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IIRC the 66 beetle was ~$1600 for the standard and + $100 for the deluxe (Chrome trim around the windows). I was allowing them $400 for inflation. :) Now they run in the mid $20K range. You can spend over $8K for a Chowcycle.

To me the 1966 VW beetle is the perfect car. Cheap and easy to maintain. However as a daily driver that has to go to Brampton occasionally I would want air bags, disk brakes ABS, collapsible sheet metal. Climate change necessitates air conditioning and a heater that works. Thanks to catch and...

Eggs here are close to $4.00 but twice the price at the gourmet stores. Add Uber delivery and who knows. I've never tried to figure out Uber pricing but it only sounds good for Uber. When my parents started going to Panama City Beach for the winter in the 1980's she would be laughing about the...

I was just recalling a job I worked on where a guy wanted his own waterfall, and the recirculating pump motor was the size of a garbage can. It was 240 volts single phase, and the cable run from the "Cottage" was hundreds of feet. The feed alone was stupid expensive.

Watch the fine print and assume the worst even here in Canada with some of the senior's complexes. You buy the house and lease the land. When you sell the house there is a massive "Departure fee" on top of the real estate fee and the place has to be refurbished to like new, as dictated by the...

Everything down there is a crap show. Didn't DJT say something about ending FEMA? Travel insurance is a crap show if you read the fine print about exclusions and exceptions. Unlike car insurance, they underwrite after a claim and go over the big ones with a fine-tooth comb. Pre Covid and pre...

Nah. I'll just keep flying Air Canada. They're overdue for another Gimli Glider event.

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Some of that sounds crazy, like the eggs at a buck each. Will the US border be on the watch for egg smugglers. At about thirty cents an egg here the market is ripe. “In Canadian dollars, last week I paid $18 for 18 eggs,” Cedrone said. But departures by Canadians were picking up even before...

No glider flight but a ride in a Tri-pacer and a military scenic over the falls with the rest of the squadron. I fell in love with gliders ( sail planes) when I saw one perform aerobatics at an air show in Oshawa. All that fun and no noise. Harley riders take note. A ride is on my bucket list...

I fired the same things at air cadets. Those things were heavy.

When I was in my late teens a girl I was dating had an aunt that invited us to Palm Beach for March break. The aunt was the social secretary to a woman in the top 400 in the world. She got us a tour of the mansion and a swim in the pool on the beach across the street, accessed by a tunnel. It...

You have to know the wholesale pricing system. If you do a blind lowball they know you you're a rookie. If the dealership has a month end target to make you might get a deal on the 31st that you won't get the next day.

I was young, making my first car purchase from a used car lot and screwed up agreeing to buy a car at night when the bare bulbs made everything shine. I left a cheque deposit. The next morning the more knowledgeable guys at work told me the potential faults of my choice. I went into the...

What about power? A lot of that stuff needs three phase. I know a guy looking for a mill but he is so lacking in knowledge that he will drive you crazy.

A friend was a licenced mechanic but also had a good personality so they made him a sales manager. At that dealership a sales manager's job was to up sell. After an episode where an elderly couple came into buy a nice retirement car he added a ton of "Protect your asset" options. The look on...

We did a vendor take back ages ago and the terms were good, plus no backstabbing bank to jerk us around on renewal. The guy was going into a senior's home and didn't need the cash for an upgrade. Us having a 60% downpayment kept his numbers safe. A printed payout sheet showing the amount of the...

Is tire age a law or recommendation? Storage conditions make a big difference. A vehicle that is kept cool and out of the sun will have better tires than one parked on a hot asphalt pad all day. As mentioned, if you own a motorcycle, you aren't as cash tight as a minimum wage earner. These...

Are there any Harleys around with stock exhausts? I haven't heard them. (Pun) IIRC Harley noisemakers are stamped "For racing only" or equivalent. Doesn't that immediately disqualify them? Are loud non OEM pipes a safety issue or a civil noise issue? A decade or so back I was looking for a...

I know someone that went through it in an earlier downturn. He signed for a new build and was going to wait six months before selling his to take advantage of the gain in his old place. The gain went south and he put both options up for sale. He ended up in the new build with a much larger than...