the gargage and work on stuff. I think more than anything I'm just burned out on working on cars. Don't become a mechanic!!!!!!! Cars are better as a hobby, not so much as career.

I raised by Ford restorers, never had to chance to be a normal kid.

Originally Posted by slowforty (Post 2397370)

Speaking of decisions, I guess 35 years ago when I bought an extra rebuilt 39 transmission for 300$ was one of my better ideas.

Originally Posted by tubman (Post 2397440)

Consider this : If you invested $300 in the S&P 500 at the beginning of 1980, you would have about $48,856.17 at the end of 2025, assuming you reinvested all dividends. This is a return on investment of 16,285.39%, or 11.88% per year. This is for 45 years, not 35, but you get the idea.

Cars and parts are not investment vehicles.

Originally Posted by Kube (Post 2397698)

Well, yes and no.
As you know it's all about when you buy and how much you paid and when you sell and how much you sold for.
Typically, as you have suggested, long term ownership does not do as well as simply investing well and "fogetaboutit".
I was a weird "kid" in that I took nearly all of the profits from my old car "adventures" and invested them starting at the ripe old age of seventeen.
At 47, twenty some years ago, I was able to retire with little worries primarily because of that strategy and well, lots of hard work and a great career.

Originally Posted by tubman (Post 2397440)

Consider this : If you invested $300 in the S&P 500 at the beginning of 1980, you would have about $48,856.17 at the end of 2025, assuming you reinvested all dividends. This is a return on investment of 16,285.39%, or 11.88% per year. This is for 45 years, not 35, but you get the idea.

Cars and parts are not investment vehicles.

Originally Posted by GB SISSON (Post 2395930)

To the generation now coming into the hobby a 65 mustang IS an old car and to many it's an ancient car. A stock prewar ford is as exciting to them as a stock brass era model T was to